MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
> A recent analysis by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program also finds a preference for evolving dark energy, in the same direction as DESI DR2, but with a slightly lower statistical significance (bringing the combined significance d
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-american-middle-clas...
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
The USA is a net exporter of oil.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
"NoOneIsHappy.com" appears to be some sort of low-effort demoralization psyop or something. Who'd have guessed with a name like that?
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
It makes sense as physics (the QM version is even stronger), but the best part (given that we don't actually have time machines) is that it's a fantastic plot device. C.f. RAH's "By his bootstraps" or "Back to
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
This is also true in science; some things reward depth of study in a way that just isn't apparent from the outside. https://xkcd.com/877/
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
It is not an experimentally study. It's observational, e.g. from the paper: "we exploit the abrupt end of United Kingdom sugar rationing in September 1953 as a natural experiment." They didn't perform an experiment, the
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
The stuff about ancient Greeks not seeing blue is absolute internet balderdash.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/old-2
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Not blaming, exactly. But if the question is "why people don't quite feel like royalty despite all this" it's pretty obvious that "doom scrolling" might be a large part of the answer.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
> "...doom-scrolling..." This may be the load-bearing point of your lament.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
If our education system, hiring processes, onboarding/skill transfer support, career development pipelines and similar systems continue to degrade, we should have something like what you're asking for before too much longer.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Or you can just look at the geometry. 3d slop is orders of magnitude easier to spot than text slop.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
> The topology is usually an absolute mess This. "Absolute mess" may even be giving them too much credit, since most seem to have shot past "steaming pile" and are offroading in hitherto unexplored regions of sucky-sp
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Nope.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Fair enough. I grabbed the list above by searching HK.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Exactly the sort of analysis I've come to expect from Columbia.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Somehow this ended up on the wrong story?
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Exactly the sort of analysis I've come to expect from Columbia.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Agreed, but we don't need it to explain why people who lied about their age seem to live longer than average.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
For a minute I thought they'd found a cure for fatheads.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Yeah, but it's behind a cosmic paywall.
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/why-we-think-spacex-ipo-i... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elo... https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/p
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
> Negative coverage of the IPO was limited due to the participation of so many major banks in the IPO process; they don’t want to poison the cash cow they’re milking for underwriting fees. WTF? Anyone willing to read this far knows that
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
I've know executives like this; at some level they seem to be self aware enough* to realize that any message that passes through them will be garbled beyond recognition and so actively encourage people to route around them. * I know th
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
The difference is what happens when you come to depend on it. Do you want your airplane to be flown by a pilot, or someone who's so good at talking like a pilot that they can fool almost everyone?
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
The Mediterranean diet is tasty, but its supposed health benefits are mostly bunk; the whole "blue zone" longevity secret has far more to do with bad record keeping, pensions, and shoddy research than with diet. "Ultra-proces
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
You can want your e-scooter to be a jet ski, but you'll wind up having issues when you try to use it as one. LLMs are _really good_ at pretending to be something they aren't, but not always so good at being that thing, so you sho
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
> Musk himself told stories about his father having stacks of cash. Do you have a credible source for this? At best I'm seeing EDS conspiracy nuts (and Erol, though he seems to be all over the place). > No, that isn't what
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by MarkusQ 2mo ago
Musk didn't inherit his wealth, nor did he receive above average family support. https://thetechleaders.com/was-elon-musk-born-rich-exploring...

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