sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
It would be difficult to do that given that the questions were published this week and the answers weren't published until ~today.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
How much extra time needs to be spent to work around these tricks when the men's razors are right next to the women's razors?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
It's also important to note that previous SOTA, DeepMind's AlphaGeometry, a specialized system, had previously achieved a silver-medal level performance and was within spitting distance of gold.
It was actually AlphaProof that was the previous SOTA.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
what then?
Ho, where is my rifle?
Ho, where is my saber?
In an even field, wide and open,
Beyond the field, a green forest.
In the forest, a tall tree,
Tall and mighty-trunked.
On the tree, a bird—a nightingale,
The little bird sings, it says:
"Who has a beloved so fair,
Let them love, let them cherish,
For turbulent years are coming,
Lest only regret remains."
This data is from the census, which says:
Households (H table series)
These tables look at the number and type of households in the United States. They describe the size of the household as well as the demographic characteristics of the householder. A household consists of all people who occupy a given housing unit.
So the census considers 15 people in an apartment to be a single household.
It's also eminently reasonable for the BLS and the census to use different definitions of 'household' because roommates don't share their income and act economically independently in ways that the BLS wants to measure, while the census is a population survey and the number of people physically in one housing unit is interesting to them.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
"Damn girl, you live like this?"
I am sure there are such situations in America but they are probably limited to illegal immigrants. Considering this ad was in Portuguese, I'm not sure it reflects the living standards of Irish people.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
I'm not a doomer by nature and I'm optimistic that America will still be a very good place to live in the medium term. The competition is very thin. Europe is busy ramping up footgun production; Israel is, uh, let's move on; the rest of the Anglosphere is content to give up all notions of freedom and liberty; East Asia is dying countries plus China; perhaps a small country like Switzerland is the only thing that can compete.
But at the same time as I get older I feel less confident that all the problems that, as a youth, I thought would be resolved will ever get resolved. The housing market is screwed. The education system is screwed. Unscrewing these is basically impossible because, as they say, "you'd make a lot of sick people very unhappy." There's too many entrenched interests, there's too many comfortable people whose ongoing comfort depend on nothing ever happening. You'd need a true 'orrible cunt who doesn't care about making friends who manages to get power to do something about this.
Fundamentally, I view these things as a conflict between dynamism and stasis. Outside of a few fields, I don't see dynamism returning to America in the medium term. Over the longer term, if we manage to beat back stasis without a true catastrophe, I think that will be enough for me and my children.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
The sons of those who beat a thoroughfare for freedom across the wilderness are absolutely those who have a place in politics.
The right accurately resists the progressive tendency to transmit blame through the generations, but transmitting credit is no less ridiculous.
It is the bitter and resentful foreigners, the unnaturalized and unassimilable ethnics, and anyone who considers himself an American and something else besides who have no place here, in politics or otherwise.
Accusing Americans of Asian descent of being bitter and resentful foreigners is a little strange considering that they are way better off in just about every dimension compared to white Americans.
sarker
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3d ago
I think a society should be able to carry out all the tasks necessary for it's own maintenance without relying on foreign workers. It's not a "poverty fetish" any more than wiping your own ass is. If you can't do it, you're not in good health by definition. If you can but won't, and prefer to hire a servant to do it for you, you're a sociopath.
Why is having non-Americans pick crops more like having someone else wipe my own ass than it is like... Having someone else pick my crops? Now, perhaps you are one of those people (and we have some on this board) who think that every man should be a completely autarkic island. If you are such a person, you can stop reading now.
But if you aren't, and you do agree that I don't need to be a psychopath to not want to pick my own crops, and that maybe my crops don't even need to be picked by my blood relatives, why should I insist that the crops must be picked by an American if Americans largely don't want to do this? There are farm jobs, people can go and get them if they like. They suck, though, and Americans, myself included, generally have better paths open to them than farm labor.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
Actually, the other side of the issue is to grow America to 1 billion people, so allowing in merely another 300M people would be the centrist approach.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
You see this all the time in California. I know a boomer or two who has empty houses that he doesn't even rent out because he doesn't want to bother.
The tax situation for real estate in California is an incredibly sweet deal. Your tax basis is the valuation at purchase time with a yearly increase not to exceed inflation or 2%. Boomers are paying pennies in property tax on all their properties while people who buy a house now can pay ten thousand a year for an ""starter"" house. Another transfer from the productive to the retired.
sarker
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4d ago
sarker
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6d ago
It is definitely interesting. I don't think that this plus "Maxwell" in the name is a smoking gun, though, and that seems to be the extent of the evidence as far as I can tell.
sarker
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7d ago
They could easily know that MaxwellHill is Ghislaine, associating with her wouldn't be seen as a big deal until the late 2010s.
There would be no reason for Ghislaine to violate opsec like this.
If the account is active then it can make public posts! That's exactly the point, it's a totally active account that just won't post a public comment or thread for unspecified reasons. But rest assured, it's totally still active and doing mod duties.
