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Star Wars making the central figure of their new movie a 50yo baby constitutionally incapable of growing up is a little bit on the nose as critique of their fans

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gemini is absolute fed up with claude's shit

[davidad 🎇 @davidad]

No one:

Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.

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@punished_daniel ibkr

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@eigenrobot eligibility for registry restricted to net taxpayers

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@SherwoodStrauss "Jordan's team managed to lose before the finals every time they weren't going to win" is an absolutely terrible argument. They weren't remotely competitive rosters in those years, as judged by every contemporary sportsbook!

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@SherwoodStrauss Jordan won a title every time he had a preseason contender. The Bulls were 4th in odds for the '91 title, 1st for the other 5, and never in the top 5 at any other time in his career. LeBron was the preseason favorite 7 times and 2nd favorite 4 more times.

https://t.co/pR8SV0Kljw

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@ImNotOwned @generalperiwin1 Since leaving the Cavs the first time, LeBron has been on the preseason title favorite 7 times and the second favorite 4 times. Jordan was on the preseason favorite for his last 5 rings (4th in 1991). His record relative to preseason expectations is actually not that great.

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@ant_studies yes, both groups are lower quality than they were previously

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this is a genuinely great interview question, and if your conclusion is the OP's first sentence the interview immediately ends and you get walked out of the building

[talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith]

From 2000 to 2025 the real earnings of full-time workers essentially went unchanged:

--real median weekly earnings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher inched up by only $51

--for noncollege-educated workers? even flatter: weekly earnings grew from $963 to to $980

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@sgodofsk nope, my bad

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@uckema prior to the modern NBA CBA (which has resulted in 7 different champions in 7 seasons) you have to go all the way back to the 1970s to find a comparable period of parity in the league (which is really the only such other one)

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partially, because you can’t run a competitive basketball or football league without some socialist provisions: the best players are simply too good and have too much influence on winning

(baseball is different and coincidentally the only one of those 3 without a salary cap)

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

Why is North America more socialist than Europe in pro sports (draft, revenue sharing) as opposed to having a few teams win it every year?

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you can tell it's about personal resentment rather than good policy because there is already a large class of Canadian tax residents who dodge their Canadian income taxes ("astronaut families") and who would be trivial to enforce against for any motivated administration

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I appreciate this account's niche gimmick, "what if Canada built national policy entirely around punishing the most successful Waterloo CS grads"

[melody @melkuo]

as we see more people become canadian citizens abroad, i will say, i think canadians abroad should pay income taxes to canada too. citizen-based taxation, not residency-based.

the us already does this. if you are a us citizen living outside the us, you still file and pay taxes on any differences in taxes you owe.

the biggest argument is one of fairness. a canadian passport comes with incredible rights: the right to vote, expansive ability to travel and work, and the option to come here at any time and use our healthcare, education, seniors benefits, and other social services.

it's fair to give to receive these benefits. if you don't want to, you can give up your citizenship.

i would like to see any revenues generated by this used towards lowering personal income tax rates at-large. while it wouldn't lower taxes by a large amount, it would be an easy political win nonetheless.

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@devahaz @laurenlself also agree with D

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it's funny that LLMs can take the most poorly formatted, typo-laden queries and parse the actual intent effortlessly, whereas Alexa will error out if it hears even the tiniest hesitation in your (extremely simple) request

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@aestheticist_ vs culturally encouraged shaming

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@BenShindel @tracewoodgrains this statistic refers to the California Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments, which is taken by 97-98% of California students in grade 11, not the NAEP

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For reading, Lowell has 482 and Mission has 40. Mission had 34 admits.

The *median* Lowell student would be almost guaranteed admission to Berkeley if they attended Mission, and is almost guaranteed rejection applying from Lowell.

The UCs have created some amazing incentives.

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This statistic is already shocking, but somehow still substantially understates the magnitude of (effective) preferences.

Lowell HS has approximately 409 Level 4 math-proficient seniors (660 x 62%), and Mission High has approximately 8 (268 x 3%), a 50x gap

[Liz4SF @incitafusio]

🚨30% of Berkeley Calculus students are severely underprepared (half flunked), yet a whopping 321 Lowell students were rejected by Berkeley. Only 42 students (12%) were accepted from Lowell hs, while Mission hs had 45% acceptance rate (34 out of 76 applicants) @HarmeetKDhillon https://t.co/Gd0CZfb2ie

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@BenShindel @tracewoodgrains just to be clear, your argument is that somehow they *undersample* the brightest students, the ones who the school administration is most incentivized to have take the test and the ones who are most likely to be physically present to do so?