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Yeah sometimes the ubiquity of access and familiarity for HOAs and smaller community orgs make that gravity too strong.

Mostly I was thinking about tech folks and AI news that seems to go out on Twitter most of the time.

Correct. The people that don’t like the EPA appointed their friends who also don’t like the EPA to run the EPA.

This is the playbook generally - PE vulturism, but for government agencies. And to their credit it kinda works. Just… not for citizens of the country they have sworn to protect.

Currently in progress at GSA, OPM, CFPB (for a decade+), Interior, EPA, labor, education… Nevermind I should’ve started with an exclusion list instead.

Do the octogenarians in power not remember when they couldn’t breathe because of the lead in the gas in the 60s and the lack of emissions controls on everything? Do they yearn for the mines and coal dust of early industrial England?

Everybody loves clean air and water but apparently forget why they have it in the first place.

This is good, generally, for government overstepping especially in the case of targeted domestic restrictions (and what amounts to anti-competitive blackmail in my opinion)

BUT! The judge’s opinion that “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," is actually false. In the current administration it’s absolutely a blank check to punish and retaliate and I’m not sure under which authority a federal judge would stop them at this point.

Current Supreme Court had made it clear they don’t have many controls here…

Furthermore, Anthropic isn’t likely to recover any funds after this. So what if it happens to your small hardware startup? It’s a terrible precedent for Hegseth to set, and will lead to future harm. But he’s not the brightest bulb. Keep on talking up “Lethality” buddy… :/

Sure you can. Gun makers do it all the time!

You’ve found the smoking foot gun! And that’s exactly the right question.

Why not foster a dog instead?

I have enough things to take care of in my life through training and reinforcement learning, but if you don’t - this might be for you! :)

It’s all fine until the entire community you’re trying to participate in decides Twitter is the place to post things.

ahem

Would be great if we maybe chose someplace else to do this as a community… but I guess the eyeballs are there and that’s what is valuable to the folks posting.

There’s just no preparing for that kind of power being unleashed. Holy hell. :/

I would imagine any settlement dollars would be enough of a carrot to get a lawyer involved. Has anyone actually sued over this yet?

“Temporary emergency” should always be considered skeptically - especially when it comes to government. They almost always stay permanent.

Black Mirror adaptation when?

Yes.

Predictability is extremely important for markets and planning and general welfare. He doesn’t have to randomly declare things on a Thursday that haven’t changed for decades and create anxiety among (you name it community or industry) just to stay in the headlines.

Donald Trump has destroyed predictability, as well as any semblance of functioning, predictable government. Trump is an extremely influential and powerful unilateral executive - in all the wrong ways.

Evidence you say? I guess tariff policy and a completely arbitrary war with Iran that roiled markets, just to name a couple from this year.

Great place to put a star base for all the reasons listed, but, uh… does anyone buy for a second that Elon Musk gives a fig about the Louisiana coastline or the migratory birds?

Don’t think those folks are union…

I dunno is creating chaos that requires many expensive rewrites damaging to the industry?

I kid of course - their recommendations on management of technical teams are fly-in, fly-out out of context garbage in my experience. Usually results in poor but justified decisions from senior leaders that happen in cycles of 3-5 years.

You will be able to easily rewrite with better technical decisions with the assistance of LLMs in that case.

Also the Y2K folks made bank IIRC.

Looks like a great setup!

$20K still seems like a lot to get some mosquito bites walking through the yard to work. Lack of plumbing, coffee, etc (some of those are fixable of course) is a bit of a turnoff but perhaps the walk is part of the charm.

I find that with kids mostly in school and knowing the rules the exterior space isn’t a requirement, but I don’t have a ton of meetings these days so YMMV. Mostly this is cope because I don’t have 20K to drop on a cool office! :)

Nice work and thanks for the post!

Yes and no. The Iran war is deeply unpopular and won’t even pass congressional approval for money. It’s being fought from pocket change budgets because they know they can’t pass a funding bill for it. Also not the same kind of war.

Any period time? US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan. Pretty effectively! To what end? Not an end an army can really achieve so… there you are.

But a war that might actually be popular? To save the world from communist dictators and make sure we have chips for our precious devices? I wouldn’t count out the United States. Or nuclear weapons, which still exist and are a thing.

Jaaaaa Goed gedaan oer!

Thank you! That's very kind. It's definitely not an easy equation to solve and is a constant moving target :)

Screaming hot take: sometimes folks use giving up on their dreams or ambitions as an excuse. (_sometimes_)

But also it's just a different deal for mothers than fathers. Physically, mentally, it's just not comparable.

Do you mean in the case of divorce? Or in the case that a husband decides to not be a collaborating partner in raising a child? Obviously to be totally secure you need to make sure you have some money, but ideally it's a collaboration and not a competition even if the law doesn't provide an entitlement.

No, unfortunately. It's similar, but different in my opinion / view.

If you want to dedicate your life to raising and creating a new human being from the ground up, and being able to see your work in action as they grow to become an actual human person - impressing you, disappointing you, going their own way, surprising you, then parenting might be for you.

It's expensive, and labor intensive, and full of decisions that are damnably hard because there's no "right" answer. It's a cult. It's a genetic imperative. It's also amazing.

You will not necessarily experience a tangible personal benefit - it's not an investment with a return. It's a "pour your love into this thing and get love back" kinda deal.

The article is not talking about having "a great career" (which you can have while also having good balance and focusing on things).

To me, the article is more a lament. There is only so much time in this life, and if you're organized (I read that to mean intentional in your execution and not wasting time) then you apply that time to your highest priority.

Work / building things / personal hobbies / your partner / your family / your kids - these all compete. It's impossible to do everything you'd LOVE to do in your building and hobbies without burning the candle on both ends a bit with the other priorities.

You can do it for short periods, but eventually it catches up and you'll either do it all bad or sacrifice something.

Time is finite. Desire / drive are not. Solve for X. I feel what the author is saying every day, but I'm OK with it because there's no question in my mind that my kids and family are going to be the best use of my time and what I'm thinking about on my death bed.

Do I still sleep too little and occasionally overwork to execute? Yes - but you have to pick your spots.

You just can't do it ALL.

(And mind you - that's for me as an extremely involved, work-from-home, caring for children MAN. This is an entirely different equation if you're a female and you don't have support structure. Nobody can have it all but I've probably got the best shot at having a TON of it - but there are still trade-offs)

Not for nothing, but you have probably already consented. Typically user agreements allow for this kind of sale if you’ve authorized use and processing but YMMV.

This article is so close!

ALL think tanks are specifically focused on moving the needle on ideas in a certain direction. It’s just easier now to do the work.

This article is published by “The Quincy Institute for Statecraft”

Think tanks are funded by people with agendas (mostly) and for at least the last 30 years we have seen a huge number of nonsense “think tanks” pushing talking points with zero rigor that end up cited by candidates, the internet, and Google to convince folks things are true.

Not saying this article is wrong - just that think tanks exist to do this so it’s a cast iron pot calling a tin kettle a “cheap imitation”

Of all the things in this thread - this is the one that grinds my gears the most. Colleagues that believe it’s ok to reply with unedited garbage when you engage with them as a human.

I don’t think we need to write code anymore unless we want to - but we DO need to be humans, and respect the time of other people.

It is offensive and reviling. But people do it anyway. People are lazy. And often don’t care about you, the reader.