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The same evidence (the only evidence) could have been presented as:

Mississippi is doing great for its kids. We should all follow them.

Instead it’s completely unnecessarily frames as “the political side that I don’t like is ruining everything”. There are instances (too many, unfortunately) where this is true. This isn’t one of them. In comparable Blue/Red states (CA vs TX, NY vs FL) the blue states are doing better, even if u think the blue state performances are also inexcusable.

Have people become incapable of talking normally and need to force everything into an enemy/ally frame? Or is this just rage bait, or ironically, the author “virtue” signaling to their own political tribe

Most research on animals is conducted after we’ve placed them in mind numbing cages and in non social environments (and if they are with other animals they’re crammed in together).

Imagine living your entire life either in solitary and/or packed in a Japanese subway car, and someone doing research being shocked you’re acting in anti-social ways.

It’s one of the few things in the U.S. constitution that is not ill defined. Tariffs are very explicitly the prerogative of Congress.

The fact that the administration of tariffs is so much better defined than really anything else shouldn’t be surprising because tariffs is the proximate cause of the Revolutionary war.

It’s embarrassing that the 3 justices put their partisanship ahead of the clear language of the constitution and explicitly stated intentions of the founders.

Or as OpenAI has been trial ballooning for months, the government bails them out.

When we tortured one way you complained. Now we’re torturing a completely different way you’re still complaining.

You can’t have it both ways…pick one form of torture!

So just looking at your story, you’re saying all your interviewers were Indian, and all of them but 1 mid level guy really wanted you.

And that to you is evidence that they only wanted to hire Indians?

Despite the fact that everyone but this 1 mid level guy clearly wanted to hire a non Indian?

Clearly the real problem in America is the industry with the fastest growing number of jobs, along with the fastest growing salaries coming off a base where it was already one of the highest paid jobs, all numbers which don’t even include equity payments, despite this being an industry which pays far more in equity relative to any other industry.

Maybe AI changes everything, but there is no evidence that immigration has hurt Americans working in software over the past few decades given that software salaries have been growing faster than any other job in the U.S., but also (and this is critical), it’s been rising faster than salaries in any other comparable country as well, including countries with strong tech industries but limited immigration in the industry such as France (the other country with almost as high growth as the U.S. in software dev salary is the UK, which also has high immigration).

44% of unicorns founders between 1997 and 2019 were foreign born. 20% of those were specifically from India.

It seems like if Americans were just so much more dominant, they’d form a much higher percentage of unicorn founders given that the percentage of foreign born people in the US was about 15% at the highest.

Looks like foreign born immigrants are punching about 3 times their weight as startup founders.

https://gfmag.com/capital-raising-corporate-finance/us-unico...

It’s a dual intent visa. The visa itself provides no immigration benefits but it’s explicitly designed to then allow for a permanent residency and then citizenship application.

> nobody besides the U.S. is engaging in a trade war with China

It’s worse. Canada, Australia, Europe, India were engaging in trade wars with China at the behest of the U.S.. South/Latin American countries like Brazil, Argentina, Mexico were also severely limiting their exposure to Chinese companies.

All that changed in a matter of months.

Why were those underemployed and unemployed people getting hired as tech workers for the past 2 decades when it’s one of the highest paying jobs in the country already?

Is our discipline so trivially easy that the only barrier to being hired is choosing to do so?

Or, Capital One could hire the exact same people they’re paying $196k to for a quarter of the cost once they’ve been sent back to their own countries.

Safari is literally unusable on some websites.

So, for example, since the toolbar at the bottom is not a separate interface but hovers over the rendered page, if the page has a button or link that only sits at the bottom of the page, it can literally be impossible to click it because the hovering toolbar will cover it. I’ve come across 2 websites in the past week itself where I had to switch to mobile Firefox to actually do something.

Apple’s keyboard problems are very evident. There are videos showing some very blatant flaws.

But I suspect there are Apple homers who are gonna defend Apple just like they defended the butterfly keyboards, right until the day Apple finally accepted it was broken and surprise, here’s a new laptop you can buy from Apple without the butterfly keyboard to replace your existing broken one.

