Trial eligibility required someone with documented evidence of treatment-resistant depression, with at least two prescription regiments in recent history.
Correct, screening was pretty thorough and there were a lot of sessions with therapists, blood tests, etc before they made the decision to allow her into the trial.
What a persecution complex you have. Those people should have been locked up for a lot longer than they ended up, along with the "leadership" which caused it.
True. They also do not hold insurance and typically do not have drivers licenses. Although CA will give one to anyone with a pulse...
Having been hit twice by non-insured, non-licensed drivers with no paperwork or legal status, they got off free while I had to pay for their crimes, damage and increased insurance rates for years. No sympathy at all for cheaters. Arrest them and confiscate their cars.
> Also a large proportion of illegal aliens crossed the border illegally. Which therefore makes them criminals, since improper entry is a federal crime.
that must be proven on a case-by-case basis and is impossible to determine by visual observation alone.
"The two laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households; and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens."
The Gestapo was only enforcing the law! Intermarriages were illegal. Which therefore made the Jews criminals, since violating race laws was a federal crime.
1. It's impossible to track X for only one group. In order to know who is in that group, and who is not, you need to be tracking more than that, necessarily.
Meaning, if you want to track which vehicles belong to "illegal immigrants", you need to know which vehicles belong to citizens. That means YOU. You are not exempt from this data collection.
2. This data can, and will, be used for evil. Anyone who believes that governments will always act in benevolence are, frankly, stupid. You're not stupid, are you? Okay, then you should be beginning to see the problem here.
3. Even IF the government always acts benevolently, and that's a huge fucking if, that doesn't mean they don't make mistakes.
Even if you are innocent, there is a risk here! Who is to say you won't accidentally be identified as an "illegal immigrant"? Is that a risk you're willing to take? For me, that risk is absolutely unacceptable - especially considering the sheer incompetence of our law enforcement agencies and the current administration.
I mean, our country is currently being run by drunkards and yes-men. Do you really trust these imbeciles to never make a mistake, ever? No, right? They've already made quiet a few mistakes, right? Remember the whole Signal thing? Yeah.
You have to look at the big picture here. You're advocating for a system that requires an absolutely unbelievable amount of trust in order to run properly. Do you really, truly, not see the flaws in that?
The world moved away from legitimate grievances to something else entirely. Hate speech in 2025 is not the same as it was in 2000. None for the better.
I'm going to share a tweet with you that is not my own tweet but one that more than 200k people have upvoted. If you want to see a list of topics that motivated Trump re-election: https://twitter.com/wildbarestepf/status/1854026810331365823
Those are a certainly list of ideas which right wingers have about the left. There's probably not much we can do about people who believe that stuff. They need to have a punching bag.
My main issue with right wingers is the derision, mockery, and anger which they direct at their political opponents. People talk about division in the country. I think that's by design. Right wingers have been doing this since the days when Paul Harvey was on the radio, and then later on Rush Limbaugh.
So mostly a bunch of topics the sheer majority of people are also concerned about, yet framed as if anybody who doesn't fall in line behind the double-talking autocrat is personally responsible for them? Sounds about right - the same old story of one arm of the media convincing its associated tribe that all the corporate authoritarian policies they're suffering from are the personal desires of the other tribe to deliberately harm them, and that more authoritarianism of the correct flavor is the fix.
I was responsible enough to put aside my hate for the system and vote conservatively, rather than indulging in lashing out at my fellow citizens. It's a true shame for western civilization that more people were not.
> This study evaluates the impact of generative AI on software developer productivity by analyzing data from three randomized controlled trials conducted at Microsoft, Accenture, and an anonymous Fortune 100 electronics manufacturing company. These field experiments, which were run by the companies as part of their ordinary course of business, provided a randomly selected subset of developers with access to GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding assistant that suggests intelligent code completions. Though each separate experiment is noisy, combined across all three experiments and 4,867 software developers, our analysis reveals a 26.08% increase (SE: 10.3%) in the number of completed tasks among developers using the AI tool. Notably, less experienced developers showed higher adoption rates and greater productivity gains.
A 26% productivity increase is... pretty big? There is obviously some noise in the data. But given copilots are pretty new pieces of tech, it does not seem impossible that there could be at least a 2x productivity growth available within the next 6-8 years. Given that SWE work is not particularly differentiated from CAD and similar types of knowledge work... is it really that unreasonable that AI could double the productivity of knowledge workers by 2030?
That's certainly worth a few trillion dollars in economic growth.
The last statement rings very true for me. When I'm coding up something in my bread and butter language and libraries, current LLMs can rarely help me do something faster than I can do it myself. But when I'm trying to write a script in an unfamiliar language, it's much easier to let an LLM do it and fix the parts it got wrong, than to figure out how to write it all in the first place.
At least depends on the approach and use: stuff like outlines (https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines) that actually changes the sampling to adhere to a grammar and can be used with local/custom models shouldn't be too impacted. Those are not really used on top of openAI models
