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Investing in manufacturing capacity is a general tactic of industrial nations. I am of course referring to valuable Chinese industry like electric cars, batteries, solar, bullet trains, etc. Just as the USA saw value in stimulating an aerospace industry, China sees value in stimulating a broad manufacturing base and expertise on energy related production. My claim is that this isn’t unfair, this is standard industrial policy. Except the USA has literally forgotten the value of industrial policy so when someone does it properly we misinterpret it as cheating.

You may appreciate this economics lecture on industrial policy: https://youtu.be/V6egGoCrbIo

Absolutely. I used to drive by a beach on the way to work. I regularly saw a man sweeping the sand off the sidewalk. He looked to be a city employee. Maintenance is always needed.

My hope is either to make it fun enough that people want to do it a few hours a week just to contribute back to others, or find a payment scheme that doesn’t lead to little kings trying to rule everyone.

Indeed. This seems similar to the hand-wringing I see about China's government subsidized manufacturing being "unfair". Actually government subsidized manufacturing is a great idea and its the entire reason we have a space program!

> The minute you start optimizing for employees instead of customers, you’re delivering less value to customers (the world) and asking to be disrupted. This is good.

You’re describing a race to the bottom for quality of jobs. But in this system we all have to have jobs, so you’re describing a race to the bottom for quality of life for most people. I think it is reasonable to question and discuss how we can better optimize our goals so that people’s material needs are met but jobs also don’t suck.

> So workers do own the companies, in proportion to how much value they deliver to the world due to market cap weighting.

This claim hides a great deal of assumptions about economics that are highly contested. For example the idea that how many shares you buy is proportional to the value you deliver assumes that workers with zero shares deliver zero value, which is obviously false. This also assumes that wealthier people, who own more of the shares in index funds, and delivering proportionally more value. Lending does have value, but it has limits. Imagine in the extreme case a company with 100 employees where 100% of the shares are owned by one person. Does that person provide 100% of the value?

My point more directly is that worker’s labor has value unrelated to ownership in shares, and simply offering stock options is not the same as a worker owned company, in practice.

Yes LeCun has said he thinks AI should be open like journalism should be - that openness is inherently valuable in such things.

Add to the list of benefits to Meta that it keeps LeCun happy.

Right. I am not trying to suppress T. I’m super genderfucked non-binary and happy with T in my system. Estrogen has done wonders for me and I’m happy with that. I only want to prevent further recession of my hair line while optimizing erection performance. If suppressing T ends up being better for that I will try it. But I just started finasteride. I have a check up in September and at that time my doctor and I have already discussed that we can consider switching to injections and higher E doses if we want to suppress T instead of relying on Finasteride.

It’s just one thing at a time, and giving it some months to balance out in my system.

Honestly I have a transgender doctor at one of the best trans care clinics in the country. I’m all set. Just wanted to share that finasteride is not always without side effects. My doctor and I can figure out my HRT.

I mean I can just ask my doctor for a higher dose. I’m currently not interested in suppressing T if finasteride works for me. I literally just started finasteride so I’m going to evaluate it until my next appointment in December and decide with my doctor how to proceed. I actually explicitly do not want to suppress my T unless doing so would result in better erection performance than not doing so and taking Finasteride. I’m extremely happy with where my body is.

Honestly it’s a little unnerving being told by strangers on the internet I should change my HRT. I’ve got a transgender doctor at one of the best Trans care clinics in the country. I get that folks are trying to help but really I’m fine.

Im not on a low dose, I take 8mg oral estradiol per day. It’s just not a particularly high dose, just the highest my doctor is comfortable giving someone orally. I don’t care about the testosterone in my system I only want to stop hair loss (I’m very genderfucked non-binary). It was my doctor from the UCSF Transgender Care center that suggested finasteride may have effects similar to that of reducing T (specifically a more estrogen dominant arousal style). I’m already on cialis and previously I’d take 5mg a day normally and 10mg on days where I would have sex, which is a pretty high dose. On finasteride I’ve noticed reduced erection performance even with 15mg cialis which is the most I want to take in a day (20mg is the maximum recommended daily dose).

