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by tdb7893 6mo ago
It's always felt like way overhyping to call something "democratization" when it's something I could do as a middle schooler in 2005. It takes some skill to do very well but it's not like basic diagram creation isn&
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
Boeing's commercial (not government contracting) division is famously dysfunctional and has been for a long time.
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
I don't think aerospace is a good example of efficiency in the private sector. Lockheed Martin did the F-35 and it's main competition in the US is Boeing... I'm not an expert but from my friends in the industry (including mul
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
As far as the Constitution goes, non-citizens have the same rights as citizens (at least for all the rights given to "persons") and there's no carveout actually in the Constitution for national security or immigration. Practi
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
So firstly: no significant group in the US is advocating for "open borders", that term is just a strawman as used in modern politics. Secondly: "open borders is a libertarian policy, not a left-wing one" doesn't rea
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
I always feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people say no one complained under Obama since I distinctly remember people complaining at the time (maybe it just didn't make it to less left-wing circles?). It's also pretty tr
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
One thing to note when talking about "foreigners" is that many rights in the constitution specify "persons". So citizens and non-citizens theoretically have equal rights from that standpoint. So I agree in general but it
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by tdb7893 6mo ago
I think much more likely is that it will just be made legal federally sometime in the next decade. Marijuana legalization has majorities across ideologies ( https://news.gallup.com/poll/514007/grassroots-support-leg
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Sure but that response about the people is entirely ignoring the vastly larger issue of does she (or, more importantly, people actually in Iran) want every single power plant bombed because that is what the threat was (also all bridges and
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
My general impression is many people want the regime destroyed, which seems clear from talking to people but also just all the protests. I haven't asked but I'm skeptical they are for things like attacking of every bridge, railroa
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
My point is that inequality in isolation doesn't happen . It's a hypothetical that doesn't exist. It's like talking about sugar and ignoring calories
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Inequality is inherently bad for dynamic market economies. Often the argument is that increasing inequality is fine if the economy is growing and the lower classes aren't losing income but inequality also slows growth as more of the
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
The headline is a remarkably rosy spin on it when the subheading is "Research shows that ranks of higher earners have grown markedly over last 50 years, while lower rungs of middle class have shrunk". The article is behind a paywa
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
The top comments complaining about other comments complaining about stuff really shows how negative internet discourse is hard to avoid. I don't think these comments are bad (meta-discussion is a good thing in general) but they also se
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
A decade ago wasn't Musk talking about Hyperloop? He sounded like an idiot to many people then, too. His companies were good at the time but once he talked about anything else I feel like it was pretty clear who he was. I don't th
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
There's a recent AP article talking about this some (I don't know enough to know the quality of the article): https://apnews.com/article/china-coal-solar-climate-carbon-e...
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
I've noticed this for MAGA people I've met in real life but for the people actually making decisions, this administration (and their friends/political donors) has been making too much money for basic greed to not also be a hu
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
I am not against the general use of AI code. Quite simply, my view is that all relevant context for a review should be disclosed in the PR. AI and humans are not the same as authors of PRs. As an obvious example: one of the important functi
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
If those tools are writing the code then in general I do expect that to be included in the PR! Through my whole career I've seen PRs where people noted that code that was generated (people have been generating code since long before LL
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Maybe it was added after your comment but that section has a warning box calling the score a "deliberately absurd formula" and saying "this is comedy" in literal bold letters at the top. No one thinks it's serious a
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
The people I know not in good and long term relationships now are the ones that stayed in bad ones too long in their 20s and 30s. Staying in bad relationships seems to be what has people in the "dating phase" later in life. Trying
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
I don't think this is necessarily that the advice is getting worse. My friends are pretty mature and stable people and I've found that they've had way more issues staying in relationships longer than they should've compa
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
I put a nice box with a pet safe heating pad and blanket and the cat never sat on my keyboard again. When she wanted my attention she then just stood in front of my face and then would sit back on the blanket eventually
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Like most things in biologicy, categorization is a nightmare unless you have a very specific use case in mind. In this case I'm talking about women phenotypically and socially (including self-identity) and especially athletes assigned
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
From a biological perspective, the women being banned here are not just men and as far as I'm aware cannot realistically compete in the men's division any more than any other woman. Practically these changes bar women athletes wit
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Trans women have competed as women in the Olympics once ever and have 0 medals. By the numbers it's a non issue under previous rules (despite the incredible amount of ink spilled over it). People are talking about trans women here but
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Possums are stinky bastards but I love them so much! Juvenile possums are shockingly adorable, just look at these little guys! ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Baby_opos... )
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
I have accepted that a lot of effort has been put into making sure these people never see justice and they probably won't. I put my energy into strengthening democracy and institutions for the next generation so they have the opportuni
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
Wind turbines are also miniscule compared to issues like pollution, land use, windows, and cats. Also you can track migration and turn them off at key times if it's a huge issue (this is part of the motivation for research I'm goi
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by tdb7893 7mo ago
There's no reason ethical vegans wouldn't go for ultra-processed foods. Beyond Meat just isn't a great option, it's expensive and not good enough to justify it. The selling point for them seems to be that they taste more

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