> They’re victims, but only in the same sense that someone can be the victim of a hurricane.
What about those that can't form connections because of emotional abuse in their past? I wouldn't call them victims of a hurricane like it's some kind of unpreventable natural disaster. They're victims of their abusers and the people in their life that didn't intervene to stop the abuse.
That’s absolutely true - I was mostly trying to stake out a weaker claim against someone who seemed to think anyone who feels bad about the fact they can’t find sex is an unsympathetic incel. And I don’t think even the people who are lonely simply due to vague social trends like fewer tight-knit communities have an unpreventable problem at the societal level. It’s just there’s not an obvious perpetrator (pet theories about the causes of social decay non-withstanding).
> So maybe the more useful takeaway isn’t “giving up is good,” but: keep reassessing your goals realistically as you grow.
This is ultimately what the article is talking about. It's not about giving up on your ultimate goal, it's about giving up on your current approach and finding other ways to progress towards your goal.
This is what I got from it. It’s pretty much synonymous with how I approach things. I wouldn’t call it “giving up,” rather than “reviewing and adapting.”
I don't know why you'd be surprised that they have skilled developers and modern computers. North Korea has a state-funded hacking and phishing operation that generates $2 billion, which represents a pretty significant part of their $35 billion GDP.
I honestly think we should live more for the now than the far future. Rather than focusing on how to optimally extend my lifespan I'd rather focus on living the life where I'd be satisfied if I dropped dead the next day.
Like the article says this is only one of the many causes you could possibly work to prevent and if you die of something else then all that effort was for naught. Whereas if you put all your effort into living a worthwhile life then it doesn't matter what you die of or when.
I understand this man has kids he wants to live long for and that makes optimizing for living a long life worthwhile to him. But I don't think that a long life should be the goal in and of itself, it should be to live a worthwhile life.
Ooooh scary, Venezuelans on flimsy boats transporting cocaine (not fentanyl) are terrorizing the US government... how exactly? I don't believe small fishing boats coming from Venezuela are the root of the fentanyl crisis.
If you're an ardent supporter of this administration no matter what they do, then say that. Your usage of "narco-terrorist" and saying they (who is they?) kill 70k Americans/year shows me that you're heavily bought into the official government narrative which is quite something.
It’s an accurate description of what these organizations are. Latin American history is basically a story of central governments trying to control these crime syndicates, failing, and then descending into civil war as landowners and urban elites figure the more practical solution is to just massacre all of them. This is true of Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador, and half a dozen other countries. Venezuela attracts the attention that it does because the government is effectively part of the syndicate. [0] Mexico is like this too but has either established backroom deals with the feds to avoid scrutiny or is considered too risky to intervene in.
> The US is currently attacking foreign citizens outside the United States without due process.
This is how Osama Bin Laden justified 9/11. To be clear, virtually all of those being deported do not have a legal right to reside in the United States. The number who are deported erroneously measures in the tens, not the hundreds, but even if it were in the tens of thousands, that would not morally justify the extrajudicial killings of law enforcement personnel unless you could somehow demonstrate that these deportations were part of a concerted effort to murder people.
> Israel has multiple government members currently with warrants for arrest for genocide.
The deportation of foreign nationals residing in the United States illegally is not even remotely comparable to what is happening in Gaza.
> You assumed for some reason I was talking about deporting people and not attacking people in boats with hellfire missiles.
No, I understood you clearly as you said “outside the United States.” My point was that American military adventurism still wouldn’t justify terrorism. I then went on to describe how the majority of deportees have plainly violated the law, and that even if some proportion of deportees had their rights violated during the deportation process, it would not justify the extrajudicial killing of law enforcement officers.
> I was discussing the disconnect between legal and moral.
What the great grandparent comment was advocating for is battering and / or murdering law enforcement officials on the basis that he doesn’t think foreign nationals should be bound by American immigration law.
Or they were suggesting patriotic Americans organize to defend our Constitution and the rule of law from this anarcho-tyranny of paramilitary gangs enabled by a treasonous executive. You know, the exact thing a vocal contingent of second amendment enthusiasts used to champion before they got sick with a level of social media psychosis previously reserved for geriatrics consuming hours upon hours of Fox "news".
For example, Dear Leader's leadership in response to the anti-2nd-amendment murder of Breonna Taylor should have been a wakeup call for how much this New York con artist has you steeped in anti-American Kool-aid. Instead the situation mostly just demonstrated to everyone else how fascists' appeals to individual liberty have been wholly dishonest.
Yeah sure, I feel like back channeling stuff is generally just the respectful thing to do, so I'm not on the side of the debate I'm expanding upon in most cases.
Just that lacking context one really can't make that many blanket statements.
Not only respectful. Also it ensures that all different aspects of a decision is considered before making the decision. If not aligned with all parties, we would miss important flaws in the plan. It is just a sensible thing to do.
> If not aligned with all parties, we would miss important flaws in the plan.
I think the difficult cases come when people's interests aren't aligned. If you're coordinating with a vendor to basically detangle yourself from their vendor-specific tooling to be able to move away from them, at some level it doesn't really make sense to read them in on that.
There are degrees to this, and I think you can argue both sides here (so ultimately it's a question of what you want to do), but parties are rarely neutral. So the tough discussions come from ones where one party is going to be losing out on something.
It is actually relatively easy to make a lithography machine that can etch features beyond what EUV can do. You simply use an electron scanning beam rather than photons.
It's what the industry uses to create the masks used in lithography machines, but it could just as easily be used to make the actual chip. The problem is that it doesn't scale, at all. A scanning process is way too slow to be useful in mass production.
Thus you should always be skeptical when someone says they've built a machine that beats ASML's machines, because that's actually the easy part. The hard part is scaling it up.
Interesting! Makes me think of old 1990s X-Files episodes with chips under a microscope “smaller than we can produce”.
I wonder if the government makes small batches of bespoke chips that are super miniature based on non scalable processes, and how far back in time would they have been able to develop 1nm chips for example?
The node sizes have become more of marketing term, so it's more useful to look at the half-pitch resolution when doing comparisons. In 2007 researchers demonstrated they could reach a 15nm half-pitch using an electron scanning beam. [1] Whereas ASML reliably achieved this resolution using EUV around 2017.
Thus in the early 2000s you would be about 10 years ahead using electron scanning beam lithography. However that assumes you have all the tooling and transistor designs to actually create a working chip at that resolution. Showing you can etch a feature at nanometer scale is one thing, actually using it to create a working chip is a whole other ball game.
Funnily enough Asianometry just did a video on tsmcs new masks and how the machines involved WERE particularly hard to develop, "Multi-Beam Mask Writer" that uses hundreds of thousands of electron beams (after splitting) to accomplish its task.
What about those that can't form connections because of emotional abuse in their past? I wouldn't call them victims of a hurricane like it's some kind of unpreventable natural disaster. They're victims of their abusers and the people in their life that didn't intervene to stop the abuse.