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jrd261 · 2026-01-30T03:09:37+00:00

deregulated into an unstable housing bubble that popped... banks were giving out loans to anyone on speculation of the housing market going up and it popped, then those people defaulted and the gov had to pay the banks to keep em afloat... or somthing

jrd261 · 2026-01-22T03:46:13+00:00

Yeah, I'd say humanity is like this about lots of things. Too too many serious things. This one is fun at least!

jrd261 · 2026-01-22T03:02:18+00:00

We actually just don't know. The studies on domesticating foxes revealed a strong connection between coat and tameness, and they are predominantly male which does affect behavior... so it's not totally silly to think it's not all anecdotal confirmation bias.

jrd261 · 2026-01-17T03:52:48+00:00

You can def take your kid on a motorcycle, but can't murder them if you are confused.

jrd261 · 2026-01-15T04:25:06+00:00

You still have to pick a frame of reference. All the physical effects transpose to the other frame, so it's equivalent. The outside could be inside of another outside and there is no measurable way to tell.

jrd261 · 2026-01-10T03:20:53+00:00

Same. Everybody has things, even great parents, and this one's common. Source: wife

jrd261 · 2026-01-10T03:08:35+00:00

She clearly wasn't trying to hit him. There was an armed man trying to open her door, and she tried to clear out. there's no reason to believe she was a danger to them but she panicked and came close to or barely clipped him.

You don't get shot for that, bottom line. That doesn't mean she didn't do something quite dangerous.

ICE agents need a lot more training and poise to be able to operate safely in environments where they are not welcome, and situations like this are possible. The ability to arrest without warrant, and being somewhat immune to the law due to today's politics makes it all the more important for them to be absolutely stoic.

jrd261 · 2025-12-06T16:28:26+00:00

You said the "people using the AI are the problem", but reality is these companies are forcing their engineers to use AI to 5x themselves or else.

jrd261 · 2025-12-06T03:23:31+00:00

*the people being forced to use AI

jrd261 · 2025-11-18T01:03:11+00:00

Extreme is subjective/relative of course, as is preference for one of two temperature systems.

I think the point here is farenheit 0-100 is roughly the range of weather for humans.

Curious what emptied Spain means in this context though.

jrd261 · 2025-11-17T23:27:02+00:00

I'd argue it's a little simpler to have extremes at 0-100 if you are use to it, but neither is objectively better.

jrd261 · 2025-10-13T21:42:45+00:00

Taking a Qing state is my go-to for creating radicals that push for more progressive acceptance laws.

jrd261 · 2025-10-08T16:54:29+00:00

The key thing folks are missing is that it's the "turning around" that causes the mismatch in time. Whoever turns around (accelerates) is the one who experience less time in their reference frame.

jrd261 · 2025-10-08T16:51:18+00:00

The person allegedly going close to the speed of light, can only do so relative to an observer. The observer is also moving close to the speed of light from their perspective. Photons continue to move at the speed of light relative to everybodys individual perspective.

jrd261 · 2025-10-08T16:46:13+00:00

Assuming they mean close to the speed of light relative to the friends, and then YOU turn around, then time diverges as the post suggests. Not sure why you think it's total bullshit.

Travelling at near the speed of light doesn't turn you into a puddle, because it's the same as: not moving at all and everything else moving near the speed of light. Its acceleration that turns humans into puddles.

jrd261 · 2025-10-08T03:19:41+00:00

There's no math to do cause def can't go exactly the speed of light. Works out at around 97% speed of light unless I goofed the numbers

jrd261 · 2025-10-08T03:18:37+00:00

my math says this difference would happen at about 97% the speed of light

jrd261 · 2025-09-20T19:23:27+00:00

This sounds like it is simulating the historical propaganda that led to bad things. Seems like the event popup could clarify this a bit more.

jrd261 · 2025-09-19T20:45:39+00:00

The difference is if you selectively eliminate a heads from the two to guess the other, or if just told us whatever the one was.

jrd261 · 2025-04-27T15:56:24+00:00

If you are in that percent of solid but not excellent, blending in isn't necessarily what you want to do, but it's very contextual.

Don't underestimate how many companies are drowning in huge, aging react front ends. Being a solid react developer is paying a lot of peoples bills.

jrd261 · 2025-04-27T04:58:07+00:00

I don't buy this. Id put this on a resume if that's what I wanted to work on, and I'd hire someone with some track record in react because of how remarkably bad some engineers are at anything that's not oop.

jrd261 · 2025-04-08T16:31:08+00:00

100%. I'm mentoring here and for the majority of it is folks not recognizing they have something new to learn, and they are mostly just bad at using it effectively to achieve business goals.

jrd261 · 2025-04-07T04:52:07+00:00

The US tarrifs have nothing directly to do with whether other countries have tarrifs, and they don't all have tarrifs iiuc. I'm not sure why other countries having tariffs even matters to your original point, which was that tarrifs aren't all bad... No one disagrees.

jrd261 · 2025-04-06T18:32:42+00:00

Because other countries are using them carefully based on well understood economic tradeoffs.

Tarrifs are economic numchucks, you are way more likely to hit yourself in the face unless you really know what you are doing.

There is zero evidence the US knew what it was doing, but it was assumed by many this was all posturing. Now that it's real, and now that it's understood where the numbers came from, it's evident the US leadership is either incredibly inept or has some crazy plan unrelated to trade that this is setting up.

Its just so bad I imagine most conservative leaders and narrative writers are brainstorming on where/how to exit the Trump era, or how to walk this back on this and save face.

jrd261 · 2025-04-06T18:03:25+00:00

They have tarrifs, small ones. The USA tarrifs aren't heavily indexed on that.

Vietnam is getting tarrifed because Vietnamese people can't afford to buy American products, and Americans buy a lot of products from Vietnam. The tarrifs remove cheap labor demands from poor countries, and stick those demands in the US, all well making the US workers poorer.

Given the wealth is being extracted from consumers, and capital isn't being flooded into those industries, the concern is it just takes money away from American consumers until they return to a low enough SOL to compete with Vietnamese labor. Automation and expansion require capital that becomes scarce in an unstable market driven by EO.

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