Or alternatively Apple will accept that the device was indeed broken but 5 years later, when people barely have their device anymore and if they do it’s not worth getting the replacement from Apple anyways because it’s outdated, like they did with the graphics cards in the laptops for several years.

The reason this is a problem is because whatever value AI may have (personally I’m as long as one can get), companies believe that right now it’s a government sponsored financial bubble.

So they’re unwilling to spend on increasing capacity because they don’t expect this demand to last.

This administration’s completely unprincipled actions (I don’t mean this as a pejorative but as descriptivd…they have no political, economic or other principles, such as small government libertarianism or big government democratic socialism, etc by which they act) is leading to several issues. The transactional nature of their actions means certain classes of problems that would be resolved by merely sticking to a particular political philosophy are all wide open and they have to tackle random and unique issues across the space they’re operating in.

It ends up in a big game of whack-a-mole and the heuristic that picks which problem would actually be tackled is “it causes enough public outcry in the short term”. That’s not ideal. They are creating and letting fester so many problems whose impacts will only manifest several years from now.

If AGI is already here actions would be so greatly accelerated humans wouldn’t have time to respond.

Remember that weather balloon the US found a few years ago that for days was on the news as a Chinese spy balloon?

Well whether it was a spy balloon or a weather balloon but the first hint of its existence could have triggered a nuclear war that could have already been the end of the world as we know it because AGI will almost certainly be deployed to control the U.S. and Chinese military systems and it would have acted well before any human would have time to intercept its actions.

That’s the apocalyptic nuclear winter scenario.

There are many other scenarios.

An AGI which has been infused with a tremendous amount of ethics so the above doesn’t happen, may also lead to terrible outcomes for a human. An AGI would essentially be a different species (although a non biological one). If it replicated human ethics even when we apply them inconsistently, it would learn that treating other species brutally (we breed, enslave, imprison, torture, and then kill over 80 billion land animals annually in animal agriculture, and possibly trillions of water animals). There’s no reason it wouldn’t do that to us.

Finally, if we infuse it with our ethics but it’s smart enough to apply them consistently (even a basic application of our ethics would have us end animal agriculture immediately), so it realizes that humans are wrong and doesn’t do the same thing to humans, it might still create an existential crisis for humans as our entire identity is based on thinking we are smarter and intellectually superior to all other species, which wouldn’t be true anymore. Further it would erode beliefs in gods and other supernatural BS we believe which might at the very least lead humans to stop reproducing due to the existential despair this might cause.

According to you the only definition of “covering something with multiple points of view” is if you provide different perspectives in the same time period.

But really, you’re arguing the semantics of “covering multiple points of view”. Whether your restrictive opinion about that is right or not, you completely ignored the actual substance of what the person you replied to said. That the Atlantic is not a monolith. It employs different people who bring different viewpoints. And they may write different articles with different perspectives and/or conclusions, often completely opposing ones at the same or different times.

And your final conclusion does not follow from anything you’ve said or any other evidence presented.

We actually know what publications that try to present a single viewpoint look like. The most famous example of this is the Economist, which as a key part of this ethos refuses to have bylines for their articles. The Atlantic, on the other hand, looks nothing like that. Every article is bylined with details on each author’s bio.

To be fair, the current version of the party is nothing like the version of the party from even a decade ago.

Whats disturbing is how so many people on that side have completely abandoned everything they ever said about their principles and values.

It’s so weird that people have framed his approach as “going after bad landlords”.

Yes, he is going after bad landlords because the city should go after bad landlords who aren’t following the laws or have their tenants living in mold infested hell holes.

But that’s not how he has said he will lower housing costs. His stated approach has always been twofold.

Pausing the rent increase on rent stabilized apartments for at least 1 year (something that was done multiple times in the 2010s and those apartments are rent stabilized because the builders got tax breaks in return for rent stabilization) as a temporary quick relief. But ultimately his goal is to build a lot more housing. And he wants to do that both by having the government build housing but also by making it easier for private builders to build housing through zoning changes, reducing regulations, and allowing for fast track approvals if certain conditions are met.

