JamisonM

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by JamisonM 7mo ago
The Singaporean government is responsive to public opinion to some degree, but it is so they can maintain their current status of not having to worry about winning elections.
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by JamisonM 7mo ago
There are actually a fair number of folks that commute from Canada to the US for work. They will generally have TN Visas, it is certainly not "unthinkable" - it really does happen, although I will confess that the only folks I hav
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by JamisonM 11mo ago
Jean Chrétien is the one that said Canada is the first post-nationalist state, why would it be a bad thing? Is there a reason why national identity and being a high-trust society need to be linked?
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by JamisonM 11mo ago
Fair enough on the immediate consequences.. but shutting down these plants was a long term decision, so the long term consequences are still consequences. It is certainly true that no one predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine when Fukushi
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by JamisonM 1y ago
"Except the shutdown had no negative effect." Three things here: * Didn't the diversion of natural gas to electricity generation end some German industrial production completely? * Are there not large electricity subsidies in
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by JamisonM 1y ago
Do you think that 25% of Arkansas farmers are going to go bankrupt soon?
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by JamisonM 1y ago
Define "enough"? The article in question is about Arkansas and broad acre farming, there is 600+ million acres of farm in the midwest down to the delta 99% of which isn't close to a major population center. There is lots of p
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by JamisonM 1y ago
Lots of farmers in my area owning equipment with fresh paint (well, plastic panels these days) that can't make land payments, or at least complaining about it. The ROI on new equipment is poor and when things were booming the farmers l
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by JamisonM 1y ago
OK, what secret information do you have from living in America that I don't have? I got people driving land prices up here too.. they have driven them up to roughly the same as Arkansas and I can still afford to buy land from time to t
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by JamisonM 1y ago
From the article: In August 2025, Graves sent an open letter to media and politicians, pleading for attention to eye-popping numbers. “My letter told what things are like right now. In our geography, it looks like you need to yield 100-3
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by JamisonM 1y ago
That doesn't really make sense, the vast, vast majority of farmland is not close enough to an urban area to be influenced by sprawl and get bid up to development prices.
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by JamisonM 1y ago
The Europeans seem to have become more free trade curious after recent events so this doesn't seem like it will hold up as a "what if". And I expect that the coming months of US-only inflation are just going to confirm that
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by JamisonM 1y ago
> This ignores the reality of power in the US. Presidents can't implement multi-decade initiatives. Which is why if anyone wanted to actually bring manufacturing "back" to the US they would work with congress and pass laws
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by JamisonM 1y ago
Is this an American thing? No one has ever in my life asked me "Who did you vote for?" I have had plenty of people behave in a way that made it clear they assumed I agreed with them on political matters/issues that would ha
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by JamisonM 2y ago
> Making the issue more political, the US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. This isn’t a secret but it taints the perception of US neutrality when making this data available. First I have heard of this, what&#
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by JamisonM 2y ago
As soon as he described the physical setup I was screaming "Tree!" internally.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
That's the thing, the governance of the org decides what to do based on these guidelines, so the management & board decides when it is applicable.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
I would say you are using the words "explicitly tasked" when the articles of incorporation use the words "seek to" and "when applicable". (And also the "allowing competition" part I don't think i
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Why do you think he has a good case? To me OpenAI's response is simply, "It is our honestly held belief that given our available resources private partnership was the only viable way to ensure that we are in control of the most ad
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by JamisonM 3y ago
A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary is actually pretty common and it is probably one of the more "normal" things OpenAI has done. https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/creating-a-for-profit-sub... My perso
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Running the headline "Fewer people are buying electric cars" and then conceding that EV sales are rising at the start of the 3rd paragraph is embarrassing for the author Paris Marx and I hope he feels ashamed.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Right, but that is entirely unrelated to USB working -- the regulation exists long after USB had proven itself.. because it had proven itself.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> USB is not the poster child for successful industry-led standards. Every day billions of devices use USB for charging and data transfer and work just fine.. was there some government intervention that jumped in to make that work that I
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by JamisonM 3y ago
https://the-decoder.com/openai-apparently-going-all-in-on-ch... This behaviour seems more consistent with wanting is sorted out than stalling for time.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
I expect that OpenAI would concede that they used the data in any court case immediately to get that issue off the table, I really don't think they have a strong interest in foot-dragging on this stuff, right? I would think OpenAI want
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by JamisonM 3y ago
You don't seem to be addressing my point in this reply. You have to make an affirmative case that growth and energy are decoupled in China but exports and energy are not to make your argument work. If you don't have the data that&
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> France is estimated to import between 117 and 750Mt of CO2 a year, quite a large error margin… I don't know, if your basis for your opinion is that you googled it and you got some very wide ranging and contradictory results then t
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Do you have some data to back up this assertion? For me what I see in the numbers is that Chinese domestic quality of living improvements correlate better with increases in energy consumption than does US imports (or Chinese exports). What
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by JamisonM 3y ago
ETA means Edited to Add. Thank you for the information.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
These are "uses" of data but they don't seem to in any way involve making the data public - I think if you published deidentified data to a public forum of any kind under the auspice of "educating agents" you&#x27

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