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by pstuart 4mo ago
Easey peasy was said with a wink, although technically speaking it would be easy -- if they didn't have their heads up their ass. A dear friend of mine was doing R&D at a startup where management poured on a bunch of low-level ma
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by pstuart 4mo ago
Or maybe just have your R&D teams focused on doing R&D with zero corporate interference. Staff it with personal assistants whose only job is to ensure the researchers have whatever they need and are never bothered with meetings or o
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It's MIT and these days handing it off to Claude to tart it up as needed should be viable.
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They consider themselves to be superior and above the rest of humanity -- they are not our allies and they consider us to be "dangerous", so it's simple to work backwards from that they they are the dangerous ones. So I&#x2
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Sure we can all do our part as best possible, but this requires systemic change. Required reading: https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/
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Huh? That seems counter to my perceptions. Any links to expound upon that?
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> Considering Congress members barely read the bills they’re voting on That seems like a good opportunity for AI to be used as a summary. And on other fun note, in many cases Congress does not even write the bill, their patrons do and ha
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by pstuart 4mo ago
It's borderline evil. The only reason they are doing this is to silence the science that contradicts their agenda. I get the part about old school corruption where your cronies get to steal from the government (hello Big Coal/Big
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SCOTUS has ruled that the police are not obligated to "protect and serve"; the police are not on your side . Respectfully exercising one's rights is a sensible choice when engaged with them.
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Renewables have unfortunately been heavily politicized by the fossil fuel industry, and millions of Americans are against them because they are "woke". Progress will continue but it will be swimming upstream until that chasm is cl
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GM is getting into the game too. https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2026/j...
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A longtime friend of mine celebrated his 60th birthday, and the party was at a large venue that was packed with family, friends, neighbors, and (ex-)colleagues who all showed up to show their love and care for him -- he is undoubtedly the r
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by pstuart 4mo ago
The fact that SCOTUS fallaciously equated money with speech, billionaires have an outsized advantage in influencing the political landscape.
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> we were on track to being highly competitive Gosh, I'm sure there was a very good, some might say even the best, reason why that is no longer the case.
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The US reversed course with the current administration and until things change with regards to that, there will be active resistance to renewable power projects. Because we need all the energy we can get and there's money to be made bu
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The work on LLM in a Flash will probably help, and Apple's NVMe architecture is well suited to maximize throughput could allow their devices to work better on larger models than other vendors.
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> And yeah, do invest in alternative sources and production of energy This right here, it should be a Manhattan Project level of urgency, but at global "Hail Mary" level of cooperation and effort. And the best part is that it&#
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by pstuart 4mo ago
Big pharma would rather sell you medicine as an ongoing thing vs a one-off vaccine. > Preventable disseases can be prevented by enforcing basic hygiene, but most people do not like that. We're talking about measles here: you're
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by pstuart 4mo ago
Pro tip for my fellow graybeards: get a measles booster if you were born before 1976! Even then, it might not hurt if you are in an area where the risk is high. Disclaimer: I am an internet rando -- talk to your doctor.
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Yep, partitions are the way to go there.
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It's mind-blowing, isn't it? I've tracked Presidential politics since Watergate and these times feel like we've entered another universe. I have two associates who are MAGA, and they are both devout Christians. I don&#x2
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by pstuart 4mo ago
Here are some key quotes from the linked article: But Karp, Steinberger told me, needed “to find a reason beyond just opportunism and necessity” to embrace Trumpism. His reasoning, however, is so incoherent it seems pretextual. Tow
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by pstuart 4mo ago
Agreed, it's a signal of intention based on past behaviors of the "authors" (quoted because it's often lobbyists who write the bill).
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Tech was never woke. It's a boys club and on the "good" side was geeky nerds who just cared about hacking and the "bad" side about financial velociraptors hunting money. Nothing woke about that.
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That's not true, they also wanted to get an understanding of who they were governing.
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Alex Karp's transformation from progressive to MAGA is fascinating; more so knowing that his father was jewish and his mother was black. I can understand a zeal to "protect the country", but FFS, to be the brains of the secre
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A silver lining to the storm clouds of war.
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I think it should be pointed out that we have the police we have because enough of the population is ok with it -- because they operate with the assumption that the cops exist to harass "others" but not themselves. If the entire c
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And it's almost always done for some drug related crime. End the War on Drugs now!
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With coal, we should use what we have when needed, but absolutely should not invest a penny more in its development. Instead, that money should go into geothermal which can provide clean baseload power and provide a path for the oil indus

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