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Yeah, it's politics. He assumes it will get appealed to the supreme court who will take his side.

I personally don't like the Texas v Johnson decision. Burning flags is un-American and should be illegal. How is that dictatorial?

The executive branch has that right. It's happened many many times in the past. I recommend reading a history book and not MSM or social media

> democracies tolerate a much wider spectrum of political opinions in public discourse

> UK

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American museums should not be telling stories to our people that we should be ashamed of ourselves. It's become too much, the pendulum is swinging back. Sorry

Could you describe with specific examples what qualifies the USA today as a "dictatorship"?

For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being, I find it a bit hard to believe just how much the media has shaped the story here. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical... it's not that I like Musk but the media doesn't like him and that's no secret. I find it to be quite the opposite of what you're saying, that their press team has done a good job of shaping the story positively for Meta.

The puff piece in the WSJ combined with the all the positive press over the success of Threads, with now a quite rosy view of how it has played out since. I'm personally not a believer that they internally think Threads is a success, but to each their own. I constantly hear from my engineering co-workers about how much Twitter has changed and how the sky is falling, but the user numbers don't back that up and my user experience seems to be much the same.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/zuckerberg-channeled-og-mark-to...

Find an article that says that great works of the English language were produced while the authors were drunk then?

The OP was talking about "William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck"... "what about Hunter S. Thompson?" isn't really a good argument. He's not considered a great writer in the grand scheme of things, I think he's better known for being a drug addict.

From what I have read, they all wrote when they were sober, not when they were drunk.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrydevries/2018/12/11/ernest-...

I also agree that this attitude is much more common in Europe than the US. Founders and CTOs constantly blowing their feet off because they can't seem to give technical people any power, and it doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. I think you would need a big FAANG-like talent feeder to convince them otherwise

Don't do it without a parachute of course, but as long as you have a monetary cushion, what do you have to lose? Move to a country with good healthcare, don't own a car, what hardship could possibly happen otherwise? Outside of extreme tail risk situations that could happen to anyone at anytime, I don't buy it.

> Really stupid. My advice is don't listen to this advice. If you are getting itchy feet go on a fucking holiday for a few weeks.

You could also call this quite myopic. How do you know what is out there without trying it yourself? Sitting in your little world and poo poo'ing those who are willing to take a chance. Because yes, from their vantage point, OP is right.

There really is a world out there that few can find but it's worth looking for if you have good reasons to take a chance and put down new roots. Most don't make it because accepting any culture outside of the one of your birth is a very difficult task, and you will never have any true change until you accept a new culture: their customs, their values, their belief systems.

Because really there is quite a lot of variation in those things, and in all the travels I have had, I have only met a few who truly made it. And there is of course a loneliness that comes along with the change, at least for a while. That doesn't mean it isn't worth trying, and if you bit off more than you can chew, just go back home. You obviously need resources to do that, but it's not really as scary as you make it out to be.

But also to the contrary this is the exact line of thinking that causes the large majority of people to sleep walk through life, as the author says. It is a hard truth of life that the large majority of people (80+% I would say) do not take any real risks in their entire long life.

You can obviously over-do it, and yes it probably feels good to follow the herd and stay in the "okay" relationship and the "okay" job with the same old things because you feel like that's what everyone does. But... there is much more outside that world. The walls you think are there are in fact not there at all. There is room for risk within reason in life.

> To make this more clear, if you process 1000 tokens the neural network will have gone through a sequence of 1000 states.

That isn't how transformer architectures work

Citation?

Somebody else has a shiny new toy and he's jealous

> If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working.

I mean, not really right? That's the whole thing with the totem pole systems we create. You are only rewarded for over-achieving so much. Anything above that causes problems, because we are jealous creatures. There are daggers in mens' smiles.

I have other interests in life and don't care that much about work, which is why I understand how it works in the first place. If I didn't like philosophy and speak four languages and lived around the world, then I wouldn't know that. Most engineers don't.

If my company were willing to make me a principal and comp me with a big chunk of equity, then hell yeah. But almost no one is, and until I have kids, I don't want to start my own company or put too much effort into office politics. C'est la vie, c'est la mort.

I am 100% one of these people. Unless something really unexpected comes up, then I choose whether I'm working that morning (which is less than 50%) and will usually finish the work after a few hours, then commit it either at EOD or next morning. I am still considered an over-achiever by a vast margin.

> Or a magic 'greed' button that they refused to hit before now.

There's some empirical evidence from Australia that this is exactly what they did. Also an island nation that heavily imports food

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic...

The big issue in northern Europe is private debt, not government debt. Totally reasonable to not know

When did I ever say that you should do that? We know that the government will backstop BofA. They aren't going to backstop SVB. FDIC is only intended for regular people as you imply.

Funny you mention BofA. They have $116 billion in unrealized losses. What all these banks are doing is very typical. If you've ever worked in the industry, you would know that.

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1634025141540732934

http://www.brooock.com/a/svb-collapse-exposes-cracks-in-econ...

If you are risk averse have your money at a big global systemic bank with a big customer base and therefore deposit base, not a bank focused on holding money for high-risk ventures.

A swap has two sides. Someone still holds the bag, so what you're saying here doesn't make sense. What SVB was doing is typical; regular banks don't hedge anything. You can see everything in a Bloomberg terminal

There's a $40 billion hole in their balance sheet...

Re-renders are incredibly cheap in the big picture. They are not a source of performance bottlenecks in 99% of real world applications

I'm not sure you really understand the technical complexity that goes into Apple's most basic products. The top to bottom in-house software stack is one thing, but that's the tip of the iceberg. Their manufacturing is best-in-class. They can make better products than you can, at price points that you can only dream of. You could pour tens of billions into a competitor and not even come close. They are so politically powerful that Tim Cook telling Terry Gou that they're moving their latest production out of China pushed the country out of zero covid overnight.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/letter-from-top-apple-supplier-...

Great advice

> All antidepressants were more efficacious than placebo in adults with major depressive disorder

1 in 4 American adult women take anti-depressant drugs. Do they all have major depressive disorder?

> Clinical depression and mood issues need to be treated with medication.

How to know someone is American before they even mention "other English speaking countries"