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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Yes — the people the US Supreme Court ruled were illegally discriminated against are just “playing victim”.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You have a lot of people that take that last fact and then assume the converse. But in a poor household, taking the marshmallow now is likely the optimal choice since there might not be any later — even if your parents tell you to wait. Tha
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Did the path between emission and reception change the photon? Or did it change our relation to the photon? That’s irrelevant navel gazing: the operator which describes the change depends on the continuous path between. > Strange as
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> The bulk of other grants includes NSF, DARPA, ONR, etc. You only listed peer government grant agencies — which people believe have similar problems to NIH. > And the government pays it. In every single contract with industry. And th
485.
by zmgsabst 2y ago
Discussions with university researchers I know personally indicated an inappropriate amount was going to the university at large, rather than project funding.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The executive in charge of the grant-giving agencies changed policy — after looking at rates from other grants, which fell in the 10-15% range. If you want the public to believe that was wrong, you’ll need to make that case.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> What's going to happen if the government cuts off most indirect costs is that we're going to be forced to do research that can be covered by those costs. The whole debate is whether 15% indirect costs is sufficient or whether
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
People don’t believe indirect costs actually fund research and accordingly see this as directing more money into important, life-saving research. From their perspective, the origin of this thread is someone using a tragedy to emotionally
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t know you personally, so what I say may not be relevant, but these sentences stood out to me: > I feel guilty because I noticed signs of someone who was suicidal, and explicitly chose to not do anything. > It feels like the uni
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Or the relative topology between those events. But the interaction is no longer simply a connection between us and the origin: the path along which the photon traveled changed our measurement. And indeed, different paths can change d
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> If it had no interactions with anything else between its two bracketing events. > Like a discrete edge in a simple graph, it is a connection between two nodes, there are no dynamics in between the nodes. An edge is just a connection
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
There were multiple migrations; tribes fought for land and replaced each other; people arrived by ships; etc. Nobody even knows who the first settlers actually were — and they’ve likely been replaced more than once. Talk of “indigenous” i
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The Enron scandal was 24 years ago, which is a generation ago — almost two. I’d guess the problem is more endemic to their political system.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
But both models did see the gorilla when prompted with it…? ChatGPT: > It looks like the scatter plot unintentionally formed an artistic pattern rather than a meaningful representation of the data. Claude: > Looking at the scatter plo
496.
by zmgsabst 2y ago
They’re not “burning it all down”, they’re cutting indirect expenses from 30%+ to 15% — and administrators who were grifting are whining because their slush funds got cut.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This is 0.25% of the national deficit by cutting indirect expenses from 30%+ to 15%. When the country is $1,830,000,000,000 further in debt every year, universities will simply have to figure it out. I suggest cutting their bloated administ
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This is a general problem with social change.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
“Meme” predates the internet, with both animal/comic captions as a means of culture and popular jokes/concepts being examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
China is also a modern example: they endured a political collapse and century of humiliation, but successfully reconstituted themselves into a world power comparable in many ways to imperial China. Russia at the end of the USSR has also suc
501.
by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’d argue that the US is experiencing the transition from republic to empire that Rome did — also during a period of decline and political corruption. My point was that decline and regrowth, or even political transition as with Rome, happen
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Communities should exist because they benefit people, who in turn should support the continuation of something that benefits them. But people don’t exist for the benefit of communities.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Uh — Roman Empire lasted in part something like 1500 years and imperial China around 2100 years. Average implies that it’s not a hard and fast rule they die at that particular point — as the following sentence implies.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Russia is the most prolific nuclear power. It remains to be seen what will happen with lesser ones. The entire world combined has fewer than a third of either the Russian or American arsenals (by number of weapons). https://en.wi
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
China is actively annexing their neighbors in the ASEAN sea and constantly frustrated the US intervenes. Their entire military deployment around there is based on fighting the US intervening in their military expansion, eg, against the Phil
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Yeah - they should’ve just had a court overturn it like Romania!
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Around the time of SegWit, the “digital gold” camp won over the “digital money” camp — who moved on to ETH, SOL, etc.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Google Translate only supports French and French (Canada), not French (Swiss) — at least that I can see.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
There’s really not. I frequently travel in places where I don’t speak the primary language — and having to hunt down a menu in a language I can’t read sounds a lot worse than having a flag I know visible on the main page.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Any of these things: - passing budgetary laws without congress - has been made untouchable by the supreme court - pardoned the violent Jan 6 rioters (despite claiming to be "pro-order") - constantly scape-goats minorities - collud

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