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We are in agreement on many topics. Where we diverge is in the mythologizing of deterministic western fascism without making the same potential attribution to failures at implementing socialism. This is, simply put, a failure at critical analysis. History has seen both cases. The idea that the Chinese system is the answer to, or even a protective force relative to western imperialism, simply because it exists as an alternative, is flawed reasoning. I would even say dangerous reasoning. The path forward is understanding and learning from the failure and success in all systems through history. In China’s case, a big part of that is literally the inability to discuss its failures. And I’m not just talking about the legal state of China itself, but also the broad hesitancy to acknowledge this as a failure within leftist circles.

These acknowledgements do not collapse any house of cards unless it has been built on fragile ground in the first place.

You are doing the age old ML trick of attaching the rights which convey political agency to a specific historical epoch of economic liberalism. If we are to understand that the Chinese socialism is a process which inherently must navigate through flaws and imperfections of the material conditions it is dealt, then surely we much acknowledge the same of the western struggle. And yes, it is a struggle all the same, albeit from a position of historical privilege.

In reality there is nothing about the enshrinement of individual rights which requires or implies capitalism or imperialism, other than historical snapshot these things have been attached to. It is no more correct than saying all socialism requires autocracy. In fact, we have an entire century of revisionist thinking which modifies Marx with this specific goal in mind. So just as China approaches this struggle from a more Orthodox perspective inspired by Lenin and molded by a period of historical oppression (itself a bit or a contradiction given China’s broader history), the west’s struggle is throwing off the shackles of its comparative success and influence which binds it to so much old world influence. Both molded by imperialism in different ways. Both currently stuck in a vicious cycle of capitalism, thrust on them by material reality.

If the proletariat is the class that benefits from their own work and the government has their popular support, is this really the red fash, authoritarian exploitation that the other comments and western media assume it to be

Yes, because without basic political rights which do not exist in China, Chinese workers have no political agency by which they can express a political preference. It is entirely possible that given such freedoms, the Chinese people would implement the exact same system of government they have now, but there is no way to know that since the functional basis for political self determination does not exist.

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Some memory leaks are logic errors, and this is honestly the irony of modern dynamic languages. I have actually gotten into the argument in interviews before - it is arguably safer (and better) to work from maximal static memory allocations with memory safe data objects than it is to implement dynamic memory algorithms just because they are fun coding problems.

You print molds and make it out of RTV.

I mean if you just get super ninja 10x engineers, that’s like 40 engineers.

A big part of it is also that in the grand scheme of things, roombas are kind of gimmicky because they don’t really do the time consuming parts of cleaning, like moving furniture or dusting baseboards. The value proposition of paying more for different tiers of branded mediocrity just isn’t there.

Exactly, this would be admitting he was wrong. Impossible.

It will definitely be called Half Life Part 4, and it will break the Internet.

Pytorch being the defacto ML R&D language basically means that every ML engineer Facebook recruits is familiar with their workflows. This is an age old strategy in tech which goes back to the early days of Unix.

Well, except for the fact that he did tell people to do that.

I feel like this is unfair, because you are leaving out a pretty important part of the issue.

These people also think Hitler was a moderate.

I donated mine 50/50 to Planned Parenthood and SPLC. I don’t want his blood money.

Great, so the four people who can itemize tips will benefit.

The application fee for family green card was about $2k when we did it and the lawyer was another $2k. Temporary status gets updated as soon as the paperwork is processed and you get a letter. That’s what I’m wondering here - is this another escalation of deporting those with legal status, or what? That seems like an important detail on leave out.

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Some of these stories confuse me. Is this a case of her not even having a green card after 5 years? Or is it a case of them deporting green card holders?

I’m honestly surprised it took them so long to decide. That means at least one juror didn’t immediately laugh the charges out of consideration.

Cheese slap time baby!