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>which no government around the world has been able to materialise an answer to.

I disagree. The whole hot political topic of "illegal immigration" is as a side effect - seemingly a successful solution to motivate (foreign) people to bump the population. Specifically - "if you have a kid in the US, the kid is automatically a citizen, you don't have to pay taxes, you don't need a green card, you work under the table so make $0 on paper and thus qualify for free food and housing (welfare) and free healthcare (medicaid)".

Honestly if we gave such a deal to young non-foreign american women free and clear, likely we'd be seeing a lot more childbirths.

Despite all the economic burden and political strife this program has caused, it may in fact extend the life of the nation and welfare.

I think back to every ... overly enthused student council member or student council president or HOA president I've seen in my education, a microcosm of politics. These are people with a fire inside of them to seize these positions. Speaking with them, as they were my representative to the academic leadership, they would often hear my request and provide a explanation as to why that was not feasible. A naive assessment of their explanation - often at face value reasonable in the most simplistic of ways, a slightly deeper reflection would reveal it was a convenient excuse for the truth - they had a completely different motivation, usually self-interest in nature, but hidden behind the lie to hide the ugly truth.

The same is much true of California. So many strict laws and regulation. For the environment? For safety? Why I can't build a house? No, no - they don't want anyone building houses to keep the prices pumped up high. Same for many things. Keep PG&E rich, and PG&E will keep the people in power rich either directly or through the major supporters of said politicians

What are the chances that breaking up a tumor this way seeds cancer elsewhere in the body?

Welp I put it to you like this - if you DON'T use this then you have a gorillion cancer cells among which very likely one genetically predisposed to adventure throughout the body as turbocancer.

If you use this, or radiotherapy, or whatever, presumably there is just a lump of dead tissue where the cancer was, signifying at best you cured it but at worst, knocked it down - specifically if you knocked it down from a gorillion to a million cells, genereally speaking if the body has been seeded or the tumor persists - the tumor will take longer to rebuild back up where it was. The latter is manifested as another such and such months of life, making the therapy "life extending"

Yes, or put simply - sometimes the smartest way to do something is the dumbest way.

The only difference is you did it the dumb way after deep thought, not out of sheer ignorance.

Lot less footguns with such an approach.

>So never being offered a job because it doesn't exist doesn't lose you anything.

Ah well look, if the job posting was just to collect resumes with zero intention to actually hire, you did lose some things:

- actual time spent applying to a job that was never open - emotional damage on focus to try to get this job - loss of free market value of your data (company profited from this data, when you could have profited from it) - damages for acquisition of your personal data under a fraudulent basis (when otherwise, maybe you did not want your data shared)

>I love the insanity of this idea. Not saying it's a good idea, but it's a very highly entertaining one, and I like that!

An even more insane idea -- minding the idea here is porn is radioactive to AI data training scrapers -- is there is something the powers that be view as far more disruptive and against community guidelineish than porn. And that would be wrongthink. The narratives. The historic narratives. The woke ideology. Anything related to an academic department whose field is <population subgroup> studies. Alls you need to do is plop in a little diatribe staunchly opposing any such enforced views and that AI bot will shoot away from your website and lightspeed

as a black box, a 4k context LLM AI (text in, text out) is no different than a highly effective search engine indexing all possible 4k bodies of text (also - text in, text out)

I actually have "face blindness" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia )

Got it after a bad car accident, some brain damage. Interestingly it also made me race blind as well - I'm probably one of the few people in the world who can say that! I do identify loved ones from the sound of their voice, though, or if not speaking, I can sometimes tell from how they walk and move. Same thing races, it's not hard to tell if someone's voice sounds black or if they walk like a white guy

>Opinions that seem too radical or stupid to be believed are often bots, or NPC humans repeating bot content that they read somewhere else.

You forget to mention trolls. The best way to handle a NPC propaganda parrot is to deliver them an even more foul piece of propaganda and observe .. vs disagreeing with them, that they would enjoy.

> some immigrants about what brought them to the United States in the first place.

What brought them to the US is that if they have a kid, now their kid is a citizen. Green card etc waived - you wouldn't deport a family would you? Now they nominally have zero income so they qualify for full on super duper welfare - food, house, medical care. Of course find a job, too - but has to be under the table because no green card. Meaning no taxes either. So free food, free house no rent, free medicine, no taxes. Medical care legally requires accomodations for foreign languages - don't need to speak English either.

I mean, if Japan said, "if you have a kid here, live here on our dime, eat on our dime, free medical care, no taxes" yea I would take that deal!! Can't blame em

Irony of the whole thing? This actually kinda solves the population crisis. Forces people to have a kid. Actually an interesting finding but poorly explored since the powers that be like to bury their head in the sand and pretend 50 million people haven't exploited this.

