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> it seems less and less likely that lone mathematicians can revolutionize the field. Which inspires the question: how much can cutting edge math be parallelized?
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> Russia has nuclear weapons. Nukes aren’t the trump cards you seem to think they are. In fact I would go so far as to say that nukes are essentially useless outside of deterring being destroyed by nukes or otherwise imminently existenti
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> Securing the borders from what? Russia has been invaded by land countless times over the centuries as it has few natural barriers. Securing good natural borders has been a major national security concern for Russia for centuries and up
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> Many people suspect this was the primary reason Russia invaded. Regional energy control was possibly a factor but securing a defensible border was the over-arching goal of Russia’s last few wars in the region and Ukraine is no exceptio
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To transport Nat Gas you have to cool it down to -265F thereby reducing its volume 600X to transport economically as a liquid (LNG), then it needs to be safely turned back into a gas at its destination. That is expensive relative to pipelin
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> He's a stop gap against fascism The point is that those pissed off teenage GenXers would be horrified to vote for any Dem candidate for the last 20 years. All of them were/are part of “the machine” but time has had its opport
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> artists uniting or representing a movement in the USA esp 60s. They sold music to the huge boomer population when they were young, by the 1980s those same Boomers voted for Reagan in considerable numbers and were buying Debbie Gibson a
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> when I say backups, I mean paper voted created by the voter's own hand as the original vote Fair enough, however the issue of the thread is electronic voting machines not electronic paper vote tabulation.
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> manipulation doesn't seem that easy I wasn’t suggesting manipulation was easy. But for a sufficiently motivated and resourced actor with direct or indirect physical access to the machine all bets are off.
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> But a system that uses electronics to tabulate votes that can be verified via paper ballots that are stored long-term, securely? Why not? If the paper ballots as backup are manually created by the voter then while it’s still possible i
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> audit of the code The OP is talking about the inability to audit the code actually running at the time of voting. You can audit the code in the repo all you like but if the hardware of the voting machine is compromised, or the code you
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> Current you versus future you - which one will be happier?...I advise pleasing current-you. Focusing on yourself is a trap. While not ignoring your own needs instead focusing on the happiness of others (e.g. direct joy, relieving suffe
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You're right about the article not being about onshoring etc, I linked to the wrong one and now I can't edit it. Anyway, the data is out there. No comment on the political biases of the media.
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> the US needs to 4x current onshore output levels No it doesn’t. Firstly, it’s not just the US but Mexico and Canada also which is another roughly 170 million people. Secondly, the North American system only needs to produce enough for
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> businesses will pass that on by raising prices Businesses can only successfully pass on the higher cost of inputs if there are more dollars available to bid after the higher prices. Each economic good is different in this regard but if
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> Nobody wants to step up and produce more stuff Except they are, at least in North America. The onshoring, reshoring, and nearshoring of production is absolutely massive in size and scope. [1] 1. https://www.nytimes.com/
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> People will then have even less money after paying the grocery and gas-bills. Precisely. The less money people have the lower prices have to go for sales to be possible so increased unemployment is a downward force on prices but isn’t
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> These are dark times for US democracy The US system has little d democratic aspects but it is not a democracy. It was intentionally setup to protect the minority from the majority in critical respects like constitutional amendments. Al
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> Did we really let the media name an entire generation after a corporate trademark It’s not due to the product Zoom, it’s a portmanteau of Gen Z and Boomer.
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That’s the same problem as any other kind of insider trading.
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> "People are an end", to me, means that the creation of people is the goal. This is a common belief in religions like Catholicism that are against contraception. Catholics believe that the primary end of sex and marriage is pr
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This debate boils down to personality, life stage, or life choice differences. High in trait extroversion, or living in a crowded roommate situation, or unattached and living close to the office and you’re more likely to want a return to th
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> equal outcomes How do you compare the outcome for a kid who never exists? People are an end in themselves before considering any outcomes.
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> until the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was unforeseeable that there would be a shortage of gas or oil Except it was foreseeable and foreseen [1] just very politically and economically inconvenient. 1. https://www.gmfus.or
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> it does not necessarily follow that all systems that have had a label of "chaotic" attached to them are necessarily deterministic. Testing this is also impossible, correct? Either way we couldn’t set up the experiment precise
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How much real power do empires possess if they all die young? I’d argue the institutions that stick around and shape the centuries largely through influence have the real power.
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> let's not confuse them for the actual great powers behind great power competition. Yes, let’s not. The Papacy is a 2000 year old institution and the current great powers are only a small fraction as mature. I’m betting the Papacy
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A quote attributed to Stalin whose empire Pope John Paul II helped topple forty years later by inspiring the formation of the Polish Solidarity Movement. So, how many divisions has the Pope? How many ya got?
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> 11M STEM graduates a year, around all OECD combined. There will be generation wealth transfers once old folks start dying (many in tier1/2 own homes + have enough savings) and analysts are predicting increasing consumption If STEM
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> America's unbridled aggression against Afghanistan there was 90% public support To characterize the US invasion of Afghanistan as “unbridled aggression” is a gross misrepresentation to the point of being a sign of unreasonable par

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