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I suspect we aren't too far from the FAA wanting to certify every battery bank. I don't blame them either.

Not only is it heard of, it exists, and is also the first line of the Wikipedia article for "flying car".

> A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car

Often times the ground capability is limited but it means your landing strip doesn't need to be next to your hanger - you can drive it down the road a few miles (usually after folding the wings in).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-V_Liberty

These problems are not economic. They are a function of an extremely broken process. The lack of money for people doing work on the ground through this model is part of why it is dying and high quality writing is going other places.

You are not eligible for a greencard (and by extension, immigration hearing) if you have entered illegally.

The feds (ICE) do really like getting deportees at courthouses, especially criminal trials, because they are already handcuffed when going into or leaving the courtroom so they can just literally give the court officers the paperwork and take the deportee.

If these people are such valuable contributors, why do you insist on deprieving their home country of them?

"Good job claude, go ahead and fire up some poker with your friends for a few hours. You've earned some downtime."

I am now going to make a multi-agent poker MCP as a joke. Thank you.

What an odd feeling to be rooting for 4chan...

Well edited

It's because they crossed a border illegally. At which point when discovered they are entitled to exactly one habeus hearing which basically asks "Well did you actually enter illegally?" and if you did, you are returned to your country of origin (or if they won't accept you, the nearest neighbor that will).

If your country of origin wants to hold you in prison forever.. well that's not a problem the US can solve.

At no point is it because of your skin color, country of origin or your speech. It is because you chose to immigrate illegally.

That nobody else caught you or prosecuted you for 20 or 30 years is a problem, but not a defense. If you murdered someone 30 years ago, you are still guilty of murder.

And reminder, lying on immigration paperwork is also a form of illegal immigration that gets you returned home.

And YCombinator... is funded by a bunch of venture capitalists. Wealth funds.. are made up of wealthy investors. LLCs and Partnerships are just company structures and typically exist.. to invest the wealth of the proprietors when formed as an investment vehicle.

Government backed funds.. generally don't invest in businesses. There are exceptions - strategic investments for wartime materials and such.

Banks are also.. backed and run by wealthy individuals. This is less "big fish" focused because the bank itself is the owner of the assets and pays a salary to it's executives, but traditionally the person who ran and backed the bank WAS the local wealthy person.

When we look at governments where there aren't really private investors (ie the wealthy) those governments just can't fund things quickly or effectively.

Capitalism is an engine. Liquidity is momentum. Having liquidity leads to more liquidity and wealth, liquidity allows you to get other operations running.

There is no magical government bucket of money. No magical government investors.

Is your laminate rated to be in constant soil contact for however many years you need to hold onto a backup code for?

Soil is acidic, and soda bottles are meant to keep their seal for a two years, not a decade.

Like what? What other funding methods exist? Do they work? What are their downsides?

Only about 20% of people deported have been rounded up by ICE, etc - the rest have chosen self deportation.

If I had to mind read the admin, I would imagine they intend ICE to go after the hardened criminals who, making a profit or being wanted, won't self deport under any circumstance.

Meanwhile most people who have just migrated illegally will generally self deport or do a really good job of blending in.

Obviously ICE is still going to sweep up anyone and everyone they can. The fed exists, and has always existed, to be a boot not a scalpel.

In theory local law enforcement is supposed to be the more targeted localized tool but because immigration enforcement has become partisan, they are either restricted from doing anything migration related or are going overboard to suck up to the fed.

Systems out of alignment grow more severe.

How do you think the money to produce things (buy machinery, front costs, etc) comes about?

Please don't depend on this. Paper does not like moisture and soil is full of it.

Use an escrow or custodian (lawyer, bank, etc).

Taking an entity private is expensive and typically only done if you intend to change the direction the entity is heading in a way that shareholders won't accept.

Accelerating EAs enshittification seems like it wouldn't require taking them private.

Rather it seems like the investors intend for a change in direction. What that is remains to be seen, but I read this as hopeful, not harmful.

Ah yes, The Daily Express, well known and very solid source.

Here's CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/middleeast/israeli-strike-leb...

Also from The Daily Express:

Cinnamon cures Alzheimers: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/common-kitchen-spice-...

