ramblenode

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by ramblenode 2y ago
For the most part I don't think there is a difference. It seems like once all the common factors of divisiveness and brainrot are removed, the main difference between TikTok and the others is that it would be harder for certain powers
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by ramblenode 2y ago
A forced sale will not get near the price as a deal you can walk away from. Two very different markets we are talking about.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
All of your points except 1. are true of American social media companies. 2., in particular, is widely documented: the Facebook mood manipulation fiasco, Cambridge Analytica, Musk's personal tweaking of the Twitter trending hashtags, a
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> I worry less about the data and more about how a lot of kids, teens, and young adults get their news from TikTok (and social media in general). Fox News* is America's most watched television news source. Is this the kind of altern
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> there is no reason to let a foreign adversary have a deniable propaganda line to millions of Americans. I don't think this is a useful distinction in a world where a handful of ultra-billionaires control most of the remaining medi
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by ramblenode 2y ago
"Imagine if a handful of ultra-billionaires controlled almost all social media in the US." doesn't feel less threatening. The fact that Congress doesn't consider this a problem feels like the bigger problem.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
I would like to see this turned into a blog post. Could even be a series.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Rota is complaining that differentials are introduced as an ad hoc technique, seemingly breaking the rules. If differentials are taught from the beginning, i.e. y + dy = f(x + dx) where f'(x) is a convenience function, this is not an i
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Solving an ODE by separation of variables. With the limit definition this is just a notational trick, requires additional proof to justify, and confuses students. With infinitesimals, the separation dy = v * dx is a rigorous statement, maki
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> You may believe that, but you can't verify unless you travel into the past. Do you believe in the method of radiocarbon dating? What about dinosaurs?
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> If there are no positive feedback loops, it would only warm up 1C maximum, no matter how much more CO2 we will emit. GHG emissions are still increasing. If we assume that temperature increase is only linear in the amount of atmospheric
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by ramblenode 2y ago
The only items in the list that look reasonably easily answerable are how much social security costs and whether the earth is warming. Even the last one wouldn't be considered a good question to an actual scientist because of how vague
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Most experts will not give simple answers to simple questions because they see the question itself as ill-posed. Theses could be written about "Is crime up or down?" GP's claim is that this has a simple answer that can be che
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Imagine math if we'd question the basic axioms. The world we exeprience and the language we use to describe it doesn't have axioms like math, so it's no surprise people routinely disagree about these topics. Most of the
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Preservatives achieve their intended function by broadly destroying and preventing the growth of microbes, which are an integral part of our digestive system. So I would flip the question: what evidence is there that preservatives don'
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> They have to make results constantly to keep officials happy. So there is a lot of research fraud. What's surprising is that if there was fraud one would expect the results to go in the other direction since fluoridation is the of
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Today the university is a business and the students are the customers.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> You win by the grade earned, however it was obtained. That's called "winning the battle and losing the war".
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Kind of a "reverse plagiarism". It seems to have been purely stylistic, but that's still unacceptable, especially since it broke conventions of the field.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Just as a point of comparison, the Abraham Lincoln Bridge from the list of megaprojects measures 640 total meters [1] According to this [2] China's largest 8,816 bridges span a total of 16.21 million linear meters, or an average of 1,8
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by ramblenode 2y ago
These sprung up well after the Islamic Golden Age [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
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by ramblenode 2y ago
"Megaproject" seems to be used pretty loosely in this list. In my mind, renovating some airport terminals or adding extra lanes to a highway over a 10 mile stretch is not an ambitious "megaproject", just a typical infras
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> i’m extremely skeptical of people’s ability to view the economy from on high and pick out the “good, productive gdp” and the “bad, makework gdp”. Maybe in general, but rent-seeking is a pretty large part of the economy by estimates I&#
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by ramblenode 2y ago
You are saying that liberal immigration policy is driven by people who believe it will create enough civil unrest to start a civil war in which they can make money selling weapons?
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by ramblenode 2y ago
I suppose then we will get to learn about the consequences of global dimming.
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> There is almost never such occurrences in nature, and when it does (great oxygenation event), the system manages to circle it back into the process graph. It is actually recent earth's biosphere with its many negative feedback loo
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by ramblenode 2y ago
This is an interesting analogy. Of course oil extraction and refining are very complex, but most of the value in that industry is simply the oil. If you take the analogy further, while oil was necessary to jumpstart the petrochemical indust
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Chinese models have to censor a long list of words that threatens the government, which makes them super dumb. The heavy-handed curation and self-censorship of ChatGPT and Gemini responses is literally a meme, though. Or are you referr
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Agree with the sibling: committing fraud by intentionally not honoring a contract is not morally or logically the same as duplicating a piece of media under copyright. That is not to say that copyright violations are harmless (the scale and
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by ramblenode 2y ago
> Complaints for years, yet decided to stop recording data... That's sketchy as hell. The motivation could also be practical. Studies are canceled for a variety of reasons unrelated to the conclusion: flawed design, poor data collec

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