Regardless of the activity of the account, the other mods can't make it post publicly. That's my point.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
Yes, pedophiles would prefer to live in a world where they don't have to hide their pedophilia, even if they're rich and powerful and currently getting away with it.
Is there any indication that the reddit account was trying to bring about such a world?
the Worldnews moderation team who is directly incentivized to lie, is making suspicious and contradictory claims already (like come on again, who "visits" a place they supposedly live?) and refuses to provide hard evidence that should be extremely easy to do if their claims were true and the account was still active, instead preferring easily faked and completely unable to be verified screenshots.
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Why are they incentivized to lie? If maxwellhill were really Ghislaine, they probably wouldn't know this. So what would have happened to the mods if they had not produced the evidence they have produced so far?
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it would be impossible for them to produce evidence that the account is still active without making public posts
sarker
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8d ago
History is full of men who wanted nothing to do with it. And rightfully so.
Wars of succession are rarely fought to get the other guy to take on the, ah, "curse." There never seems to be a shortage of men ready and willing to take the top job.
It's only redeeming quality is that in the hands of your enemies, it is even more terrible than in yours.
These people have "enemies" because they wish to gain power and subjugate their rivals. If they didn't want to do those things, nobody would give a shit about them.
The vision of the reluctant ruler is a very romantic fantasy for the armchair philosopher, or for those with zero power in their personal life, but has very little, if anything, to do with reality.
sarker
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8d ago
In the same way that when I buy a Costco box of cookies I've burdened myself with eating them.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
A king has far, far more virtues to live up to and a far heavier burden to carry than a peasant.
And yet people regularly murder each other to become king and rarely murder each other to become a peasant.
sarker
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9d ago
In the wider internet, I think I'm quite unusual in being open-minded about the benefits of such extrajudicial punishment, compared to the kind of Indians you would pay attention to online.
To be clear, I'm not talking about online Indians, I'm talking about actual Indians I've met IRL, with who I've talked about life in India.
India is a poor country! Western tourists are probably not taking public transport except for the sake of it. That is not nearly as true for Indian tourists, in India.
So why are Indian tourists, from a country where pickpockets are routinely beaten, not beating these pickpockets on the metro, where they are surrounded by other Indians, who (presumably) routinely beat pickpockets? Why is this dog not barking?
Further, there's obvious selection-bias at play: Vice didn't choose to interview an ex pickpocket, did they?
They did, he's no longer a pickpocket.
sarker
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9d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
My man, did you bother to do something as simple as Google the phrase thief beaten up India?
India, as you know, is a big place. I am confident that there's a thief beaten up in India every day. The question is, is pickpocketing and robbery rare, and is it rare because thieves are sure to be swiftly beaten? You claim it is, but again, I have met many Indians and I have never heard any of them claim that thieves are guaranteed an ass-whooping on the spot.
I don't have the time to watch the video right now, but my expectation is that they're preying on tourists primarily, which would be easily true in Delhi. They could also, more tentatively, simply be lying about the risks of being caught, or too dumb to care.
It's not a video, it's an article. The guy mostly picks pockets of people on public transit, which tourists are usually wealthy enough to avoid and has a critical mass of witnesses and people who would be available for administering an impromptu beating.
I can't even imagine what it means to be "too dumb to care" about being beaten to a pulp. It is possible that he's lying, but why would he lie about this? Why would he continue to be a pickpocket if he's getting beaten every day by mobs of Indians? More importantly, how could he continue to do anything but lie in a hospital?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
You're the only Indian I've met who claims that people would get beaten in the street for various transgressions and I really find it hard to believe. Every Indian woman I've met seems to have a story about getting groped in public and the offender never gets beaten by the upstanding citizens that you claim inhabit the subcontinent.
Here is a vicesplainer on the career trajectory of one Delhi pickpocket. He joins a gang that has so much opportunity for larceny that they're pickpocketing around the clock in shifts. He certainly doesn't fear retaliation from honorable bystanders, the only thing he seems to fear is the gang after he tells them he's out.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
I mean even in your own home away from home, there are plans to just get rid of Women's prison. Women are too good to spend time in jail for their crimes you see? In fact, their reasoning is that since more women are being sent to jail, something must be wrong with the legal system, since women are wonderful obviously. So we'd better start shutting down the women's jails so they can't be sent there.
Leaving aside the wisdom (or lack thereof) of this plan, this isn't what is going on.
There are no plans to get rid of women's prison. There's a plan to get rid of a women's prison. Women are not too good to spend time in prison for their crimes:
“There are a number of women that need to be there. They’ve done terrible things, they need to be punished, and that’s the best place for them."... About two-thirds of women are imprisoned for non-violent offences.
Would they, if they looked at the men's prisons, find many of the same reasons for leniency apply? Probably (it seems the overall rate of people in prison for nonviolent offenses is 61%), and they obviously don't because women are wonderful and men aren't. But your hyperbolic framing of what's going on is just that.
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