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by akiselev 4y ago
I’m just a cynic with the comedic sense of a Vogon and that was more an attempt at humor than a serious argument :-) Though I will add that morals and their reach often wax and wane. Chattel slavery is less acceptable today than it has ever
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by akiselev 4y ago
I bet Barnum and Bailey will make a come back in the future using the cryocrones as a way to get around all the animal rights objections, parading them around like Ludger Sylbaris [1] in the guise of fundraising for these cryorestoration ch
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Late last month, James Dolan, the company’s chairman, made clear how troublesome that was for the company…. It was a surprising admission for Mr. Dolan, _whose family controls AMC Networks_. (emphasis mine) I think this is just anoth
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by akiselev 4y ago
Please write to your Congress people in support of wildlife crossings [1]! Here in California especially, much of our infrastructure is aging and needs to be rebuilt in the coming decade. This is the perfect time to get wildlife crossings i
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by akiselev 4y ago
IANAL but I looked this up when the ElonJet story broke and even in states with very strong anti-SLAPP statutes, the defense can get really expensive really fast. In the California case Hill v. Heslep et al. the final legal cost to the
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by akiselev 4y ago
According to this infographic from the State Department [1], in 2019 44.5% of US citizens had passports (146 million valid passports in circulation). That rose to over 150 million in 2022 [2] but I can't find a percentage. For non-citi
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's also a word most people learned thanks to the fictional Malcolm Tucker character in The Thick of It (Season 3, episode 6 when he's yelling at Ben Swain)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Vaporizing nuclear fuel is how we enrich it. Uranium => Uranium Hexaflouride sublimed at 57C => Gaseous centrifuge to separate the isotope. We've been doing it since the Manhattan Project, since before nuclear power plants were e
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by akiselev 4y ago
Didn't the Tories run on making things worse 13 years ago (austerity)? Thanks to COVID, Brexit, and the war in Ukraine, they have succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
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by akiselev 4y ago
At this point UK government services don’t need reform, they need funding. Austerity has absolutely crippled everything.
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by akiselev 4y ago
There’s only one meme in British politics seen more often than Malcolm Tucker quotes: “It’s Corbyn’s fault!” It’s febrile at this point.
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by akiselev 4y ago
That referendum was poison pilled with the “alternative vote” and sold to voters as a easy path to the BNP getting elected. It was just as much party politics as the Brexit vote, not a genuine attempt at direct democracy.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Can we go back to autocorrect and just spell the words out? At this point they seem like some sort of secret handshake of the Eleven Society of Extraordinary Consultants.
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by akiselev 4y ago
I have a script to replace them with bits of H.P. Lovecraft so that anyone who unredacts the document can peer into the depths of madness.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared? Read the papers, they explain it all and characterize the tests.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yes, they would have. Still do. In fact, they built several experimental setups and were just short of testing fissile material before the program was canceled. If anyone would like a starting point for research instead of lobotomized rheto
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by akiselev 4y ago
The HAWT War or the War against Human Anthropogenic Warming Trends. You have to spruce it up a bit for the bureaucrats.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Nixon canceled the Mars program where the vast majority of cutting edge nuclear research was happening - tech like the nuclear lightbulb (search my comments for details) that could have matured and saved us by now. He was no friend to nucle
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by akiselev 4y ago
Look at the registered owner: FALCON LANDING LLC located at 1 ROCKET RD, HAWTHORNE, CA (Guess what other business is at 1 Rocket Rd on Google Maps) It wouldn't take much word association to connect the two without human involvement. It
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by akiselev 4y ago
> People had to do some sleuthing. The entirety of my sleuthing: google "site:faa.gov elon musk registration" That gave me the tail number and ICAO code in the first result. I had no idea what I was even looking for, just tha
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by akiselev 4y ago
On his jet registration [1] it lists the code as A835AF and I believe this is the flight to LA in question [2]. This means that he was not using the spoofed ICAO code from PIA, broadcasting the publicly known one instead. [1] https:/&
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by akiselev 4y ago
Oh man when I saw that and thought it was in my home town (South Pasadena), I didn't realize it was right at my gas station! It's a block or so down from my favorite Trader Joes too. His allegation makes little sense based on my k
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by akiselev 4y ago
Hey that's in my home town! I did a quick search and it looks like his girlfriend bought a house in Pasadena in 2018 [1]. So this stalker followed him home to Grimes' home and there's no police report? [1] https://
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by akiselev 4y ago
Case in point, I guess :-)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Be careful what you wish for cause you’ll accidentally get doors with one of those ghastly Genuine People Personalities.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Suffering leads to the management side
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by akiselev 4y ago
I’m arguing that there is no objectively or technically correct solutions to the work engineers are hired to do. You don’t “solve” a startup CEO or corp VP who changes their mind about the direction of the business every week. Ditto for con
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by akiselev 4y ago
Where humanity goes, evil [1] follows. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
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by akiselev 4y ago
If there’s a “tangible problem” people solve it with a SaaS subscription. That’s not new. We developers are hired because our coworkers can’t express what they really want. No one pays six figures to solve glorified advent of code prompts
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s not about empathy but about the fundamental nature of the job. Developers will be fine because software engineering is an arms race - a rather unique position to be in as a professional. I saw this play out during the 2000s offshoring

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