> longer tasks that involves learning involves our DNA

Longer tasks that involve learning also involve caloric consumption and respiration, that doesn't mean we think with the sun and the air.

One of the nice things about not having teenage daughters is you don't have to worry about Jerry Seinfeld hanging around.

The US has been funding terrorists for longer than the current state of Iran (or even its predecessor) has been around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état#Uni... and we still haven't nuked anybody in anger since 1945.

Funding coups is not the same thing as funding terrorists. Terrorists attacks and kills civilians, coups just targets leaders. If Iran funded coups in nearby countries that would be a sane thing to do, funding terrorists is what makes them an insane force that you can't predict what they will do with a bomb.

Russia also funds coups, not terrorists. You didn't see a lot of suicide bombings and such in Ukraine before Russia attacked, Russia did the sane thing and sent in Russians in the Russian areas to build support etc, funding terrorism is just plain evil and serves no purpose. That is the difference.

OK then how about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras#U.S._military_and_fina...

> coups just targets leaders.

This died day 1 when you bombed a fucking school and killed 168 girls. For a lot of these countries the US is a terrorist state. It doesn't matter if the explosive is strapped to a guy's chest or to a tomahawk

> This died day 1 when you bombed a fucking school and killed 168 girls

I didn't bomb a school, I am not American. Americans are much more against this war than most people of the world. I know a lot of Iranians that are very happy that the regime is getting bombed.

> I know a lot of Iranians that are very happy that the regime is getting bombed.

Ask them about the electrical infrastructure, or the unis, or the research enters, or the heritage sites... How did it go in Afghanistan btw? The "democracy" was delivered and well received right?

The only one of those that's really new is Greenland.

Slavery is alive and well in the US, it just went into the prisons.

> South Korea wouldn't exist as a prosperous Western-aligned liberal democracy without the war

The first several decades after the war they were very much not a liberal democracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Democratic_Struggle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Republic_of_Korea).

Every dollar facebook spent on this is a dollar they couldn't spend on doing the really heinous stuff, so to me it's a shame it's being shut down.

Why's a CEO writing code, doesn't he have a company to run?

Better to have Garry spend his time writing code than using his wealth to attack the very concept of liberal democracy or screech about college students on his blog.

I mean, couldn't Garry spend his time evangelizing YC as providing opportunity to talent that would not otherwise have access to said opportunity instead of either of those? It seems to me like that would be a better use of his time to achieve YC's objectives of funding somewhat competent, highly obsessive, morally flexible founders to create YC portfolio companies others are desperate to invest in at future higher valuations or to acquire. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the purpose of YC though.

He could. But he's also being using his wealth and influence to advocate for the destruction of liberal democracy alongside that activity, so I think it would be a net positive for him to fall into an AI psychosis such that he no longer has time to sabotage society.

> the US where COVID vaccine coverage is a basic expectation of health insurance for all ages

That wasn't a sure thing this past year and there's always a risk it won't be next year. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-c...)

The usual line is "the regulations are written in blood", and it's a cliche because it's true.

Please show me the blood that zoning regulations are written in

The context is medical regulations.

What blood is the regulation that doctors can't see patients in other states written in?

There's no specific regulation that doctors can't see patients in other states. Each state simply operates their own medical licensing system. You could imagine a system that works differently, but getting there would require creating new rules and resolving new conflicts, not just removing some rule that exists today.

For example, there's a certain category of hot-button procedures that California believes are medically necessary but Texas will revoke your license for performing. To set up a shared licensing board you'd have to somehow find an acceptable compromise.

You have described every single regulatory problem anyone has ever complained about in the FDA: the default state is denial, and positive action is needed to carve permitted things out of it. If this is a categorical exemption to 'the regulations are written in blood', then you're failing to describe anything identifiable about the regulations at all.

That's not a regulation, it's a consequence of a bunch of individual regulations.

What's the alternative? Federal licensing would be good but poking around wiki it looks like the basis of medical licensing in the first place is "states' rights" so good luck with that. Reciprocity would also be good and hey! it turns out it's being worked on : https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/fsmb-interstate-medica... https://imlcc.com

The Revolutionary War.

This a joke? Without it you can put dangerous industry next to residents. Texas fertilizer explosion, Bhopal gas leak, etc.

No, it's a cliche because it's false and/or just rephrased alarmism. Most regulations are changes made to solve no problem, simply because someone thought it was a good idea, or because they were vaguely related to a Current Thing, and then persisted because undoing any decision is organizationally extremely hard and nobody cared enough. 'Written in blood' is a great catchphrase for eliminating any discussion of cost-benefit tradeoffs, and the lives that could have been saved but for inaction by default.