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To do what? They had established that he was performing activities that needed to be stopped, he’s not owed more time to do those activities in.

Could just add it to their demands for opening the Strait of Hormuz.

He was an incredibly prolific poster. Unfortunately I found him to be rather abrasive, I don’t recall any particular interaction but I do get an “oh yeah, that guy. Glad he’s not been around much lately” sense when I see that name.

The S&P Dow Jones Index Committee explicitly rejected proposals to fast-track SpaceX.

The Russel 1000 and NASDAQ 100 did have “fast-track” rules for large IPOs like this. However, they have an additional guardrail that I think you overlooked here. When SpaceX went public only about 4% of the company’s total shares were released to the public (the public “float”). The remaining 95%+ of the shares belonging to Elon Musk, early venture capitalists, and long-time employees are legally locked down and can’t be sold for 90 to 180 days after the IPO. Index funds are weighted based on free float (only the shares actively trading), the amount of stock the fast-tracking index funds are actually forced to buy right now is very small, representing a fraction of 1% of most portfolios.

So no, this really didn’t fleece 401ks and other conservative investment funds. They have rules in place specifically to prevent this sort of thing and outside forces can’t “force” them to break those rules. Musk and other early shareholders were unable to dump their stocks during that initial IPO price spike and pension funds weren’t buying the stocks up in significant quantities.

Index funds don’t update their investment balance instantly, in part specifically to avoid this kind of problem. Most major indices require a stock to trade publicly for a minimum period (often 3 to 6 months) before they’ll include them, and they rebalance on a fixed schedule - usually quarterly or semi-annually. A stock must wait for the next official rebalancing date to be added.

The things that might have been bit are Active Mutual Funds and Sector ETFs. These funds are focused much more tightly on specific sectors of the market and often buy “immediately” to ensure that they don’t miss out on up-and-comers. FOMO can bite these more easily. But for that very reason they’re not something that conservative investors like public pensions would invest heavily in, they’re explicitly meant for the more gamble-oriented stuff. If you explicitly take a risk with your money then you should expect to lose it sometimes.

Neither are forklifts. It’s an analogy, not exactly the same thing.

As I said, I can write programs in assembly language. I have actually done so, small trivial ones. I’m not a businessman, I’m a programmer. But I use compilers basically all the time because it would be ridiculous not to.

If an AI is able to break something in a way that no human can fix then I suppose that’s a sign that AI has exceeded human capabilities. Do you think it’s there yet?

And yet the person with the forklift is moving more stuff than the guy who did it by hand could manage. The “over” in “over-reliance” is a subjective value judgment and I just don’t agree.

I’m not seeing the problem here. Technology is developed specifically for this purpose, to remove unnecessary burden from humans and enhance their capabilities. There’s nothing noble about laboring unnecessarily hard to accomplish goals in a suboptimal manner. I could write programs in assembly language but instead I use high-level languages and compilers. Does that result in over-reliance on compilers?

John Henry died in the process of “beating” the steam hammer and then got replaced anyway. Nowadays it’d be considered foolish to do that work by hand.

And I could manually relocate all the contents of a palette, too. Just not anywhere near as quickly and easily as I can with a forklift. The analogy is still apt.

I physically can’t refactor a codebase in 15 minutes.

And ever since I got a forklift my arm strength has gone down.

You didn’t read the article or choose whether to post it?

The warning came as the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had said Israel “will maintain the security zone in south Lebanon as long as our security needs require it”

Got to wonder if there’s some 5D chess going on here. “Hey, Trump, the treaty said you and your allies had to withdraw from Lebanon.” “Yeah, well, we’re ditching Israel as allies then. So there.”

What, have a nuanced view? Impossible, must be a troll.

I was told we would always be able to tell.

Unreliable is still a step up from completely absent.

Maybe we can convince them that COVID vaccination does the trick.

Ironically, It does work in this case. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic, not just a dewormer. It kills screwworm larvae and is being authorized as a treatment for real here.

Just another “what are the writers going to think of next” element to throw into this crazy timeline.

In the United States. Elsewhere in the world it’s significantly cheaper.

Ironically, one of the forces that push back against that are the much-derided health insurance companies. Health insurance has the exact opposite incentive structure, they prefer a cure over an ongoing treatment.

Also, do you think the owners and executives of pharma companies never get cancer themselves, or never have friends and family with cancer?

In reality the reasons why cures are less common than treatments are complex, it’s not pure evil motivating it. Cures are just hard. Especially for something like cancer, which is not just one single disease but rather an whole vast constellation of different diseases. Some kinds of cancer have been cured, and new cures keep coming out all the time. We just haven’t done them all yet.