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New comment by Tyrek in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

Tyrek — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:45:48 +0000

Sure the "principled high road" has meaning. Coming out of the 90's, the US had a dominant position in international institutions and a 'vibe' that it was willing to subordinate its interests in favor of the global community. The post GWOT shift to a 'selfish' position, clearly illustrated here by your argument, reflects the absolute cratering of international public opinion, and frankly the collective loss of trust in a less selfish America.

New comment by Tyrek in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

Tyrek — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:40:04 +0000

Why take the chance that the food you buy from the grocer may be contaminated? I have respect for human creativity, and the limits of farmers. It's not easy to keep constant vigilance against all sources of contamination. Easier to restrict food to only what you produce yourself.

Glibness aside, there's clearly a continuum to the concept of 'we live in a society', and to how far the monkey brain's tribe extends. But the argument against routers is clearly arising from a biased set of priors, whether fairly or unfairly.

New comment by Tyrek in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

Tyrek — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:38:10 +0000

That's a farcically absurd statement given the context. Following this logic, Japan and the US being adversaries is the only justification you need for Japanese internment camps.

New comment by Tyrek in "Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York"

Tyrek — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:11:55 +0000

"Against the public interest" is the vaguest bar for investigation I can imagine, it's even vaguer than "probable cause" in policing! As long as you can find a person who disagrees (and presumably pays taxes), you're good to go on "against the public interest"?

New comment by Tyrek in "How the Atlantic Went from Broke to Profitable in Three Years"

Tyrek — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:04:49 +0000

won't someone think of the multimillionaires who were outbid when trying to buy mass media?

New comment by Tyrek in "Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)"

Tyrek — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:22:52 +0000

Trailing 12 Mths Inflation: 3.2% (Headline) 3.8% (Core). In both cases, it's at least 50% above target. While a smaller gap than in recent years, it's still fairly sizable, all things considered.

New comment by Tyrek in "The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February"

Tyrek — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:58:47 +0000

And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion? Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?

New comment by Tyrek in "Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower"

Tyrek — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:37:53 +0000

It's insane to me that most of the heat is being directed at Fujitsu. Sure, there's definitely some culpability there, but the Post Office (especially their legal team) holds the vast majority of the responsibility. There's a lot weighing in on the multi-year investigation that (has been) ongoing, but I can't help but feel like they're waiting for the public furor to cool down before releasing anything.

New comment by Tyrek in "Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024"

Tyrek — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:40:26 +0000

It's year-end close for most companies, so accounting is, uh, not having the best time for projects.

New comment by Tyrek in "Paul Graham's Twitter account targeted by IDF"

Tyrek — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:20:35 +0000

Free speech may not be the relevant criticism here, but there's... somewhat of a discomfort of a government (if admittedly foreign) agency calling out specific individuals. I know we're in the era of terminally online politicians, but this crosses some sort of professionalism boundary?

EDIT: Which is to say, it's not illegal or anything, but I'm sending a frowning emoji.

New comment by Tyrek in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Tyrek — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:00:28 +0000

Real wages are also barely up (0.8% [1]), when comparing Q4'19 vs Q3'23, which is a poor showing for 4 years.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q - 3/362

New comment by Tyrek in "I moved states just before the return-to-office order at Amazon, so I quit"

Tyrek — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:13:08 +0000

it's a pithy, feel-good explanation that lets the anti-RTO camp feel superior without having to delve into complex topics such as talent development, informal learning, meeting effectiveness, etc. that do not trivially lend themselves to the RTO argument in quite the same way.

New comment by Tyrek in "Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value"

Tyrek — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:59:25 +0000

Foundations that are probably better run than local government.

New comment by Tyrek in "Uber posts first quarterly net profit"

Tyrek — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:54:04 +0000

The so-called 'hidden caste system' that has tipped employees at the top of the F&B food chain, earning significantly more than back-of-house staff like bussers and chefs?

New comment by Tyrek in "Uber posts first quarterly net profit"

Tyrek — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:49:48 +0000

This incredible scope creep in the customer's responsibilities (not just price, but I somehow have to adjust for a vague sense of the employer-employee relationship, for ethical/ESG considerations, etc. etc.) is just... overwhelming. I shouldn't be responsible for your employment relationship, that is between you, your employer, and the relevant regulatory authority.

New comment by Tyrek in "Epilogue of my time working at Twitter"

Tyrek — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:04:22 +0000

1. The paradox of tolerance is itself a paradox. None of the modern "solutions" embraced by partisans (most notably, the complete abandonment of tolerance) are anywhere close to a real solution.

2. On one hand, you accuse the GP of cargo cult intellectualism, on the other hand, you "did not" psychologically diagnose the OP.

New comment by Tyrek in "Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer"

Tyrek — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:23:24 +0000

Your understanding is wrong, which leads to a flawed analogy.

> The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still on the line for those claims.

New comment by Tyrek in "Attention Caplanites: School Is Less Wasteful Than You Think"

Tyrek — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:36:05 +0000

Given that we know that there can be multiple types of intelligence and that college only tests a small fraction of those types - are you comfortable with this binary framing? That the only way to go is up (in years of education)? There's no alternate model, different framing, etc. to educating a populace outside of these two choices?

Please - let's approach this question with an open mind - there are plenty of alternative approaches worth considering just from other parts of the globe.

New comment by Tyrek in "Attention Caplanites: School Is Less Wasteful Than You Think"

Tyrek — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:38:27 +0000

but the source lender is the US government, which is awful at adjusting to market economics, and would likely require legislation to slow(?) down lending. How would you convince these populists to support this (not very sneaky) legislation?

New comment by Tyrek in "Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost"

Tyrek — Fri, 26 May 2023 05:36:46 +0000

if only local government and voters had agency to oppose such influences.