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> they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project

Right, but they are visibly are. Russ Vought (project 2025) is the Office of Management and Budget director. He drafted the executive orders months ago that would lead to exactly this. Part of Project 2025

Other members in Trumps cabinet from Project 2025:

- Tom Homan (Border Czar)

- Brendan Carr (FCC)

- John Ratcliffe (CIA Director)

> The rest of your post is just hysteria so I won't comment on that.

Maybe don't accuse others of hysteria while you spout that Democrats are the ones coordinating every independent attorney and judge to come after Trump.

> In every instance, he has said he is not affiliated with it and doesn't support it

You sound like you were born yesterday. If you can't imagine why a politician would say one thing and do the other, I really can't help you. You're maliciously ignorant.

> real people don't talk about their stalkers so much. When I was stalked and harassed I kept the details light and didn't provide much in the way of actual community details because I went to the FBI and local police to deal with it

You actually provided more details here than he did, so I guess that's not true.

>> Suffice it to say, I ended up traveling for most of the year, all the while having to handle various abusers and stalkers who harassed and attacked me and my family (and continue to do so).

If anything, I am more doubtful you had stalkers since you are also in this thread saying this[1]. What an unsympathetic reply. You certainly don't come off like you're aware of the stress and fear that can bring if your answer to other people being stalked is "rethink your life choices."

> Sounds to me like you just need to take a break from the internet friend. If you're that high profile that you're getting hit over and over, maybe you need to rethink your life choices. If it bothers you that much especially.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038512

> Labeling something "flamebait" is a characterization of the tone of an argument, and whether it appears to be designed to incite low-quality discussion/flaminess

Which is also not measurable and manipulates the reader. I don't see the readers comment as flamebait. Just because misinformation comes from right-wing media and people have eyes to see that and call it out doesn't make it flamebait. What should we call it? An unknown amount of totally apolitical misinformation from [insert party here]?

> It's still an euphemism designed to manipulate the listener, and is something that is impossible to prove factually

As are most arguments when we use phrases like "a lot", "similar to", etc. If you dismiss things based on such broad criteria, I am puzzled by your comment history. You have told users they are bad and support Tyranny[1], said it's malicious to support infrastructure spending[2], and called Snowden a narcissist (which proves he had no altruistic motives?)[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434473 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375616 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406143

These are not emotional statements supported by an argument, these are arguments supported by emotional pleas.

And a simple cmd+f shows "Emotional plea" is a phrase you do not use sparingly either. You are using this word very broadly. If you cannot hold yourself to the same standards you hold other users, you aren't debating in good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206808

You have obviously constructed a belief system that makes it impossible to engage with things you disagree with while allowing yourself to lash out at users however you see fit and bring up whatever politics suits you.

> Copy-pasting journal article links is not an argument

An argument is not a theoretical bottle exercise for one to wordsmith their way towards not engaging with the facts. In the real world, we have eyes.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440241258026?i...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637323/

> "the downright biblical flood of COVID misinformation that emanated from the right" is not a fact - it's an emotional plea

The term "flamebait" is also an emotional plea, but we trust adults to use their brain and decide how to report that in good faith.

"Biblical Flood" is a euphemism indicating "a lot of" misinformation (which is a fact [1]) and anyone not being willfully obtuse could interpret what the commenter meant. but I suppose it's easier to immediately dismiss that very true statement than engage with it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114791/

No one is arguing Java is expressive.

Thanks for your insight!

That's interesting. I've heard complaints about Kotlins standard library in comments like this[1]. I understand they may be nitpicks but they seem annoying in practice.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/mh2z5u/comment/gt2n...

I'm not sure how someone could see Kotlin as more expressive than Python, unless I am misinterpreting what expressive means. Python has a good language features and helpful abstractions like list comprehensions.

What makes Kotlin more expressive? I understand it has some functional features but I've never seen anything dramatically flexible.

No hack job needed on someone who can't call themselves news without going to jail.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/all-the-texts-fox-ne...

Not really? They control the ToS and are not under special obligation to enforce them correctly from the government.

> There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID

No, there wasn't.

> But there was a lot of misinformation that the studies themselves were fake

That was not misinformation. The idea that Ivermectin was helpful in dealing with CoVID was determined from a meta analysis that included a fake study that nobody can confirm happened and even used dead people. It was pushed by grifting doctors who sell Ivermectin.

Yes, if you have parasites and take an anti-parasite drug you're gonna feel better, whether you have CoVID or not.

> the tide of misinformation saying that the vaccine would halt COVID

It halted it as much as it could considering 30% of people didn't complete vaccination. I finished and have had every booster and never got CoVID despite all of my family members getting it (who refused to get vaccinated).

Mono was, but newer versions of .NET run on Linux and Mac.