What time is Rapture today: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-time-is-rapture-...

and no less than eight stories about the Presley family: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/priscilla-presley-rev...

If you believe the AI slop news shop over government agencies, please make sure your psychiatrist is aware so they can dose your meds as appropriate.

What is PocketCasts maintaining?

1. A few kb of playlists and accounts 2. Probably a search service 3. Likely artwork caching

It's not free to run this.. but it's not exactly expensive either.

Many users pay and don't use the app very much. I am sure there are some super users who use a lot.

And most apps continue to sell, make enough income to fund a few devs and keep the services on. Even with a one time payment.

It's not like pocketcasts is paying the podcasters or producing content.

The problem is seeing every single dumb thing as some kind of mega-growth M&A deal when it's not. No, your podcast app won't make you hundreds of millions, sorry.

How is this better for creators than ads?

I was in jury selection for a case several years ago. Defense attorney is asking members of the jury if they would actually consider a minimum sentence, which for the case at hand of child sexual assault is a minimum sentence of six months.

A respondee, a man, maybe in his 40s, cowboy hat, used jeans, you know, clearly like fairly legit farm worker, rancher, something along those lines, stands up after he's called and goes "No, sir, I believe that child abusers should be hung from the neck until dead." Sits down.

If you are going to commit crime, Texas is the wrong place to do it.

Literally every single person brought to trial at this man's case claimed he was an abuser. Everybody. The wife, the kids, his own siblings. Multiple people testified that he had abused the little girl physically. Like, okay, maybe we don't think the mother's testimony is super reliable, but if literally every single person in your life calls you an abuser and says they've seen you abuse the kid, you're probably an abuser.

You only have to create the element of doubt for this man to not be charged. There is no doubt here.

The girls brain swelled until she died.

We really aren't debating the finer points of shaken baby syndrome. The girl was a toddler.

Two year olds don't die from falling out of bed. Not with detached retinas, scrapes on their shoulders and so on.

The admin doesn't have to charge him, they can just revoke his visa and deport him.

He passed out written Hezbollah materials. Like with their name, flag and logo on it.

He shouldn't go to jail, but he is no longer welcome in this country.

The guy:

+ Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife

+ Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again

+ Got charged again for beating a kid

+ Showed up at a hospital with a dead kid claiming she fell to death from a bed

The kid who died had detached retinas, bruises and scrapes all over her shoulders and heads, and died of a hit to the head so severe her brain swelled.

The defense and Innonce Projects claim is that this could have been caused by.. the hospital giving aid.

And every court has ruled that this defense is entirely unreasonable and unlikely.

The girl was TWO YEARS old. She was beaten black and blue. She had a history of being beaten black and blue by a man who had a history of beating people.

Sorry, he is no longer fit to live in civilized society. His fellow citizens request he be removed before he can beat yet another person.

Khalil also gave material support to terrorists which is explicitly called out as a no-no on your residency paperwork.

I did an experiment where I really invested in my YouTube suggestions, and you can definitely groom your recommendations, and then they can be pretty good. But then you have an issue where you get into a new hobby or a new interest, and so you watch some videos attributed to that, your recommendations spiral back out of control. So you can do a whole bunch of grooming work, but probably they just go back to being like 80% wrong. I got vaguely interested in the piano, and now 80% of my recommendations are music related, but not actually things I care about, and they've just gone back to being total trash.

And I want my irs client to be around and keep my history. If it is a tool I use every day then it lives in my git repo.

Poor mans abstraction. Docker swarm makes a cheap node pool from random hardware. Compose makes all your apps and config live in git.

You don't _need_ docker, but if you are already set up for it then it's a boon. Adding an app for me to be very available across a fleet of hardware with ceph backed storage is a one-liner.

Am I depersonalizing by sharing my problems with my stuffed animal or my journal?

ELIZA has existed in emacs for a long, long time.

Humans are funny creatures who benefit frequently from explaining the problem slowly and having it fed back to them.

And for many, average advice really is a dramatic improvement over their baseline.

They could have just literally read the emails the account had sent.Or looked at who the recipients were.

Or even have checked how busy the account was.

Or check their received legal mail.