Damon McCormick

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Damon McCormick

@damonmc

Katılım Ocak 2009

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@crictorz @steph_palazzolo It’s not absurd. It’s selling smart bullets that will only fire on lawful targets, and then the buyer asks you to disable the smart only-lawful-targets part. Also, these same smart bullets can instead be used to cure cancer, transform education, and develop clean fusion.

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Crictreo 🇰🇷❤️🇺🇸@crictorz·5 Mar

The Department of Defense said they would use AI for lawful purposes. Amodei said they wouldn’t. Who do you think is more likely to be right? lol It’s like selling bullets and then claiming you can’t supply them because someone might use them against civilians. That’s the absurd position here.

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo·4 Mar

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees on Friday that the OpenAI-Pentagon deal was "safety theater" and the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic because it hadn't "given dictator-style praise to Trump." He expressed skepticism at the safeguards OpenAI touted.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·10 Şub

@rschmied Devil's advocate: When not using a good document template, a common low-tech formatting time-saver is to open the last document created and then edit the body. It's plausible that someone opened a letter from the day before and replaced the text, but forgot to edit the date.

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Rob Schmied@rschmied·7 Şub

Just a version of the Epstein death announcement dated Friday, August 9th, day before he died in the official announcement which is dated the 10th. Carry on. justice.gov/epstein/files/…

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·25 Oca

@CourageHabit @DHSgov This is an American, a nurse. He was filming with his cell phone while carrying a licensed concealed weapon--a gun which he did not draw, even when ICE agents attacked and subdued him. Then they found his gun at his waist. After he was on the ground and disarmed, they shot him.

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Courage Is A Habit@CourageHabit·24 Oca

@DHSgov The only mistake your agents made was not shooting him sooner. It’s too dangerous to engage in a prolonged struggle with violent illegals, especially when the education-system-brainwashed rioters get involved.

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Homeland Security@DHSgov·24 Oca

At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·23 Oca

@Peter96355998 @RichardDawkins This has nothing to do with defending Greenland. It has to do with defending and enriching the US.

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Peter@Peter96355998·22 Oca

@RichardDawkins 10 years of Trumpism and you are still taking him extremely literally, falling for the bait every time. The issue is whether the USA should be financially responsible for the defence of Greenland - any other concern is irrelevant.

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Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins·22 Oca

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United Sates:

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·14 Oca

@Dundrum1960Guy @BretWeinstein Clarification: There are about 50M immigrants (around 25M from Latin America) but over 2/3 of them are legal. The illegal immigrant population peaked at ~14M. About 1/2 of US immigrants are Latino. About 1/4 are from Asia. tinyurl.com/mtpnwtky

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DundrumSkeptic@Dundrum1960Guy·10 Oca

@BretWeinstein There are north of 50 million immigrants from Latin America living in the US. There are less than 5 million Chinese living here. Both numbers are too big. But it’s very obvious which is the bigger problem.

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Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein·9 Oca

I have been baffled by the Trump administration’s obsessive focus on deporting Latin Americans while seeming to ignore the flood of Chinese migrants (mostly military age males) that we witnessed coming across the Darian Gap. The danger is all too obvious.

joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸)@JoshuaSteinman

30,000 military age Chinese males were released into country during the last administration. It is CRITICAL that we find them and deport them. Because a significant number are almost certainly part of covert sabotage and programs. Qilin Wu was one of them:

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·17 Ara

@Cackalacky2 @EricRWeinstein @POTUS It is. It’s far worse. He’s the president. He is not some rando bot account. He is supposed to put his personal agenda and self-interest aside for the good of the country.

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Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein·16 Ara

“passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others….” etc. etc. From a sitting @POTUS. I’m not afflicted with TDS. I can call balls & strikes, and this is madness and pure evil. You mustn’t EVER do this from *our* Oval Office. Period.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·14 Kas

@SamNewby_ CSV semantics with a different syntax, apparently.

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Sam@SamNewby_·13 Kas

just saw this on LinkedIn wtf is toon?

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·8 Eki

@AvailableLite9 @GavinNewsom Wrong. He was in office for the whole thing. Census offices were all opened in 2019. The actual census ran January 2020 - October 2020. Trump left office on January 21, 2021, three months after the 2020 census was completed. Name-calling and lies in all caps don’t change facts.

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Orian Holliday@AvailableLite9·8 Eki

Not after January 21, you lying, leftist, PoS. Trump was essentially hamstrung by the raft of lies, insults, and wild charges that you lefturds were throwing at him after the stolen 2019 election. Trump had NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER to effect the results of the census in 2020. AND YOU KNOW THAT! Yet... You continue to lie - about everything. Because the people who believe your lies are just as stoopid as you believe them to be.

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Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom·7 Eki

Donald Trump was the President in 2020.

Senator Jim Banks@SenatorBanks

The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady “privacy” formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and I’m fighting to fix it.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·1 Eki

@paulg @tyler__palmer I strongly suspect bots as well. And there are classes of inflammatory posts which seem to exist solely for the purpose of driving wedges between groups of people. Not sure who/what is behind those, but if that’s their goal, they are effective.

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Paul Graham@paulg·30 Eyl

@tyler__palmer I'm not sure. Maybe bots, maybe followers of a few really nasty people, maybe a lot of individual nut jobs. But I suspect someone looking at the internal data could see what was going on.

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Paul Graham@paulg·30 Eyl

There is something deeply wrong with Twitter. It has always been rough here, but in the past year it has become an even worse kind of nasty. Do you think maybe it's time to try to turn things around, Elon?

