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by zmgsabst 1y ago
US military and Russian PMCs exchanged fire in Syria — and I remain skeptical that wasn’t approved by Russian MOD (even though they claimed it wasn’t). I agree memes seem undervalued.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Programmers use it all the time! They turn diagrams representing the logic of the business domain into expressions in their type system of choice. I think it’s a failure of pedagogy to focus on the abstract “prove stuff” sense, rather than
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Yep — you can always “knot” a sphere of two dimensions lower, starting with a circle in 3D and a sphere in 4D.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
iam:ListRoles tells you ARNs and policy rules — at least, in their example response. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_List... I don’t think this is a major or severe issue — but it cert
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
In the US, you can just make up degrees — but you have to be honest that you’re unaccredited. Accreditation is regulated by NGOs who need government approval and without that you cant received financial aid (or participate in some programs)
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Ancient Greeks suspected it was spherical and had an estimated size accurate within 10%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
A similar rightwing interview.
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Harvard and UNC lost at the Supreme Court when sued over their DEI programs being illegal discrimination. Comparing calling out that illegal bigotry to people trying to justify looting is precisely what people are saying is biased.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Right — they’re lending credibility that leftwing extremism is a valid viewpoint, but you’re unable to name a similar example of rightwing extremism they’ve hosted. That’s classic bias.
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It’s only an approximation after finitely many terms — the full series limit is exact.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
> That is, an algebraic manipulation that we can reduce to an integer under certain circumstances, but it doesn't "exist" the same way that an integer or a rational exists. This depends on your interpretation: some view th
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Technocratic managerialism is the common structure between them that channeled societal forces in similar directions — we can’t ignore the structure the governments took in analyzing their outcomes. > The reality is that material forces
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
That same experience of the inner party murdering and subjugating the outer party who enabled them played out across multiple communist regimes.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
There are people who think looking at the structures of power, eg the role of the state, is more useful than looking at propaganda when discussing politics. In the behaviorist sense that what people do is a better revelation of their belief
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Like emails?
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How did Democrats respond to that information? > Federal agencies did, however, retrospectively determine that 100 emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deeme
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I see this as partisan: - one side ignored Clinton using a private server as sec of state - this one ignores using Signal I haven’t seen arguments about what the standard is supposed to be or why this in particular is egregious. That would
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I think this depends on what you mean by “American economic interests”, ie top-line numbers or the economic future of individual Americans. I genuinely believe that this will be a decade long struggle to generate a long-term benefit to the
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
For what it’s worth, ChatGPT has a personality that’s surprisingly “based” and supportive of MAGA. I’m not sure if that’s because the model updated, they’ve shunted my account onto a tuned personality, or my own change in prompting — but it
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
There’s a correlating factor: Technocratic managerialism. Communism, socialism, fascism, and progressivism are 20th century political systems based around technocratic managerialism — and all of them have attempted to control breeding in th
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I actually think that would backfire: I see two items for $5, but when I add the imported one, suddenly it costs more — and Amazon didn’t tell me that ahead of time or give me any way to choose the one without tariffs on the grid/list
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Just to further that: 50% margin share would be $163k/yr pre-tax. He’s could be taking a significant pay cut and only assigns a moderate future value to the stock, eg, 1% of 50M exit and 10% of 5M exit with 50% ownership is only $500k
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Currently, weapons and logistics are not automated to that extent; I don’t think it’s meaningful to guess about decades from now, given the current flux. I’d argue that your perspective means that the time to revolt is now (ie, next few yea
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’d argue that your last paragraph has the cause-and-effect reversed: We’re entering into a populist phase because the managerial class is incapable of addressing the problems experienced by most people — so they’re going to try dismantling
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
YouTube allows you to disable personalized ads. https://www.youtube.com/intl/en_us/howyoutubeworks/user-sett...
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I think we can look at examples: People who are respectful of carved rocks, eg temple statues, tend to be generally respectful and disciplined people. You become how you act.
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Polite but firm and direct works best in my experience — but as they emulate language responses, veering too far leads to either responses trying to engage emotionally (too rude) or failure to obey (too polite). They don’t have emotions tho
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Trump is an avatar to revive the imperial core, elected by a proletariat which has been looted by bourgeoisie focused on the periphery of the empire and their insular power games, eg, controlling EU via NATO. The US is not a monolith and un
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This is due to being unable to meet the artillery demands of the Ukraine war. NATO has been badly out produced by Russia — and drained its collective stockpiles to dangerous levels. - - - - Articles pretending that this was invented in a fe
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
As a PSYOP, it’s great: - create account - attempt to access whatever records, don’t worry about succeeding - wait for US news to cause fragmentation Undermining US unity is an objective of Russian influence, as we’ve seen from the spectrum

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