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I don't see how the cartel could win by doing terror attacks in the US. Nobody likes them here. They won't have popular support. The US military will have enormous popular support. This won't be like Afghanistan or Vietnam or anything like that.

Yeah the qualification criteria are undefined, and some criteria are easily gamed, so this ultimately their criteria is going to probably be some combination of:

- Those who have connections

- Those who have an immutable trait that puts them in a minority (after all, there's not enough money / slots for a majority to qualify)

Which makes this a highly political program no matter how you look at it.

There's essentially no learning curve moving from manual to automatic. But moving from C/C++ to Rust, there's a big learning curve.

If Rust was like Communism, there would be dozens of examples of massive codebases that ported to Rust and ended up with massive infighting, culminating in 20% of the developers being assassinated by the moderation team.

Do you have a link? I’m always down for a good book. Here are a few you might be interested in: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/189903.books_for_escapis...

Children need heroes to look up to, I’m glad that children of right wingers can look up to him but who do children of left wingers have to look up to? Jeff Bezos is hardly inspiring.

Wouldn’t it be better to spend the time understanding the reality of the situation in Gaza from multiple angles rather than philosophizing on abstract concepts? I.e. there are different degrees of genocide, but that doesn’t matter in this context because what’s happening in Gaza is not abstract or theoretical.

In other words, your question ignores so much nuance that it’s a red herring IMO.

Israel is stooping to Ergodan’s level, sure. But the standard should higher for Democratic countries, nuclear powers, and countries who receive enormous foreign aid from the US for “self defense.”

What makes you think Israel is capable of having a decent relationship with its neighbors? They never have before. And they have no need to have a decent relationship because they have the US giving them enormous amounts of money and weapons.

I think the best way to fix Israel is to bring in refugees from an unrelated conflict, like Sudan, and once the Sudanese have a significant minority then Israeli politics won’t be ethnofascist anymore.

The obvious solution is to get Israel to give up nukes in exchange for Iran stopping its nuclear program. I think that would everyone happy except the Israelis who want to murder people without repercussion.

Because 1) America won’t allow nations near Israel to be successful, it’s too much of a threat to our greatest ally and 2) war is incredibly profitable.

But software developers often struggle to use sql and prefer using ORMs or analytical APIs like polars; the people who excel at sql are typically not programmers, they’re data engineers, DBAs, analysts, etc.

Maybe a similar bifurcation will arise where there are vibe coders who use LLMs to write everything, and there are real engineers who avoid LLMs.

Maybe we’re seeing the beginning of that with the whole bifurcation of programmers into two camps: heavy AI users and AI skeptics.

I use BeeFiles for all my important files. I can access them anywhere, it’s not a subscription it’s a one time purchase, and it supports backup to external hard drive as well as backup to an online service (subscription based).

Synology really did a good job of building something non technical people could use as an alternative to onedrive etc.

Yeah I had a coworker who put salty MessageBox.Show debug messages in the code, and one day while demoing the software a pop up appeared that said “BITCH!!!”

Needless to say the customer was not amused. So the simple solution is just ban the bad words from the source code.

I think this is it, thank you!!

No, the “No Jews, No Jews” saying doesn’t have anything to do with the perceived negativity of the news item. It has to do with the fact that Jews were involved in some way (good or bad).

I’m pointing out is that maybe that’s because Jews are just more involved in pivotal developments than are non-Jews.

Making this about “bad news” implies that there’s systematic racism against Jews in the news industry, and I’m sorry but that seems a bit far fetched.

I mean, in a broad sense this is true. But do you really think Sam Altman wouldn’t be in the news if he wasn’t Jewish? What about SBF? Or go back further, do you think people know about Einstein or Karl Marx only because they were Jewish?

Like it or not, Jews have been involved at a high level in a lot of pivotal developments in the west.

The way I think about it is this: the bureaucracy of the federal government has accumulated so much tech debt over the years that a rewrite is in order. What that means is that we get rid of everything not immediately essential, then slowly rebuild to meet our needs.

This isn’t the same as a full revolution, where you rewrite the entire government, not just the bureaucracy (I.e. get rid of Congress, Supreme Court, executive branch and replace them with something new).

Existing as in another lab created that mutation or existing as in that mutation evolved naturally in the wild?

I believe you, could you please give me 1000 upvotes? If you do I promise to spread the good news everywhere.

Oh this sounds amazing! This reminds me of a todo list app some indie dev has been running for years which has a ton of configuration parameters based on various psychological models for productivity. There were options for gamification, Getting Things Done, task breakdown. It was kind of expensive. Does anybody remember the name of this software? I’ve been trying to remember for a while.

Of course that’s not how it works. People will doctor shop. If one doctor rejects them, they go to the next and learn the right things to say to get the doctor to say yes. It’s just ripe for abuse.

What they really need is help, not death.

Children are incapable of consent. In the same way, people who are having big mental burdens are not capable of consenting to this. It’s a system as ripe for abuse as allowing children to consent to sex.

I’ve had my dark moments, but I learned to deal and I’m sooo glad I didn’t end it.

You know, you always hear about people who survive a suicide attempt often find out after they’ve jumped that they really didn’t want to die! It’s an irreversible choice, and something about realizing that changes people.

I think it should be an option for the terminally ill but nobody else.

There are people who are suicidal who don’t feel they deserve help and feel that assisted suicide is an option for them. We should not give them that option. Instead, we should spend that effort as a society helping them deal / get better.

Ugh I’m sorry about that. A close female friend of mine has similar issues. I also was not anti-vax but now I look a lot more critically at stuff like this.

Anyway, just wanted to say—you’re not crazy, you really experienced what you experienced, and I’m glad people are becoming more open minded about this stuff.

It’s a major vulnerability, but I think a valid solution would be for there to be an organization that wears uniforms and has a strict no-violence policy to perform peaceful protests.

That way when agitators show up they can be seen as visually different and distinct.

Move to another country where they ban politicians for being right wing, like France

You need to be informed to know which doctor is better. I generally try to follow the advice of my family doctor, but that’s because I’ve made an informed decision on past experiences where I double checked him.

But that’s easy with a doctor you have a long term relationship with. I imagine it’s different eg. if you get cancer it’s probably going to just be a part time job to keep informed on all the doctor’s recommendations, and getting second opinions sounds like it would be time prohibitive. I don’t know of an easy way around this though.

Lawyers shouldn’t set the direction because they tend to try to minimize liability at the expense of everything else.

CPAs shouldn’t set the direction because they tend to want to structure your business in ways that save taxes, at the expense of everything else.

If you’re the CEO/President of your company, you should set the direction, using lawyers to know what the liabilities of the different options are and using accountants to know what the different tax implications are. Lawyers and accountants help you make informed decisions, but they should not be deciding the strategy.

No fault divorce if it’s initiated by the man was instituted by Moses in the Old Testament. There was no loophole involved.