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by smarm52 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/5QPNx
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by smarm52 4mo ago
I thought this was common knowledge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 > The Red force, led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, used numerous asymmetrical tactics unan
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by smarm52 4mo ago
Who is this for? This section, which is fairly close to a central thesis, contains no citations: > Illusions of understanding can take several (overlapping) forms. Some that are commonly encountered are: (1) Illusions of explanatory dept
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by smarm52 5mo ago
In the US, where the main driver of the economy is healthcare. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/03/business/econ... > As the needs of an aging population stack up, occupations that men
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by smarm52 5mo ago
> spatially resolved absolute *temperature sensing* inside the cytoplasm and nuclei of cancer cells. MoQNs thus offer a chemically tunable, biologically compatible platform for quantum-level detection of *thermal and biochemical states*
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by smarm52 5mo ago
> Interventions that address complex, entrenched social problems from various angles simultaneously might be considerably more effective than smaller-scale, cheaper alternatives are. Is usually true. Bravo.
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by smarm52 5mo ago
Hidden? John Oliver did a high profile show about it ... 11 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8
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by smarm52 5mo ago
> Fixed income collective trust funds typically invest primarily in various types of debt instruments, such as treasury bonds, treasury bills, corporate bonds, sovereign government bonds, secured and unsecured loans, and different types
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by smarm52 5mo ago
The author is a "Master of Laws" (lawyer) writing about technology and psychology. Read with some skepticism.
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by smarm52 5mo ago
Reads like an ad for Salesforce.
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by smarm52 5mo ago
So a, "close the stable door after the horse has bolted" sort of situation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/close_the_stable_door_after_t... They go through some recommendation intending to maintain the curren
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by smarm52 5mo ago
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by smarm52 5mo ago
Source: https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/ai-agents-accountability-acce... Wow, the article really is a straight copy and paste, right down to the image of Modern Times. Also, the report reads like an ad aimed a
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by smarm52 5mo ago
> The immense success of “free” and open source software (FOSS)—which generates more than $500 billion in annual value in the U.S. alone3 and an estimated $8.8 trillion in total global value Exploiting other people's work is big bus
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by smarm52 5mo ago
Or perhaps they want to fit in with their social group? Or perhaps they like the attention? Or perhaps there are financial incentives to propagating fashionable ideas? Or ...
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by smarm52 5mo ago
I wonder how NATO feels about the US wasting its weapons on this silliness? The US is still (for the time being) the backbone of NATO's military assets. What happens if the US spends these assets and doesn't save enough for China
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by smarm52 5mo ago
Also shown in ... Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
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by smarm52 5mo ago
> The simplest definition I’ve come up with is that it’s when you see the whole world as a series of databases that can be controlled with the structured language of software code. This is sophomoric. This person is the "editor in c
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by smarm52 5mo ago
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by smarm52 6mo ago
> The world permanently funding cash handouts in highly corrupt countries sounds like a terrible idea. It's how much of international politics works. Paying off governments is a good way to get what you want. McGillivray, F., &
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by smarm52 6mo ago
> while wrongly targeting about half of those above it. This is a feature, not a bug. Making payments to those that don't need in exchange for support for those in power is a function of many governments. De Mesquita, B. B., & S
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by smarm52 6mo ago
> Winston received his A.B. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974 GenX / Boomer, so that explains some of it. Millennial. As poor as we tend to be, "affordable" means something quite different
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by smarm52 6mo ago
You wipe your ass with the shower curtain _one time_ and suddenly there's an article from Harvard about it ... >_>
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by smarm52 6mo ago
Nudify, anywhere, anytime. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-instagram-facebook-ads-nud...
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by smarm52 6mo ago
The other side of vibe coding, using AI to develop software to subvert and control. (Unclear if vibe coding was used here, but it would be something very appealing for them. Cheap and functional code that doesn't require those pesky in
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by smarm52 6mo ago
Ezra Klein (noted for being a "political commentator" [1]), talks about a book from Michael Pollan (noted for being a "an American journalist, specializing in food" [2]) on the topic of consciousness. Nothing to see here
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by smarm52 6mo ago
Be rich enough that others support you just to give a good impression and look good for others so they don't get left out? If everyone thinks everyone wants to suck up to the guy with money, low and behold, anything they do gets a lot
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by smarm52 1y ago
Well of course it does, "Quantitative easing" is common practice. > a central bank implements quantitative easing by buying financial assets from commercial banks and other financial institutions, thus raising the prices of tho
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by smarm52 1y ago
...surprising no one.

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