laretluval

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by laretluval 1y ago
While I disagree with GP’s premise, there’s no sense in which H1B visa holders are American. It’s a nonimmigrant visa. They are required to specifically disavow any intention of becoming Americans or else the visa can be revoked.
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by laretluval 1y ago
Is there a news article about the spy at your kid’s school?
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by laretluval 2y ago
I built an RV to increase missing person cases
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by laretluval 4y ago
> but there is much precedence for rebel leaders who took on dynasties to be of millenarian, even foreign beliefs. The modern Chinese government’s suppression of Falun Gong makes sense from this perspective.
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by laretluval 4y ago
I predict they’ll love the opportunity to indulge in theatrical ethnomasochism, just like high status whites do.
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by laretluval 4y ago
I also thought that, based on his books
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by laretluval 5y ago
> A huge part of the problem is that digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare. It's interesting to see that people are now arguing in favor of public shaming and peer pressure as ways to control behavior,
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by laretluval 5y ago
Thanks for the rec! This looks like something I'll be adding to the list of Substacks I check regularly.
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by laretluval 5y ago
Good, fewer stoners in the next generation
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by laretluval 5y ago
https://youtu.be/dTaUliCxN_o
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by laretluval 5y ago
Is it bad to want state institutions to act in a way that benefits you? Isn't that "government for the people"?
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by laretluval 5y ago
Congress
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by laretluval 5y ago
NO
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by laretluval 5y ago
"Oll korrect" is the only one the stands up to scrutiny.
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by laretluval 5y ago
My conversations with military people (mostly Navy) suggest that they don't really know what they're doing with AI.
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by laretluval 6y ago
It's a dream created using information from many other scenes you saw of the person. The AI "dream" is based only on the single image.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> Most economists agree once you take into account retaliatory tariffs they're bad for the economy. How much real predictive signal is there in economists' consensus?
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by laretluval 6y ago
> stop rewarding "I wrote the grant" With authorships. How could this work? If you have more grant money you have more resources to write papers.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> I just don't understand why his preferences bind on anyone else. His preferences bind on the NYT in that as Scott can take actions which are adverse to the NYT in order to maintain his preferences. Such as deleting the blog and ha
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by laretluval 6y ago
UBI (your second point) is a common idea advocated by many people other than Bill Murray. This is the first time I've heard it described as white supremacy and eugenics although I'm sure it won't be the last.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Which of those do you think is more likely to draw a large audience? That's the one that will be more common.
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by laretluval 6y ago
"yet"
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by laretluval 6y ago
They've been trying since 2014. Somehow it never seems to happen.
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by laretluval 6y ago
I'd say the people who have invested time, forethought, and organization into how to evade law enforcement are scarier.
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by laretluval 6y ago
No official ministry, but the private parties appear to be acting with a great deal of coordination.
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by laretluval 6y ago
If you’re worried about giving programmers too many options, R is already a nightmarish lost cause...
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by laretluval 6y ago
Not only that, but in many cases conformity to group ideas will lead to better outcomes than individual thinking. The world is complicated, and you as an individual probably don't really have the time or brain resources to figure it al
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by laretluval 6y ago
Discussions about censorship like this tend to take a sort of God’s eye view—-should we have censorship or not, as if ny of us get to decide and implement whatever we want. Here’s a more practical question. Suppose there are two alternative
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by laretluval 6y ago
The context is helpful; it shows that her claim is even more unjustified. While it sounds difficult for her, I can't imagine how Google's behavior here amounts to not acknowledging someone's humanity.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> "civility" is not objective/neutral, often relies on codifying the norms of a dominant majority, and also preserves the status quo. In this case, the norm in question was respectful argumentation grounded in empirical ev

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