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by kepler1 3y ago
Here's a philosophical (?) topic I would love to hear opinions on the occasion of remembering Ellsberg's contributions. Some would say that the transparency of revealing the Pentagon papers caused us as a people for the first time
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by kepler1 3y ago
What's your point? Everything with a price is unkind to poor people. So you can't do anything that affects poor people? What rule/principle are you suggesting then, to get anything done?
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by kepler1 3y ago
Is this a case of: "private equity / venture capital ruins everything"? And relate to that, who exactly (what person) is applying pressure to the company directors to do this, who is it seeking to benefit, and who exactly is
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by kepler1 3y ago
Does anyone else get the feeling that the "great filter" to our continued global civilization advance is how you manage, after reaching a certain size, the millions of competing motivations and concerns that branch out and cause c
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by kepler1 3y ago
By the way, if you know, what are the kinds of detectors at the other end of the laser pulse that receive the signal? Are they like the pixels of a CCD but without the need for periodic / time-bound readout? They just are like silic
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by kepler1 3y ago
I was thinking somehow that the response / recovery time of the silicon detectors to react to the laser pulses would be a limiting factor, is that at all valid? Like, you cannot blink faster than <x> nanoseconds and get a CCD(?)
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by kepler1 3y ago
Thanks for that -- And is something analogous not possible for electrons in a wire?
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by kepler1 3y ago
Can someone help be understand "intuitively" why light is able to transmit so much more than electrons over a wire (is that even correct)? I guess this is a request for ELI5. Is it because with light, you can basically cram infi
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by kepler1 3y ago
Well, just like the giant oak that falls and gives nourishment to the forest saplings seeking to grow, so do senile old people give away their wealth to young hungry people in other countries seeking to sustain their internet scam businesse
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by kepler1 3y ago
I don't know whether it's the general awareness of it that has been increasing or what, but it seems like job scams, bank scams, rental scams, these are all exploding in frequency lately. Sometimes, it feels like we're in the
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by kepler1 3y ago
Although it was a little bit of a long way to get to a point, I did somewhat appreciate the article's going into the idea of the circuit structure and look up tables. It made me think (and I don't know if this is an apt analogy),
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by kepler1 3y ago
Somehow, I see 2 empty campuses merging to sell off their real estate value that is currently worth more than any new intellectual property being produced.
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by kepler1 3y ago
I wonder, have they considered recruiting from the Vatsim online community? Not sure what side effects this might have of course, but you would think that that is already something of a helpful screening mechanism for people who are both
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by kepler1 3y ago
Maybe someone remind me, why Intel leadership thought they should get into the business of doing this?
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by kepler1 3y ago
Why is it that I always have to "talk to you" when I'm at a big company to get a quote, instead of just receiving some standard price I can see on the page? Is it because, working for a big company, there's a sales targe
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by kepler1 3y ago
Now that the ruling has landed, it's clear she's going to prison, and her born and unborn kids have outlasted their purpose, I'm sure she's going to ship them off to whatever outsourced child supervision service she&#x27
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by kepler1 3y ago
Again, "genetic" is not maybe what some people want to think it means, as an immutable thing. People's genes (as a population) change over time, education and culture select for different things. One group now, even if yo
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by kepler1 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you, I meant the general reader.
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by kepler1 3y ago
The problem I see on this topic is that many people takes sides on the debate it as if it were an immutable story, to be used as a judgement for all time, fueling people's good or bad political purposes. But if anything, time and histo
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by kepler1 4y ago
I wonder if a lot of things in society are going to require some kind of physical in-person proof because of our inability to distinguish fake from real at some point soon.
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by kepler1 4y ago
Sometimes I am grateful that our country is so large and prosperous that it can afford to have industries that exist like minor parasites on the government and the people, sucking just enough for their sustenance off the inconvenience of ev
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by kepler1 4y ago
If I were being snarky I could say that this makes one reminisce of days when the engineering was so important and everyone was so focused on it that there was not even time to think of the publicity and marketing of what they were about to
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by kepler1 4y ago
Why are LGBT youth for some reason the special subgroup of people against whom every concern about rights being tested against? More so than anyone else's rights? It's like they somehow occupy a privileged position in your mind
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by kepler1 4y ago
I wonder if a nasal spray (or a tablet) is enough to make vaccine deniers change their minds. Sometimes you wonder, is all the ridiculousness of their protest because they're just afraid of needles and injections?
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by kepler1 4y ago
There is a pattern emerging in my mind. Whether the novel political upheaval of the day is anti-monarchist revolutionaries, anti-Communists, or LGBT/BLM/defund-the-police activists, it takes the silent majority of moderate reasona
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by kepler1 4y ago
There is a pattern emerging in my mind. Whether the novel political upheaval of the day is anti-monarchist revolutionaries, anti-Communists, or LGBT/BLM/defund-the-police activists, it takes the silent majority of moderate reasona
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by kepler1 4y ago
What this indicates to me is that most websites are in a constant state of breaking and needing maintenance, such that no company wants to have even a small distraction / obligation / annoyance of keeping a site up. Has the feel
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by kepler1 4y ago
Well, I mean in a sense it's a laughable game that companies and their executives (and their employees) play, isn't it? There's a constant battle going on, and not just a little because of the company's own choices, don
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by kepler1 4y ago
One chooses to work on health, privacy, face / fingerprint / camera apps on iPhone, are given a work iPhone with proprietary / internal experimental software explicitly for use by employees, and are somehow surprised that par
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by kepler1 4y ago
I imagine people in the actual real world looking at a story like this and wondering why someone's teacup soap opera in the SV tech bubble rises to worthiness to broadcast an installment of the world's most boring soap opera.

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