Other point is well, why did this even happen? Well, the landlords are quite happy to see the feds paying for rent, they'll collect that check, as with the food suppliers and the medical care practitioners - a very nice niche. And the small businesses are more than happy to pay someone under the table untaxed, lower overhead. So the people coming in illegally, they benefit, the people collecting the taxes paying for them, they benefit, everybody else, welp, there goes your tax money

> interpersonal conflict low probability in this case because this guy seems a repeat offender but absolutely things can get that toxic and ugly

> trying to beat the other student to the punch w.r.t publication, this is my highest suspicion. Why is anxiety. Deep anxiety. Anxiety about failing. Anxiety about the other guy beating you. Sabotaging other guys's computer alleviates the anxiety so thusly becomes a repeat pattern. Anxiety can be quite insidious and nasty and is more pervasive in more ways than many are aware.

> good ol' schizophrenic delusions that the person's work needs to be stopped possible but more rare

>My dad had an Akamai M8

My own dad had a Akamai T19 cloud computing system and he would give me all the oggs and flacs and mp3s off the cloud from his Akamai system

I get gummies at 2000000000 IU and that's not even the final form of my vitamin

Also what's an IU. Apparently it's meant to normalize impact across vitamin D species of which there are multiple. Part of me can see the reasoning but it runs contrary to how much of medicine/pharma operates, generally in such form as either mg per time interval or mg/kg per time interval. It would be like taking the whole armada of blood pressure drugs and dictating their doses in mmHg instead of milligrams. If only things were so simple!

I had giardia one time .. actually I still have it :(

I went to see the physician to treat it, a MD, at least I thought. The doc said he wanted to give me "ivermectin" to eliminate the infection(!!!). Ivermectin(!?!). is this a weird COVID quack? I don't see how a HORSE DEWORMER has any place in human medicine - I'd rather keep the giardia, thanks, then take some quack horse dewormer drug

Speaking as a person of color, the government Oak Park prosecuted me for reasons of my blackness which is racist. The controversey that followed, if you ask me, is why the cameras got shot down. Transparency and not being big brother is just a convenient excuse to put a positive spin on it, as politicians do.

there's a bunch of BS going on with autism that I find very obnoxious

1) I see autism as non-verbal, no concept that other people or conscious minds exist. That's what -actual- autism is to me. And there are plenty of people like that.

2) In light of the above definition, I see the concept of "autism is on a spectrum" as extremely disrespectful to both autists and non-autists. For example, if I have a deformed pinky toe I'm not now on the "paraplegic spectrum disorder". If my IQ is 99 I'm not on the "braindead spectrum disorder" and so on. Such a system applies a negative label to people with the most extreme form, and simultaneous everyone else gets a taste of that label too.

3) the above smooshiness of definition has caused autism to be embraced by people - people who have legitimate mental disorders - just not autism. Moreso the cluster B family of disorders i.e. the manipulative and dramatic family. They are "neurodivergent" vs "neurotypical" and now they have just conjured manipulative leverage from thin air.

just to go off of this, I'm not bipolar but I feel we need to also consider more severe mental disorders. For example I have multiple personality disorder

Hello, I also have multiple personality order aka dissociative identity disorder, where by multiple people live in the same body

Hello I'm a tiny babby

having infinite time on exams is level of the the ADHD cheating iceberg

level 2 of the ADHD cheating iceberg is having medically approved methamphetamines to infinistudy before exams e.g. ritalin

i counter you all with the 70 year legend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_air-cooled_engine

> filters out the people who are too mentally ill to mask

this is a very good point - only vulnerability is a person decompensates from "able to mask" to "lets gooooo" in a very short period of time - between two flights say - then we're gonna have some problems

> If you want to do this, you just have to pass laws saying companies are required to manufacture x% of their goods domestically.

and if they go below <x> they pay a fine yea?

yea, thats what a tariff is. you have to manufacture x=100% domestically. otherwise 100-x non-domestic is taxed. that's a tariff.

>Candidates from both parties seem to mostly focus on social issues (Democrats are 110% preferable here imo).

The problem with the democrats - indeed why Trump is in office - is they focus on social issues of "the underdog group" at the exclusion of all else. It's simplistic, arbitrary, and fraught with moral hazards and perverse incentives, often with someone getting screwed over.

