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by timoth3y 1y ago
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil,
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> I have never since the beginning of C-SPAN heard anyone refer to anything heard on C-SPAN. Correct. They hear it on Fox or MSNBC. Fox, MSNBC, and social media teams mine C-SPAN for clips. Newt Gingrich understand the power of this very
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by timoth3y 1y ago
I think the rise of C-SPAN was also a factor. Once all congressional speeches began to be televised, everything started to become campaign fodder. Members of Congress were no longer talking to each other, but always and endlessly trying to
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Planet Money had a wonderful series of episodes where they did exactly this a few years ago. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plan... They traced the path of their barrel
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Fusion reactors can breed their own tritium. In fact, they will have to do so if fusion energy is to become widespread. Furthermore, pound-per-pound of equipment, a fusion reactor should generate more output than solar PV. The larger point
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by timoth3y 2y ago
It's amazing how long it takes these popular memes to catch up with with scientific progress. The Dyson sphere and the Kardashev scale were brilliant ideas in their time, but today we know they are the wrong approach. Collecting solar
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Perhaps this is a naive question from a non-academic, but why isn't deliberately falsifying data or using AI tools or photoshop to create images career-ending? Wouldn't a more direct system be one in which journals refused submiss
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> Not true. A majority of the Americans who chose to vote voted for Trump. Not true. A plurality of the Americans who chose to vote voted for Trump. Trump: 49.8% Harris: 48.3%
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> The executive branch of government is more accurately viewed as a monolithic organization which derives 100% of it's authority by delegation from the US President That is inaccurate. Almost all federal departments and agencies der
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by timoth3y 2y ago
I know this sounds corny, but people are the recourse. We are part of the checks and balances. Whether it is as overt as a soldier refusing to follow an illegal order knowing they are risking court marshal, or as clandestine as mid-level bu
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> The employees of the executive branch are not intended to be a check on the executive branch's powers. That's not entirely correct. All civil servants and military swear an oath the Constitution and are required to disobey il
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Even with a highly sympathetic Supreme Court it is hard to imagine this EO standing. It goes against the foundation of not only US law, but couple of hundred years of international democratic tradition in which allegiance is not to a person
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work That's certainly part of it. However, at this point I think a lot
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Google displays place names as their official local names. The same place can be named differently baed on the location of the user.
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> "We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. I literally read that as "supervillain" when I first read it.
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by timoth3y 2y ago
If someone wishing to get in Trump's good graces purchased $10M in $TRUMP coins directly from his holding company, it would not be obvious bribery since he would be selling those assets at "fair market value". Since such tran
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> "I bemoaned that humanity seems to be serving technology rather than the other > way around. I argued that tech corporations have become too powerful and their > power must be curtailed." > That's a generic prob
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Most of the things mentioned in the article result in making friends as an adult being different than making friends as a child, but not necessarily harder. I'm in my late 50s and continue to make new friends. I think the larger prob
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by timoth3y 2y ago
The entire history of the music business is one of attorneys developing ever more inventive ways of screwing over musicians. The sad thing (for artists) is that it seems like most Spotify listeners don't care. Most of our music consump
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Let's not forget the second person negative and the wonderful contraction of "you all are not". y'aint.
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It's notable that his concern was not that his company's policies were killing thousands of people, but that those deaths resulted in a "negative image".
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by timoth3y 2y ago
The US "Shelterbelt" project in the 1930s in response to the dustbowl was of a similar vein. It involved planting over 220 million trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Those are all strong and (at varying times) very innovative companies, but I don't see how any of them were positioned to be media companies in Japan. Sony owns a lot of media assets (ie Sony Pictures) but those are from M&A rather
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by timoth3y 2y ago
That's a great question. I think that program was a good example of a overall inward-facing industrial policy that dominated in Japan in the 1980s. I'm not sure how much that one program was at fault, but it a great example of ma
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by timoth3y 2y ago
Hi, I'm the author and I'm delighted that people are still interested in this topic. There are a lot of great comments, but I'd like to collect and respond in bulk to the ones about keiretsu, since there are a lot of misunder
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by timoth3y 2y ago
> home computers never really made sense until it was far, far too late. That's not really the case. There were a lot of PCs in the 1980s and Japan was a strong leader in the early laptop market as well. All these PCs and many hand-
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Line was actually a Korean startup. There days, it's not a great app, but strong network effects keep it dominant here in Japan.
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A less nefarious explanation is that the 44-year old Gabriela persona was shown more Harris-leaning content because she more closely meets the demographic of a Harris voter. The algorithms are designed for exactly that kind of targeting. It
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I'm having trouble understanding what's actually been accomplished here. The article provides a good overview of Tokamak vs Stellarator, but seems to jump back and forth between proclaiming this as an innovative breakthrough and s
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In the case of those books and podcasts, who cares if you read or listen to them? The point is that the books are sold and make the right lists. The point is that the podcasts are downloaded so ads can be sold or that vanity numbers can be

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