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by mlsu 7mo ago
Even if you take the current US leadership at their word, they do not. They've all but said that war crimes are on the table here. America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and
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by mlsu 7mo ago
Yeah it’s kind of crazy. My opinion of course, but I think it’s a big part of growing up to realize that your life being “yours” only lasts about 20-25 years. You have your childhood, then your time as a young adult to have your fun and set
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by mlsu 7mo ago
Covid, ahem, could have been designed in a lab to be an "ideal" bioweapon. As far as viruses go it approximated just about the best bioweapon we could have made with current technology. - very deadly - asymptomatic spreading for
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by mlsu 7mo ago
Prediction markets have only events whose outcome is eventually publically resolved, by design. With insider trading, the trader is incentivized to release the information as late as possible, as close as possible to the events. Why are the
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by mlsu 7mo ago
"Trump Always Chickens Out" is an acronym that went around after "Liberation Day", when Trump very quickly reversed his position in response to the bond market basically telling him, no, you can't do that. https:&#
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by mlsu 7mo ago
> Biological units are too selfish Indeed they are.
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by mlsu 7mo ago
Of course! I think at some level the people at the top know that this American capitalism is not competitive. The last 5 years or so have been basically the whole country realizing that our system is not competitive. And, the last 1-2 years
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by mlsu 7mo ago
The executives at these huge corporations already know that they can stand up to the Trump administration, and that it will fold immediately. "TACO" is printed in the Wall St. Journal. They willingly don't, because they know
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by mlsu 8mo ago
uwu i'm a smol bean also you're fired
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by mlsu 8mo ago
I mean, is the goal of an elite college to educate? Or is the benefit to sift through the population and pluck out its masters? I don't really care that UC has a lower "reputation" than Harvard or Stanford. The fact is, the U
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by mlsu 8mo ago
It's just so breathtakingly OBVIOUS. And it has been for a decade. Yet we have done nearly nothing. I mean it doesn't really matter, does it? Even with 200% tariffs solar panels will still be cheapest. The entire global supply cha
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Have you met an engineer? I'd say "being an engineer" is probably the single most predictive trait for authoritarianism in my experience.
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by mlsu 8mo ago
If I had a human personal assistant, I'd tell him to clean my gutters, sweep the driveway, clean the kitchen table... I understand, if we imagine a world where everyone is constantly plugged into the computer all the time, and every bi
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by mlsu 8mo ago
It's so frustrating to see a solution so obvious, so pleasant, so green, stymied at every possible opportunity, here in the US. It's really really nice to ride a bike here -- but many parts of town are functionally off-limits to m
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by mlsu 8mo ago
I agree. The only wrinkle is that it's impractical to build a train line from my house to the train station.
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Do what makes you happy in the moment. I have a huge backlog of projects on my list. Many of them "feel productive" -- they result in betterment of some career skill, or they could turn into startups. But I also like to surf, I&#x
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Same as it ever was!
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Obviously there is a huge amount of money and effort being spent on automated driving. But I cannot help thinking that this perception technology will prove very useful for robotics in general, factory, home, in space, etc. Car dynamics are
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by mlsu 8mo ago
They murdered people in the street in broad daylight. We should not for a second believe that treatment is somehow better in detention, where the cell phones of bystanders are not filming. These detention centers for years have had deaths f
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by mlsu 8mo ago
I've had a startling number of conversations exactly like this: "Oh, you read as well? What do your read?" "[this book], [that book]" "Those are all non-fiction, any fiction?" "I don't read ficti
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Love this concrete interpretation. The symbolic one is maybe more interesting: Vampires: - Consume the life force of the living to sustain themselves - Are totally isolated and perverted from any kind of human community - Have no family, no
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by mlsu 8mo ago
This is coming for all web-based services soon. Don't think for a second it's just Discord. It's just a small step ahead of "phone number required" auth.
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Seems like this is facetious but to me, “I’m not special” is a pretty valid thing to be sad about.
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Flock is just, yet another failed IT project. it shouldn't be too hard. Well I think this is the issue. The value of Flock is not what it says on the tin, it's everything else. Solving petty crimes yeah sure, yadda yadda. Ever had
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Transcript INTERVIEWER: Surveillance is becoming more prevalent everywhere. There's an organization called Deflock that's become fairly well-known in activist circles. They take an aggressive approach—counting cameras and maintain
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by mlsu 8mo ago
and at this scale it seems like the hazards of h2 would be pretty minor. You're not exactly going to have a Hindenburg situation with only a couple dozen liters of H2.
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by mlsu 8mo ago
> If you start imposing laws or other practices every time a group of people feel “uncomfortable”, the world will quickly grind to a halt. I mean, yes, quite an apt description of our reality. This has basically been the modus operandi o
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Has there ever been a situation where taking away parking has lead to traffic dropping? I've heard this, but I've never seen an example in practice. It seems like making things more walkable and bikeable, at the expense of cars, a
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Fred Brooks, from "No Silver Bullet" (1986) > All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the represen
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by mlsu 8mo ago
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