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I think there is a lot of time to flesh this idea out, California apparently has more people moving out than moving in at the moment.

According to: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

22 % Social Security

14 % Net Interest

14 % Medicare

13 % Health

13 % National Defense

10 % Income Security

5 % Veterans Benefits and Services

2 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services

2 % Transportation

1 % Natural Resources and Environment

3 % Other

Looks like it

https://www.medicaidplanningassistance.org/federal-poverty-g...

Does it matter?

> There is a learning curve, and some people are better at using it than others. Some people know how to use it really well.

It's just google-fu 2.0. It isn't hard at all. There isn't really a trick to it. I daresay learning google-fu was harder.

case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934982

> It's not that people don't know how to build a native application, it's rather a native application that runs across Windows, Mac and Linux is still really hard. Trying to add in a web version of the same application is impossible.

Qt is pretty good at this actually. I don’t have a Mac, but building the same codebase for windows, linux, and a wasm target was pretty neat the first time I did it.

> The article makes clear that the initiative, though announced by USAID with other partners, was funded primarily by philanthropy.

So, it doesn’t seem like it matters much if USAID was dismantled then.

> But if USAID had been providing important governance, administration or coordination, withdrawing its involvement could still destabilize an effort that otherwise could have been impactful.

But, if. “Maybe we can make a lot of assumptions about a lot of things and pretend they’re true, and make an argument about it.” Isn’t the play. Not a real point, or something to even debate.

> “Blame" is a loaded word. But is it really so strange to you to think that the richest and most powerful country might have some role to play in international problems that arise from comparative poverty? And that the country with the largest military in the world also should be held to a high standard in how it uses that tremendous force.

You completely lost the plot here. You can’t have it both ways. Sure would be pretty neat if _any other country in the WORLD_ stepped up and did… something. Anything. Your argument really died here.

As long as we all realize you can’t 3D print precision-guided missiles without, well, the guidance bit.

I think the short answer is because manufacturers don’t care.

Wholeheartedly agree. I’ll leave this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422763

“ I do a lot of work on my own vehicles. I think a lot of the responses are from people who do not. Paying for vehicle repair labor is basically a tax. They're making it harder and harder to fix your own car. I spent the afternoon yesterday trying to find headlight assemblies that didn't need to be coded to work correctly. Headlights. All the outrage about right-to-repair around here, and nobody realizes the frog is almost boiled around repairing cars.”

I’d flip the question. Show me something truly random.

Because sometimes you just need somewhere to be.

This is, in a word, nonsense.

In the history of mankind, true randomness has never existed.

Jane Street called the bluff of that market. Occams razor.

As long as you realize you’re barking up a debate as old as time, I respect your opinion.

Having gone through therapy for 10 years, nah. Having someone tell you what you already know isn’t helpful, unless you have a need to feel heard. Most people just know the bottom line.

I still go to therapy. It isn’t helpful.

“ Determinism, in philosophy, is the idea that all events are causally determined by preceding events, leaving no room for genuine chance or free will. It suggests that given the state of the universe at any one time, and the laws of nature, only one outcome is possible.”

Clearly computers are deterministic. Are people?

That’s my whole point. Brady went on to win a ring in Tampa. Bill did… what?

I don’t give belicheck the credit for teaching Brady, you can’t teach that. It’s not stupid at all if you’re a fan of the sport.

I’m way too humble and jaded to give advice to strangers on the internet, yes.

I offered an anecdote.

It’s never been about gender, it’s only ever about money. You’ll blow your mind when you pull back a layer and realize this.

Or keep holding time against old men, up to you. ;)

To add to this, sometimes people would approach Van and ask about the brown M&Ms thing as soon as they received the contract. He would respond that the color wasn’t important, and he was glad they read the contract.

No, not sure where you got that from.

Remembering how to balance a binary tree is a complete waste of brainpower. We have lots of papers, books, and reference material that can show us this.

The arcane rituals of jumping though leetcode hoops reminds me of pledging a fraternity.

> Think of all the studying that is required before applying to tech jobs these days.

Surely you realize this is the problem. I just landed a mid 6-figures job _without_ grinding leetcode. They’re out there. This game everyone plays is an abomination.

It had already failed. You had run-flats on the car. They’re still visually apparent.

As an aside, beleichick was a lacrosse player as a hobby/sport/passion, not an American football player. I’m very torn at the moment if he was an incredible coach or just rode the wave or Brady talent.

I pay a lot of attention to football as a hobby (and a gambling outlet) so these next two seasons at UNC for ‘ol Bill will be really telling.

I will always be in awe of the folks that figured out all of Elden ring without a guide. Some of those quests were just bananas.

I was today years old when I read that version control has changed because of LLMs.

I’m just gonna keep typing ‘hg commit’ and plow ahead.