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by cultus 6y ago
Can we please not have articles from Quillette or any other sites that give a voice towards people who promote things like race science? https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/quillette-fascist-...
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by cultus 6y ago
That's really sad to hear.
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by cultus 6y ago
At least he can pay his bills with his books.
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by cultus 6y ago
The big gotcha with that is that most government projects have collaborators in academia, NGOs, and/or industry. To a big extent, the public domain mandate doesn't apply if workers outside of the government contribute. Thus manusc
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by cultus 6y ago
And yet Jack Welch somehow came to be looked upon as a management guru instead of someone who gutted the long-term viability of GE in favor of financialization.
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by cultus 6y ago
If anyone finds themselves in Seattle after the pandemic, the Living Computer Museum has a real live paper terminal connected to a mainframe running an early Unix (iirc) that you can actually use. It's definitely my favorite part of th
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by cultus 6y ago
This is really an important distinction. Social issues like gay marriage and things like this are completely orthogonal. The Democratic Party as a whole is very much neoliberal or liberal as opposed to left. Liberal judges are much the same
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by cultus 6y ago
I tried to take Pharo for a test drive a while back, but it doesn't support hidpi displays. It would be really cool if someone made an implementation with an IDE for the JVM, like Clojure. Something to make it practical and fit in with
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by cultus 6y ago
I hope someday there will be a Compiling to Categories-esque language. When it comes down to it, the essence of all of this is just keeping a rigorous separation of implementation and interface. Just build a language with that in mind, and
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by cultus 6y ago
Recycling wood products is actually quite environmentally unfriendly and produces inferior products. It really only makes sense to recycle glass.
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by cultus 6y ago
Hiring an actual IT person to set it up would be a very difficult expense for many small businesses. Cafes usually operate on very tight margins. I just find this law completely ridiculous and an obvious result of hysteria. It is not a rati
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by cultus 6y ago
We absolutely need more prescribed burns. This needs to be combined with selective cutting and brush clearance. The selective cutting can pay for itself much of the time with timber sales. On forest service land, timber cruisers select tree
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by cultus 6y ago
Not to mention the CFLs never lasted anywhere near as long as advertised, which is annoying and exacerbates the mercury situation further. This is why the environmental impact of something should always be examined holistically instead of j
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by cultus 6y ago
I know essentially nothing about superconductors, but if they all have essentially zero resistance, what makes one better for this application? I thought the main advantage of high-temp superconductors was using liquid nitrogen instead of h
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by cultus 6y ago
A marriage is a legal contract, not a piece of paper promising fidelity. Fidelity has not mattered legally for a while now. Romantic pairing is a common enough human thing that it makes sense to have legal constructs to protect both parties
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by cultus 6y ago
The cause he donated to was to deny LGBT people fundamental human rights. That makes one a bigot. Look up the Popper's paradox of tolerance.
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by cultus 6y ago
This is a good point and does not get that much attention. Electric cars are still large machines with a large environmental input. It is more environmentally friendly to just build out transit and encourage density. The vast majority of pe
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by cultus 6y ago
Not to mention liquid H2 has quite a bit lower energy density than liquid fossil fuels. Many rockets have used kerosene in their first stages for this reason. Not the end of the world for aircraft, but certainly another major disadvantage.
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm not a Biden fan, but Biden has since been a decent supporter of LGBT rights and pushed Obama on the issue. Eich never showed any kind of contrition like that. People can change. I am friends with a number of formerly homophobic peo
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by cultus 6y ago
How could you know that? He was CEO for 2 weeks. He took concrete actions to damage LGBT people. That's not just an opinion.
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by cultus 6y ago
Eich voted to deny gay people rights that straight people have. That's not a personal belief, that's a concrete damaging action borne of bigotry. If he had shown actual remorse for doing this, he would have been fine. But he didn&
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by cultus 6y ago
The vast majority of high schools where I'm from don't have public pools. Pools have also been less available historically to Blacks. After segregation ended, many jurisdictions defunded public pools rather than fund desegregated
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by cultus 6y ago
Considering they essentially abandoned doing certification themselves over 20 years ago, I would kind of doubt they have the institutional memory or people to conduct that function.
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by cultus 6y ago
Financial markets grossly misjudged risk and caused the 2008 financial collapse. The recession previous to that was caused by a tech bubble that saw Pets.com with a greater valuation than GE. These incidents of irrationality have huge long-
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by cultus 6y ago
I think this whole debacle really brings into focus how poor of a job our bloated financial markets do at allocating capital. Literally their one purpose that justifies their existence, and they are comically bad at.
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by cultus 6y ago
That is the standard in scientific computing languages, as well as math. Fortran and Matlab are both 1-based.
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by cultus 6y ago
Bikes are safe. Cars are unsafe because they often kill other road users. You have them confused.
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by cultus 6y ago
If it weren't for cars, traffic wouldn't need to be so tightly controlled because the stakes would be so much lower. While I don't condone running red lights, driver rage at cyclists running red lights or pedestrians jay-walk
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by cultus 6y ago
Soil loss and salinification is always a danger. It's better to farm as little and as un-intensively as reasonable, in my opinion.
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by cultus 6y ago
Do you build your own chips though?

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