@ltrd_ But what is the “signal” here, is it really so well defined in time that multiple parties understand it at the same time
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First part of the "Winner Takes It All" series on latency-sensitive signals. One microsecond can mean all-or-nothing for such signals. What "Winner Takes It All" really mean and does not mean in our examples?
ltrd@ltrd_
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@TheMindScourge someone hasnt watched american psycho
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Wisdom arrives when you understand that the “fakest” places in the world - extremely cosmopolitan cities like NYC for example - are also the most real
While all the “real” places - bucolic small towns - are actually the most fake
rachel@rachcorrine
Going to church in NYC is such a different experience than going in TX. Been trying to figure out the best way to describe it, but really it’s what makes everything in NYC better (at least for me). It’s real. Nothing fake about it. It’s not performative. You’re there because you want to be. You’re there because you need to be. All walks of life are in that church. The guy ripping the keyboard has dreads and is wearing a Yankees cap with green cargos. He has a toothpick in his mouth he’s smiling. The woman singing is all soul and she’s got jeans on and a simple black cardigan. The pastor is a hipster wearing a Sherpa denim jacket. Everyone around me is listening and praying. It’s not forced. You think God is dead in this city until you gather in a place where everyone is worshipping and you realize God is more alive here than anywhere you’ve ever been. What makes New York so special, in my opinion, is that nothing fake survives here. And that’s why God is alive here.
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@PronouncedHare Oh you dont like foreign influence on nz politics? Unless it is coming from mumbai of course
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All my replies today be like:
“’Ello me old china, fellow New Zealanders.”
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@dreadconquest “actual maori culture” = grifting and winz payments
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i love these conservative twitter dudes with māori usernames because they always expose themselves by not knowing a thing about actual māori culture lol
ānaru@ZooNealand
This is seriously a thing now, is it? 😬
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@blaiserize people like you are the reason this country is in the state it is today
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@lukechristensen you blurred the number in the second one but not the first
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Another classic NZ regional bus timetable. Call Peter (phone number supplied) if you want the bus to divert 12km return to Rawene to pick you up.
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@DanielW_Kiwi @PronouncedHare they were right, slippery slope that led us to the shithole we are in now
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From what I understand this is a tale as old as time.
In the early days of settlement Irish Catholics were often viewed distrustfully by Protestant settlers. Catholic schools, priests, and Irish religious identity could be seen as threatening to the colony’s “British” Protestant character.
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A very large number of very active Twitter accounts - including local ones - are completely brain poisoned by overconsumption of American politics.
Charted Daily@Charteddaily
Some explicitly racist accounts from overseas seem to have no awareness that modern NZ isn't an ethnically segregated society. If anything it's the opposite - almost 1 in 3 NZ kids have more than one ethnicity (including 70% of Māori, 62% of Pasifika, and 38% of European kids).
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@cheungkarkei @PronouncedHare maybe because you are not kiwi but some kind of oriental?
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@PronouncedHare Ethnicity isn’t the issue ( for me at least), it’s culturally and religious.
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@montezoma @PronouncedHare saar do not redeem the deport, no saar noooo
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@PronouncedHare New Zealanders have moved on from the politics of race and ethnicity, first and foremost we must treat everyone as a kiwi, and enjoy each other's cultural differences.
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@PronouncedHare Very strange that you will take an insulting tone against the english, but have nothing similar to say about indians and chinese
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@PronouncedHare Don’t worry, Ive been anti indian since the start
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But have you considered that a lot of people online see most things through the lens of American politics now and have accordingly absorbed uncritically the sudden upswing of racism against Indians?
Joseph Mooney MP@JosephMooneyMP
For example, the agreement specially says that skilled workers coming into NZ under the agreement “cannot have an intention to establish permanent residence in New Zealand.”
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@candlemaker4673 Maybe if the greens actually got a strong majority, which I don’t think will happen. Short term I agree that nact is better, but as long as the right wing is pacified by lip service nothing will change for the long term.
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@MagicTheFanatic I reframe voting from "fixing things" to "voting for the political climate in which I operate and live under"
The greens would throw us in jail, the nats and act pretend to be in favor of free speech.
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A vote for national or act is far worse for the country than a vote for greens.
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Watching this from an Indian-in-Germany lens: India is rolling out 500GW renewables by 2030 with a near-identical feed-in/PPA structure. Same subsidy logic, same coming negative-price problem - but with weaker grids and zero storage buffer. Germany's "disaster" is India's preview.
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Good Morning from Germany, where electricity prices are now regularly falling below zero around midday. On May 1, they even dropped to the floor at -49.999 cents per kilowatt hour. The reason is simple: we are generating more solar power than we can use or store. As a result, Germany has to cover the gap between these negative market prices and the guaranteed feed-in tariffs paid to producers—an expensive outcome. These prices are a clear indication of the utterly disastrous energy transition.
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@candlemaker4673 At least the greens will admit they dont like you, the “right wing” parties pretend to be on your team until stabbing you in the back
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@JosephMooneyMP Oh wow, an indian scammed thier way to the top of a tech company. This means you are not allowed to have a country anymore, thanks retard
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One last thing - at a time of the greatest technological change probably in human history, worth noting the Indian origin CEO’s leading many of America’s most influential and consequential technology companies.
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Pretty odd antics on New Zealand X this week about a free trade deal with India, a country that is on track to be one of the worlds largest economies, is a democracy in a world where those are very rare and authoritarianism is growing rapidly, and provides a massive new market for our trading nation in an era of the greatest geopolitical uncertainty in the last 80 years.
Rather than celebrating that; some have been trying to replicate some of the “great replacement” social media angst sweeping Europe - in some cases for what appear to be cynical political reasons, for others out of misunderstanding driven by what they’ve seen from those trying to scare them at a time when they already feel uncertain about the world.
The reality is that New Zealand’s sovereignty over permanent immigration, residency pathways, and citizenship remains fully intact.
The agreement is limited to temporary mobility, and does not create or lock in any permanent outcomes.
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@JosephMooneyMP Literally who would want to go and live in piss and shit to get a degree from jeet university? You have sold us out.
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The study rights are identical for New Zealand and India - both countries agree to grant study visas to students from each country provided they meet the eligibility criteria by recognised educational institutions, both countries agree to allow students to work for up to 20 hours per week, both countries agree to allow for temporary work rights post study “subject to their fulfillment of all relevant immigration requirements.”
A few additive observations here. New Zealand has never imposed a limit on international students from any country - some people trying to make an issue of this clearly were never aware of that.
Secondly, this does not affect New Zealand’s right to determine pathways to residence and/or citizenship.
Thirdly, 20 hours a week of study is actually less than what NZ currently can allow international students (currently can be up to 25 hours per week).
Fourthly, pretty cool opportunity for kiwi students to be able to go to India to study. The scale of India is extraordinary- it is opening a new university every week.
immigration.govt.nz/study/once-you…
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@KiddSpade1 I honestly think that we should just ban all non-Māori from a pepeha. Every time I hear it someone will say something fucking stupid or just offensive
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Public servant who uses his department as his Iwi when he does his pepeha
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@Empty_America Which is why trump is appealing, he is not working class and does not pretend to be. The working class are not made to be rulers.
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