Also I’m 39, so whatever masculinization I’m due for I suspect has all happened already.

I think estrogen increases my risk of breast cancer to that of a cis woman, but decreases some chances of testosterone related cancers. I really don't know much about this, but in general it seemed like I did not particularly have increased risks.

If you take a high enough dose of estrogen, generally referred to as estrogen mono therapy, it will knock down your T levels. But high estrogen levels have some risks as well, and different doctors have different preferred approaches. My doctor is willing to do estrogen monotherapy, but I would have to switch from oral pills to injections as the higher dosages taken orally would be hard on the kidneys. Before switching to injections, I just wanted to see how finasteride worked for me. It is okay, but not perfect.

It is hard to tell if what I am experiencing is a side effect of the finasteride unrelated to my T levels, or it is due to some reduction in the effects of testosterone because of the mechanism of action of the finasteride. If it is the latter, switching to injections and doing monotherapy to lower my T could have the same effects. The fact of the matter is the penis functions better with testosterone in my system but testosterone also leads to hair loss, so trying to get both is somewhat of an imperfect balancing act.

But hey, I'm having the best sex of my life and the people I am attracted to think I am hot as hell so I don't mind a little experimentation to see what works best! Actually its super cool what we can do with a little hormonal alchemy.

I just started taking finasteride and it seems it has negatively impacted my arousal patterns. I am also transgender and taking estrogen (but no t-blockers, hence the finasteride) but I did not make any other med changes for a year when I started finasteride so the correlation feels pretty clear. I would rather not be taking it!

Well with a place like Starbucks, they might be addicted to the sugar.

I am not seeing a distinction between how I interpret what you are looking for and what Kodi appears to be trying to do.

Meta is morally in the wrong for putting terms in their contracts they are well equipped to determine would be legally unenforceable. Individual engineers agreeing to contracts deserve some deference, while a multinational corporation deserves stricter scrutiny.

The "explosion" comes from the asteroid itself. The risk comes from radioactive dust being ejected in to the atmosphere and falling down all over the earth.

Not sure I buy "Murphy predicts" but large asteroid impacts carry far more energy than any terrestrial explosion. The nuclear materials don't need to add any energy to that for the risk to be present.

Thank you for the recommendation! I also learned a lot about Columbus’s atrocities and greed from this apparently well-researched YouTube video on the subject:

https://youtu.be/OaJDc85h3ME

He was truly an exceptionally brutal, evil, vile, and selfish person with no regard for the humanity of indigenous peoples.

According to TFA it is based on Android TV. So a de-googled LineageOS version of Android TV.

I think the understanding that they are not rare and that the price is entirely an extortionary corporate fiction to collect huge profits will influence one's desire to pay the high price.

Like if you buy a gold ring, I suspect its cost will be pretty related to the base price of commodity gold, the labor involved in creating it, and a reasonable markup for the company to survive. But it is too commoditizatized for it to have the super high prices diamonds have. Knowing that diamonds are horribly overpriced will reduce some people's desire to actually buy one. So telling people this helps save people money.

According to Wikipedia the first section, which includes Fresno, is currently expected to commence service in 2030-2033. Hope you have another trip before then!

Don’t feel too bad though. I’m simply waiting for them to continue the Bay Bridge bicycle path from Yerba Buena Island to San Francisco (completing the Oakland to SF bicycle path) and that’s also not slated for completion till 2030.

I agree, we’ve forced consumption to the margins which encourages unsafe use.

California is looking at legalizing psychedelic therapy without full legalization which is an interesting approach. I think ultimately adults should be allowed to make their own choices, as I’ve had very meaningful trips in a friends living room for a few dollars and a fully regulated therapeutic setting will probably cost $1000 (based on costs in Oregon). But maybe a therapy-first based approach will help underscore the need for appropriate ritual around these materials. Ultimately though adults are allowed to take risks with alcohol and other substances, and I think we should be free to do so with psychedelics too.

https://apnews.com/article/psychedelic-mushrooms-mental-heal...

