Alex Balashov
@abalashovVoIP engineer, Kamailio consultant, SIP systems developer, semi-serious road cyclist.
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I have, historically, zero interest in, and close to zero understanding of American football. But, I happened to flip on the UGA vs. GA Tech game because I was looking for the 11 o'clock local news, and... y'all. That was a game. 8 overtimes. Hot dawg!
I heard a persuasive argument from the Atlantic's @anneapplebaum today, on @ezraklein's show, about how all this appointing of clowns and jesters is historically typical of fascist types, quite strategic, and isn't actually a manifestation of incompetence. It forces everyone…
Some of us just completely disagree with the metrics however, which seem to assume that all humans desire the same well blended vanilla smoothie.
There’s nothing individually unjust about this "bank of mom & dad" situation. It’s just that the sales pitch of America has always been upward social mobility, to break free of the shackles of intergenerational poverty (or wealth) in other places. If you take that away, it draws…
"This is why #LLMs are so good at spitting out boilerplate code, but can’t even begin to explain in detail why or how they’ve made the decision they did. It also shows why they struggle to bring in separate or new creative ideas into your codebase without often numerous errors."…
"The economics are likely to be grim. Sky high valuation of companies like OpenAI and Microsoft are largely based on the notion that LLMs will, with continued scaling, become artificial general intelligence. As I have always warned, that’s just a fantasy. There is no principled…
If I understand correctly, Trump is reproducing the very Bolshevist idea that there should be cells of purely political appointees -- serving no purpose but to enforce ideological alignment and report to the "verkhushka" (top) on issues of personal piety -- in every sphere of…
"Human beings of the 9.9 percent variety also routinely conflate the stress of status competition with the stress of survival. No, failing to get your kid into Stanford is not a life-altering calamity." -- Craig Cutler, "The Birth of the New American Aristocracy" (The Atlantic,…
"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries
"[P]eople are gleeful to admit they have no hobbies, no interests, no verve. Somehow, one of the main 'hobbies' accepted by the masses is staying home, laying in bed, scrolling on their phones and watching television." Interesting commentary, and, I think, tracks with reality.…
It is disappointing that "leftist" has come to mean staking out a position in some BS culture war about identity politics, rather than to represent primarily a current of opinion on matters of substance, such as political economy, or technocratic interests related to the…
Here’s my pitch, one iPhone screenshot’s worth of principles for Common Sense Democrats to reform governance in the blue zones and be competitive in the red zones — delivering a coalition that can win on health care, reproductive rights, the safety net, and quality for all.
"'The idea that you could win an election to avoid justice just cuts so deeply against my expectations for our legal system and for our politics too,' said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney and NBC News contributor. 'But the voters have spoken, and that’s where we are.'"…
If you want to understand what's happening, forget about "the economy" and immigration and all that. This is happening all over the world, among people who think that others are *unjustly* living better than they are - even while they themselves are living well.
We ran 80,000 simulations tonight. Jason Calacanis bragged about investing in Uber in every single one of them.
So if you're a 2020 denier, what's the new gospel, they just forgot to do it this time around?
The fact that so many Americans of all ethnicities, geographies and colors wanted to see Democrats pay a resounding price not just for policy decisions but for a larger circa-2020 indulgence paid to so many deeply unpopular activist perspectives simply has to be taken seriously.
Don’t have the energy to rebut bad takes one by one, but if you look at the breadth of the loss across the map and come up with “one weird trick for how Democrats could have won by being more left-wing” then you’re just not engaging with reality — which I guess is your business.
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