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by elgenie 2mo ago
Tomatoes are a New World crop, so those come from the Colombian exchange rather than some sort of thousands-year-old Silk Road trading history.
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by elgenie 3mo ago
Looking at Brexit is picking up the story halfway through. About 18 years ago now the Tories thought, incorrectly, that budgetary austerity was the prescription for responding to the global financial crisis. Eight years of indulging conspir
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by elgenie 5mo ago
Also, Andreessen’s wife of two decades attended Stanford. Her billionaire father ensured that their surname (Arrillaga) is plastered all over the campus.
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by elgenie 6mo ago
That works mainly because the money comes with a heavily implied threat: don't vote the way we want and the money spigot stops, or even reroutes into the coffers of your opponent. But if that all happens, including the opponent funding
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by elgenie 6mo ago
In jurisdictions in which there's a large imbalance between the parties the general election is a foregone conclusion; the primary of the dominant party becomes the real election. Primaries still have lower turnout and feature candidat
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by elgenie 7mo ago
The US tracks six different unemployment metrics plus overall labor force participation rate. You’re talking about U6 and/or labor force participation rate. Just because U3 is the measure typically quoted doesn’t mean the others don’t
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by elgenie 7mo ago
Isn't there a great deal of gaming going on with the car disengaging FSD milliseconds before crashing? Voila, no "full" "self" driving accident; just another human failing [*]! [*] Failing to solve the impossible si
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by elgenie 8mo ago
No code is as easy to maintain as no code. No code runs as fast as no code.
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by elgenie 8mo ago
QA efforts can whack-a-mole some issues, but the mismatch of problem and solution is inherent in any situation in which a generator of plausible-sounding text gets pointed at an area where correctness matters.
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by elgenie 8mo ago
Discomfort is present only if you suspect they're a Guesser and thus one of you has greatly misjudged the relationship and social context. If you know or suspect they're an Asker the discomfort disappears because you say "No&
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by elgenie 8mo ago
The usual dichotomy / terminology for this stuff as it relates to painting national and business cultures with broad brushes is "high context" versus "low context". In a high context culture like Japan people would
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by elgenie 10mo ago
The top five countries in the world by Muslim population are not in the Middle East/North Africa region: Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria.
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by elgenie 10mo ago
They're #4 by population, and the world's most populous Muslim country, but are also only a quarter century removed from a corrupt authoritarian regime. They have very little in the way of exported cultural products ("The Rai
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by elgenie 10mo ago
This working is a function of density. First, imagining a park at the corner is a huge assumption. Second, if the park isn't within shouting distance of the necessary number of kids, half of the ones within shouting distance are at par
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by elgenie 10mo ago
That feeling of shared societal responsibility probably has at least something to do with the birth rate. Japan is down to just 686K babies born per year from a population of 123 million.
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by elgenie 10mo ago
Now consider what's happening to the learning process of the (rather large) subset of current college students choosing to replace that struggle for detailed understanding with LLM queries.
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by elgenie 11mo ago
Spelling things out helps with the euphemisms. Anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion forces turn out to be (gasp) against all of diversity, and equity, and inclusion.
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by elgenie 1y ago
This is an incoherent blog post. 1. The concept of "domestic terrorist organization" not a thing under any US law. Further, there exists no such organization in observable reality. 2. "All relevant executive departments and a
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by elgenie 1y ago
You’re attempting to argue that “revisions exist” is somehow strong evidence for the proposition that “no aspect of particular revision X was politically motivated”. That is gaslighting.
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by elgenie 1y ago
These are numbers compiled by this administration about a period immediately before Trump imposed some very very very economically stupid tariffs. It's quite suspicious to have such a big drop timed precisely as if to serve as a hand
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by elgenie 1y ago
Like 5-10% of the US's total GDP gets wasted annually on the layers and layers and layers of healthcare middlemen… for worse outcomes.
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by elgenie 1y ago
De -densification isn't required; a one-for-one knocking down and rebuilding of a single family residence suffices.
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by elgenie 1y ago
Houses depreciate if there's an adequate supply of newer housing keeping up with the housing demand of the area. If there isn't then the general GDP growth of the area in which the house is located dictates that the house's v
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by elgenie 1y ago
Appointing a know-nothing conspiracy theorist doesn't have that exact issue, yes … but in a way where the cure is significantly worse than the disease. You can cultivate state capacity and independent expertise to reduce regulatory cap
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by elgenie 1y ago
What is this record of which you speak and what, pray tell, are the penalties suffered by Elon for lying repeatedly on it?
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by elgenie 1y ago
When the words are actually spelled out the sheer ridiculousness of "Full Self Driving" having a "(Supervised)" postscript becomes rather readily apparent. Tesla can't help but know that the supposed non-driver gett
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by elgenie 1y ago
Sort of. Campaigning on vague slogans about something doesn't mean you have democratic legitimacy to avoid the whole process by which that something is supposed to get turned into law. Congress has previously delegated tariff authority
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by elgenie 1y ago
The fuel/carbon tax would still be behavior-shifting for low-income emitters because it would still apply to low-income emitters per marginal unit, and that part is likely overall regressive because fuel is a larger expenditures for lo
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by elgenie 1y ago
Volpe and Chisholm have honed and fine-tuned their swings over 20 years to produce results good enough to vault them into the top few hundred in the world at that particular craft. They have a lot riding on that existing swing. Pro baseball
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by elgenie 1y ago
Most of those incorrectly use the linguistic terminology (in particular, "dialect", "baby talk", "slang") but, yes, congratulations on discovering that context plays a role in communication.

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