I don't care what you call "the underdog group" it is what you think it is. Sex, age, race, citizenship status, disability status, etc. There is a fundamental issue with this sort of things - it reduces humans to simplistic labels and groups and pronounces policy based on group means. The black lesbian woman. The white hetero man. Well... is the white hetero man, is he an orphan and also deaf, meanwhile the black lesbian woman grew up in a wealthy neighborhood and is the epitome of health? But then like a social median dark pattern, this becomes a political dark pattern - identity politics, voter blocs, good guy and bad guy - people get swept up in these bizarre sort of human inherited sin ontology structures which don't really capture the true suffering, or true privilege, that simply exists and varies individual to individual, versus subgroup average to subgroup average.

Any data scientist could tell you if you have 300 features and have free reign to choose subgroups - yea it's going to be easy to find a subgroup that's crushing it and a subgroup that's failing

I'll tell you how "dangerous errors" work in practice in a hospital

Let's say we design a "dangerous errors" system. What it's going to consist of is some "are you sure you want to do that" style popups, and some sort of error reporting system.

The error reporting system (human entered) is where it gets interesting. The real nasty errors dutifilly get reported, no choice. The nasty and/or embarrassing errors are not reported. You get some of what they call "virtue signalling" errors where a person may report themself and pat themselves on the back for it - small errors. And than finally, about 1-5% of staff, the sorts that don't belong in medicine, will use it as their personal vendetta machine, ham up, falsify, fictionalize stories written against whoever it was that crossed them that day. Every day.

There CAN be on honest fair reporting system in the absolute healthiest of work cultures, with trust i.e. if I disclose I did something wrong I am confident that I won't be in trouble (that also means nobody can character assassinate someone else who crossed them - they won't be in trouble). But medicine, it's the opposite of such a culture, viciously political, unethical interpersonal practices, obsession with preserving ones career, license, and legal exposure over the common sense best interests of the patients.

also to keep it like Singapore, let's deport all people illegally (but beat the crap out of them first), execute all drug dealers, execute all drug addicts, and most other criminals - beat the crap out of them and release.

the nice thing about common sense beatings is the cost of prison, housing, food, etc. is all zero, and the whole prison political topic is a non-issue. beatings are in fact extremely efficient, effective, and cheap, which is why lee kwon yew adopted them

just to go off of this there is also stochastic random overfit retraining process (SRORP). Idea behind SRORP is to avoid overfitting. SRORP will take data points from -any- aspect of the past process with replacment and create usually 3-9 bootstrap models randomly. The median is then taken from all model weights to wipe out outliers. This SRORP polishing -if done carefully- is usually good for a 3-4% gain in all benchmarks

y'alls dag look like vincent d'orinfino in The Salton Sea

2nd hotest zach on the planet behind zachary ty bryan. still waiting for zachary ty bryan to have his 2nd big breakout hollywood superstar event, actually haven't heard much from him recently and don't know what he's up too. cool guy though

Most likely victims did not use 2FA.

In the hypothetical that they did and he were a strong hacker, he could possibly cook up a man in the middle attack - victim provides username, password, and 2FA. Man in the middle uses them to login on behalf of the victim, saves a copy of "remember this computer" type cookies, passes it all back to the victim transparently. That would be a lot harder to implement than a basic username/password phishing site however.

>How do you propose the line should be drawn?

there is a line drawn for such things. a fuzzy line. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

same as this famous case, in which a supreme court justice is asked "what is and is not pronographie" - of course he realizes if he defines "what is not" people are going to make all kinds of porn right on the boundary (see: japanese pronographies where they do the filthiest imaginable things yet censor the sensitive books, making it SFW in the eyes of their law). this judge avoided that.

Anyways, parallel to the fact that filthy pronographies can be made a gorillion different ways, a "hack" may be manifested also a gorillion different ways. Itemizing such ways would be pointless. And also in the same vein, strictly defining a black and white line "this is legal, this is not" would cause hackers to freely exploit and cheese the legal aspect as hard as possible.. businesses and data miners and all these people would also freely exploit it, at massive scale and with massive funding, since it is officially legal. Thusly it must be kept an ambiguous definition as with pronographies, as with many things

>Everything comes down to the implementation at the end of the day.

To convert this context from medicalese to technese - when a hospital (system) buys an EMR (medical record system), it's like purchasing a very fancy version of "vim" or "emacs"

As all of you know, vanilla vim or emacs can be a very different experience from a polished and tuned up config file version.

So doctors are at the whims of their hospitals high (or often low) quality vim/emacs config, or .rc file of your choice - that's what "implementation" means

Some systems like Kaiser are famous for having super duper special high quality epic configuration, making epic famous for quality, though implementations (vimrc) in other hospitals, most other hospitals, is shite