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> No hosting nation of imperialism has ever benefited

That's why Japan and Germany are some of the worst places to live in the world. Oh wait, I had that quality of life chart upside down.

Those people mostly use Whatsapp or similar at this point. Much cheaper and better quality.

Bottom of the paper, in the appendix. Don't expect much. They only got fragments of text with a lot of missing words.

The fact that this even needs to exist means that our academic conferences aren't prioritizing the right things. Papers without code should be desk rejected.

False. Trump's EO, if anything, helps Infosys since the new systems (level lottery) are very easy to game

Of course. Nobody has any agency except British, American and Israeli people.

Every protest, every independent action, literally every single news story ... is directly due to British, American or Israeli action.

> Participants who switched from the chronological to the algorithmic feed prioritized a conservative policy agenda over a liberal one by 0.11 s.d., compared with those who remained on the chronological feed (95% CI: 0.02, 0.20; P = 0.016). The experiment also influenced views on the criminal investigations into Trump: those who switched to the algorithmic feed were 0.08 s.d. more likely to consider them completely unacceptable (95% CI: 0.01, 0.16; P = 0.026). This effect is larger and more precisely estimated for aspects of this belief held by a smaller share of participants in the control group (as shown in Supplementary Information Fig. 2.4), indicating that the effect is concentrated among more loyal Trump supporters. Regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for participants initially on the chronological feed, exposure to the algorithmic feed increased pro-Kremlin attitudes by 0.12 s.d. (95% CI: 0.03, 0.21; P = 0.007).

How do you avoid the load bottleneck?

> wonder what in the US caused it

Lots of illegal immigrants desperate for work

The tax benefits are sorta oversold.

The main benefits are tax free gifts between partners and filing jointly, both of which seem very reasonable and wouldn't be of value to single people.

The actual tax breaks most people think about are tied to dependents in your household, not marriage.

What unjust "advantages" do you think childless couples get that you would want to get rid?

Pretty much all of the legal benefits of marriage are contractual, not financial, and come at no cost to the public.

Things like spousal medical rights, a joint estate, etc don't come at the expense of anybody else.

It's not really possible to do that when the opposing beliefs are so fundamental. Mozilla had, and has, a lot of LGBT staff.

How could you expect those staff to work under and trust a CEO opposed to their very existence as equal members of society?

Immigration isn't the issue. Population growth is actually down compared to historical levels. Immigration numbers (and births) are lower than they have ever been and housing costs are higher than they have ever been.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/january/us-po...

I was talking about renters moving out of larger apartments or shared homes into 1/2 bedroom apartments.

Middle class homeownership is basically dead in California due to the absurd price of housing. Almost everyone young who didn't inherit wealth or earn 90th percentile income is renting

What middle class SFHs? There are no middle class SFH neighborhoods remaining in Los Angeles or the Bay Area. Take a look at Zillow. Your average young person isn't buying anything anyways.

Your information is at least two decades, maybe three, out of date.

But this bill will help lower rents, which is a very worthy goal in and of itself.

I think you are incorrectly missing that many larger units (both 3+ bedroom apartments and houses) are currently filled with singles or couples with roommates who would rather live alone in 1 or 2 bedrooms, but can't due to inadequate supply.

Building 1/2 bedrooms would help those people move out, freeing up larger units for families.

> I fear it's just going to enrich the property management class

The property management class benefits most from the current system with no construction and high rents. Building a bunch of 1/2 bedrooms, triggering lower rents, would cause them to lose money.

I don't think we are ready for the risk of mass manipulation through AI relationships.

Imagine if Elon decides tomorrow morning that he wants to encourage all of the users of his AI relationship app to support Trump?

It would be a political disaster to transition people off their employer plans.

The short term effect would be an increase in costs but no increase in pay for most people.

> Thats always the claim, but they have stolen SSN's to get those jobs in the first place (those without SSN's aren't paying income tax).

Where are the criminal prosecutions if that is actually happening? For all of Elon's efforts, even he was unable to find much (if any?) social security fraud.

> Not to mention states like California which explicitly spend federal money on illegal immigrants through Medicaid.

With the exception of pregnancy and emergency care (which are relatively minor), this is not the case.

> It's hilarious that the dashboard is claiming that illegals pay taxes at the same rate as everyone else

The dashboard is explicitly not doing that. They cite, and use numbers from, research reports that explicitly estimate the taxes that illegal immigrants pay.

You can disagree with their analysis, but they are not making the assumption you are claiming they are making.

Good clarification. I have edited my post accordingly.

There are situations where states increase at much slower rates than exponential.

Those situations are a good fit for Q learning.

This blog post is unfortunately missing what I consider the bigger reason why Q learning is not scalable:

As horizon increases, the number of possible states (usually) increases exponentially. This means you require exponentially increasing data to have a hope of training a Q that can handle those states.

This is less of an issue for on policy learning, because only near policy states are important, and on policy learning explicitly only samples those states. So even though there are exponential possible states your training data is laser focused on the important ones.

> What does that part about VAT have to do with this? VAT is essentially a sales tax with a more involved collection process.

To add some further context that helped me understand VAT:

Sales taxes are great, with minimal dead weight loss and distortion, but have the downside of encouraging black markets since it's easy to avoid reporting final sale transactions.

VATs are designed to be mathematically the same as sales taxes, but robust to black markets. The sales tax is captured on the manufacturing end, which is much harder to avoid reporting for a variety of reasons.

You have a lot of words here, but it still seems like the VAT is irrelevant here as it applies equally to both domestic and foreign production.

I agree the 10% tariff on US cars that is problematic, but that has nothing to do with the VAT

Note that this isn't an outlier in the journalism industry. The whole journalism industry is dying off, with relatively frequent layoffs and closures which is well reflected in decreasing numbers of journalists

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/media-layo...

Currently the limitations don't matter because ad companies haven't exploited them yet to forcefully show ads to you.

I would assume that once uBlock Origin Lite is highly used it will rapidly become worthless as companies start targeting it

This all makes sense when you think of the money at stake. Reducing a block usage by even 10% is worth billions of dollars a year in revenue for Google

Note that this paper appears to have a critical flaw: they didn't actually verify that their "optimized" kernels have the same output as the original kernels.

So some of their "optimized" kernels gamed the system by computing only parts of the actual result.

Look at their most "improved" (147x faster!) kernel for example: https://pub.sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engineer/kernel/1/15/optimize-...

If you read the code carefully, and in particularly the kernel launch parameter, you will see that this only computes the first row of the matrix. Which means it's generating incorrect results.

> they can just move to the actual grant with somewhat more accounting overhead

This is not true due to the retroactive nature of this change. The problem is that the grant budgets are already fixed and will not increase. You can't move those costs to the grant budget since the grant money is already fully allocated to things like salary, etc.

In order for this to work, DOGE would have to automatically increase the grant budgets for already awarded grants, which they are unlikely to do.

This is a misleading view of history. It is true that it was included in the foreign aid package, but the TikTok ban was also passed in an isolated bill in an overwhelming bipartisan manner beforehand.

90% of Republicans in the House voted for the TikTok ban alone. 73% of Democrats.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486

It is very clear that it would have passed without that procedural trick, because it already did.