jack_h

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by jack_h 9d ago
I'm not saying the government shouldn't be held accountable, merely that the due process clause of the 14th amendment is the wrong vehicle. The right to due process in the case of deprivation of life does not mean any deprivation
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by jack_h 9d ago
The second amendment is a pretty well articulated negative right in the same manner as the first or the fourth in the classical liberal school of thought. These are natural rights that individuals have and the bill of rights merely states t
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by jack_h 14d ago
> “He’s correct. … Why wouldn’t it [evolution] apply to universes when it applies to everything else?” I kind of wish the article touched on "everything" a bit more. Biological evolution is not the only process characterized by
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by jack_h 24d ago
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that
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by jack_h 29d ago
How is there a big difference between those two things? People want Netflix, people also want the output of AI whether that is lobster Jesus or something else. This seems more like substituting what people want, which clearly includes AI, f
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by jack_h 1mo ago
> What does a cheap microcontroller core need? Let's inspect what they are used for. Typical use cases are to interface with and quickly reconfigure hardware blocks in a larger chip, eg in an MP3 player, an SD card, or a USB stick.
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by jack_h 2mo ago
That's not what CU held. The idea that corporations have legal personhood with some degree of rights is much, much older than Citizens United. Citizens United was a non-profit corporation that created Hillary: The Movie which was criti
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by jack_h 2mo ago
There are roughly two orders of magnitude more microcontrollers in the world running code than application processors. GC is not acceptable on a microcontroller due to the extreme resource constraints. The GP post is correct, Go can replace
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by jack_h 3mo ago
Perhaps you could expand upon the parallels you’re seeing as it seems like you’ve fundamentally misunderstood my post.
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by jack_h 3mo ago
> ... there is actually an ever-increasing number of things that used to have an absolute right (scientifically proven) answer that become controversial. Climate change. Vaccines. Whether the earth is round - that kind of stuff. I think
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by jack_h 8mo ago
UBI would be pure deficit spending which would basically double it. Our interest is already the #2 federal outlay at $1 trillion (defense is #5 last I heard) and we're already in fiscal dominance. So the end result is UBI would trigger
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by jack_h 9mo ago
I also don’t think people should vote like that, the problem is there’s no way to enforce such a pattern[1]. Everyone benefits from voting as you describe, but that’s precisely where the prisoner’s dilemma comes into play. There’s also a si
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by jack_h 9mo ago
Voting is meant to allow a community to police itself to some extent, although the downside to that is it incentivizes controlling the discussion over contributing to it. It’s a lot easier to vote in accordance with your own beliefs than ar
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by jack_h 10mo ago
As I’ve grown older I’ve come to realize that there are no solutions, merely tradeoffs. Saying something is “free” is selling a solution which rhetorically works well with a voting populace that has little, if any, knowledge of economics. D
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by jack_h 11mo ago
You’re using multiple definitions of “free” here. One is freedom in the Lockean sense, the other is freedom from the properties and consequences of an emergent system. It’s a bit like saying you are free to choose your own mate and have kid
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by jack_h 11mo ago
You’re only considering one part of the system, not the whole. As the GAO puts it[1]: > Intragovernmental debt holdings represent federal debt owed by Treasury to federal government accounts—primarily federal trust funds such as those es
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by jack_h 1y ago
I want to highlight your point because you're correct and this is something that a lot of people don't understand about economic systems. We exist in a resource constrained system. There are finite medical workers, finite time, fi
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by jack_h 1y ago
I fully admit what I said was simplistic and not meant to indicate the true complexity of the system. I agree with everything you’ve posted as inflation is not immediate merely because the money exists. I was presenting a rough zeroth order
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by jack_h 1y ago
I don’t disagree with your first point, but your second point may have been a misunderstanding of what I said or I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m not suggesting when you spend money it goes away and can’t be used again. I was more
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by jack_h 1y ago
> There's something that happened during ZIRP & Negative Real Interest Rate Policies that completely divorced the value of money in the real economy from the value of assets & future cash flows I’m not sure I follow. The USD
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by jack_h 1y ago
It's no different than the South in the US which does not include Texas, New Mexica, Arizona, or any other states that are geographically South in the modern day US. Once you understand the historical aspect of the naming it makes sens
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by jack_h 1y ago
Sorry for the double reply but I think a concrete example might elucidate what I am discussing. I have had to deal with close friends being addicted to heroin. I believe the free market is harmful when it comes to hard drugs because of my e
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by jack_h 1y ago
I didn’t miss their point, I challenged the foundation upon which it rested. You are asserting that a free market is unstable and will inevitably lead to a monopoly. Even if I take this as a fact for the sake of argument, it doesn’t nullify
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by jack_h 1y ago
> A free market actually requires a lot of surrounding regulation to work While I am not a free market absolutist, I think your assertion is based on judging negative outcomes of a free market vs the positive intentions of regulations tr
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by jack_h 1y ago
> There's a real folly in capitalist countries thinking they can be self-sufficient walled castles. Capitalism by its nature will seek out the lowest cost be it in labor or manufacturing. That means often means outsourcing. It can m
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by jack_h 1y ago
> or replace them altogether. Before AI companies were usually very reticent to do a rewrite or major refactoring of software because of the cost but that calculus may change with AI. A lot of physical products have ended up in this spac
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by jack_h 1y ago
The standard as decided in Brandenburg v. Ohio is "imminent lawless action". You're correct that context matters; the speech must be tied to an imminent violation of law. This is a very high bar and in practice is very hard t
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by jack_h 1y ago
It’s not about making zero mistakes, it’s about learning from previous languages which made mistakes and not repeating them. I decided against using go pretty early on because I recognized just how many mistakes they were repeating that wou
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by jack_h 1y ago
> Where does this idea come from? It seems to be acquired through social osmosis, i.e. hearing people talk about it and then repeating their assertions as if it were a fact - usually with subtle changes colored by the speakers own world
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by jack_h 1y ago
> A few presidents ago, the chairman of the joint chiefs publicly said that 7 trillion in military spending is unaccounted for. You're likely referring to the fact that the pentagon can't pass an audit even though there have be

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