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Perl?

Massachusetts is unusually good though, probably because of the high concentration of elite universities in Boston, which is also the capital of the state, which means politicians there take education most seriously - and don't forget the demographic effect of the number of professors and other highly-educated professionals.

Texas, California, and Florida are all fairly similar, with California doing somewhat worse than Texas and Florida. Unfortunately, the dedication of California to effective education is going down over time, while even the Deep South, which has consistently been at the bottom, is going up.

You kind of do need to vote Red - or, more precisely, make Red competitive again. Because Californians don't vote Red often enough, most of the candidates in the Republican Party in California are completely unserious. This has allowed the more impractical progressive side of the Democratic Party to increasing set the direction of the Democratic Party in California, to the detriment of governance for everyone.

Personally I hope that the two Republican candidates in California both win the jungle primary - maybe that will lead to some soul searching on how bad the Democratic politicians have become in the state.

You have a modem that you can attach to those switches? They’re completely unauthenticated?

> You get a little bottle of rinsing agent with your dishwasher, and you never put it in again.

Speak for yourself. I use rinsing agent regularly, and need to refill it every few weeks.

I have a new microwave and can definitely hear the magnetron cycling, but it's a fairly subtle difference in sound.

What is the value in 1930 though? Only 6 years could in fact mean over 100% increase in life expectancy at age 65. There's a reason full Social Security now starts at 67 rather than 65, and you are incentivized to take Social Security at age 70 if possible.

One reason is that Valley Fair is the closest there is in the Bay Area to a good East Asian mall. For example, their recent expansion brought in a good variety of restaurants, particularly Asian restaurants, that attract the wealthier Asian residents of Silicon Valley (plus Whites, who in the Bay Area are pretty Asian in habits). These bring in a crowd of regular visitors that will stick around to occasionally shop at the expensive stores, even if they don't love conspicuous consumption enough to buy there all the time. Also a decent number of more youth-focused stores that draw in all demographics - after all, everyone in the younger generations loves anime and K-pop.

What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects? Say what you want about wanting to avoid politically disagreeable people, but Bluesky has been shrinking gradually since the 2024 election, as people interested in political effectiveness or even avoiding a hugbox have drifted away. Or think about how new projects are generally not started as GPL anymore (except if they want to charge money by making their open source version AGPL), due to similar viral dynamics discouraging potential contributors.

South Dakota would probably pursue this a little more if they were close to the threshold of getting another US Representative, but I can't imagine they have over 100,000 nomads that aren't being counted as South Dakota residents, which is the order of magnitude that would be needed to even be in the ballpark to get another seat.

As a percentage of GDP investments in the railroad buildout in the US was comparable or slightly higher than AI-related investments. But they are on the same order of magnitude, which says a lot about the scale of AI.

> AI infrastructure has risen by $400 billion since 2022. A notable chunk of this spending has been focused on information processing equipment, which spiked at a 39% annualized rate in the first half of 2025. Harvard economist Jason Furman commented that investment in information processing equipment & software is equivalent to only 4% of US GDP, but was responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of 2025. If you exclude these categories, the US economy grew at only a 0.1% annual rate in the first half.

https://www.cadtm.org/The-AI-bubble-and-the-US-economy?utm_s...

> public funding is what, historically, generates the big breakthroughs

Without an opinion on the rest of this, public funding in the US doesn't produce big breakthroughs from scientists employed by the government, but rather by funding university research.

It appears that, after the administration canceling a significant proportion of grants in 2025, that science funding has largely been maintained or increased from pre-2025 levels for 2026, although how the 2026 funding gets spent, and whether it is all spent, is an open question.

Why would it be detrimental to society? Many companies have developed all the products they're likely to ever develop, so why would you maintain the same level of operational costs as when you expected growth? There's no guarantee that the prices charged before the acquisition were sustainable either.

"The 2025 US tariffs are an own goal"

Without an opinion on the actual claim here (although I'm skeptical of a claim of 96%, given the relatively moderate inflation in the US in 2025), I think this quote by itself (first bullet point of the abstract) should disqualify this as a serious analysis - no academic paper uses this language, only biased think tanks, and the fact that it's a German think tank doesn't change that.

Controlled flight into terrain is a thing

When I hear people like you, I pray that natural selection will remove people like you from the population faster than mutations create them.

Broken - getting `ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR` when trying to open it in Chrome

And, to the point of this proposal, `dict` and `frozendict` don't have an inheritance relationship either.

You can hope that an LLM might have some instructions related to DevEx in its prompt at least. There's no way to completely fix stupid, anymore than you can convince a naive vibecoder that just vibing a new Linux-compatible kernel written entirely in Zig is a feasible project.

I appreciated them at the time I encountered them (mid-2000s), but they were definitely a bit cringe in their frequency and shamelessness. I wonder if younger people even know Monty Python anymore - by my time, I think people had mostly forgotten about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, even if 42 survived.

Nope

He's talking his book. Doesn't mean he's wrong, but Dwarkesh is now big enough that you should assume every big name there is talking their book.

That's true, but the context is Xi being against Western "Welfarism". I presume (although I don't know for sure) that they're not against some support for the truly disabled, but that doesn't cover able-bodied people being on welfare for long periods, even if the employment market is unfavorable. The major exception is that Chinese people have traditionally been able to retire relatively young (in their 50s or even 40s sometimes) and receive support, particularly if they work for state-owned enterprises.

And this is not something he came up with. This is a restatement of Stalin's philosophy, taken directly from the New Testament (remember that Stalin was training to be a priest in his youth): "He who does not work, neither shall he eat".

Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038194

Looks like he did follow up, and the title is actually descriptive: "Visual integration across fixation: automatic processes are split but conscious processes remain unified in the split-brain"

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...

How feasible is it in practice? In the US, it's possible in practice to remove officials via impeachment as well as amend the constitution, but in practice they are almost impossible to achieve. In practice the legislature is almost deadlocked for most non-budget bills as well, so the executive ends up running the country, with an assist from the judiciary.

Well, these ones are RFID chips, so they don't need to be connected at all - they are read wirelessly.

Only as a brief aside (don't have the timestamp right now) to talking about Smalltalk, which he mostly discusses to argue that Smalltalk was not different from C++ in seeking (most of the time) to model programs in terms of static hierarchies (according to the primary source documentation from the time of Smalltalk's design):

> And another thing is if you look at the other branch,

> the branch that I'm not really covering very much

> in this talk, because again,

> we don't program in small talk these days, right?

> The closest thing you would get

> is maybe something like Objective-C.

> If there's some people out there using Objective-C,

> you know, like Apple was using that for a little while,

> so Objective-C kind of came

> from a small talk background as well.

Objective-C is basically Smalltalk retrofitted onto C, even more than C++ was Simula retrofitted onto C (before C++ gained template metaprogramming and more modern paradigms), so it makes sense that Muratori doesn't go much into it, given that he doesn't discuss Smalltalk much.