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9901.
by api 8y ago
Time constraints + hyper competitive publish or perish environment = lots of bad or low effort research to pad publication totals.
9902.
by api 8y ago
News is interesting but site is awful. It's slow and I got an ad with an obvious malware popup. Blech.
9903.
by api 8y ago
Part of the problem is that globalism isn't. What today is called globalism is the free flow of international capital so that capital can do labor arbitrage. That benefits the ultra wealthy and large corporations the most. It also bene
9904.
by api 8y ago
Yes that's another similar and related phenomenon. There are similar stories around of parents finding their teenage kids programmed with neo-Nazi or similar ideologies from spending time in video game forums and then following some ra
9905.
by api 8y ago
I think Facebook helped create some of this problem with the algorithmic timeline. Content is prioritized to drive engagement. What drives engagement? Hate, fear, outrage, and extreme inflammatory rhetoric of every kind. Same goes for YouTu
9906.
by api 8y ago
Viruses have fast mutation rates and high generation sizes so they evolve very quickly.
9907.
by api 8y ago
The virus could very easily evolve to target a broader profile.
9908.
by api 8y ago
Viruses aren't loyal, so nation states would not be likely to unleash such a thing. Its more likely that something like this would be created by a lone nut or a fanatical apocalyptic cult or terror group.
9909.
by api 8y ago
In C/C++ you can easily do stuff that violates alignment constraints unless you totally avoid casts or packed structs.
9910.
by api 8y ago
So its the new thing we will be told is bad for you for a decade only to be told the next decade that it's actually good for you? Great! Marketers get two food fads: low iron today, iron rich when its reversed!
9911.
by api 8y ago
Maybe after several mega bubbles we are getting better at spotting them?
9912.
by api 8y ago
This inconsistency means you have to assume unaligned access is forbidden in portable code. Fun times.
9913.
by api 8y ago
Part of it is that we dont want to face what our forebears did in the 18th and 19th centuries to native populations. Better to portray Hitler as a comic book villain than as the culmination of a trend.
9914.
by api 8y ago
Put the two together. I don't think it's the end of civilization but I'm not sure how our society will deal with another 2008. We could be in for serious turmoil.
9915.
by api 8y ago
Rates have been near zero forever. They were still extremely low. The fed is trying to get back to something resembling normal.
9916.
by api 8y ago
Mass privacy invasion is probably one of today's trends that our descendants will look back on and say "what were they thinking?" Another example for comparison would be 1950s-60s mass atmospheric nuclear testing. Societies r
9917.
by api 8y ago
I've always thought of New Age as what you get when you puree every religious, philosophical, and occult/esoteric text together in a blender and then strain out the gritty bits. I do kind of agree that New Thought is a stronger in
9918.
by api 8y ago
Oh totally. There are lots of other examples. Issac Newton was into occultism and alchemy too, and Thomas Edison tried to build a machine to contact the dead using radio waves.
9919.
by api 8y ago
I'm agnostic about those allegations personally. Anything fringe back then was going to attract tabloid claims, and Crowley himself was a troll who was fond of promoting outrageous BS about himself for attention. They were a bunch of n
9920.
by api 8y ago
According to most of what I've read Parsons was kind of conned by Hubbard. They did have an association for a while but I don't get the sense that Parsons had any direct role in Scientology per se. Hubbard invented that later.
9921.
by api 8y ago
If anyone hasn't seen Strange Angel I highly recommend it. It's definitely the "Hollywood version" to some extent but it's relatively close to his biographies and is a decent watch regardless. The title and thesis
9922.
by api 8y ago
Democracy is more about limiting the negative than determining truth or wisdom or even executing on positive programs. It's a way of making sure ruling oligarchies can't completely ignore the condition or will of large numbers of
9923.
by api 8y ago
This is what centralized silos are like, have always been like, and will always be like. Unfortunately centralized silos also allow unprecedented convenience and ease of use. Nobody's figured out yet how to duplicate that in a decentra
9924.
by api 8y ago
On [2] note that they still technically consider landings "experimental" or at least "beta." Launch success is mission success.
9925.
by api 8y ago
Paging Terrence McKenna... :)
9926.
by api 8y ago
I think it was Hal Finney. If that's the case it means the creator of the first working cryptocurrency is presently cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen, once again proving that we live in a cyberpunk novel.
9927.
by api 8y ago
Yes. It also comes in the form of resentment or jealousy e.g. "those union fat cats make too much" vs "how could I make as much as those union fat cats?" Race to the bottom mentalities are deadly at all levels from worki
9928.
by api 8y ago
"Formerly privileged..." This is dangerous race to the bottom thinking. The hidden assumption there is that previous generations of middle class people didn't deserve it and that our overall standards should be declining. I w
9929.
by api 8y ago
Your last paragraph nails a lot of the source of modern middle class rage. White collar is now just barely middle class. Everything else is living hand to mouth.
9930.
by api 8y ago
Donald Trump is President of the USA, a dead pimp was elected to the Nevada state senate, and there is a red sportscar in a cometary solar orbit. Based on data points like these I predict DOGE will become the one world global currency. The

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