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I don't follow. Why is the GOP to blame here?

If the other party allows these cuts to expire, why wouldn't you blame that party?


These were... Introduced, and passed, by the Republican party? Seems kinda obvious that we should blame them. Let me know who you blame for cancer: the tumor or the doc who "let it happen"


Your not taking into account the time value of money. You always want to expense sooner.

Additionally, having to wait 4 additional years to deduct that 80% is a huge drain on capital.

Combine this with higher interest rates and the effect is essentially pouring sand into the gears of the tech industry.


I think what the parent means is that traditionally society is run with all age groups considered important.

A strong focus on the future with the aged proud of the sacrifices they make for the young.

Elders now are concerned with maximum, selfish value extraction and consumption.

They seem to detest and resent the youth and have done whatever possible to structure society in their favor with little regard for what will happen when they are gone.


Has the use of SSRIs or ADHD drugs while pregnant/breastfeeding been studied?


That sort of info that is routinely collected, when studies involve prenatal/postnatal data.

I had older relatives who were obviously or probably autistic but were undiagnosed - because who had even heard of autism then. AHD meds and SSRI weren't yet a thing - but these folks mostly predated even Tricyclic ADs.


The linked article conclusion is that there is no real increase in the real rate of autism, only in the measurements.


This just seems odd.

Why would they attempt a login from Russia (if it was indeed Russians)?

It is incredibly cheap to use a VPN with a US residential IP.


Maybe not everyone involved is quite the genius you might've been expecting.


I guess I don’t buy that.

Many non technical people use VPNs to access region restricted content. It is trivial to understand and use.

Assuming this all actually happened as described, it sounds like someone wanted it to appear that these attempts were coming from Russia.


And/or they just dgaf because they know they or anyone else involved won't ever be held accountable.


Occam’s razor would also suggest a hoax as one of several very credible possibilities.


Occam's razor would suggest someone from Russia could just use their own IP because people like you would think it's a hoax anyway.


Why does someone from Russia want access to NLRB data, and why would DOGE be immediately leaking just-granted NLRB login credentials to Russian assets when it would be trivially traceable back to them, and if they were in fact granted untraceable/unlogged admin credentials, could legitimately download the data themselves and simply hand it over to said Russian assets if that was their actual intention?

It's not behavior that makes any sense assuming even a semi-rational/intelligent actor.


> Why does someone from Russia want access to NLRB data

It has details of labor disputes. Which if you’re Russia who thrives on fostering conflict in the US would be an ideal data set.

> Why would DOGE be immediately leaking just-granted NLRB login credentials to Russian assets

Because they are young, highly inexperienced engineers who have been tasked with rolling out their LLM system as quickly as possible. Their priority is not security.


Your argument is that they are so inexperienced and insufficiently monitored that they immediately leaked just-granted NLRB login credentials (how?) to Russia, while rolling out an LLM system (what system?), and the Russian assets that acquired those credentials were so inept that they risked their access — and had their logins rejected — by immediately attempting to use them directly from a Russian IP block?

Furthermore, that the NLRB data would somehow be of sufficient value to Russian state actors to justify risking burning their access to DOGE employees/data/credentials through frankly idiotic OPSEC, despite there being much higher value targets than the NLRB?

This even remotely doesn't pass the smell test.


a) No one knows how Russia had the credentials but they did.

b) This system: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-just-getting-warmed-up-d...

c) DOGE under its current form will end in the next weeks/months as Musk moves on. So if you’re Russia the best bet is to get as much data now as you can.


> Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy activating.

Explains this:

> why would DOGE be immediately leaking just-granted NLRB login credential

The implication is that the credentials were for more than this specific system. It's entirely feasible that a bad actor would immediately try to vacuum up as much data from as many systems as possible, it's just that this system had a geo block that made it clear this was happening.

I don't think we need to assume that this was a targeted attack on this specific NLRB system, just that this specific NLRB system was the one that caught the attempts.

So, what systems DIDN'T block authentication?


Why? They want to be noticed, causing more chaos.


Not too surprising. The Gemini API free tier is quite generous:

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits


They train on your data. Even when you use the api. You have to both have a GCP account, be using the right model name and the api. “Preview” no “experimental”. This is so convoluted and hidden that there’s an argument to be made that that’s by design.


Every org is probably training on users data.

But for now, I'd say their latest model is quite good and they are offering it for free.

So I can digest it.


both OpenAI and Anthropic promise they don't train on user data when opted out and submitted cuts the API. You don't have to believe them, but that's their claim, anyway.


What’s your stack?


Next, let’s regenerate cochlear hair follicles!


How does that translate into kidney lifespan? I would expect only one kidney to “wear out” sooner, no?


Maybe he shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place?


> he shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place?

Was he arrested? The article only mentions a search.


Have you considered that the police or prosecutors in this case may be incorrect or corrupt?

Innocent until proven guilty is a cornerstone of our civilization. We should not shame anyone who has been searched or arrested by the police.


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I’m willing to let the government make their case, but let’s not pretend that a 6am raid from the feds is better than getting arrested.


A 6am raid from the feds is better than getting arrested. It is.


Actually, it's not. As someone who has been both raided by the feds and been arrested. Being raided is way more traumatic and gave me PTSD. Being arrested is easy as fuck. Being raided involves fully armed people busting into your home and tearing it apart and seizing all of your electronics.


Makes sense.

Would you be willing to share more about any of those situations?


I’ll add to the other comment: bursting in and searching your house will tramautize your whole family.

Compare that to an arrest warrant where you willfully turn yourself in.


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