You can install at the link below, and then making a project is just `dotnet new console` and run with `dotnet run`

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux

I go in more detail in my other comment but I would imagine this is a definition most people can't get behind.

> intelligence can be reasonably defined as "knowledge and skills to be successful in life, i.e. have higher-than-average income"

I think it just crumbles under light scrutiny. People have higher income for all kinds of observable reasons that don't have to do with intelligence. I have higher income than other employees at the same level just based on where I live.

Intelligence is something that is defined by academics. Surprise surprise that it it measures how people perform in a narrow set of academic skills.

"g" is a measure of narrow set of skills and job performance outcomes that favor western developed society. It's not an observable, it's an inferred value. It makes sense that people good at math and reading are going to perform well in jobs that involve math and reading. And people without access to good schooling or even textbooks are going to have worse performance.

I don't think it's appropriate to measure intelligence as a correlation between the few things a statistician cares about, personally. It would be a naively meritocratic view to think performing well at the highest paying jobs is a decent measure for intelligence.

> but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ.

How does one find a definition of intelligence that allows us to correlate it to anything? My understanding is an IQ is defined and intelligence is not.

If you were the one hosting it on your own server and storing CSAM that people were sending, yeah, you should be arrested. Nobody cares if you upload a messenger to github, there's scores of them.

This is one of those posts that just tries to throw in as many rage baiting concepts at once in to maximize angry engagement.

Bait aside, nobody calls you homophobic for asking good faith questions about how the schools budget is spent. But it would be absurd to imply the 12 hours a year kids are taught about sexuality is somehow derailing the entire curriculum. When talking about revamping education, only people that have fully drank Kool aid would think "it's because all of that money is used to turn my kids gay".

Always enjoyed Sony games. I will not forget that Sony didn't make the PS4 backwards compatible, claiming no one cared about that, and then later offered the ability to play older games via their subscription-based PSNOW service. You can download some of them, but others can only be streamed and you need to have a good internet connection to play a PS2 game. Ridiculous.

There will always be a demand for playing older games, hence emulators like this.

> They don't exist anywhere in the document hierarchy so users have to mentally piece together what they're connected to, they carry no context, and they happen long (in computer time) after the action that that caused them.

To me, the context is the thing I just did. I can't say I'm particularly confused with toasts. Without them, I find myself looking for confirmation on page more often.

Also to the user, they happen instantaneously. Who cares if the fade-in is slow in computer time?

> The point being why should any argument in this line end up with “lets extradite him to the US”

Because New Zealand is willing to and he broke the law in the U.S. as well? Why would there be an argument at all?

You were criticizing someone's argument and brought up two points of your own that don't make sense to me. Drug cartel members DO get extradited.

> Even if that’s true

If it's true? It's a quote from the talk itself.

> it misses the entire point of the parent comment

Not really. I would say cheating on your wife with your PR executive is extremely bad for morale and an all around leadership failing. Just because sex is involved doesn't make it tabloid fodder. I can't just punch a coworker and call it "my personal life."

More importantly, you're ignoring the part of the comment that said he was extremely well liked, which was the baseless claim I responded to. You can say that's not the point of the comment, but that's just because acknowledging it weakens the argument.

> extremely well liked

By who? By what metric? That is a much shallower claim.

I would wager the guy blaming their middling AI development on "work life balance" was not well liked.

> if there are victims in 20 countries that why would any third party have priority for enforcing their law

That's not really relevant. No one is arguing priority. "Priority" implies there's 20 countries fighting to prosecute someone and we need to resolve it. In this case, it was a cooperation between multiple countries who agreed someone needed to be prosecuted, regardless of which country did it.

Maybe not what the commenter was saying, but there is a difference between great multi-hour essays and pointless rants stretching out their length to meet a minimum ad requirement. I like watching a lot of multi hour videos, but you can tell the difference between one with substance and one repeating the same thing over and over so they can "clock out."

That's all due to changes by YouTube to reward length and frequency, which of course makes sense for maximizing their ad revenue. But the result is creators are incentivized to pump out 20-minute fluff videos, not well edited/written videos.

People on here complain about SEO sites being filled with meaningless garbage. That's what YouTube is starting to be. The difference is their search bar still works whereas Google's will only give you the garbage. Though I still get "such and such breaks down their career" even though I've never clicked on that.

It's also a science forum and a tech forum.

This is totally true, but unfortunately it is hard to find a good TV that doesn't have embedded software. So whether or not I plug in a Roku, my options menu will always be handled by the TVs OS.

> We had this coming. Over the years, the various chromecasts in our house are slowly getting worse. I had the sense they are cutting costs on the software and servers powering these devices.

I can't imagine they will get better. It seems smart devices always crap out after a few years. I am regretting buying my Samsung TV last Fall because it's already slowing down. It takes 5 seconds to load the options menu.