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by api 3mo ago
They use what looks like an impossible computational result to back into the idea that this is indirect evidence that gravity is quantized. The controversy here is whether gravity is continuous (as classical Einstein models it) all the way
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by api 3mo ago
They cost money or take many hours of time. Many families have neither. For the record I’m not a fan of the way this stuff is being pushed. At the same time, I feel like a lot of people are totally out of touch on a lot of the reasons why s
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by api 3mo ago
After the election my very first thought was that this is the start of the Chinese century, since America has voted to step down. Seems to be playing out.
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by api 3mo ago
I’ve wondered for a while if anyone is working on very wide channel parallel (kind of like RAID 0) SSD for this purpose. Couple that with a tensor processor and that would be interesting.
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by api 3mo ago
A point I don’t often see made is: the argument that “the parents need to parent” is unintentionally classist. Wealthier people who can afford to have one parent stay home or have babysitters or nannies who will actually supervise the kid c
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by api 3mo ago
To be honest and objective, I think he at least knows enough about engineering to hire people who know what they're doing, which is how he got here. It's not all chicanery. Over time, though, I think he's drifted away from hi
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by api 3mo ago
I realized a while back that Elon Musk isn't Iron Man. His superhero (or supervillain depending on your view) persona is ZIRP Man, the master of riding successive credit expansion and speculative waves. It's sort of ironic that he
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by api 3mo ago
It’s almost like the stuff the IPv6 people and the P2P protocol people have said for 25 years was true and correct but nobody listened or cared.
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by api 4mo ago
It’s a demand spike.
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by api 4mo ago
The same thing happened around PCs, gaming, the Internet, the web, and cryptocurrency. It's a hit driven industry that loves hype.
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by api 4mo ago
Nerds are no better or worse than other people. Dump massive money and power into an industry and you will get unhinged shit like this that bubbles to the surface. Some of it is the mask falling off and some of it is people genuinely gettin
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by api 4mo ago
Programming has already become this way. Opinions about different languages and architectures are taste, or sometimes even just vibes. Few try to actually ask “can I quantify whether microservices or monoliths are better in terms of either
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by api 4mo ago
That would be a lot still. That’s a lot of money. I’d bet on extreme irresponsibility.
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by api 4mo ago
Misanthropic levels of cynicism is always the fallacy of self-exclusion. "People are idiots." Well, that means you're an idiot then.
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by api 4mo ago
This is the right answer. There's a ton of easy low hanging fruit ways to do absolutely horrible evil things with high potential body counts. I could sit here and brainstorm dozens.
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by api 4mo ago
Chernobyl instantly comes to mind. The giant problem with that particular RBMK design was known to a few people, but nobody fixed it, and if they had... we wouldn't even know, since it would be lost to history.
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by api 4mo ago
Real programmers use uintptr_t for pointers.
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by api 4mo ago
Technically yes, but usually I think there’s a racist undercurrent to xenophobia. The US stopped accepting refugees recently… except white South Africans. I’d say these people share no more culture or values with the average American than a
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by api 4mo ago
Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer. You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.
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by api 4mo ago
Why just ethnic? It can also be religious, ideological, or based on some economic interest. The US revolution was a mix of tax revolt and ideology. The British were the same ethnic group as most of the leaders of the revolution.
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by api 4mo ago
It wasn’t that long ago that American racists debated whether Italians and even Irish were truly “white.” The definition of white had expanded considerably over the years. Eastern Europeans, Jews (of course), and Russians were also at times
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by api 4mo ago
It uses container based virtualization under a single host kernel instead of VM based virtualization.
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by api 4mo ago
I look at this as a technical problem. We just aren't very good at this yet. We are, in fact, slowly getting better. Renewable energy was the largest category of new installed energy for the last few years at least, and that's a s
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by api 4mo ago
Social media hasn't been "social" in more than a decade. It stopped being that when algorithmic feeds and infinite scroll were introduced.
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by api 4mo ago
That means most people can never have it, which is why romanticism ends up pining for aristocracy.
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by api 4mo ago
I didn’t mean to come off as criticizing you, just providing a balancing counterpoint on some of the ideas. The question is: can you give billions of people the “authentic” version? In some cases you can. In the US at least there’s boutiq
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by api 4mo ago
When it comes to these lines of thinking, and to romanticism which is closely related, I have a hard time not seeing some of it as disdain for the middle class and nostalgia for the stories classic aristocracy told about itself. I’m America
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by api 4mo ago
Turn it off, then. I’ve almost completely turned off social media. Realized I’m missing nothing. All this stuff can pretty easily be ignored.
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by api 4mo ago
Doesn’t that make a feedback loop though? Poor health equals higher health care overhead, lower productivity, more family issues, and overall worse outcomes all over the place. That in turn is going to make educational outcomes worse and ch
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by api 4mo ago
My take for a while is that if the low birth rates persist and do become a critical problem, we might just have to do a boring thing that we do for other areas where the unregulated market or society doesn’t produce enough of something or d

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