Hmm I feel like this could work but we (SWE professionals) would need to provide a secondary private API surface that assumes the user is hostile. IE if you want to automate something that interacts with any private software it’d have to be treated like an adversary.
I guess in the long run it could become worthwhile, but it’ll be a long road to get there
Cursor was way, way better than Copilot before agent mode, which has just been released this month. Not to mention it has have MCP for quite awhile before Copilot.
No it wouldn't, it would end up in even more inequality as the middle and lower classes would be able to afford even less while the rich would just see their assets rack up in price. We had that problem in my small European country.
Nevermind the improbability that a decrease in living standards would actually compress the distribution of living standards - Are you seriously arguing that's desirable? That it's better to reduce everyone's lots so that we can be more equal?
If you asked me a couple years ago, I would absolutely oppose it, but now I am seriously entertaining the idea that it may be better to live in a poorer but more equal society.
It seems that the majority cares far more about comparative wealth than absolute wellbeing, and is willing to destroy the system if they don't get what they want.
I'd actually agree that, at any level of living standard, the more equal society is probably happier. I'd question whether that'd be an effective _intervention_ though. Actively reducing the median standard of a relatively well-to-do society to compress the overall distribution does not seem like it would lead to a net increase in happiness.
Why? Who is looking at the societies of countries where manufacturing is happening and saying “we want that”?
Manufacturing used to be great for the US because other places couldn’t do it, either because they hadn’t developed enough or they’d been ravaged by war. It wasn’t “manufacturing physical goods” that was great for the US, it was “having industry that others don’t”. Now, other countries have manufacturing capability. America’s uniquely exceptional industry is now tech - mostly software, but also hardware design, and design of tech for other industries. That is what we should be focused on - supporting the industries that set us apart from other countries.
I don't see how that follows. It's not a step up to be forced to work in a factory, compared to before when not working was an option because costs were lower.
Yeah that’s not going to work. America is about to find out that the era of bully pulpit is over. Why work with a recalcitrant and quite frankly obnoxious US when you can cut bilateral EU/Asian deals?
Fluoridation may be useful in the U.S. because unlike most European countries, the U.S. does not have school-based dental care, many children do not visit a dentist regularly, and for many U.S. children water fluoridation is the prime source of exposure to fluoride.
> Some were tired of the media ignoring stories like the Biden laptop story.
The endless litigation in the laptop case against Hunter Biden wasn't enough? Every media company must also cover it if MAGA says so?
> Others wanted more details on Hunters $500k no show Ukrainian job
Hunter Biden does not and has not held any position in public office, but regardless a House Republican investigation into the Biden family found no wrongdoing[0].
I'm sorry that you feel persecuted when your side just got control of all three branches of government, had the richest man in the world buy Twitter to help you win, and also controls the largest cable news network in the country.
> The endless litigation in the laptop case against Hunter Biden wasn't enough? Every media company must also cover it if MAGA says so?
The story was suppressed at the FBI's insistence until after the election. They were spreading that it was Russian disinformation to ensure it wouldn't harm the Democrats, including getting social media sites to remove posts about it.
What do you mean the story was suppressed by the FBI? Are you referring to the Twitter files which didn't find that the government coerced any social media companies and that Republicans were submitting the same requests?
Ah okay, so they wrote a strongly worded letter that said they couldn't confirm it was disinformation but that it had the signs of a disinformation campaign? So, they didn't threaten punishment or coerce these companies into doing it? Is that correct? You also didn't address the part where Republicans submitted many similar "censorship" requests that they had to keep a special database.
> "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case," the letter said.[0]
> called up Twitter in the early morning hours of
September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report:
Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass
bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.[1]
> That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing
on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in
Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on
requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. The newly
empowered Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now devoting significant resources and time to investigating this supposed “collusion” between
liberal politicians and Twitter.[1]
Come now - the Biden laptop story wasn't all that old that you have conveniently forgotten the 51 senior intelligence officers coordinated with the Biden campaign and explicitly stated that the nypost story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" ? Some of them were active CIA contractors. Your great Adam Schiff even went on CNN saying that this smear campaign comes from the Kremlin and that Kremlin is assisting Trump.
Taxpayer funded Politico also went live with headlines "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say".
The reveal was shut down fast by the Biden white-house.
"Furthermore, officials within the CIA recognized at the time that the Hunter Biden statement was political and would hurt the Agency. The signatories’ decision to leverage their former intelligence community titles to promote a narrative about foreign election interference improperly embroiled the Agency in domestic politics. This report underscores the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community."
The point is that the government didn't force these companies to take down the content. That, coupled with the endless legal witch hunts against Hunter Biden should be sufficient enough for Republicans but I guess it isn't. This story never dies for some reason.
You'll never see me defending our intelligence apparatus and I agree that it's bad they involved themselves. But, government agents can submit strongly worded letters all they want. It doesn't mean anything.
The FBI even explicitly went to facebook and said you need to be aware of Russian misinformation and this story "fit the pattern". Did you really need the govt intelligence apparatus to hold a gun to media heads ? Things don't work that way as you well know - they all need plausible denial.
Something that will likely hopefully change your position:
Chat logs, published just this Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee on X, show that the gag order extended to an FBI analyst who attempted to alert social media companies that the laptop was authentic—before these companies moved to censor the story’s spread.
Nutshell: So, the FBI under Biden stated that the laptop story had all the signs of a Russian misinformation op. When an agent wanted to correct the record and mention that the laptop was genuine, he was made to shut up. If this isn't explicit partisan interference during an election period, the there is no standard of evidence that will convince you.
So there’s these things called “trains” and “subways” and “buses” that let you get around without a car.
Car dependency reduces the efficacy of public transit, so it actually does the opposite of what you say. If we didn’t build around cars you’d still have farther flung residential development. It’s just be close to a train stop so you could easily get around.
There’s really no benefit to car dependency outside rural areas. Entirely a mistake with no benefits at all, because the alternative design that would have arisen without car dependency is better in every way.
I guess in the long run it could become worthwhile, but it’ll be a long road to get there
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