Controlled, slow, invitation of foreigners to your country is called Immigration, when it happens in an uncontrolled, quick manner, without invitation, that's called an Invasion.

Furthermore "Just because you let someone stay in your house, doesn't mean they get to re-arrange your furniture". You'll never find out if your "values are misguided" if they cease to exist to be replaced by someone else's values. What you are arguing for is to not resist, while your own erasure happens. This is neither logical nor natural. If their culture and way of life was so superior, they wouldn't be seeking "good life" elsewhere, they would be building it where they came from.

A better analogy to uncontrolled Immigration (aka Invasion) would be a parasite, that has depleted resources elsewhere and is now seeking another host to feed off of, any organism will attempt to fight off such parasite. If you want to be culturally enriched so much, move there, bask in other cultures as much as you like, those that choose to keep their own culture only have one option, and that is to stay where they are.

No, it's not. My daughter at 10 months (and earlier, since about 4 months or so) is instantly superglued to any passing screen with moving pictures on it. But then again we don't let her watch anything at all, this is more in passing at stores or if she comes (usually wife brings her, she's just beginning to walk by herself) into a room where I'm watching something the 5 seconds it takes for me to find remote and turn it off, and anything we try to watch on a phone she's instantly attracted to it. From what I understand it's recommended 1 hour per day screen time AFTER 2 yrs old, 0 before. We did have her watch MS. Rachel on a phone when she was being extremely fussy on a ride back home from grandparents, and screen for those 20 min or so distracted her 100%. Downside she was even more fussy (overstimulated) after and was a bit more difficult to put to bed.

I'm genuinely curious (and hopeful) that she has better outcomes than other kids who have been watching youtube since 4 months old just to give their parents a breather. And yes, having to entertain her without the magic box with moving pictures does absolutely take more effort and is kind of draining (though I'd say fairly used to it by now).

You know this only applies to US, maybe 1 or two other country with very large and strong military. All the other countries it's more of a "thank you for participating in RESISTING the violent colonial exploitation by militarily stronger nations".

Have you ever considered putting money in, getting the great services and interest rates, BUT never posting on the platform? Crazy idea. I know.

Not defending the tax, however if they don't have liquidity, they borrow against the assets. At an extremely low rate might I add. Don't have to sell anything. Pretty standard practice for the mega rich.

If every man woman and child was to get lets say 2k a month from UBI, which is close to bare survival, with 350million population in US that's 8.4 Trillion $, Per year. Government collected 8.7-8.9 Trillion $ last year (federal/state/local), so about the same. Meaning taxes would have to be doubled on work and income (they still have to pay for the same things government pays for now, plus UBI, 1+1=2 times), or likely 3X or more since about half the people would live on UBI only and not pay any taxes. If you already pay close to 30-40% overall tax as individual/family, 3X that is 90-120%. So sure, it might work with 90% tax, though 120% would be certain.... Who the heck is going to go to work at that income tax rate? Go to work and end up either giving up 90% in taxes best case scenario, or end up owing 20% above what you made...

Old system was write code, tweak it to fix bugs or add new features/adjustments. This is why AI code needs to be well documented/readable/understandable/well structured to make changes to it. It is none of these for foreseeable future.

New system is, generate what you need from a very detailed description. Test like crazy. It either does exactly what you want. Or you add description and generate it ALL over again from scratch. You need a new feature added? REDO THE DESCRIPTION. Yes it will generate 99% of the code will be different. But you can keep mashing that button to generate it again and again and again until it gets it just right. And when you need to add another feature, repeat the process.

Basically the whole codebase changes, every iteration. Except the looks stuff obviously, you want to keep it similar looking so us meat bags can keep some familiarity.

And yes, it's expensive to mash that button to get it just right every attempt costs a lot of compute, but it will get much cheaper with efficiency improvements.

The real problem is testing the thing every single time, and writing really detailed descriptions that it can understand. But people are getting better at that too.

Hope Google makes Disney and the whole IP ecosystem eat humble pie on this one. It's like saying you owe Disney for watching their movies/cartoons and learning something from them. Get bent. Pay for the viewing and whatever lessons I extract from it (even if I learn to draw some of the similar characters) are mine. Same for AI. This needs to happen. Google is worth 3.8 trillion right now, Disney under 200 billion, shove a bit of money down their throat to set a precedent so nobody ever tries this again.

In Stargate, that's pretty much how Asgard ended up dying out. Genetic engineering/cloning, at some point made them unable to reproduce completely many generations down the line. Even being super advanced technologically, still couldn't solve that problem.

"Ukrainian advance", is a contradictory statement.

Look up Mariopol 2025 from air, looks quite nicely rebuilt. That's the future of any Russian controlled territory.

Even if conflict ends today, what does the future for Ukraine look like? Repaying debts for the next 100+ years. Won't have anything to rebuild with. Not a great place to live. They don't even own their natural resources in the ground anymore. And it's not like corruption would go away. If one cares for Ukrainian people, as crazy as it may seem, it's actually better if Russia takes more territory. At least there people could live somewhat decent lives and there would be a chance to re-roll the whole corruption dice. On the flipside the standpoint of someone who doesn't care for Ukrainians, better to let them go fight and die. Their prize in an unlikely win is spending the next 3-4 generations in debt and poverty (first have to not die to have next generations though, tricky part).

The most I fear about this conflict is if Russia mirrors US/NATO actions and starts selling weapons to anyone that wants to use them against NATO countries. Why wouldn't they? It's already been done to them. Would only be a fair reciprocal action. And that's when WW3 starts, which I want no part of.

Productivity this century is way up, although workers don't benefit from that much. We don't have famines anymore, nobody would starve like they did during collectivization 100 years ago in USSR. Might not be horrible to try again. The rich might object, but ... that problem was already worked out 100 years ago. Hell, we keep hearing how AI and robots will be taking over most jobs, it might be inevitable. The alternative of course is the world of "Aliens"/Robocop, where everything is owned by a few mega corporations that are bigger than governments, not super appealing future either.

"Also, the $100K payment goes into effect in some time this weekend, even though there's no system set up to track or collect the funds."

There's a system set up to collect and track funds already. You didn't think H1B visas were free before this did you? If they can track 215$+all the other smaller fees, they can track 100,000$ through the same method.

- Fees previously ranged from approximately $1,000 to over $4,500. These existing fees include costs for the lottery registration ($215), the petition itself ($780), and other potential government-mandated fees like the "anti-fraud" fee ($500).

Estimated as of Jan 2025 about 750,000 H1B visa holders in the US today, with about 550,000 dependents. Maybe if it was a one time 100k fee, at least half of those would stay. But since it's annual, I doubt more than to 10% would remain.

Funny you say that. If India became 51st state, they would get 2 senators, just like any state, and they would also get about 1800 members in the house of representatives (house is population based, right now each member of the house represents about 800,000 people in US, 435 voting members in the house, India's population is 1.45 billion about, so 1.45 billion divided by 800,000 is 1812.5 seats in the house).

USB-C is much smaller and weaker, physically. Plug it in and out 2-3 times a day for a year or two, and it wears out, becomes loose or god forbid put a bit of pressure on it from a slightly angled/bent cable for a few weeks and it's game over. USB-A is much more durable, cable seems much more flexible, and it just holds things better without becoming loose. Some of this is helped with dongles/hubs/docks, but then again you take your laptop home every day and the first thing you do when get to work plug it into USB-C, go to meeting with laptop unplug, plug back in x times a day. It helps that most laptops nowadays come with multiple USB-C, but not much....