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by ggandv 1y ago
I just googled and in 2024 there >200k approvals for Indian nationals. That’s one year, one source country. And I believe that’s capped. Over time, it must be millions.
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by ggandv 1y ago
Also have fewer qualms killing other people. Young people are more idealistic/poltical/murderous on average .
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by ggandv 1y ago
Amputees have phantom limb sensations including pain. I believe this is more than theory. Certainly medical science has collected at least some case studies over the past century about people who have had their auditory nerve severed for on
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by ggandv 1y ago
Import/export mute lists would be an amazing feature but why would x allow that? Shareable mute lists would turn the place into mastodon or something non-monitizeable due to low enragement.
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by ggandv 1y ago
Just 86 x. Anything else is a half measure, at best. The house always wins.
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by ggandv 1y ago
I’d argue. The CCP isn’t ideologically opposed to democracy but rather capitalism. Capitalism is an inherent feature of democracy. They despise capitalism (the Communist Party) even though they will play the long march and use it to subvert
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by ggandv 1y ago
If China embraces capitalism more tightly that will be a good thing for the world. The problem with China is not its wonderful people or culture, nor its prosperity, the glaring problem with China is Communism and the morality of authoritar
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by ggandv 1y ago
I’m not so sure that’s a valid dichotomy. The cypherpunks were heavily anti-government libertarians and probably overlap a lot with the local VC crowd over a certain age. The cypherpunk I remember best was a horrible person who used to rant
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by ggandv 1y ago
“social groups expected” Catholic?
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by ggandv 1y ago
Ditto baseball cards.
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by ggandv 1y ago
80% of the variation due to individual differences OR measurement error.
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by ggandv 1y ago
“ review tasks in minutes that used to take three days,” said Jinzhong (Jin) Liu,” Sounds like the FDA budget is about to get a drastic cut. A clever bureaucrat never confesses that they are spending days doing what could be done in minutes
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by ggandv 1y ago
“And soon” Base rate is soon never comes. And soon flying cars, but now Facebook glasses.
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by ggandv 1y ago
Generally concur but I wish we wouldn’t squander credibility by making claims like, “travel for attend conferences (a key part of science!).” Oh come on. Conferences are a monument to waste if ever there was. It’s all kickbacks and hotel an
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by ggandv 1y ago
Exactly. They raise campaign funds and appear on tv and cross examine industry leaders like Altman and Zuckerberg. Clearly that is not “nothing”. But some worry that is not enough to keep pace with emerging threats and opportunities and tha
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by ggandv 1y ago
I wonder if optimizing for votes, as is the day to day business of most policy makers, gets you to the same place as optimizing for profits like in the private sector? If not, studying that could be one way to improve the public sector outp