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by cultus 6y ago
Just to show how absolutely demented our financialized economy has become, look at the stock of Tiziana Life Sciences this year, with stock symbol TLSA: https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tlsa-stock?utm_so...
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by cultus 6y ago
I've seen it a few times elsewhere. I should really just quit my job and become rich by bullshitting investors with technobabble.
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by cultus 6y ago
It makes sense for Apple though, because what the devs are really paying for is access to Apple's closed-source ecosystem, not the tooling itself. This company has no such market power; why would anyone want to pay for Zen, when it has
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by cultus 6y ago
Prescribed burning is usually done outside of the peak season (often in the later Autumn) just so it is more controllable and less intense. It's amazing how fires can differ. Many "good" fires just essentially smolder for mon
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by cultus 6y ago
That's an incredibly naive statement. Governments are highly interested in social media.
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by cultus 6y ago
Radio emissions can be tuned almost exactly by frequency; this is how tuning an AM/FM radio works. Most applications also have more-or-less exclusive access to their band. All of the regulation that the FCC does is mainly to prevent in
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by cultus 6y ago
Governments could simply introduce interference on the frequencies used, which would cost essentially nothing.
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by cultus 6y ago
If they are lying about the drivability of One (which they almost certainly are), what does that say about Two? They've fairly obviously faked other tech, including covering up an OEM logo on an ostensibly original piece of tech with d
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by cultus 6y ago
They could completely discredit the Hindenberg report simply by release a video of the truck clearly driving under its own power. They haven't, and instead are just issuing these legal threats against shorters. This hysteria against sh
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by cultus 6y ago
Proto-indo-european would be a better unity option so as to not show favor to Romance-speaking countries.
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by cultus 6y ago
Not really. Personal cars are just not a sustainable solution. Personal electric cars are less worse, but still are large machines toxic batteries and still require massively more energy than is necessary for the task of moving their compar
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by cultus 6y ago
These companies have significant influence over government. This has lead to public transit being gutted and most people being forced to own a car. Car companies invented the concept of "jay walking" to banish people from public s
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by cultus 6y ago
I really don't understand the panic about Chinese surveillance with TikTok when we have Facebook, which is far worse in the depth of what they collect. This just erodes the confidence in American rule of law for no particular reason.
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by cultus 6y ago
I mean, it's not that impressive. I have like 3 of them.
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by cultus 6y ago
People holding long positions do shady stuff all the time as well. I don't see the distinction.
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by cultus 6y ago
Why is there this attitude that short positions are somehow less moral than long positions? I really don't get it.
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by cultus 6y ago
Yes, but it is possible due to a number of feedback effects that are still very, very poorly constrained. It's a low-probability risk, but the damage if it occurs is literally apocalyptic. We should plan for it, just like how people we
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by cultus 6y ago
It literally says 8C average surface warming globally in the abstract, just a few sentences in: "In addition to the warming from rising CO2 levels, this instability triggers a surface warming of about 8 K globally and 10
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by cultus 6y ago
e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0310-1 The IPCC report is rather out of date at this point. There's a number of positive feedback mechanisms such as cloud cover and methane clathrates that are stil
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by cultus 6y ago
I am a former geophysicist, and credibly we could see on the order of an 8C rise this century. It's much worse than the general public thinks, and the picture keeps worsening as understanding of the system and its feedbacks increase. A
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by cultus 6y ago
Scala might be something worth looking at. There's a lot of libraries on the JVM, but sparse linear algebra is still kind of a wasteland compared to Python or Numpy. I wish someone would just make some good bindings to Eigen or somethi
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by cultus 6y ago
In my opinion, static languages don't bring a whole lot to the table with numerical math. There's not many types for one. You basically just use matrices and vectors of floats most of the time. What would really be a bigger deal i
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by cultus 6y ago
Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts. That's generally how the rich avoid paying taxes as well. We have due process for the privileged. Tell all of the poor
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but can anybody point to an example of machine learning used in law enforcement that hasn't lead to inequitable outcomes?
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by cultus 6y ago
I also don't think it is a an iron law (horrible term), but I think you're overstating the claim here. It's only that there a tendency for wages to fall to subsistence. There is a positive feedback in wealth accumulation, so
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by cultus 6y ago
For me, listening to human DJs on non-commercial radio stations has expanded my knowledge and tastes massively. It's a good way to learn about a wide variety of music and keep current. That knowledge can be used as a springboard for fu
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by cultus 6y ago
Statistically, people with wealthy parents are far more likely to be wealthy than those of poor parents. Bezos would have been far less likely to create Amazon did he not get that loan. Do you dispute this?
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by cultus 6y ago
It was actually gifted to him by his parents, in the form of a $300,000 loan. How is it so difficult to accept that the vast majority of the wealthy were helped by having wealthy parents rather than pulling themselves up their bootstraps?
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm not sure how this is apparently a controversial point. There's vast and obvious evidence that this is the case. More Dunning-Krugerism from the tech industry.
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by cultus 6y ago
Buying from Amazon does not imply endorsement of Jeff Bezo's politics and economic interests. Your equivalence between that and AOC's grassroots support is completely nonsensical.

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