Thanks for sharing. Not sure if the guidance to do shrooms in an appropriate setting and with an appropriate mindset ("set and setting") would have helped, but certainly that guidance is no joke!

And we should absolutely continue research to learn more about the adverse effects. Obviously they help a lot of people, but must be done with care and seem not to be helpful for every person. We must learn more about these conditions.

Actually we overload the word "feeling" to include thoughts and perceptions which are not feelings. Like "I feel sad" is a feeling. "I feel like you are being a jerk" is not a feeling it is a thought or perception.

Nit: you’re replying to what “should be” with what is. Those two concepts are not the same. Our property-tax-based educational funding system is widely seen as a tragedy.

> See I don't really buy that. This was a story about the gay community in South Florida in 2005. If you know anything about Florida, you can understand the statement that "some gay men are marginalized" is easily believable. Now today things are better, but a lot of my friends have come to Oakland fleeing dangerous places where their families kicked them out for being gay. You're talking about the scene in Berlin, but consider the scene in Oklahoma or... Florida today. Its still bad there.

> Why don't female lesbians display this behaviour?

Try undergoing a transition from a testosterone dominant system to an estrogen dominant system and you will understand. The nature of sexual urges under testosterone is very different from that of estrogen. Arousal under testosterone feels very urgent. I can control myself but imagine an abused 20 year old who never learned healthy self management. Without PrEP their urges may get them killed before they ever learn to control their impulses.

> I am against the prevailing hedonistic culture.

You can be against whatever you want. I am just explaining some facts about the benefits of PrEP for people that think differently from you.

It's not just about that user, but other people who see the comments and believe that user's misrepresentation of the facts.

> If AGI comes to pass

Increasingly, I am not putting much weight in any predictions about whether this will happen in the way we think it will, or what it could possibly mean. We might as well be talking about the rapture.

Free software is so important to society that I believe the most reasonable solution is to provide for all people without their need to work for survival. Automate as much as possible such that work is not compulsory, and enough people simply want something to do (and possibly additional pay depending on how the system is arranged) that everything that needs to get done by people does get done.

For now that is fiction, but so is "if all software was free". I do think though that both would lead to a faster rate of innovation in society versus one where critical information is withheld from society to pay someone's rent and food bills.

It looks sketch and this is the kind of thing that could really benefit from a small explanation. Users land on what seems to be a joke/novelty website that is immediately asking them for google login information, with no explanation. As you can see from the reactions here, that did not go well. An explanation of the reason for the login would help a lot.

> Bakers don't give away their goods. Mechanics don't typically repair things for free. Builders don't build things for free. Gas stations don't give away gas.

These all have the property which is that they are scarce physical goods or services. Software is not scarce (though of course the labor to create it is), so this is a really bad comparison.

And again I did not say it should or should not be free, I said there are engineering benefits to open source software and more and more people recognize those benefits and choose to make things free because they see the value and are willing to recognize the tradeoffs. I never said what "should" be done. "Should" is kind of a nonsense term when used in this way as it hides a lot of assumptions, so I generally do not use it, and notably did not use it in my comment. I want to point out the peculiarity in your rather strong response to a word and concept I never used. I think you are having an argument with imagined people, not a discussion with me.

And for what it is worth, I am a robotics engineer and I am designing a completely open source solar powered farming robot designed to be made in a small shop in any city in the world (see my profile), funded by a wealthy robotics entrepreneur who recognizes the value in making this technology available to people all over the world.

So I am one of those engineers making this choice, and not someone just asking for things without doing the same of my work. Everything I produce is open source, including person projects and even my personal writing.

Would be cool if there were some sort of world wide… connection system of some sort so the authors could share their data without needing to respond to individual emails.