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IAmBroom commented on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work seangoedecke.com/the-simp... · Posted by u/dondraper36

colecut · a day ago

Does he ask you to "figure out how to implement AI"?

That is what my boss asks us to do =p

IAmBroom · 3 hours ago

No, fortunately as an engineering firm (construction), we have strong corporate guidelines on usage of that Pandora's Box.

IAmBroom commented on De minimis has ended washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

emptysongglass · 4 hours ago

You are correct that technically this is true. The EU has proposed to eliminate the threshold [1] but in practice EU consumers have not seen the benefit of the de minimis practiced by the US: try and import goods below the threshold from outside the EU and you will be hit by a variety of fees [2], making it uneconomical for a consumer to buy anything from outside.

[1] https://copenhageneconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/S...

[2] https://www.postnord.dk/siteassets/pdf/forretningsbetingelse...

IAmBroom · 3 hours ago

"You are correct that technically this is true" is an odd way to admit your statement was completely false.

IAmBroom commented on De minimis has ended washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

Waterluvian · 4 hours ago

I can’t speak for all Canadians but all the ones I know do not see America as a friend or partner anymore. The entire tone has changed in a way I’ve never before experienced.

I think the thing some Americans mess themselves up with is thinking that the world perceives their domestic politics the same way they do. From our level of abstraction, America voted and Americans decided the country is going to be an anti-science, protectionist menace.

IAmBroom · 3 hours ago

I can't speak for all Americans, but you're not wrong.

Protect yourself. If and when we have enough good governance to be friends again, we'll need your friendship.

IAmBroom commented on De minimis has ended washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

xethos · 4 hours ago

> a policy targetting China has collateral damage.

It is still a policy from someone threatening economic annexation of Canada. He's dropped the rhetoric, but I doubt he's given up on the concept. "Targeting China" is a very kind, possibly even forgetful, way of phrasing it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5071665-trump-ec...

IAmBroom · 3 hours ago

Believe it or not, not everything is about Canada.

Trump hates China. His boss told him to.

IAmBroom commented on This is my brain on leeches todaythings.substack.com/... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

Catbert59 · a day ago

Ssh... don't fight the symbiosis... accept your fate

IAmBroom · 21 hours ago

EXACTLY what a cordiceps host would say!

IAmBroom commented on God created the real numbers ethanheilman.com/x/34/ind... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

athrowaway3z · a day ago

Can't say that I'm completely in the headspace to follow the argument, but wanted to add my 2 cents from a few years ago.

Integers come into existence long before god - as the only presumption required is a difference between one thing and another (or nothing). The integers also create infinite gaps. The primes.

So no - I do not think reals are closer to the divine. They require we import infinity twice to be defined, and I'm undecided on whether our reality has unbounded 'precision' like that - or if 'just' an infinite number of discrete units.

IAmBroom · 21 hours ago

Depends on your view of God. If God existed before creation, there were not two things to compare. I'm not even sure "nothing" existed - maybe God was smart enough to avoid creating "null" values.

Caveat: former Catholic; 50+ years of fervent atheism.

IAmBroom commented on God created the real numbers ethanheilman.com/x/34/ind... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

Dylan16807 · a day ago

Can you name a physical thing that is a circle even to the baseline precision level of a 64 bit float?

IAmBroom · 21 hours ago

A black hole.

IAmBroom commented on God created the real numbers ethanheilman.com/x/34/ind... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

NoahZuniga · a day ago

You know it wouldn't be possible for us to tell the difference between a rational universe (one where all quantities are rational numbers) and a real universe (one where you can have irrational quantities).

The standard construction for the real numbers is to start with the rationals and "fill in all the holes". So why even bother with filling in the holes and instead just declare God created the rationals?

IAmBroom · a day ago

> You know it wouldn't be possible for us to tell the difference between a rational universe (one where all quantities are rational numbers) and a real universe (one where you can have irrational quantities).

Citation needed.

Especially since there are well-established math proofs of irrational numbers.

IAmBroom commented on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons aeaweb.org/articles?id=10... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

lysace · a day ago

In Sweden: Yes, they are in charge of keeping the salaries of the educated "elite" working at Ericsson etc low. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement

IAmBroom · a day ago

I "saw" that link. It says nothing about your claims at all. Here's my counterpoint: https://www.disney.com

IAmBroom commented on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons aeaweb.org/articles?id=10... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

logicchains · a day ago

>Why should I pay for someone's healthcare when I live healthy and all I see that others are smoking?

This is a common bad, not a common good. Fundamentally people follow incentives, and when you financially punish good behaviour and reward bad behaviour (make someone with healthy habits pay for someone else's unhealthy habits), you disincentivise the good behaviour and incentivise the bad behaviour. At a society-wide scale, that leads to more of the bad behaviour.

IAmBroom · a day ago

Trust me, we live this. And it's always someone else's unhealthy habits; I remember a chainsmoking manager expounding at lunch about the awful burden drug users put on the economy.

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