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by zmgsabst 2y ago
That’s no different than high-end artisanal woodworking, which I would argue is comparable to self-directed, cutting-edge research: - apprenticing - journeyman phase - only finally achieving mastery CNC never replaced those people, rather,
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
People suspected there was funny business going on since the Patriot Act was passed in 2001. By 2003 gangs were aware government spied on phones at scale. NSA regularly came up in my high school tech class in 2004, in connection with War on
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
CNCs and other technology haven’t destroyed woodworking. There’s whole communities on YouTube — with a spectrum from casual to hobbyist to artisanal to industrial. Why would mathematics be different than woodworking? Do you believe there’s
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This seems obviously untrue: why would they be replicating it if they didn’t want it? I see both cases as people who aren’t well served by the artisanal version attempting to acquire a better-than-commoditized version because they want mor
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> You appear to be detached from any actual reality. > Still gets votes by large numbers of possibly the stupidest nation on Earth. Ah, the classic ad hominem . > But yes, do you not understand why the US spent the last half centu
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Canada has a higher population density than that of Alaska which is right next to it should they take it over for their protection after all the US is engaging with their enemy Russia? Do you think they wouldn’t if the population and m
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> There is one country/party that is supercharging China, and has de facto ceded global leadership to them in the most amazing self-own in history, and that is the US under the Trump administration. Trump is the predictable result o
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The US would obviously prefer they choose to play ball — and if you refer to the actual quote, Trump clearly referred to economic coercion: the question was compound (“economic or military coercion”) and Trump elaborated on his answer (disc
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I always liked Erlangs “crash until someone knows how to recover”.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
So is the insistence on “retake”. With the exception that “take” is technically correct, as the area in question is a remnant of the already existing government which has maintained independence in a cease fire. Both claim the other, but fa
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Taiwan is under the administration of the government which ruled China then — and has continued to rule Taiwan since before the revolution led by the CCP. That’s why their official name is the “Republic of China”. https://en.wiki
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I believe allowing China to seize Philippine islands without response was actually the appeasement which escalated the situation. (Along with raiding oil fields, etc of their other neighbors.)
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
We’d blow up the fabs ourselves. But it’s in Taiwans interest for us to continue to provide them arms, training, and build regional alliances to pressure China. I’m also not as convinced the US wouldn’t respond, but it would depend on South
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Multipolar world order: Now that it’s become untenable for great powers to fight and they’re all facing regional instability and domestic unrest (EU, US, RUS, CN), we’ll see a century of consolidation and realignment at the regional/co
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
How did that work out in the USSR and CCP, where groups regulated the corrupt power of others on behalf of the people? What you’re describing is the perennially utopian pitch of Marxist societies — a century of failure, not withstanding.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
And you believe that DOGE employees are tweaking firewall rules at NIH IT?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Many languages have a specific term for US private equity investors that rush in, buy up entire countries' corporations, then try to squeeze out every cent of profit. Sure — the US bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie benefitted. Bu
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
No, they’re coupled issues — eg, open markets forces domestic labor to compete unfairly. The manner in which those people accrued wealth is deeply related to the issue, by subverting the working and middle classes domestically. I understand
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Presumably because they view the US as best for their classes when it was easier to do business and less beholden to international affairs while simultaneously not believing that empowering the government in such a manner will benefit them.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
What makes them false DMCA claims? I don’t see a license on the repo.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
American working and middle classes have been devastated over the course of forty years by bad trade deals. They’re the constituency that supports Trump. Numbers like GDP or total wealth will be highly misleading — and it’s unsurprising t
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
That’s why Trump saying he’ll normalize tariffs is popular: Many Americans feel cheated, whereby they give better terms to other parties and don’t even get respect in return. So they now support a movement to mirror that behavior. This is a
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Evidence can be circumstantial. Eg, searching “how to pick locks” when you’ve also robbed a house — even though people search that without committing crimes. That’s particularly true for evidence showing intent. The question for evidence is
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Like what?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Congress has authorized it: civil rights laws make schools ineligible when violated, and Trump is claiming various programs violate those.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
As someone else pointed out, this is intention-based communication — in the style of Turn This Ship Around. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158601-turn-the-ship-a... We’re informing the manager of our intent
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
If you’re a senior engineer then your job is to manage these. 1 + 2: Tell them to open a ticket, mark it appropriately, and we’ll do it; but then when you come asking why we didn’t do other things, I’ll show you that chart. 4 + 4b: As a sen
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
If I don’t tell you when I’m doing the work, how will I know if you’ve said no or not? If I think one day is enough time, so proceed, but you take two days to respond, now I’ve done something against your instructions. Adding a date avoids
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Reality being more complicated than a model is precisely their point: The vision of a technocratic bureaucracy isn’t workable given the complexity of life — so we need to distribute decisions to be made in context. We’re paying huge sums fo

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