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You will have a really hard time convincing Americans to keep paying high taxes while funding is pulled from their children’s schools and redistributed to inner cities and ruralia.…

As I see it, it's actually the only safe bet. Case 1: you keep training engineers. Case 1.1: AGI soon, you don't need juniors or seniors besides a very few. You cost yourself a ton…

Most employment is at will, but salaried employees usually have specified severance in case of termination for convenience. Misrepresenting qualifications does in fact create a cas…

The question is usually understood to mean "on an ongoing basis" and it's essentially lying. The system may not be correct or kind, but I'd have a lot of trouble trusting someone w…

This is a bit of a game theory problem. "Training senior engineers" is an expensive and thankless task: you bear essentially all the cost, and most of the total benefit accrues to …

I believe cursor now supports parallel tasks, no? I haven't done much with it personally but I have buddies who have. If you want one idiot's perspective, please hyper-focus on mod…

I am a major hater of many (most?) crypto applications, which should tell you something since the idea of a decentralized currency outside state control is one that deeply appeals …

We "invest" more than almost anyone. 38% higher than the OECD average. I don't find discussions about throwing more money at the problem to be constructive so much as a way to igno…

This seems like more of an issue with accessibility of the treatment than the treatment itself If we could make most children smart, productive, ambitious, courteous, civil, consci…

Can you explain why this is a bad thing, or is it just “”the rich” bad”?

Interesting. I've never tested o1-pro because it's insanely expensive but preview seemed to do okay. I wouldn't be shocked if huge, expensive-to-run models performed better and if …

I've found sonnet-3.7 to be incredibly inconsistent. It can do very well but has a strong tendency to get off-track and run off and do weird things. 3.5 is better for this, ime. I …

I'm not really defending it, I'm explaining the mentality. iMessage is probably closer to "something I have" but yeah, often not true for many American users. I'd probably keep a T…

Phone numbers are used like this because in the Year of our Lord 2025, they’re the best way to semi-solve the Sybil problem even somewhat without having to literally do some kind o…

This is probably compliance-related. For me, TOTP isn’t “something I have”, it’s another thing I toss into my password manager and sync to all devices. I really agree with it, but …

The point here is to avoid the oracles of the world getting everything. Please trust me on this one: fedramp isn’t really about security. Compliance with it doesn’t ensure it and n…

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You’re not separating what you call “pushiness” from mere presence. Notice how you picked two minuscule religions with tiny numbers of believers, and therefore very little communit…

Attacking something over its Christian roots that is no longer generally understood to be Christian is, in fact, anti-Christian bigotry. There is no policy of attacking things with…

I'll second the zed recommendation, sent from my M4 macbook. I don't know why exactly it's doing this for you but mine is idling with ~500MB RAM (about as little as you can get wit…

So what? The alternative acronyms are neologisms created specifically out of anti-Christian sentiment. If y'all were operating in good faith, these would catch the same level of at…

This isn't especially relevant. It barely covered a few scraps of northwest India. Most "Indo-Greek" civilization and culture was concentrated in Bactria and Sogdiana, not those fe…

Firstly, most people either don't know or don't regularly consider what BC and AD mean. No more than they remember i.e. stands for "id est" or know what the Latin means. These are …

I am saying the perspective of classical antiquity and its heir in western civilization, of which America is the current exemplar, is the correct one.