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by zzrrt 7d ago
The definition of racist border control includes deporting X00,000 brown people, some of whom had lawful status, and having virtually every one of the 10k refugee admissions be white South African.
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by zzrrt 20d ago
This conversation is reminding me of arguments about non-citizens voting, or assaults committed by trans fakers in bathrooms. Both have probably happened, as some weird wealthy dual citizen has probably decided to live on food stamps at lea
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by zzrrt 20d ago
Both classes of people are American citizens, subject to the same laws and reporting. Why would one be able to hide assets overseas and the other not? If your answer is dual citizenship giving them access to banks abroad, a wealthy American
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by zzrrt 20d ago
One of my ideas was a way to fraudulently get most of the benefits of home ownership while hiding it; why wouldn't a rich dishonest Real American do that? Pride? So you think all children of wealthy birth tourists have no pride? It app
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by zzrrt 21d ago
They can do whatever you presume the rich birth tourist does, like deposit in foreign banks, not own US land, obfuscate land ownership through trusts or straw owners.
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by zzrrt 21d ago
What kind of welfare? Do you have stats or stories? I'm skeptical someone wealthy would slum it for the peanuts they could get from welfare fraud. Or if they do, surely there are ways wealthy "real Americans" could hide their
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by zzrrt 21d ago
I think birth tourism is an overblown fear, but I suppose their answer is that poor welfare sponges and rich-ish passport collectors are both threats, for different reasons.
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by zzrrt 21d ago
FWIW the Road ACT became law anyway without his signature, but yeah if he wanted to demonstrate he cared about such things he would have signed it promptly and proudly.
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by zzrrt 22d ago
Feels a bit like saying I can provide lots of free electricity, if someone just gives me some perpetual motion machines. Political viability is as important to building something like this as the laws of physics are. TBC's continued ex
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by zzrrt 22d ago
I don't think it was a good example to justify the complexity of the app, if it doesn't make sense to put in the app. It's an example of adjacent concerns, so maybe there is something similar that should be in the app, but th
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by zzrrt 22d ago
The DC tunnel was billed as a hyperloop, so it's not good faith to both excuse him for never intending to build one and also claim it takes time and will eventually succeed.
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by zzrrt 22d ago
I see my logical flaw and agree (to the specific arguments about tunnels made in this subthread), though I made an adjacent post showing Musk later expressed intent to build a hyperloop in DC, so you can't also say he never claimed to
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by zzrrt 22d ago
Wait, is hyperloop not a Musk failure because he never said he would build it, or is it not a failure because his company is still building it? You've said both.
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by zzrrt 22d ago
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/888053175155949572 "Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins." (July 2017, years after s
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by zzrrt 22d ago
> Was there a Musk company dedicated to building that? The Boring Company. Are you saying if Musk or his company essentially gives up on building something he hyped for years, it's not a failure?
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by zzrrt 24d ago
> do you still owe a minimum payment based on that purchase? I'm skeptical that the UX is improved much by having the app know the answer. The bank tells you what to pay, a month beforehand. The user has to get that number from the
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
Ways SAT is more reasonable than typical leetcode interview: - you can take it ~3 times and most colleges will give you the best score without penalty - you can use your result to apply as many times as you want - if you feel stuck
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
If a good candidate can do it in 3 weeks, then a middling one can do it in 10 weeks, and a bad one in 6 months of memorizing. They all pass the screen, but two are lower-quality, and the bad candidate is about as much of a waste of the &quo
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
That's the point we all see, but from context, the story teller apparently thought it shows that leetcode is an effective way to filter frauds.
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
Doesn't this imply that, had your friend not taken your advice, he would have failed and thus been an "obvious fraud", but a mere 3 weeks transformed him from fraud to competent programmer?
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
But this is the one and only burial place pictured in the movie that people watched. You can't change that now.
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
Also, even if we prefer hard power, if DOGE were honest or consistent and looked at how we're doing hard power, they would find at least as much fraud and waste as in social and soft power spending.
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
Well we worked real hard on not changing a regime, not disarming a nuclear power, and not protecting a trade route. How's the investment working out? Maybe if we bomb some more schools they'll be too scared to mess with us.
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by zzrrt 1mo ago
There's the soft power argument that it was actually in US's self-interest to help. And for what it's worth, a lot of the vitriol is from taxpayers who supported that aid.
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
Or making necessary operations be unnecessarily long, painful, and unsuccessful. I think the anecdotes point to that at least.
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
I flagged the OP because it's old, but your story is relevant and interesting, as it seems the incorrect map was AI-generated.
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
The phrase made me chuckle, but I'm curious what exactly "rear ending the singularity" means.
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
To clarify, Elon himself opposed OBBBA because of the deficit. My point is that anyone cheering on DOGE for cuts but staying silent on the administration's generally bad record on spending, has an ideological bias that is not purely ab
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
> This is a reason why the US is trillions in debt. Trump's OBBBA will be another reason, expected to add several trillion in the next few years. So yeah, real cuts are probably needed, but the DOGE people aren't achieving that
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by zzrrt 2mo ago
I heard "belt and suspenders" at least 20 years ago (meaning multiple solutions to a problem with backup in case one fails), and maybe would be longer if I were older. You could blame Claude for overusing it or importing it to oth

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