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You are responding to this thread as if we were arguing for these cars "being allowed on the streets". That is not the discussion here. Instead, we are talking about AI capacity.

And the same is true for a human driver. I imagine that you could differentiate on accidents per vehicle mile.

The general consensus may be whatever it is, but a Tesla can drive from L.A. to NYC today with no interventions other than at charging stops.

The Northern Aché have lost the ability to make fire and instruments, per Table 1.

I have found that the trick to getting optimized kindle display with imagemagick tools is to process pages as individual images, and then use a tool like img2pdf to quickly stitch them together into a pdf file as a simple archive.

Most of my reading is in Greek and Latin (no Hebrew), and I disagree with your evaluation. My evaluation remains as above.

The KJV is an exceptionally good translation, and its flaws are particular and well-known. It was made at a time when all the most intelligent people of the world were doing Latin Greek and Hebrew, instead of say physics or javascript.

But why did you make that particular leap with your utterly baseless accusation? And why are you saying that anyone else propagandizing children would be "ridiculous edge cases"? I urge you to work out your priors.

"Grace was born with a rare condition, Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, where the womb is missing or underdeveloped, but with functioning ovaries"

A rare, congenital, condition.

In a world with so many different opinions, where you know neither my nation or city or native language, it's odd that you would immediately jump to this. After all, my library could be run by Scientologists attempting to propagandize children, or Soviet-era revanchist apologists, or so on. Regardless of what material it is, yes, anyone who propagandizes children really is "dangerous", and not in the fake patronizing way that the the author of the article means it either.

In this particular city, at least, it's cultural malaise, and one that is hard to escape just by going to another branch. That said, there are some good used bookstores out here (not the big chain stores) that have great collections.

I have begun taking my children to the local library, and I am shocked at how bad the selection is. There are very few books of lasting value in any part of the library. Nothing of serious or intellectual interest. And were I to give a factual description of the childrens and teens sections, I would get banned by dang. This is wildly different from the collections that I grew up with, in libraries trashed now by standard publishing spam, despite having vastly more money and space than they did when I was a kid.

Poorly curated libraries (though often staffed to the gills with "librarians") are a gaping cultural void and vacuum, while well-curated libraries are an important treasure. Good curation has little or nothing to do with "battling" misinformation/censorship, which in practice always seems to be about librarians championing a very bland and particular political monoculture. Good curation is the art of discerning the important, the unique, and the interesting, and avoiding the vast flows of spam that overwhelm everything these days.

"Can you elaborate on share documents on this?"

https://archive.is/uTAaW

"I’m wondering why east asia is different in anti fungal usage."

It is a logical error to assume that it has to be substantially different. East Asia is simply the region that Candida auris originates from (ie., evolved in). It was first noticed in Tokyo and South Korea, and eventually India a few years later.

EDIT:

Actually, looks like there's some evidence that multiple evolutionarily-separate unrelated strains attained drug resistance one after another. Presumably the same antifungal agricultural product would have been in widespread use if this is the cause. If you look at the PLOS article linked in the NYT article in my link, they give an example of this for Aspergillus fumigatus strains.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

"Rising global temperatures are driving fungi to adapt by becoming more thermotolerant..."

Your link only mentions Candida auris. I do not find it compelling to blame this on recent global warming for two reasons: 1) Regional and seasonal temperature variation is much greater than global variation and therefore the first place to look for temperature-specific adaptation, 2) The presence of an adaptation to the human body temperature in a human pathogen is not exactly remarkable or new.

The thing about Candida auris is not that it is heat-resistant, but that it is drug resistant. IMO, it's worth looking at the evidence that the appearance of Candida auris is related to the use of agricultural antifungals in East Asian agricultural production.

The average inflation-adjusted annual tuition for a 4-year degree has gone from $2843 to $10,892 between 1969 and 2023 in 2023-dollars. [1]

Healthcare spending per capita has gone from $2,151 to $14,570 in the same period in 2023-dollars. [2]

The inflation-adjusted home price index has more than doubled over that period. [3]

Real wages have remained fairly stagnant over these same decades. [4]

[1] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

[3] https://cdn-0.inflationdata.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/...

[4] https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

Over the period since the 1960s, look at education, medicine, housing, not food.

For food prices, look at the most recent 5-year timescale, where price increases are reported to be on the order of 30% for American consumers. [1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food

The things that dominate middle class budgets: food, housing, medicine, education, are surprisingly local, and have become increasingly unaffordable in recent decades even as economic numbers have gone up.

