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> the modern life I don't think modernity caused any sort of degradation. You said it yourself, "thinking is hard work". It's rational to save energy. This might even have incentiv…

Restrictions aside, many years ago I landed a self-hosted Array.sort implementation in Firefox's JS Engine that performed better than the native C++ implementation :] -- it's a rec…

So, like mapping a type onto each incoming token that's been predetermined? To attribute each token to a particular topic? I'm not sure what impact that would have on the performan…

CUSMA goes both ways, it allows Canadian and US Citizens to obtain 3 year temporary work permits for many skilled occupations with low friction, across both countries. It's another…

It seems like there's an opportunity to embed identity information into tokens themselves, the way we embed sequence information. The trouble is... it's quite a challenge to train.…

The free healthcare only matters if you get permanent residency.. Otherwise, it's just like the world's most expensive insurance plan thanks to the pay cut. In terms of people in t…

US citizen moves to Canada on a CUSMA visa: - 30-50% pay cut - points and lottery based immigration system that penalizes them for each year you age after 30 - frequent unfavorable…

Sure, but Turchin's overproduction of elites doesn't suggest a birth and death cycle right? It's a system that gets out of balance and needs to adjust over time. He calls the proce…

B-but Curtis Yarvin said that dictato-err, "kings" are better for freedom because they don't need to care what the public thinks! /s The people in the tech industry who have cheere…

Yes. It might be a general property of all human organizational structures, to degrade over time in terms of intent drift and erosion of public goodwill. It offers some predictive …

I always found pair programming a bit.. hellish. Chatting about things. Rubberducking. Playing code review ping pong. All great. But the feeling of being shoulder surfed killed my …

It's a general problem of defining yourself in negative terms. Being "un-{thing I don't like}" doesn't say what you are. It only excludes one possibility while leaving behind an in…

They become less attractive to immigrants looking to engage in economic arbitrage. They become more attractive to outside non-governmental powers looking to engage in economic arbi…

> Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”? If you become poor enough and weak enough, yo…

I don't find this reassuring, because Elon's playbook is to force the public to purchase anything of his which doesn't do well on its own. Maybe a nice $1.776 trillion dollar tax f…

Because the lab working on Mistral is in the European Union.

> stagnation vs Chinese industrial hegemony I don't think we get to be stagnant and fend off Chinese industrial hegemony. It's not a symmetric bet.

The reason I called out Lada in my original comment is because it's a counterpoint to what you just said. The Lada was the result of too much protectionism. Produced from an empire…

I have one of the first runs of model 3s. It still runs perfectly. Great battery life. I'm happy with it. Nevertheless, I find it frustrating that I can't even consider buying a BY…

Competition. Lower prices. Better repairability.

100% tariff and political threats -- implying that they'd find a way to mark them as "unsafe", despite the fact that Canada and Europe tend to have higher safety standards than the…