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New comment by waveBidder in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

waveBidder — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:39:06 +0000

it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport

New comment by waveBidder in "Lotka–Volterra Equations"

waveBidder — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:34:32 +0000

on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.

New comment by waveBidder in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

waveBidder — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:33:45 +0000

aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.

New comment by waveBidder in "Skynet won and destroyed humanity"

waveBidder — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:57:31 +0000

Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.

New comment by waveBidder in "Skynet won and destroyed humanity"

waveBidder — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:49:45 +0000

reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...

New comment by waveBidder in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

waveBidder — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:22:47 +0000

One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their page and then have a discount for that product on your own page.

New comment by waveBidder in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

waveBidder — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:21:34 +0000

Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.

New comment by waveBidder in "Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)"

waveBidder — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:59:39 +0000

if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

There's also Bit's About Money describing this effect in banks https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

New comment by waveBidder in "Removing Jeff Bezos from my bed"

waveBidder — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:37:57 +0000

> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.

As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps showing up at hacker conferences looking for red teams.

Definitely agree with your worries generally though.

New comment by waveBidder in "Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal"

waveBidder — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:11:22 +0000

Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition

New comment by waveBidder in "Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal"

waveBidder — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:58:02 +0000

I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.

New comment by waveBidder in "America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?"

waveBidder — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:04:03 +0000

Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city.

Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 1945.

New comment by waveBidder in "America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?"

waveBidder — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:06:22 +0000

Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.

New comment by waveBidder in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

waveBidder — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:11:55 +0000

USAid has been abolished

New comment by waveBidder in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

waveBidder — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:19:20 +0000

the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments

New comment by waveBidder in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

waveBidder — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:31:42 +0000

like, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.

New comment by waveBidder in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

waveBidder — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:11:07 +0000

the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism

New comment by waveBidder in "Nvidia Shares Resume Fall"

waveBidder — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:40:03 +0000

I can't help but wonder what fraction of this is import tariffs on Taiwan. Also the initial drop, can't help but wonder if someone leaked that info to some private traders.

New comment by waveBidder in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

waveBidder — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:19:51 +0000

> Although to be honest all this aggressive scraping is noticeable but for people who understand that which is not majority of people.

When you say noticeable, do you mean in like, traffic statistics? Or in what the model knows that it clearly shouldn't if it wasn't trained in legally dubious ways?

New comment by waveBidder in "Freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by federal judge"

waveBidder — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:53:01 +0000

I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring of congressional elections and seniority systems though, which is... well going to be hard.