rmah

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by rmah 9mo ago
It's like you didn't see where I agree that current enforcement is too aggressive. Why are you writing in a tone that implies we disagree when we agree? This is the sort of thing that confuses me.
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by rmah 9mo ago
Giving something away for free and then whining that people use it for free confuses me. I mean, what did you think would happen?
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by rmah 9mo ago
Yes, but it's essentially just a re-branded INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service). They were conducting raids to catch undocumented immigrants (often at workplaces) for as long as I can remember (i.e. back into the early 1980&#
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by rmah 9mo ago
It saddens me that your rather innocuous comment has been down-voted so aggressively. Immigration enforcement is required. Illegal immigration should be discouraged. ICE's current tactics seem overly aggressive to me and, yes, seem
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by rmah 9mo ago
You are conflating legal and illegal immigrants. The visa restrictions are on legal immigrants. And while, as a legal immigrant myself, I would like to think that the vast majority of legal immigrants work hard and contribute positively t
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by rmah 9mo ago
Metro Atlanta has a population of 6 mil, say 2/3 live in detached homes with 2 persons per home. So that's 38,000 out of 2 mil homes, so about 2%
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by rmah 9mo ago
Many people seem to be assuming some sort of bias on Polymarket's part. Without evidence, these seems unlikely as whichever side of the bet wins, Polymarket makes the same amount of $. That is, they have no stake in the outcome. The
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by rmah 9mo ago
The same way every president since ww2 has been able to.
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by rmah 9mo ago
The US consumes about 20 mil bbls of oil per day and imports around 4 mil bbls per day from Canada, about 20% of US consumption. Total oil imports is about 6 mil bbls/day, with about 2/3 of imports coming from Canada. Two fun f
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by rmah 9mo ago
Our firm uses python extensively and the virtual environment for every script or script is ... difficult. We have dozens of python scripts running for team research and in production, from small maintenance tools to rather complex daemons.
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by rmah 10mo ago
I think the main limitation is not code validation but assumption verification. When you ask an LLM to write some code based on a few descriptive lines of text, it is, by necessity, making a ton of assumptions. Oddly, none of the LLM&#x27
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by rmah 10mo ago
Yes, except their cookie preferences to comply with european law. Oh, and they should be able to change their theme from light/dark but only that. Oh and maybe this other thing. Except in situations where it would conflict with curr
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by rmah 10mo ago
I agree that both geometry and game theory are very useful tools.
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by rmah 10mo ago
Game theory is no more a description of nature than Euclidian geometry is.
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by rmah 10mo ago
The statement "Game theory is inevitable. Because game theory is just math, the study of how independent actors react to incentives." implies that the "actors" are humans. But that's not what game theory assumes.
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by rmah 10mo ago
You can't use unrealized capital losses (property paper losses) or even realized losses to offset property tax, you can only offset realized losses against realized gains for income taxes.
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by rmah 10mo ago
I believe that seeking external validation, inspiration and/or reason is not robust and a path to unhappiness. IMO, it's better if the reasons for you to care come from within.
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by rmah 10mo ago
your professors. your classmates who got a job. your family and friends of family. anyone else you know that respects you.
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by rmah 10mo ago
lack of skilled labor, probably
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by rmah 10mo ago
First, you are correct. However, the reason GDP is used as a proxy metric for economic growth because it's convenient. Doing so does make a few assumptions though, foremost of which is that the structure of the economy will change ve
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by rmah 10mo ago
That is, IMO, arguable. Entertainment has always been valued by humans. It is just the non-physical equivalent of fancy clothing or jewelry. And clothing/jewelry is most certainly a form of wealth. So, it can be argued that things
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by rmah 10mo ago
IMO, combining gold money arguments with observations about the price of gold is contradictory. If gold is money, then you should never wonder about the "price of gold" as gold should be used to price things.
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by rmah 10mo ago
While Dr. Morgan makes a few reasonable points about "real wealth" (aka points I agree with), he also hand waves many assumptions which are, at best, questionable. Finally, be aware that he's been predicting imminent economic
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by rmah 11mo ago
I don't understand why tesla (a car manufacturer), uber (a ride services company), robinhood (financial services), doordash (meal delivery service) are in the treemap of "tech market" companies. OK, I take that back, I under
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by rmah 11mo ago
It scales horribly. Essentially, as the ship gets larger, the sail area has to be even larger (proportionally) to maintain the same speed. Further, the larger the sail, the more susceptible to damage and the harder it is to control.
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by rmah 11mo ago
luxury goods are shipped by air
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by rmah 11mo ago
While I agree with your general sentiment, in fairness, Powell didn't say "revenue", he said "earnings", which is near equivalent to profits in financial reporting lingo.
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by rmah 11mo ago
Sounds like Niven and Pournell's Moties civilization cycle from "The Mote in God's Eye"
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by rmah 1y ago
If you think the next generation will be any better, I have bad news for you...
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by rmah 1y ago
Well, then they're not easily replaceable. Which implies those workers have other options. And thus employers that treat workers worse than other employers will see workers leave and/or find it harder or more expensive to hire.

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