It sounds like you’re unfamiliar with January 6th. Many of the people active in J6th were prosecuted. Most were pardoned by Trump. I understand the GP is saying these same people have joined ICE. I’ve seen a picture of one ICE officer(?) with an SS tattoo below their ear. That should bar employment in the law enforcement but there he is.

Every time I’ve heard Peter Thiel speak I’ve believed he cares about other things. I’m more concerned about his implementations of things.

> You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute.

Hahaha / I’ve made myself sad

The critics weren't ever the brightest lights in the sky, but this was horribly naive even for that time. It is as if you took the whole lot of human literature, took a dump on it and honestly believe you would know better.

How does one learn to think about companies buying each other. It’s counterintuitive to me for an entity with stock to buy stock in another entity which could itself own stock in the first.

The way you write it I can’t see why WB would be allowed to sell itself when it makes the most sense for Patamount to go bankrupt some time from now and be split up amongst US media; Netflix/HBO/Disney/Peacock

You're missing the key part. The Paramount deal includes billions in Saudi money funneled through the President's son in law.

What matters is if paramount can pony up enough money to buy. Stores don't reject your cash even if you are debt.

Does the Celebrite leak say out can break recent iOS?

Yes. But I think the point is a good one. With CLI there is a recognition that there must be a method of learning what the verbs are. And there are many traditions which give us expectations and defaults. That doesn’t exist in the chat format.

Every time I try to interact with one of these llm gatekeepers I just say what I want and hope it figures out to send me to a person. The rest of the time I’m trying to convince the Taco Bell to record a customer complaint about how its existence itself is dystopian.

How so? Are the Americans relatively lazy or just unwilling to put in tedious but necessary extended hours?

The entire approach is different. Especially with Taiwanese engineers, their entire focus is whatever work they are doing. Everything else (quite literally), their wives handle.

Americans typically ask for things like work life balance, non abusive working hours, etc. they also don’t (anymore) have the type of family life setup that allows them to actually focus so much - being pulled into child care duties, or taking care of family members, or whatever their next vacation should be, etc.

The general attitude is also more ‘yeah whatever’ to some extent.

The amount of singular obsessive engineering you get out of one vs the other is hard to compare.

hmmm this is interesting I was always the impression Taiwanese wives were more progressive and men had to do lot more lifting vs other regional cultures in east asia

my original thinking after reading some of the anecdotes from TSMC engineers is that they were obsessively dedicated which means extreme hours from North American culture

its also the same in places like Samsung where the company treats employers very well with perks and long career stability but its not free always requires huge sacrifice I'd imagine similar to Japanese conglomerates.

I'm not sure which is better in America its definitely transactional relationship but it also comes with stability issues relatively compared to what these East Asian giants offer but at the cost of not being able to switch if and when you find yourselves at odds.

Not sure what it was like at Nokia but also another conglomerate that ultimately folded under competition and also a country with more stringent labor/life constraints that you would find less enforced in East Asia.

Getting a bit distracted here but noting how much culture plays a role in these large companies and their management styles.

I guess the question is what you mean by ‘progressive’?

The ones I met would make Mormon trad wives look liberal, but perhaps by mainland expectations? (I doubt it though, mainland is relatively liberal for women)

For instance does the wife take care of all the house chores, raising children, requiring you to participate in all activities?

I guess it really depends on the individual but Japanese definitely still seem more focused on those traditional role separations (although both couples working seem more common), Koreans used to but recent decades have become more "liberal progressive" leading to conflicts with an economy largely kept afloat by 8~10 companies and its not uncommon for some men to still manage household stuff even after their jobs and this is what I heard also to be true for Taiwanese households.

I'm not sure about Mainland but there has been shifts in these regions owing to Western media and values coinciding with lower birth rates vs areas where the traditional husband-wife roles are still intact (and also by happence more economically better off vs singles/divorced/progressive couple relationships).

Right. He parlayed his fame into reality stardom.

I added it’s a word way to put it. He became more famous generally but he was already known to NY and powerful people.

Gamifying day trading is just turning the retail market into gambling. Obvious objections will be that this has been possible for a long time now. But never did I know young men to casually play the market day to day like Wall Street Bets do now the way they would follow sports in the past.

Anti regulation of a sort is still a popular position. It’s just the libertarian hands of regulation that has fallen out of favor. I don’t think it will return.

At first I wasn’t sure it would stick, the name isn’t very catchy, but I’ve heard some politicians mention abundance. There is and will be more calls for corrected regulation to improve building pipelines. From the left it will be for faster procurement of public housing. It’ll look different on the right.