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> Seoul's mayor somehow decided he hated free lunches so much that he arranged a referendum, and said he would quit if people didn't agree with him on the matter. He did quit. It’s nice when things work out.
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> “That’s stupid,” she said with 7-year-old clarity. “Why don’t they just let them eat?” We’ll spend the rest of that child’s life convincing them that the answer to that is complicated.
663.
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I heard the Commissar for Lens Cap Ejection Trajectory Modeling for Venusian Planetary Environments caught the brunt of the blame, but the real fault was with the Commissar for Lens Cap Ejection Trajectory Modeling for Venusian Atmospheric
664.
by roughly 1y ago
What’s interesting here is that in the drug treatment world it’s basically known that drug abuse is almost always a reaction to some kind of psychological trauma or disorder, and an awful lot of drugs (not just cocaine) play heavily with th
665.
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> objectively bad Well that settles that, then.
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If you get a chance to see some of the impressionists in person, they’re kind of mind blowing for exactly the same reason - you’re looking at a scene of a ship in a storm and seeing all kinds of nuance, and then you get closer and realize i
667.
by roughly 1y ago
The Supreme Court has historically recognized this, too - the FBI tried to argue that putting a tracker on a car was no different than having an agent tail the car, and were roundly shut down for that.
668.
by roughly 1y ago
I think it's impossible to understand the relationships here without really grokking that the MAGA set is both incompetent and incoherent. The movement is properly seen as an angry tantrum - a reaction to the state of the world, not a
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by roughly 1y ago
Completely agree. But I think something lost in this is how much violence the "end of history" state of affairs increasingly relied on to keep that "peaceful" context in place - among the reasons Russia walked into the U
670.
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One thing that’s been interesting (in a Ralp-Wiggins-esque “I’m in danger!” type way) to watch over the last few years is all the “end of history” types re-learning that Mao was right and that economic might only translates into real power
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There’s a couple factors - one is the payoff time and risk levels make basic research difficult for even businesses with long time horizons to engage with, and American businesses are notoriously short term. The other is that there’s a larg
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> There are of course quite a few large US businesses being affected directly by this stuff. I imagine that they are not happy with this. And that level of unhappiness will translate into shifts in political donations. Which, I'm su
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by roughly 1y ago
Yeah, this is the turkey’s dilemma - life on a farm is a lot better than life in the wild for 51 out of the 52 weeks of the year. Most of our modern economy and systems are built to reduce redundancy and buffers - ever since the era of “jus
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by roughly 1y ago
TFA is right to point out the bottleneck problem for reviewing content - there’s a couple things that compound to make this worse than it should be - The first is that the LLM outputs are not consistently good or bad - the LLM can put out 9
675.
by roughly 1y ago
Look I get it’s a little early to really draw that line in the US, but we were in a hell of a lot better position to have this argument a couple months ago.
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And a desire for a deep collection of classics. It’s really not just a whistle at that point, is it?
677.
by roughly 1y ago
As maybe my favorite Twitter dunk of all time goes - “Ah yes, Jack Posobiec, of the Mayflower Posobiecs.”
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by roughly 1y ago
> Parents pass on the shared history, values, and national culture to their kids. Except our nation’s shared history, values, and national culture is that we’re a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of global cultures, a refuge for those
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by roughly 1y ago
ICE should’ve been reformed after Trump 1, but at this point we’re going to need to unwind the whole organization when we get that man out of power. They’ve shown themselves to be pretty disinterested in laws, democracy, etc.
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by roughly 1y ago
This is a good one. I just argued with Gemini 2.5pro for a few minutes on this and it absolutely would not yield.
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by roughly 1y ago
Yes, lucky for all of us that the culture that showed up right before they started mysteriously dying by the millions had writing; truly fortunate that culture arrived on their shores, a thing nobody could possibly disagree with.
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They’ve got a life outside of work, you know.
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There’s a long history of coffee as a social force - namely because the alternative was usually beer, and you can imagine the wild swing in a population going from beer to coffee as their recreational beverage of choice. Coffee’s been impli
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So, this isn't my area of expertise, but - I score very high on abstract reasoning tests, and I've been lucky enough to be around a bunch of people who are adept at things that at best require a whole lot more effort on my part to
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> smarter, i.e., better at abstract reasoning This is the nub of it - we're better at one very particular thing. I think I'm gonna get crucified if I really go into arguing against abstract reasoning as the baseline for underst
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The correlation in this case isn't about the distribution for the individual event, it's about the interactions between them - so, for instance, Rent could be anywhere between 1200 and 1800, and Food could be anywhere between 100
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The family example is a pat example, but take something like project planning - two tasks, each one takes between 2 and 4 weeks - except that they’re both reliant on Jim, and if Jim takes the “over” on task 1, what’s the odds he takes the “
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by roughly 2y ago
I think the point is to create uncertainty, though, or to at least capture it. You mention tacking a plus/minus range to $50, but my suspicion is that people's expected plus/minus would be narrower than the actual - I think t
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> it will be a lot like last time A lot of people seemed to have had this theory, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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> any more than arson, burglary, or extortion is capitalism Indeed.

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