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by rurp 2y ago
If you really think the US went all in on Afghanistan with a world war level effort to conquer the country then I don't know what to tell you. After the initial invasion period the country really was a sideshow and became increasingly
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by rurp 2y ago
This largely fits with a pattern I've been seeing with LLM coding. The models are often helpful, sometimes extremely so, when it comes to creating prototypes or other small greenfield projects. They can also be great at producing a sni
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by rurp 2y ago
While Russia certainly botched the invasion they probably would have taken all of Ukraine by now without so much western support. Ukraine would of course be in a much better position now if that support had been stronger and not been dribbl
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by rurp 2y ago
Given that federal convincts don't have parole the good behavior part won't matter for that. But it will mean more solitary and other punitive measures.
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by rurp 2y ago
It's essentially impossible to get the consensus needed in such a partian era. Maybe if and when we're in a different era, but that could be an awfully long time coming.
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't know if Trump will pardon him but I also wouldn't be surprised. Doing things simply to spite liberals, no matter how stupid they are, is one of his few guiding principles. Most liberals correctly think the SBF should be in
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by rurp 2y ago
I've driven several Teslas and all were a terrible experience largely for this reason, basic controls are often absurdly clunky or hard to find. That's nice that they finally fixing some of these mistakes after years of complaints
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by rurp 2y ago
I've seen the exact same pattern play out with different tools. The team used a shiny new immature platform for nice sounding reasons and then spent 80% of their time reinventing wheels that have already been solved in any number of pl
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by rurp 2y ago
If only we had the geopolitical state of the 1990s to go with it.
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by rurp 2y ago
> he believes it to be “extremely unlikely” that Trump would cut off UK access to Trident missiles since it would be a “strategic betrayal on a grand scale that would damage him and America”. Has he been paying attention to the past coup
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm glad to hear that badgers are doing well somewhere at least. They used to be common in the western US but their numbers have plummeted due to over killing, habitat loss, vehicle deaths, and other causes.
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Marvell plunges 19% as outlook falls short of high expectations(cnbc.com)
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by rurp 2y ago
Polling errors are highly correlated so it's not surprising if all states that are within a point or two break the same way. Nate's model had Trump sweeping the swing states as the single most likely outcome, with Harris sweeping
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by rurp 2y ago
What? They had Biden at something like 90% to win. Hilary was around a 2-1 favorite which was vastly lower than almost anyone else.
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by rurp 2y ago
I've been following Nate for quite a while and would say that's a pretty gross mischaracterization. He's always been center left and I haven't really seen that change. He does spend quite a bit of time criticizing the fa
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by rurp 2y ago
Nobody was surprised by the cost. Military flights have been used for deportations before and it is well known that they are wildly more expensive than other options. The clowns in charge keep proving that the cost cutting is an extremely w
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by rurp 2y ago
This is disgusting. It's already getting hard to find new cars that don't include a bunch of "features" that make the experience worse. Something as greedy and adversarial as turning a personal vehicle into an ad platfor
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by rurp 2y ago
The problem is that wars inevitably break out between countries. They are bad enough with conventional means, but wars with nuclear arsenals can quickly scale to unimagineable catastrophies.
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by rurp 2y ago
Whoops, yep I definitely meant "less safe"
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by rurp 2y ago
Well, I hope they don't. Unless you know something the rest of the world doesn't China has Taiwan seriously outmatched both economically and militarily. The main question is if China takes minimal or significant losses in the even
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by rurp 2y ago
You're being awfully generous thinking this needs to look real for years. If similar big announcements are any guide then the administration will have moved onto some other shiny object in a matter of days or weeks and will never ret
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by rurp 2y ago
Nuclear proliferation is the only logical response to this administration. Tripling the number of nuclear armed countries will greatly increase the odds of a hot conflict breaking out which risks the safety of everyone in the world. Of cour
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by rurp 2y ago
Starlink isn't helping helping Ukraine out of the goodness of Elon's heart; he's being paid millions of dollars to provide a service. It's just another business deal for him that he can spin into good publicity as well.
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by rurp 2y ago
If a manager doesn't have any better way to judge if their employees are working than to check seat attendance then that manager is useless.
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by rurp 2y ago
There is a big difference between disrupting a neutral country versus an active adversary. But I suspect you already know that and aren't being sincere. > Regardless, it has come to the point where we cannot afford the interest on o
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by rurp 2y ago
That's certainly true in general but I can't think of an attack that was preceded by such a visible effort to make the country more vulnerable. There would be some rallying effect, but it might be smaller and shorter lived than us
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by rurp 2y ago
Agreed, I think that the term has become highly abused in a lot of political discussions. Many folks, even ones that I generally respect, will disdainfully dismiss any reasonable concerns to their preferred policy as selfish NIMBYISM.
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by rurp 2y ago
We are burning generations of alliances, goodwill, and our own enormously successful system of government for what? Absolutely nothing. Our entire country is being sold out so a few corrupt billionaires can make out like bandits. This it th
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep and don't forget ranching. Cattle graze on nearly all public land out west for practically free.
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeah as a reader and occasional commenter I find Substack to be a great source for interesting and informative writing on a number of topics. I spend a decent chunk of my internet reading time on there and hope the platform thrives.

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