NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
7d ago
A sufficient speed differential between Earth and a kilometer wide object would literally destroy the Earth, flipping it inside out and melting it.
NewCharlesInCharge
7d ago
Seattle doesn't have hot summers. Midday typically has ideal temperatures.
NewCharlesInCharge
12d ago
Maybe this is part of a template I’m not familiar with, but doesn’t seem to be pro assassin, just making light of a guy named Luigi being in jail.
NewCharlesInCharge
12d ago
Oh wow randos are sending him mana. Tipping a guy with fake money for doing a murder.
NewCharlesInCharge
18d ago
The ACA mandates that insurers have to spend at least 80% or 85% (based on size of market) of premiums on actual provision of healthcare.
Cost cutting is of little use to them. If they take in $100M, currently spend $85M on medical, but are able to cut medical costs by 30% to about $60M, then they'd also have to cut that $15M allocated to other stuff down to about $10.5M. And give up about $30M in premiums.
With this regulation becoming more efficient hurts your bottom line.
But if they can grow the amount spent total, then the 15% or 20% they're allowed to use on other things also grows.
It's basically cost plus contracting, which is apparently popular when you're spending other people's money.
NewCharlesInCharge
19d ago
I don’t think you can. One of the most “institutions are untrustworthy” moments was public health telling us that gathering in the thousands to protest for racial justice was okay because racism was more pernicious to public health than COVID.
But if we weren’t protesting for racial justice then we had to stay home, not visit our dying relatives or attend their funerals, and certainly not gather for mere socialization.
NewCharlesInCharge
26d ago
"Overrepresented" is not enough. The claim is that woke politics is overwhelmingly dominant to the point where there're no antiwoke studios. Trans devs would have to be overwhelmingly dominant to match that claim or something else is going on to give even an overrepresented minority this outsized say.
I think politeness and not wanting to get in trouble with HR plays a big role.
I work with some trans engineers. Luckily there's no intersection between their identity and what we work on. It wouldn't make sense to inject the concept of gender identity into storage drivers.
But if I worked in some area that involved storytelling, and the trans engineers wanted to insert their identity into the stories, I'd be incentivized not to speak my mind. I'd want to say things like this is a vanishingly small portion of the population, it's harmful to children to encourage gender identity navel gazing, etc. But then I'd certainly be upsetting all but the most extreme high-decoupling autists among them, and I'd end up being told by HR not to say those things.
NewCharlesInCharge
28d ago
Bloodletting was ahead of its time?
NewCharlesInCharge
30d ago
Not eligible, but at least in my state of Washington they still get notices to appear. They're required to refuse due to their citizenship status, but that requires them to both read and fully understand the summons they've been sent.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I wonder if this move is actually about Trump, designed to rope him into a Logan Act violation in which he contacts Putin to make some diplomatic assurances ahead of being sworn in.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I would not be surprised if someone on the federal circuit asserted that punitive damages aren't punishments.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
In the private sphere Musk also has the advatnage that he can attract top talent on prestige. Government workers enjoy the opposite of that. The most common response to someone pontificating on government work is "the job security must be nice." In other words, you're only going to be fired for terrible malfeasance, not for run-of-the-mill incompetence. And as a result there's not a whole lot of competence on display among the federal government workforce.
To make the government leaner and more effective, I'd couple cuts with an increase to prestige. Make government jobs highly sought after. Make the pay something like 95th percentile for comparable industry jobs. Make expectations high, with a target on attrition at well above zero. Grant benefits that are simply unavailable outside of the federal workforce. They could have immediate access to Tier I support at other federal agencies. Access to exclusive spaces at national parks. Franking privileges. The rights of an FFL without the paperwork. There are many possible privileges that would cost very little.
The goal should be for people to react to someone saying they work for the feds with the same respect and fascination as say, a rocket engineer for SpaceX.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I wonder if the dudes that used to upload pictures of their semen submitted them with an accompanying license.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
It appeared to be both. He'd just had some violent confrontation and was likely in a state of mind where he just wanted to break things (and children and grannies), but also he drove through parade barriers with people waving for him to stop, and on video both swerved into people and sped up into them.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
The judge did plenty, though granted him a whole lot of leeway. Eventually he ended up having to attend the trial from a separate room via videoconference so that he could be muted when he wouldn't behave.
This was a fun watch. The guy was a Soverign Citizen, and a small corner of Reddit went nuts with it. "Estoppel" became a catchphrase. I just checked and it's actually still quite active: https://old.reddit.com/r/DarrellBrooksJr/
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
From that NPR link on 4b:
It calls for the refusal of dating men (biyeonae), sexual relationships with men (bisekseu), heterosexual marriage (bihon) and childbirth (bichulsan).
Koreans didn't have a word for sex until the West brought them one?!
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
But if opportunities to take more power come along or can be engineered he won't hesitate to seize them
Is Covid not dispositive here?
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Me as well. One riot with one death, and on the rioting side. And then the winning side ultimately gets to govern without bureacratic hamstringing.
Compared to years of rhetoric and investigation into "Russian collusion" that turn out to have been sourced to a document paid for by the opponent's political campaign. And then a whole summer of riots all around the country with billions in property damage and many more than one death.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
“Humunculus not installed: please refer to manual.”
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I suppose it comes down to whether or not there is a ghost in the machine.
If human intelligence is all neurons that can be modeled as a graph with weighted edges then we should be able to simulate it.
Maybe we do that and still can’t get human intelligence to pop out of the simulated brain and find that something is missing.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Chinese engineers and scientists elect to live in the USA because you can make crazy amounts of money here. Style of government is rarely part of the decision function.
I know a lot of Chinese engineers and none of them are against the government, even though plenty have specific complaints here and there. Only one has taken up a hobby, hunting, that would be unavailable to him if he moved back.
Culturally they go along to get along but still most of their entertainment, food, and holidays are Chinese.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
We’re exhausting almost all the data, video included. We’ve recently taken to generating synthetic data. For images, this would mean generating novel images and then feeding them back into training. Imagine taking an image of a car and then rotating it behind some thick leaves or a chain link fence.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
But he’d be ninth in line for the presidency.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I just watched Kamala’s speech and was surprised that she told the crowd everything is going to be okay.
I guess she doesn’t believe Trump is a fascist or that we just had our final American election.
This seems aligned with the position that conciousness somehow arises out of information processing.
I maintain that conciousness is divine and immaterial. While the inputs can be material - a rock striking me on the knee is going to trigger messages in my nervous system that arrive in my brain - the experience of pain is not composed of atoms and not locatable in space. I can tell you about the pain, I can gauge it on a scale of 1-10, you can even see those pain centers light up on an FMRI. But I can't capture the experience in a bottle for direct comparison to others.
Both of these positions are untestable. But at least my position predicts the untestability of the first.
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