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Comment · 2 days ago

There's a tier which is just, "summarize things and do grammar checks, style tweaks, and boilerplate generation". Maybe this is Lite. It's like how computing requirements for most people nowadays is "run a browser".

Comment · 7 days ago

It would depend on the cases he takes. But Burisma interests were very closely tied to Ukrainian interests, which are not necessarily US interests. So it was clearly improprietary.

It is true that there were conflicts of interest for other work that Hunter did, though, such as when his father was visiting China on a diplomatic trip.

Comment · 7 days ago

Sure, I'll say it explicitly! Government employees are supposed to avoid not only conflicts of interest, but the appearance of conflicts of interest. https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/appearance-of-a-confli...

If you are working for the government on relations with a particular country, and your son gets a job paying $750,000 a year working at the biggest company in that country, then you need to resign or get your son to resign.

Please let me know if you want further clarifications.

Comment · 7 days ago

So you agree that she is a nepo baby. That is, not particularly qualified. The thing is, when you are the vice president of the United states, and as the article says, "the Obama administration’s point person on relations with Kyiv", then any reasonable person would say you should be careful about letting your children take advantage of their nepobaby status in Kiev specifically!

Regarding compensation for the position, you had said "of course he was compensated, board members are often compensated". I am pointing out that it is very unusual for them to get that much compensation, to the point where you should be suspicious.

Comment · 7 days ago

Directors at Exxon get about a sixth of what Hunter made: https://contracts.justia.com/companies/exxon-mobil-500/contr... So yes, it's pretty high.

Comment · 7 days ago

It actually was unusual. He had no experience with the energy sector or Ukraine, and he was paid $65,000 per month, which is pretty high.

https://proof.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0930/Joe-and-H...

Comment · 1 month ago

teaching whom

Comment · 1 month ago

I really enjoyed The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams. It is a testament to his obsession with all aspects of one particular compound motion. I wrote more here: https://ctd1.substack.com/p/book-review-science-of-hitting

I'm now reading Brothers Karamazov, because someone else on HN recommended it (well, that was the immediate catalyst, but I've been wanting to read a big Russian novel). There's a lot of jawing about the church which is a little boring, but I'm appreciating the way all the characters are bursting with life and feeling. And also that Dostoevsky never beats around the bush.

Comment · 1 month ago

I wonder how many Wikipedia articles have XKCD comics?

Edit: I asked Opus 5.5, medium effort, and got a lame answer. Then asked it for "extra" effort, and the summary of that is:

WP->xkcd: Ballmer Peak, Geohashing, Time, a few other passing mentions

xkcd->WP: Missal of Silos, Rolle's Theorem, at least 54 other general references to WP

Comment · 1 month ago

Wow, I feel like new DLC just dropped. The first twenty has echoes of American Graffiti, and expands on the Luke-Owen-Beru relationship.

Comment · 1 month ago

IIRC the writing was on the wall by 2002. The x86 hardware was finally good enough that first there was a lurch to WinNT, then Linux once people realized NT wasn't as stable or developer friendly.

Comment · 1 month ago

Populace

Comment · 2 months ago

No. If OpenAI were being responsible and not criminally negligent, at the top of page 1 of the runbook would be "don't connect this to the actual Internet, even if the agent says Please."

Comment · 2 months ago

Hoy, cocky!