Adnan Hussain MP@AdnanHussainMP

Yesterday I became a father. I shared a photo of my newborn daughter, and many of you sent beautiful messages. Thank you. But I’ve had to delete it. The vile racism and hate directed at an innocent soul less than a day old was beyond depraved.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·27 Eyl

@satomiekou @dhh @jetbrains “Police officer”. “Firefighter”. Say what you will about these settings, but “fireperson” is a ridiculous strawman. Most people here in the US switched to saying “firefighter” rather than “woman fireman” 30-40 years ago.

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DHH@dhh·26 Eyl

Hey @jetbrains, you don't have to do this nonsense any more. I fully understand why companies felt cowed into these humiliations, but the woke regime has fallen, so you can stop performing its rites.

Ackshaey Vir Singh@ackshaey

@dhh This. Honestly I’m exhausted with these distractions, glad we’re getting focus back to just shipping good software. Every time my Jetbrains IDE flags ‘fireman’ as an error, I’m reminded of how far we let the Overton window shift this past decade

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·27 Eyl

@michaelharrigan You may be angry. You may feel like the half of the US that is more left-leaning than right are all violent criminals. But they are not. Your feelings aren’t facts either. Mentally ill people do, in fact, go kill people because they are mentally ill. Not because they are liberal.

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Michael@michaelharrigan·11 Eyl

I’m angry man. Woke up today feeling like I did 24 years ago. Angry and I can’t do a damn thing about it. The left are violent criminals. Your feelings aren’t facts. You don’t go kill people because you’re mentally ill. Start calling these people out. Enough is enough with this bullshit.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·19 Eyl

@jphanel1972 @cmzw_ I believe he is showing that the glow effect was achieved by combining all the previous effects

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Julien-Pierre Hanel@jphanel1972·17 Eyl

@cmzw_ Incredible work!! Specially glow effect

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·9 Haz

@julianhyde Unique

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Julian Hyde@julianhyde·7 Haz

I've informally used the word 'exhaustive' but it seems that 'injective' or 'total' might be better terms.

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Julian Hyde@julianhyde·7 Haz

Is there a word to describe a sort key where two distinct rows never compare the same? Where 'select * from t order by t.k' produces the same result even if the sort algorithm is not stable.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·13 Nis

@OntologicalMax @pickover We don’t replace stones after drawing. So in your 4 stone scenario, after drawing E there is a 1/3 chance of drawing the other E but a 2/3 chance of drawing O. So a 1/3 chance of drawing 2 that match in parity (sum=E) and a 2/3 chance of drawing 2 that don’t match (sum=O).

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Maximilian@OntologicalMax·13 Nis

There is an equal number of E & O, so the amount of each doesn’t matter. You can figure it out using just 4 stones, 2 of each. There are only 3 possible combinations: E+E, O+O, E+O. In the first 2 combinations, they will always add up to an even number. Only in the last combination will it add up to an odd number. Therefore, there is a 2/3 chance that any 2 randomly selected stones will deliver an even number.

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Cliff Pickover@pickover·12 Nis

Mathematics. In front of you is a stone labeled 1, a stone labeled 2, another labeled 3 -- all the way up to 100. (No numbers are repeated). You remove 2 stones at random. What's the probability their sum is even?

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·10 Nis

@primord_io @Jonathan_Blow The economy is not O’Leary’s area of expertise. It’s economists’. So who else should she talk to prep for asking questions about the economy?

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yearn.work@primord_io·8 Nis

@Jonathan_Blow How brashly she states what economists are telling her.... To Kevin O'Leary.

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Jonathan Blow@Jonathan_Blow·8 Nis

Why can't the reporter just ask questions and be interested in the guest's unique perspective, rather than pretending to know the answers (which she was briefed on 10 minutes ago) and fighting all the time? This is one reason why podcasts are winning. x.com/WallStreetApes…

Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

Kevin O'Leary EXPERTLY educates a liberal reporter on Tariffs This is the most educational and well put together explanation of what Donald Trump is doing with tariffs I’ve seen If you have any questions on tariffs, watch this discussion, you’ll be an expert:

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·10 Nis

@HDTVCamera @WallStreetApes Journalists should challenge the people they interview as well as controversial positions. Trump is controversial. And extraordinary measures demand extraordinarily good justifications. If journalists aren’t asking questions like this, they are not real journalists.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·3 Nis

@lefoudubaron @JamesSurowiecki Yes. And it agrees with what he said. Epsilon times phi is just a constant. Subtracting m_i (exports) from x_i (imports) gives the trade deficit. So the whole right side of the equation is just trade deficit divided by imports, times a constant. Which is what Surowiecki said.

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L’anglais, c’est rien que le français, malprononcé@lefoudubaron·3 Nis

@JamesSurowiecki This is the actual formula.

L’anglais, c’est rien que le français, malprononcé tweet media

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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·3 Nis

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki

It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.

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Damon McCormick@damonmc·3 Nis

@RaneyDraney427 @JamesSurowiecki He noticed that for each country, if you do simple arithmetic (subtract two numbers and divide the answer by another), you get exactly the same number as the administration is charging for tariffs. Everyone is checking for themselves and seeing he is right. Except you. Why?

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Donna Raney@RaneyDraney427·3 Nis

@JamesSurowiecki I'm so glad you are so much more knowledgeable than this administration. You should be president. NOT

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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·2 Nis

Just brilliant. Because Indonesia has a high tax on coffee imports, Trump's going to put a 32% tax on coffee imports from Indonesia - even though the US exports no coffee to Indonesia (or most anywhere else). He literally does not understand the concept of comparative advantage.