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> "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!!" Trump went on. "LOCK THEM UP???" He also called for the lawmakers' arrest and trial, adding in a separate post that it was "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-says-democra...

Didn’t Trump explicitly say the US is putting Maduro’s second in command in charge? If so, that makes any benefits to the people from removing Maduro pretty unlikely. Besides removing sanctions, assuming the new dictator kisses the ring.

No, they very carefully referred to left and right wing in equal terms

It is actually done by the government too. Case in point the Tennessee man who was arrested and jailed for a month. Why? for social media posts critical of Charlie Kirk

Wait but decelerating forever does in fact imply recollapse doesn't it?

Did any of these 10 votes meaningfully address concerns of the objecting representatives?

> they don’t respect you or your laws.

You have to ignore just about every other part of the story to arrive at this breathless conclusion.

Let’s remember that for this project alone Hyundai invested more money than 99% of us will ever see into this country, and more sum labor hours than any of our individual lives. That’s not what disrespect looks like.

Maybe their visas were not in order so ok enforce that. But not by having their engineers perp walked on live television.

As a side note, if we are going to judge the Hyundai engineers then we must also believe that Elon Musk should have been deported due to his well known early career visa violations. or be damned as hypocrites.

a cursory Google search reveals that they deny anthropogenic climate change, reject the idea of women in the workplace, and wish to deny marriage rights to homosexuals

With data starvation driving ai companies towards synthetic data I’m surprised that an easily synthesized problem like this hasn’t been trained out of relevance. Yet here we are with proof that it hasn’t

What fantastic use of imagery the poetic quality of these LLMs has grown considerably.

I know this is aside to the point you're making but the every dying sunflower line really got me as a reader of poems.

As an argument of course there's barely one at all which was closer to your point.

Business plan, revenue, people: these are all valid signals to form an investment hypothesis. People often outweighs all others wrt early stage companies.

You would have been a fool to invest in apple in the late 90s on any other signal than the return of Steve Jobs. That era created many rich fools.

They used examples where almost every reasonable American knows what the right and wrong side of history ended up being. He doesn’t need to teach us with detailed policy that slavers ended up on the wrong side of history — we all know.

> The right wing sees second order effects and acts on them.

It’s hard to take this one at good faith. The right wing is very publicly melting down the CDC for glue while the second order effects of a preventable measles epidemic spreads through the country. Is there a more targeted claim you want to make?

US constitution thoughtfully disagrees with you, elevating presence on the land at birth over bloodline wrt citizenship.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” -US Constitution, 14th Amendment

Quite literally, US hospitals do have that magic pixie dust because they are on the land of this country.

If you’re contending that he let go of power peacefully the first time then I have some Jan 6 assault conviction to show you. Let’s not forget that he threw a mob at Congress to prevent certifying his opponent’s win.

Congress is the right answer to the question I think

The pacific is not safe from this effect. Trump has also recently started complaining about our security pact with Japan.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03/fd3521d51353-upda...

One quick correction — Tesla shares are down quite a bit since the trump administration took over

The old timey grammatical construction makes me ask — is this a quote from the disgraced America First Committee, who fought tooth and nail against American involvement in WW2?

Siding with the Russians over the Ukrainians has obviously happened. Same with unprecedented power grabs in the form of presidential control over congressionally mandated independent agencies.

All of this has been so widely reported by both national and international media that I argue it doesn’t require citation

> the idea that the Republicans are willing to continue an actual overthrow of law and order in the US is...close to a fantasy

No, imagining them continuing to do what they have been doing in the open is not fantasy.

Imagining them somehow "snapping back" to supporting constitutional order is much more fantastical. Especially in the face of the anti-judiciary salvos of JD Vance -- a leading candidate for the next nominee.

According to Trumps longest serving chief of staff, John Kelly, he regularly needed to be talked down from using the military on citizens:

> Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Trump was repeatedly told dating back to his first year in office why he should not use the U.S. military against Americans and the limits on his authority to do so. Mr. Trump nevertheless continued while in office to push the issue and claim that he did have the authority to take such actions, Mr. Kelly said.

From his Oct 2024 interview with NYT: https://web.archive.org/web/20250213113815/https://www.nytim...

How can someone in good faith try to “recover” a nation governed by laws by publicly flouting the law?

The only useful way to define an AGI is based on its capabilities, not its implementation details.

Based on capabilities alone, current LLMs demonstrate many of the capabilities practitioners ten years ago would have tossed into the AGI bucket.

What are some top capabilities (meaning inputs and outputs) you think are missing on the path between what we have now and AGI?

If the housing crisis was only localized to S.F. then state level action wouldn’t be needed. The fact that housing shortages are widespread in CA makes it a crisis that must be solved at the state level.

Personally as a long time resident of SF I fight for density now in the hope that these efforts bear fruit before my 5 year old and 2 year old grow up. I want an SF where they don’t have to be ML engineers to live in the same city as their parents when they grow up

Didn’t async/await originate in c#?

I built a fairly successful vc funded startup with a front end lead that thought this way about frontend frameworks. For a suitably complex application what happens is that you end up organically building your own framework in order to manage the mess of application state that is the screen. Now in order to spin up, new engineers need to learn this unusual organic framework to get things done rather than just use the excellently documented React that they likely already know.

The tough thing about this approach is that the borders of each expert’s sliver of knowledge is not known to the reader, and maybe not even to the author themselves.

On top of that, individual experts still carry their own biases in their heads, and they lack any sort of editorial board to service the reader by separating knowledge from bias.

It’s easy for me to cast stones but I also have no answer. The best I’ve come to is to read broadly on topics you need to truly know and compare what you find in your sources. For less important topics just accept that you are likely off the mark and have much to learn.

Perhaps the effect of the fundamental physical constants like c, Plancks constant, and the permittivity of free space? They are macro in that their effects permeate all of existence without variation, but they give rise to the behavior of all particles

On the other hand, you could argue that they’re not “real” and therefore not macro

I wonder if they track the stat normalized by car-mile? That would at least account for them scenario you bring up