His stated approach is basically all of the above. Picking only 1 of those and saying it won’t fix the problem is true but silly because no one is saying any one action will fix the problem.

Why don’t you disprove this instead of throwing random unproven anecdotes.

> This means they will help cut consumer bills, according to multiple analysts.

Even hooks have changed significantly.

And the React+ ecosystem is in an incredible amount of flux.

Or you say “until further notice”.

Indeterminate end dates are not a new problem.

Visa/MC have built walled gardens which provide many services.

Some of the services include: - Consumer Credit - Fraud protection - Payment network - Discount service (rewards, etc) - Concierge services - Rental/Ticketing services - etc

No one is denying the utility of what they have created. The problem is they’ve built monopolistic walled gardens where these are all bundled together which raises overall costs while also prevents competition.

These services can easily be unbundled (for example in India the payment network is open and cost free, so anyone can provide those other services on top of the payment network).

What has made this far more urgent, however, is that these companies are located in the U.S. which has recently leveraged the power these networks have to attack EU citizens for frivolous reasons.

So even if the MC/Visa business model was perfect, it would be foolish for even American allies to rely on them given the actions of the current administration.

An easier solution would be to simply require companies to pay a bond for the cost of closing down operations before they’re allowed to start extracting resources.

Yeah, coal companies got out of a bunch of medical expenses they owed miners in the U.S. by bankrupting their subsidies.

It was a key primary source for many forms of data.

There are very few other sources, barring Wikipedia which isn’t a primary source, that maintain a regularly updated “fact sheet” about various countries.

It was also an authoritative source for many discussions especially if you were having the conversation within the U.S. or a friendly allied country.

It was well maintained and I never came across any errors despite having used it heavily.

Finally it is about as consistent as possible. So, for example, if I go to Wikipedia for a certain piece of information, such as population, etc. how Wikipedia defines the population or even the boundaries of certain nations (and therefore the population) wouldn’t necessarily be consistent across countries.

With this it would usually be consistent. You may disagree with the definitions but it would largely be consistent or at the very least it would be useful because this is how the CIA largely defined it, so you still have a consistent authority if not methodology.

Umm, it’s incredibly easy to blame the shooter because in those 999,999 cases the shooter was not effectively kidnapping the person they were supposedly afraid of.

This guy didn’t just shoot the delivery person whom they were afraid of.

He didn’t let her drive away even after she was clearly scared, explained she was simply an Uber driver, showed no evidence of weaponry and just wanted to drive away.

There’s a reason he wasn’t just convicted of killing the Uber driver but also of kidnapping.

Outside of the obvious, the tragedy of the young woman losing her life, the fact that the scammers likely will not be impacted at all, etc. a couple of other thoughts.

- It’s strange that we still haven’t setup any sort of authenticated form of communication with official parties. Email/phone call scams have been around for a long time. They’re very easy to fall prey to. There’s no reason our phones shouldn’t be able to inform us that a certain number is officially from the IRS, Cops, Verizon, etc.

- This is a form of Swatting. Delivery companies, and also the police, etc need to do better in ensuring the people demanding services are where they’re demanding the service and/or the person who lives there is aware and genuinely needs to be visited. - We need a bit of a broken windows policing for online/digital scams. The reason they are blowing up is there is hardly a risk of being caught. And the cost/benefit analysis probably suggests that th police really shouldn’t be involved in most of the individual cases or expend too many resources. However, this blows up the number of cases so the aggregate cost does indeed grow too high. So there needs to be an effort to prosecute and expend resources even on low level cases so the criminals get the message that they’re not gonna get away with it.

Your comment implies that the CATO study results are not true due to the Singapore example.

However, pointing to a different country that achieved success with “eugenic” immigration (it’s not even clear what you mean given that Singapore has had very high immigration but for the sake of argument let’s assume it’s the opposite of whatever the study here found) does not invalidate or disprove that the U.S. deficit reduced due to U.S. immigration.

It’s the kind of logical fallacy one would hope a 4 year old would grow out of, and yet…