nerdchum

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by nerdchum 3y ago
It is because every dollar I spend is inflated by the government debt. https://www.worldometers.info/us-debt-clock/
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by nerdchum 3y ago
That happened to more than 30 years ago, like I said in my original statement. If I refrain from using anything invented and developed from government funding in the last 30 years, what would I have to give up?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
just to people who thought masks were a good idea but when the waiter brings the breadsticks it's okay to remove the mask to eat at a crowded public restaurant for some reason
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by nerdchum 3y ago
electric cars: invented by private industry, refined by private industry lithium ion batteries: invented at Exxon and Asahi Kasai corp AI: refined at IBM culminating in deep blue, refined by Google with BERT, recently refined by Open AI sol
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Reality has a way of asserting itself. https://www.usdebtclock.org/
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I don't think that America has a consensus on this at all. Numerous people I talk to think science should be privatized. And if more people were aware of the corruption that goes on in science the pendulum would quickly swing.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
> modern electronics, electric cars, medical treatments are based on recent research. AI, solar energy, green tech Every single thing you mentioned is a result of private industry. I've read phys.org....cold fusion has been rightttt
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Thats an entirely different discussion as to whether those are legitimate or not.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Completely agreed. The best solution to eliminate government waste is to eliminate the part of the government creating the waste.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
The optimal amount of my tax dollars going into government funded science is zero. Scientists need to earn their money like the rest of the world.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Science is not advancing much now! What is it produced in the past decade?? Past 30 years?? I've been on this earth for many decades and (other than the internet developed by the military)...the TRILLIONS of tax dollars that have gone
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Nope. I think this is better: We spent zero citizens tax dollars on science grants and all scientists had to get venture capitalist funding like the rest of the world.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I'm completely fine with academic success not being linked to any sort of outcome or result or increase in value to society. I just don't want them use my tax dollars to do it.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
99% of modern scientists would not make it out of series A funding from VCs yet the government keeps throwing millions at them because they keep publishing papers even if the papers provide no value to society. And the people in charge of
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Ive worked in government labs and at universities. The grant money literally pays their salary. That aside... the amount of ways to commit corruption are endless... The amount of conferences they had in Italy and Malibu and places like that
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by nerdchum 3y ago
He prob had millions in government grants to write those papers. Theres no accountability.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
This is modern science. This is our tax dollars. And this is at the highest levels.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
> The GOP is NOT and has never been big tent that shows your limited knowledge. California Republicans are very different than Mississippi Republicans. > GOP generally does not lack in discipline Are you implying Democrats don't
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I think your error is thinking that two parties actually exist and aren't just propaganda by the Oligolopoly.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
The difference is that the authoritarian nature of the Democrats allows it to march on 5-6 platform planks exclusively. They publicly focus on a few policy areas, but the masses are riled up about a few social issues the rich people don’t r
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Hm I think both parties see the other party as having lack of critical/analytical thinking and not based in reality. the actual people who lack analytical thinking are the people who aren't aware of this.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
> threat to humanity of our own making. How? Do you have concrete examples or just fear based conjecture?
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by nerdchum 3y ago
The past 500 million years have been rich with life.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Everyone is so sensational about climate change but never looks at Earth's history. Were at the tail end of an ice age. For most of Earth's history, there were no polar ice caps. For 400 out of 500 million years the earth was warm
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I follow these similarly except use a coworking space and use a separate phone for work in case on call or something.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
So out of 10 people in the chain of command nine out of 10 were Indian people and when the non-Indian person was out with an injury he was replaced by an Indian person.
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by nerdchum 3y ago
Bingo my bad R.R. wasnt Indian person but he was out with ski accident for like a year...
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by nerdchum 3y ago
I see H1Bs becoming more and more prominent in the big companies both as leadership and as ICs. I was on a team (at a big famous SF company) that was all Indian people on visas and the entire leadership structure up to Satya Nadella was Ind
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by nerdchum 3y ago
this is not even remotely true. their kids are still getting arranged marriages. their kids are getting their social networks from their churches. their kids are going to culturally specific schools. Even their neighborhoods are culturally
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by nerdchum 3y ago
> People of often having a cultural, religious and moral background completely different to more-or-less original value Canadians? How will that work? Most are not interested in western culture, they come here specifically for the salary

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