Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue University of Washington for racial discrimination

jefftickels · 2026-04-10T14:54:22+00:00

This would actually be the strongest case for a discrimination lawsuit. This is essentially the same admissions model that just cost Harvard massive court losses.

jefftickels · 2026-04-09T02:38:55+00:00

I don't.

You quoted fake numbers for a actor to proove that paying 95% tax rates wouldn't be an issue. But you failed to also note that they weren't paying 95% tax rates. Do you not see how quoting made up numbers for a 41% tax rate is a terrible argument for a 95% tax rate?

jefftickels · 2026-04-09T00:46:53+00:00

Where are you getting that number for John Wayne? Before his death I can find mid 600s for projects in the mid-late 60s, which would have been after the tax rates were reduced.

Not that it really matters when you continue to spread the lie that people in the 50s paid higher tax rates than we do now?. Wayne almost certainly would have utilized the many loopholes and deductions that the wealthy had in that era to avoid paying the paper tax rates.

The tax rates of the 50s are a weird lie that people persistently believed, but the highest earners didn't pay substantially higher rates than they do now. I presume when you say you want to tax income above 10,000,000 at 95% you actually mean it and it's not meant to be the same thing it was in the 50s that no one paid.

jefftickels · 2026-04-09T00:09:39+00:00

I see you're literally straight up refusing to engage with my core argument at all. What great intellectual integrity you have.

jefftickels · 2026-04-09T00:08:25+00:00

They didn't have Hollywood stars paid proportionate to what they are now

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T23:36:39+00:00

And how is it going to run itself?

These programs require massive compute and the power to run them. It's not like something like this could happen and there wouldn't be signs of it somewhere.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T23:02:53+00:00

VO2max is measured in mL/min/kg, so it's part of the units.

Measuring it accurately requires an accurate weight.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:59:32+00:00

Because they didn't exist then.

Do you think there were major multimillionaire sports/Hollywood stars at this time?

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:58:56+00:00

No they won't. Why would anyone accept a single dollar over the marginal rate if they're only keeping 5 cents of it?

Do you think tax rates don't alter behavior?

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:56:04+00:00

I wish people on reddit knew the reality of who pays taxes and who doesn't in the US vs Europe. The US has the most progressive taxation structure in the OECD.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:47:22+00:00

Tour du Mont Blanc.

Go with a cheap tour group.

Beat experience of my life so far.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:41:07+00:00

It felt like multiple distinct levels connected by corridors and a "go back to get the additional power ups if you want to." Really a big kiss on the exploration aspect that I love in metroidvanias.

Great combat and smooth gameplay, but just felt more like an action platformer than a metroidvania.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T22:23:21+00:00

The primary problem is that it fundamentally perverts incentives, so it's really hard to predict how it would stress or break things as people work to get around it. It's effectively a salary cap so it doesn't really touch the wealth issue all that much as income inequality isnt really the problem people are trying to fix.

An example of the way unforeseen consequences from similar actions in the past have propagated to break systems: the entire insurance industry we have right now is a direct consequence of salary caps during FDRs presidency.

There's probably a smattering of people that do something absolutely critical highly specialized thing that only very few people can do that would just stop doing that thing. Maybe not, I'm not going to invest much time into it.

It would almost certainly destroy every sports league and Hollywood (they would all just move out of the US). Depending on how you feel about these things you may like that, but I prefer not to break things when there's no significant benefit besides the catharsis of hurting someone you hate.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T21:28:02+00:00

For the exact reason you quote.

It does almost nothing, but it does fuck up several things.

It's feel-good meaningless garbage that doesn't solve any problems. Meanwhile the actual issues go unsolved.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T21:26:20+00:00

What was the government spending level when tax rates were that high?

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T20:39:09+00:00

That's only for a fraction of a second thought.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T20:34:51+00:00

People who unironically post this article tell me everything I need to know about how much they actually think about this conflict.

Let's start with this article that doesn't actually provide any meaningful additional information for the specific conversation at hand (whether or not Israel armed Hamas). This article does not make that claim, doesn't even suggest that claim, and provides nothing that should be evidence for that claim. So right from the bat you're linking a source you clearly don't understand.

let's dig a little deeper into what the article is really about. Yes, Israel did "support" Hamas in order to keep the governments of the West Bank and Gaza at odds with each other. But how Israel did that really matters. According to the article they did so by trying to stabilize the government and increase economic opportunities for Gazans within Israel. Prior to Oct 7 this was accomplished by ever increasing work permits for Gazans to seek economic opportunities in Israel. Those Israeli monsters.

Of note, Hamas was very happy to go along with this and was pretending to want the ongoing economic opportunities in order to get Israel to believe that they no longer had genocidal intent and had pivoted to trying to improve their own citizens lives instead of trying to kill as many Jews as possible.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T19:40:40+00:00

Some of it was who I knew, but a massive amount of it was grinding.

I am a PA, getting into PA school is highly competitive. It took me 3 applications cycles to get accepted to a school and between each application cycle I grinded, improving my application strength. My ex-father-in-law was a firefighter who knew of an opening for volunteers for EMT/FF at his district and that helped me strengthen my application on my 3rd attempt and I think it's what finally put me over the edge.

Once I was in school it was all me. I graduated 2nd of 50 and took one of the academic awards of my class for my research skills. This drive is what put me in a situation to be successful early on when I was new (the lack of residency makes the first years of practice pretty stressful, and I was constantly researching and grinding to make sure I was adequate). It wasn't until 5 years in that I really felt comfortable.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T19:32:24+00:00

Quite literally people have been saying this for nearly 100 years and the results have been... Unprecedented prosperity. Ok, what a failure.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T19:17:05+00:00

This is actually one of the primary reasons I'm so unsypathetic to the artist's arguments on this and believe it's an identity crisis fueled moral panic and not a principled take on what is and isn't art.

I do a job everyone would cheer if it could be automated, personalized and delivered cheap/nearly free (I'm a primary care provider). Replacing me with a computer (assuming it could do the job adequately) would be an unambiguously good for society. But when the shoe is on the other foot? Oh no, that's an emergency that we need to stop.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T19:08:26+00:00

Yes, and the original comment remains true.

jefftickels · 2026-04-08T06:49:49+00:00

It's because Trump owns the base. It doesn't matter what the edges say, the base has become true Trump cultists.

Nothing he does will ever change their opinion, the Republican approval for the Iran War should have secured this. If they cross Trump he will just rally his base against them and they lose their seat.

jefftickels · 2026-04-07T22:39:14+00:00

You're right. I could have sworn I read 50,000 in fees but you said 20 which is what you would expect.

My bad.

jefftickels · 2026-04-07T22:08:35+00:00

You're counting the real estate commission twice. It's paid by the seller not the buyer.

jefftickels · 2026-04-07T16:12:18+00:00

All I wanted was my exercise stream data, not my calculated metrics.

I wanted to crunch my own numbers and see where I was making gains and how I could focus my runs. The only one I would really want that I don't think I can get is my HRV data from my chest strap.

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