allturtles

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by allturtles 1y ago
> Some of horses will become drivers of cars An amusing image, but your analogy lost me here.
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by allturtles 1y ago
> What's so bizarre to me is how many people have strong opinions on NYC congestion pricing who have never been and will never go to NYC. All kinds of seemingly local issues are getting sucked into the vortex of the national politic
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by allturtles 1y ago
“Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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by allturtles 1y ago
> she is a Biden political appointee The obvious difference is stated in the post you are replying to: "Congress hasn't approved him." > She earned a Ph.D. in American studies from New York University in 2003. The NSF
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by allturtles 1y ago
> There wasn't much innovation in telecommunications once Bell's monopoly was entrenched. Once it dissipated, innovation was everywhere in the space. I don't think that's accurate at all. If we take say 1920 or so as
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by allturtles 1y ago
I think the point is that once robots can do everything human bodies do and AIs can do everything human minds do, there is nowhere left for humans to go. Just like horses didn't find new employment when internal combustion engines reac
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by allturtles 1y ago
Many actions that are individually intelligent can be collectively disastrous.
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by allturtles 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_level
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by allturtles 1y ago
> Is the article wrong? Yes. Or more to the point, it is uncritically repeating the medical theories of its eighteenth-century sources, which were wrong. See also [0], [1]. People had a really hard time figuring out how to stop scurvy, a
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by allturtles 1y ago
I don't understand. Why do you need an AI for messages like "My daughter has the flu and I won't be in today" or "Yes 2pm at Shake Shack sounds good"? You just literally send that. Do you really run these thing
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by allturtles 1y ago
What would the unbiased version of this report look like? "...after SUPERMAN Elon Musk's...", "...after NATIONAL HERO Elon Musk's..."? In what way would you like journalists to show their deference to this grea
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by allturtles 1y ago
If they were betting that, they could file an appropriate lawsuit against Harvard for violating the terms of Students for Fair Admissions. But of course they are not doing that, because the goal is ideological control of the universities by
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by allturtles 1y ago
If this is for science it's cutting off the nose to spite the face: the scientists are the ones that need the billions that are getting cut off and who are shutting down their labs right now. The humanities people have miniscule resear
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by allturtles 1y ago
Your first link involves laws passed by Congress. But there is no relevant law that requires "viewpoint diversity" (whatever that means) or most of the other demands in the government letter, this is simply an executive diktat. Yo
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by allturtles 1y ago
That's like the whole point of satire, that it takes something true and exaggerates it to make a point in a humorous way. See "A Modest Proposal."
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by allturtles 1y ago
> The people we must be concerned about that are arguing for a single viewpoint controlling American universities are those like yourself that oppose pluralism. I'm all for pluralism. I have no objection at all to the existence of a
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by allturtles 1y ago
Because I read the letter from the government to Harvard. Did you? Racially-based admittance is only one bullet out of ten. The government isn't demanding specific policy changes, they are demanding cultural and ideological control of
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by allturtles 1y ago
So, we should have merit-based hiring with respect to race and gender, but then have a quota-based system for political affiliation? How do you even measure this? Who counts as a "conservative"? MAGA-only, or do we get to count RI
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by allturtles 1y ago
So, there you go, the market has spoken.
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by allturtles 1y ago
> Do you think Harvard should admit students that are, "hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence Sure, why not? Everything should be open to criticism at our
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by allturtles 1y ago
Conservatives should start their own universities, if they aren't happy with the existing ones. The federal government has no business enforcing conformity to certain ideological demands in private institutions. It's right there i
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by allturtles 1y ago
> More explicitly the letter demands that tenured professors be given more decision making power than non academic activists. 1) Granting that giving more power to tenured professors would be a good thing, in what way is it legal, wise,
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by allturtles 1y ago
The dispute between Harvard and the Trump has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. You can read the government letter and see for yourself, none of it is about Harvard spending research money irresponsibly. It is an attempt to assert d
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by allturtles 1y ago
Why do you consider it alarmist? Trump has repeatedly said he would do it, and that he's "not joking" about it.
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by allturtles 1y ago
As the Harvard letter says, "I encourage you to read the letter to gain a fuller understanding of the unprecedented demands being made by the federal government..." This goes far beyond a demand to follow existing civil rights law
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by allturtles 1y ago
Cool! Part 2 on "gluing laminations" got me to wondering how an ancient/medieval bowyer would have actually glued the layers together, considering they didn't have access to polyvinyl acetate. Wikipedia has some clues at
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by allturtles 1y ago
There was a very good exploration of this in the context of boardgames here: https://stonemaiergames.com/the-math-of-tariffs/
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by allturtles 2y ago
A somewhat shallow comment, but why do post-Cold War U.S. weapon systems have such intentionally bland names? ATACMS, HIMARS, etc? They used to give weapons names that made them sound aggressive, dangerous, legendary, bold: Thor, Dragon, Ph
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by allturtles 2y ago
The issue is that the availability of money gives people an incentive to be counted , even if they don't live there.
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by allturtles 2y ago
I don't know anything about cloud VMs, but I'm confused about how this is possible. Wouldn't determining whether you are HIPAA complaint depend on auditing all kinds of application details about how information flows through

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