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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
ICE is a law enforcement agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Immigration_and_...
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
Homotopy type theory was invented to address this notion of equivalence (eg, under isomorphism) being equivalent to identity; but there’s not a general consensus around the topic — and different formalisms address equivalence versus identit
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
> I guess we could remove DNA and see what happens ... If I have a stool with three legs, and remove one leg causing it to fall, can I conclude that removed leg is what made it stand? You’re making the same mistake as before in reverse:
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
An example of the contrary: Your eyes would be misplaced if the process from cell clump to mat to tubule failed due to chemical signaling failure, but the whole embryo tends to be spontaneously aborted when gestation fails so catastrophical
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Your last paragraph is their point: genes are regulated to produce that effect. The genes themselves aren’t doing it, but eg diffusion of chemical signals to inactivate genes. Morphology is determined by the combination of genes, chemical s
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
The US is huge — you can’t jam everything everywhere. Talking about just cities, you still can’t jam everything everywhere. But yes, targeted suppression/oppression (depending on your allegiance) will almost certainly use jamming — in
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
Italy’s demand was completely unreasonable and CloudFlare threatened to end business in Italy, including informing impacted partners. People talking about EU sovereignty and US hegemony then crying Italy isn’t allowed to dictate terms globa
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
CloudFlare already does business that way — eg, enforcing local laws inside the country. CloudFlare’s objection to Italy’s demands were that Italy demanded CloudFlare censor websites outside of Italy for everyone, globally. CloudFlare refus
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by zmgsabst 9mo ago
That’s because home labor and quality often aren’t priced in: - a chef is faster - a chef will produce better quality - but a chef charges for their time A restaurant often is paying half the price to ingredients and half to overhead; which
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Field theories are aether theories; as is GR. (Wilczek says as much.) You’re fixated on a particular model of aether, rather than addressing the broader concept. But that’s as illogical as me insisting atoms aren’t real because the Bohr mod
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
QM posits that fields which constitute matter and fields which constitute EM are both manifestations of an underlying phenomenon — that’s the whole idea behind unification. (And we’ve already successfully unified such fields.) My comment is
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Another interpretation is that the apparatus and not just light is made from ether — and so the signal is lost because the measuring apparatus is also subject to the local distortion. That interpretation is also consistent with LIGO: we can
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
You’re using top line numbers to make that assertion, but gains are not evenly distributed. There’s prolific ink spilled on the failures of technocratic managerialism over the past 40 years as gain become decoupled — and particularly over t
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Millennials are 30-45, roughly. There’s now a large segment (and several generations) of society for whom the system has never worked, even if the growth of retirement accounts masks the loss of wealth and well-being.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Only if there’s a net increase in their well-being. If their 401k is up, but so is cost of living and job prospects are down, most families are not invested enough to view that as a positive.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Populism is best understood as the general public asserting elites have “broken the deal” that legitimizes their rule — and the public withdrawing their assent from the regime. They are correct that the technocratic managerialists on the pa
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I mostly played “Everquest-like” ones. I’ll admit YMMV and my comment should’ve been better scoped — but it sounds like you’re not disagreeing that for those, LLMs are useful in the way I suggested.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Evolution is highly path dependent and stochastic, so I’m not sure your logic follows. Eg, the laryngeal nerve in giraffes is ridiculous — but having gone down that path before their current form, there’s little way to fix it. They’re now s
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Yes. A new MUD needs a way to build several thousand rooms, mobs, items, etc. LLMs can help with that process, though I wouldn’t trust them alone with things like balance. Similarly, existing MUDs adding new areas need hundreds of rooms, mo
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
6oz of beef is only 44g of protein; a moderate gym load would require more for many adult men. Typical might be more like 75-100g. (Recommendations I’ve heard is 2g per 1 kg of muscle mass; roughly 40% of your weight at moderate fitness.) I
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I’ve yet to see a single product that isn’t related to domains existing products solve problems for. That is, I’m aware of any time in history a wholly new category emerged suddenly. So your question seems like pure fantasy to me — like ask
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
3 is also the product of the sets {3, 1}, {3, 1, 1}, etc. We’re excluding the unit when defining these factor sets (ie, multiplicative identity) because it removes unique factorization. That 1 is the unit is also why it’s the value for the
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
On average and in total, we pay more to teach children than we do on podcasts. US podcasts have a total valuation of $8-9B with a revenue of $1.9B; total K-12 spending is $950B a year (about 500x higher). Education receives nearly three ord
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I suspect it depends on the company — eg, at Amazon the tech team went out of our way to blind ourselves to what the tax analysts were doing; at a fintech startup, we knew intimate details of what clients were doing. This sounds like the ki
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I think we should be much more strict with what constitutes “fraud”: If you sell me better service, but don’t treat me any better, you should owe me triple damages for defrauding me. And your executives should be prosecuted for directing fr
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
In Vietnam, if you see a parked driver waiting for a call, you can show him your Grab (ie, Asian copy of Uber) price to go somewhere, then get the same ride for 80%. Why would they mind more cash in their pocket?
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one that was one-way; but my experience is limited to US, MY, TH, and VN. In those four at least, traffic can come from either direction so you can have left-handed fills use both sides of a pump.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Even if there was a single side for filling, direction of approach being random is enough for 50/50 utilization of the pumps — so I’m not convinced there’s a pressure to spread which side the tank is on.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
The US just doesn’t recognize China’s claims to areas (eg, Taiwan or ASEAN sea islands), so doesn’t regard those as Chinese territorial waters in the first place. The point of US freedom of navigation exercises is to assert free transit of
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Also in Myanmar! Or any of several states and the Rohingya.

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