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I always imagined that the application layer had some kind of extra overhead that would be unacceptable for general purpose use.

Not really. Nebula creates a layer-3 network[1]. Rayfish is built upon Iroh which is a layer-7 network. [1]: https://nebula.defined.net/docs/#technical-details

Probably some mixture of better statutory labor protections and more class solidarity (collective bargaining), but generally I don't know. It just boils my blood that Walmart can p…

You're fixating on the word deserve in my post, but that's got nothing to do with my point. I'm saying that the market has decided that it doesn't have to pay a living wage since t…

Well, I do agree that the redistribution system is absolutely broken. Most welfare recipients do in fact work (and benefit others) but our capitalist redistribution system has deci…

I'm asking you, is this really such a big problem that it requires getting rid of welfare? Is the US financially in trouble because it pays out welfare to undeserving layabouts? I …

> congress during some fluke period when the filabuster can be overcome. If the clouds part and Jesus himself descended from the heavens, you'd ask him to ... discourage anchor bab…

Not even this. The USA has a labor shortage that is filled by workers who used to migrate seasonally until it was no longer allowed, thus creating a perverse system that encouraged…

> Nor can I get behind the idea that quality of life for folks is on the down trend. There is a pretty clear down-trend post-COVID here. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications…

Immigration in the US is a completely different problem with its own crazy complex history of cause and effect. Using one as a lens to study the other seems foolish at best.

re: questionable legality https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o... > Moreover it's not hard to think of vaguely similar objections to fertilizers. It's compl…

tractor manufacturers or fertilizer companies didn't suck down the work of generations of predecessors in a questionably-legal fashion only to turn around and sell a heavily discou…

there probably never was any there for a meaningful amount of time, but it's incredibly hard to prove a negative.

If you have a ton of capital, you still can't spin up Claude Opus and compete on price with Anthropic with your new fancy optimizations. With open models you can and that is great …

It feels like the US military is 90% racketeering and 10% physically protecting Americans, if that. Most of our protection comes from two gigantic oceans on both sides. Though, I r…

Your motte-and-bailey argumentation here is extremely tiring, and I'd encourage you to take a step back and look at what's being discussed here. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-w…

This comment shows up on every single emacs thread and for the life of me I can't understand why. It takes one line in a shell to pull down a premade config and if that were to be …

Williams College wasn't content to blindly follow a vague directive restricting their speech. They already received very few grants as the article said. You better bet most scienti…

This group of people you're describing ("scientists who are only willing to do science if it involves preferential treatment") is simply not real. The idea that academics would cli…

the inverse is true as well-- I can produce or identify any note with zero reference and imagine entire melodies and harmonies and yet am still probably mediocre at best at composi…

These are very interesting anecdotes. The feeling I've been getting is that the inherent complexity in software hits people at prompt-time because they simply don't have the words …

this statement is equivalent to "pi is a normal number." While most real numbers are normal and pi is suspected to be so, it isn't known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_numbe…

> Your audience, or whoever you aim your work at, should be treated with respect. I just want to amplify this point. As I was reading this, the LLMisms kept jumping out at me and e…

I've studied how pre-NNUE stockfish worked and the principles of static position evaluation are accessible to a 500 rated player. The rest is writing an efficient search algorithm,…

what does actually playing chess have to do with writing an efficient game tree search algorithm beyond a few simple principles? You challenged him to a programming contest and won…