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by somenameforme 27d ago
I'm not saying such claims are not being published, I'm saying they're likely false because they make about as much sense as a country blowing up its own pipeline. Espionage outside of war is an extremely sensitive issue, and
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by somenameforme 27d ago
Nixon cancelled them because he was increasingly worried about a catastrophic accident and felt it could damage his political career and ambitions. Seriously. [1] If he only knew... Outside of that you're correct. We were already set f
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by somenameforme 28d ago
I think this sort of view is quite myopic. In general space has practically infinite everything - land, resources, energy, and more. It has the potential to enable, in turn, infinite expansion of humanity. But we're not going to get to
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by somenameforme 28d ago
A lot of messaging is much more propaganda than reality. For instance it's trivial to turn things around against the US where we have the highest prisoner population in the world, by an overwhelmingly wide margin, disproportionately ma
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by somenameforme 28d ago
The chances of this being real are basically zero, or Russia would be getting double agented, and reverse intelling themselves, out the arse. Instead all we get are attempts to connect random events, of which there are endless viable suspec
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by somenameforme 28d ago
This seems quite improbable. Something I looked up was whether it was illegal to share e.g. Netflix passwords in the UK since your take on the law would make this quite clearly so. And indeed the government claimed it is, but exclusively un
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by somenameforme 28d ago
Terms of service, and more generally - contractual, violations without 'material loss' tend to have no remedies available unless otherwise agreed to. Fun lesson I learned in a project with a dubious partner.
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by somenameforme 29d ago
Ah it looks like somebody has been ideologically editing Wikipedia. Shocker. Here [1] is an archive from a year or so ago, referencing/citing the 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. I should probably look to findi
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by somenameforme 29d ago
Ah I see what you're arguing! Yes you're certainly correct, that you will not measurably perceive yourself traveling faster than light as the universe will contort itself endlessly to ensure that doesn't happen. I'm impr
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by somenameforme 29d ago
Well there's a world of difference between teaching a 7 year old and teaching a 17 year old. I would say in both regards a more engaging style may be necessary than what you're possibly alluding to, so there is that. Depending on
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by somenameforme 29d ago
I don't think you're being gloomy so much as realistic. It's clear a lot of people either don't realize what's already happened, or are in some sort of denial about it. What you're saying is entirely true and w
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by somenameforme 29d ago
A bit of a tangent here, but I'd look into lower cost of living areas if you have the ability to move/remote, even moreso if you'll be drawing social security or have a pension. Money just goes so much further, and with an ov
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
You're not just in a race to the bottom with everybody else who is doing this. I don't think his anecdote is particularly surprising at all. You can do the same with basically any typical CRUD app, which is already going to be som
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Meduza gonna Meduza. Go do the search yourself. I get nothing like what Meduza claims.
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Yeah that will definitely be a growing problem, especially in the era of LLMs. Services where reviews can only be provided after purchase and it specifies if the product was returned (as Steam does) can help, but LLMs do seem set to make a
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Word of mouth. Make things that work well, people want, and stand out - and they will spread by themselves. I block 100% of advertising on all platforms I use, yet somehow never have difficulty finding things when I want to find them. And
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Ah but it's enjoyable for billionaire and pauper alike. And the former tends to enjoy sponsoring it for the sake of seeing and promoting the bounds of human capability.
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
When there's a billion people playing something, money will never be an issue for those at the top. Even things like chess.com was able to sponsor a tournament with a million dollar prize pool. Also I'd argue that chess's uti
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
It's not about bridge building, but rather not bridge burning. When people are antagonistic to 'the other side', it means the last thing in the world they'd ever think of doing is aligning with you. 2028, after Iran, sho
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
It's universal. Politics in the US has become so completely broken. Last presidency was Weekend at Bernie's, now we have one where El Presidente is trying to LARP as General Jack D. Ripper. The reason people accept, and even defen
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
I am saying that adding your tribal bit to your post is just completely self defeating. And yes, the goal is indeed to avoid hurting people's feelings. I don't know why you'd mock that. People are not machines, and when you m
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Do you even realize that one of the only reason anybody still supports this war is precisely because of comments like yours? By dividing people into teams, and antagonizing them, you result in people never willing to stomach giving an inch
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Western social sciences are completely dysfunctional. Various fields within it, like social psychology, have a replication rate in the 20% range. [1] And mind you that that's for leading and formerly reputable journals like the Journal
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Not almost everybody alive, but certainly a very large percent. And you also have to keep in mind what this means in different eras. In the not so distant past the overwhelming majority of work was agrarian, any formal education was relativ
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
You cannot what? Everything I said is completely accurate. As is your conclusion - with the speed of particles being infinite, from their perspective. This is also why it's 100% possible for a human to travel to Alpha Centauri, or even
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Why is everything black when I turn around at high velocity?
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
I wish the guy who created this included a ' your perceived velocity relative to [some fixed point]'. The speedometer shows what an at rest observer would perceive your velocity as, not what you would perceive it is. The 'ma
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
I think the unspoken point of these simulations (Carl Sagan also famously did one for the good Cosmos) is not what if the speed of light was lower, but what would traveling at near the speed of light look like in a more recognizable/&#
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
The West is still mostly in the denial phase, so nothing is really being done, yet. As such, the effect is ongoing. The Flynn Effect (and its reversal) are measured in impact per decade . And numbers that seem small at first aren't ne
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by somenameforme 1mo ago
Data are meaningful, but interpretations without a mathematical or scientific foundation are worthless. And her own explanations are particularly useless as they demonstrate clear ex post facto reasoning. The study was preregistered and c

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