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I mean, to the degree in which I expect there to be an election in 2 years, and 4 years, I suppose that counts as optimism. I've not seen any indication that elections themselves are under threat. Given that elections would happen at s
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I buy the gerrymandering concept at the congressional level. But Trump won the popular vote. He increased his numbers in 90% of counties. He grew across all demographics. This was not a structural failure. It was very clearly a country-wide
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It's a lot more than $500. For the few. It's $0 for the masses. A 1% reduction in corporate tax means millions in their pockets. Billionaires aren't the ones going to national parks. So they don't care if they're cl
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He disavowed project 25, but it was written by all his inner circle, and he hired them into govt. So, if the voter believed him, well duh. Musk was a big part of the inner circle before the election. His track record is well known. In other
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Democracy is not about what he does. It's all about how he comes to power. In 4 years the people will vote again.
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Ultimately the checks and balances are also elected. Directly in the case of congress, indirectly in the case of the judiciary. (Mitch McConnell obstructed merrick garland and was rewarded for it.) Of course unrestrained majority decisions
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Trump ran on saying whatever to whomever. his intentions though were obvious. He ran on cutting spending by 2 trillion. Where did people think this was going to come from? He ran on ending red tape. He ran on reducing regulation. These days
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I'm not sure what evidence suggests that Republicans in congress would grow a spine to resist this. Conversely the evidence since 2016 suggests they actively applaud it. The voters have voted out any congress people who resisted, sendi
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The goal of this exercise is not to fund worthwhile projects. This is not a cutting of the fat. It's a permanent end of funding so that the rich can get some tax breaks. The "big beautiful bill" has to be budget neutral to pa
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Musk's motivations are simple; the rich have been promised tax breaks, which means deep spending cuts. So gutting the parks service means no parks open to the public, but balances a tax break to billionaires. Same for "science&quo
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Bearing in mind that this administration won the election and a lot of what they are doing is more-or-less what they campaigned on, I'm not sure democracy is at risk. One can pick around the details, but for example with regard to the
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I read it rather that this is an economic question not a technical question. There's no point working on a 3rd party feature if the OS will have that feature built-in. Economically that greatly reduces the likelihood of a return. Espec
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>> Lowering the data protection of it's citizens in comparison to the rest of the world. I was under the impression governments were supposed to protect their citizens. This depends on whether you see "citizens" as indi
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There's nothing wrong with having fun. The past couple years I've been dabbling in ceramics. It's lot of fun, and I have a lot of stuff now, but its a hobby not a business. Frankly, making it a business would rob the fun from
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Firstly, I should say, there's no "formula" here. If there was I probably wouldn't post it on the internet :) Luck plays a part. (But you can work to give yourself more chance of good luck.) If I had to try and distil it
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so, given that all scientists and all fields have not immediately adopted this journal, can you elaborate on why some have chosen to not take this approach? By understanding their reasoning it's perhaps possible to understand what bene
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>> Yes, but it provides value only for scientist careers, not for science. That's a very definitive statement. But perhaps it is untrue? It would seem yes, that it's good for scientist careers.Are "good" careers ve
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>> Many of the prestigious journals do require an exclusive license Of course they do. But nothing forces the researcher to use those journals. So the question becomes why do they? Perhaps there's prestige involved? >> 1) F
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Right now, today, nothing stops academia from publishing every paper they write to be open to all. The internet is there and publishing is free. The fact that they don't implies that they perceive some value is provided by publishing i
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I get that you've worked on this for months, that you're burned out generally, and now unemployed. So this comment is not meant as "mean" but rather offered in the spirit of encouragement. Firstly, building a business (e
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Wait, what...? You leave your refrigerator and dishwasher behind? :) I guess it depends a lot on your location and custom. Also if the appliance is "built in" (like an oven) or free-standing. I've personally never left a free
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. What you are saying is correct. Now yes, society can make laws about private information to reduce the spread, like GDPR, but fundamentally that just stops the data spreading (a bit). The r
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Hah - yes... typing finger issues :)
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That's 1% of the speed of light. So a trip to the nearest star would take 400 years. Practically we need to go at least 10% of light speed to get much further than our closest neighbors.
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You're right. It's convenient for the US to blame "developing economies" (especially China) for the problem. Solutions like "buying off other countries" make sense. (And in itself is not a bad idea.) But it&#x2
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There's still a ways to go, but China are progressing faster at this than the US is. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-solar-wind-po... While the US looks at China as the convenient villan here,
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It takes a lot more than electricity to send a detectable signal multiple light years. And unless we're lucky, the minimum is likely to be tens of light years. Assuming we even found a likely star system, built some huge focused transm
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I'd add that, if done well, it humanizes the company. It tells us something about the author, and you don't get that in other forms of advertising. Fogbugz is just another company, but Joel took the time to write (well) about it i
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So many changes have happened in a single life-time. Political, societal, technological etc. And change is always unsettling. Most of all though the utopia promised in the 50s, by Walt certainly, but also others, has not come to pass. The M
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>> You need to find something where the pain is urgent, and unsurmountable. And that's very tricky. As you noted earlier, the tech is the easy part. As you note here, finding customers is the hard part. Naturally doing the easy p

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