The question that really matters to most people is, "What will these tariffs do to the prices of these things that actually matter?" And that it actually rather hard to predict.

The economists who claim that tariffs will harm normal Americans were also the economists who claimed that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy. They had the opposite effect, for reasons that still remain somewhat unclear. It may be that global trade makes certain classes of society very very wealthy, while not necessarily being such a positive for the middle class.

It is also notable that Chinese competitiveness has only increased as they have engaged in decades of state economic planning and market barriers. The economists who have told us since Reagan that this is inefficient and stupid might be ... wrong.

I told you that I hear you on K8s complexity. But since you throw out Ansible/Puppet/etc., what technology are you advocating?

I wouldn't throw away k8s just for subPath weirdness, but I hear your general point about complexity. But if you are throwing away Ansible and Puppet, what is your solution? Also I'm not entirely sure what you are getting at with bash (what does shell scripting have to do with it?) and immutable deployments.

Lol. More like Dune lifts wholesale from Sabres of Paradise, translating the stories about Imam Shamyl into space, only adding some bits of LSD inspired trippiness. If anything, Herbert toned down the historical accounts. On the other hand, Lesley Blanch went for the dramatic over the historical in Sabres. The story about the Sultan that drowned his son's mistress, for example, was from a Greek movie version.

I don't know either way. If they were politically driven (some of the screenshots seem to indicate that), then I hope that they can be replaced by a more neutral body.

I am also interested in the accusation of "viciously subverted Trump during his first term" and what that might be about. The fact that the Trump people went after them does lead some credence to it. Maybe it was some sort of big mistake though?

If it was not a mistake, and even if they were doing good work somehow, Federal employment is just not a place for political activism. That leads to a vicious money -> politics feedback system that destroys actual democracy.

The same 18F as these people?

https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247

The switch from aspirate to fricative pronunciations in Greek was between 2-400AD, and was related to ongoing processes in the language unrelated to jaw change.

I'm also skeptical of the only piece of data presented in the article, that it's 29% easier to pronounce these sounds with an overbite. Is that a stable measurement? How much does that speed childhood acquisition of the capacity for these sounds? Percentage of the population that cannot make the sounds at all?

Quickly? Countries that get into really serious debt problems more often never seem to come out of the catastrophe. This is generation-ruining stuff.

In fact the reply specifically criticizes Trump I, the administration that passed those tax breaks.

Whether you consider yourself either a Democrat or a Republican, this is not a problem that continued party politics can solve.

US debt is 124% of GDP. That's not as high as UK debt after WWII, 270%, which impoverished the country that had been at the top of the world. But combined with an aging population that has more people than ever hailing from the historically low-achievement global south, you can expect some standard of living adjustment to occur. Your grandparents had a house by your age, and the economic ability to raise a family. You get to slave for an apartment and a wife who works for another man. Historically, there were names for that economic arrangement and the class of people who were condemned to it.

That Trump I and Biden did not have an effort like DOGE (which does not have Congressional support and therefore should not yet be enough to give serious people hope) shows how fundamentally unserious both of those administrations were. I hope that Musk can find a way to make it successful somehow. But if he does, it will break 1000x the number of eggs that you've seen him breaking so far.

Hitler's salute doesn't involve the heart gesture, nor did Mussolini's version, which is why they flip to the random guy in a mask in your video.

But it's all nonsense, even if it were exactly the same physical gesture. There's no intellectual or political connection. No sane watcher of events believes that Musk has any connection to the issues of the 1930s-40s Nazi party. It's just not there in his history or very very public persona.

There are eminently sane things to criticize Musk for. There are great points to make. But this sort of thing is crackpot and poisons anyone else trying to make rational critique.

This?

> Every time I point this out, I get jumped by a bunch of Tesla fanboys, $TSLA holders and the usual associated crowd.

You have no basis to accuse me of any of that based on my single question to you. I disagree with you. I politely asked for your personal experience, which differs somewhat from mine. You are being rude.

I'm who you're talking about? I don't believe that you know me.

Anyway, I can only say that I've had an impressively good experience with FSD, which I have put a lot of hours into. But I have noticed the same problem that you have with bus lanes. I disable it when I enter parking garages.

I don't have to do any interventions on my daily commute and haven't for about six months now. It's a better driver than I am, and has saved the life of a bicyclist that I and another car didn't see (bicycling dressed in black at night).