Actually, illegal entry into the US is a misdemeanor, of the same order as public intoxication, or setting off fireworks in most city limits. I'm betting you've done one or both of those things. It's fairly difficult to live in the US for more than a few years without committing a few misdemeanors. Most people usually just don't get caught.

That was an ideologically driven video, by Sinclair, and they were so sure of their conclusions they didn't even bother checking if the people they were filming were actually homeless.

Yes, Seattle has some serious homelessness problems, and most of that is because Seattle has some serious affordability problems, driven by a lack of land, and a lot of Tech companies driving up housing and rental prices. At the moment, to be able to find a place to live if you make minimum wage, you have to live at least an hour outside of the city, likely more.

If the city is dying, it's because it's being murdered by Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, not by drugs and homeless people. They're a symptom of the problem, not the cause of it.

No, he was asked a leading question by someone about us being in a simulation, and answered it using the standard philosophical argument people use for the simulation argument. And then he clarified that he and his brother are no longer allowed to discuss these things in hot tubs anymore.

Everyone, I assume, has entertained these ideas and thought about them. He didn't bring it up, he wasn't out to make some real point. You can use similar arguments to argue that we are at, or close to, one of the last human generations, or that the traffic in the other lane really does go faster.

They are all examples of the observation selection effect, wherein you make the assumption that you as the observer are a randomly chosen sample in the population space. In my mind, that right there is the trouble with all the arguments using that principle. You start out with an assumption of the distribution of a random sample, then you _force_ that random sample to be you, and then make conclusions based on the (no longer) random sample. Any conclusions made after the force are not valid. Just like in magic, if every time the magician shows you a "random" card from a deck, it's the 3 of clubs, then obviously the whole deck contains only 3 of clubs, right?

you can hit 4 petawatt/hours in a year with 456gigawatts of production (Making the assumption of constant production, which is a false assumption with wind and solar, but meh.) 3% in a single year isn't horrible.

What I'd really like to see is some sort of utility level grid storage solution take off. We could turn off half our coal plants today if we had enough batteries on the grid to be able to handle peak demand loads.

I know! I saw this and thought, "what nuclear engineer designing this saw 1.1 Gigawatts and didn't think, 'hey, with just a slight tweak, we could produce 1.21 Gigawatts!'"

It's a little exaggerated, because MS still has "QA Analysts", but they don't do what the old Test org did, they're merely telemetry analyzers. Over the past two years MS has completely transitioned the old test engineering org to either developers, Analysts, or get laid off. This is across all business units and products.

Your numbers are busted. Her salary was minimum. 12.25 an hour. Rent was 1200.
Now rework your math and maybe you will start to see her issue.

The problem is that yelp was paying minimum for a job that should be, in your words, $10 over minimum.

Yeah, some entitled privileged girl "schooling" someone with no concept of their circumstances. She made assumptions that Talia was being helped by her family, which is a false assumption. Just because she could suckle from mom's teat until age 25 doesn't mean everyone can.

Er? Access to Binge on is free for providers. No one has to pay to be added to the list.

This was called out specifically in their briefing, and is mentioned in their binge on materials.

Now, some providers co-marketed with t-mobile to get prime placement on the _advertised_ list. There's nothing wrong with that. If apple buys an Ad on TV, does that make Dell not exist?

Actually, this question was asked at the uncarrier event, and the answer was, unequivocally, "Yes! Any legal content that can meet our technical requirements is welcome on the service"
https://youtu.be/xac9tGkUtTA?t...

I read that blog post all the way through. For the first time, mind you, and nowhere does it state that he has a slate, and he's voting for it and that everyone else must do the same. In fact, he was a lot more creditable than I was. If everyone had done as he suggested, there would have been a lot fewer no-awards, which basically disproves your assertion that he was the one running the show.

Wow, where did you get that from???

The "special awards" you are referring to are George RR Martin's "Hugo Loser" awards, that he's been handing out for more than 30 years. And it wasn't given to people who had been preselected to win, it was given to people who would have been on the ballot if not for Vox Day's ballot manipulations.

There was no rigging except for the rabid puppies, this magical cabal of people the puppies believe control access to Hugo awards are the actual fans who vote.

Ugh, I meant "Best Novella", not "Associated Work"

I love how everyone mentions Jim Butcher when trying to justify the puppies actions, but fails to talk about the fact that John C Wright had 3 of the 5 associated works nominations. And they were utter drivel.

If all the puppies had done was get Jim Butcher onto the ballot, we wouldn't be here talking about the Hugos today. No. They instead shut out everyone but their own nominees by taking up all 5 slots in as many categories as they could.

_Of course_ there was going to be a backlash. There was no "fixing". There was only angry fans seeing someone tromping shit over their lawn and saying "NO".

In this case the relatively small number was 2500-3500. Due to the australian rules, the small number had to be _a majority of the voters_