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901.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Perhaps your comment would be more constructive if you could say how my comments break the rules. Help me grow and help me follow the rules by being specific. - - - You say that you’d equally critique the opposite viewpoint, but that’s be
902.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
That alone doesn’t amount to a genocide: - They’re displaced because there was active fighting in their homes. - Hospitals were destroyed because they were being used as military outposts. Neither of those violates the rules of war, though
903.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
We haven’t switched because electricity (37 qBTU) is only a third (100 qBTU) of our energy production, and we don’t know how to triple the electricity grid. Of our electricity production, 60% is fossil fuels (coal, gas, or petroleum). We ha
904.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Global warming is a second order effect of abundant CO2 production. Why does your second order effect count, but not readily available sterile hospital materials made of petroleum?
905.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Climate has cycles, besides the effect of global warming. Not every change in local climate is attributable to global warming. For example, SE Asia is settling into El Niño patterns — which cause it to be drier than its long term average.
906.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I’m moved by your deep argument of baldly asserting things are “ludicrous nonsense” and calling people “stupid assholes” or “morons”. You’ve wowed me with the depths of your insight. Never mind that there’s an openly stated coordinated agen
907.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Probably because universities promote those programs exclusively on protected class, not circumstance. To the point that I believe claiming they’re focused on circumstance is a polite fiction to give cover for the institutional bigotry the
908.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
That’s because DIE is just apologetics for modern racism and colonialism: Poor Whites, Jews, and Asians are acceptable sacrifices to the racists behind that movement — which resembles modern colonialism, eg, dividing a population by providi
909.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The KC-46A is also garbage, from their military division. I agree the problem is systemic. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/08/08/usaf-tanker-aircra...
910.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
NYSE sells preferential access that allows favored players to skim without risk. The industry regulations around “market makers” and pay-for-order-flow are incredibly crooked. There’s also a clear tolerance of securities fraud as long as yo
911.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
A large fraction doesn’t view the government as fit for purpose either — as they allowed widespread, coordinated arson attacks across major cities totaling $2B+ in damages and then sent the FBI after peaceful demonstrators, based on which p
912.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
There’s also real trade offs: I had fiber to my condo a decade ago in Thailand, but still don’t reliably in the US. Regulations and government monopolies on poles and conduits slow development at the same time they reduce fires and clutter
913.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Boeing overall. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/08/08/usaf-tanker-aircra...
914.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The PhD economists on our team looked at it. Economists from other teams looked at it and signed off. There was manual testing — ie, trying some “choice values”. We discovered their error in convexity when our test suite allowed us to rando
915.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Prime Finance (at Amazon) did that. Wrote fancy math on a PhD economist’s laptop. Then when we added testing when developing a platform, we found out we’d been 5% off in allocating Prime revenue between organizations — and had the correct a
916.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I would genuinely try to fix it, based on descriptions by my mentors who were Boeing engineers. I believe the board and executives would genuinely want me to fix it. But it may nevertheless be impossible due to organizational mechanics, ent
917.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
The breakdown came from trying to crush their engineering organization for costing too much/being unionized — and particularly firing the mid-career engineers, who would by now be the missing senior/principal engineers. MCAS is a
918.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
> Ask yourself: would you take a position at Boeing trying to "fix the company"? As an executive with guaranteed $xM in pay over a few years? Sure — if I fail, I’ll just use that position as a stepping stone to my next executiv
919.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
If you have 93% of your trips under 30mi, and have 1 trip per day, you have 25 over 30mi per year — or about 2 per months. 40mi per day indicates that’s probably 2 trips per day, hence 4 over 30mi per month. Worrying your car can’t go to th
920.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Also, ER services are obligated to save your life even if you can’t pay. (Government picks up the tab.) The problems have more to do with long-term things, eg cancer or kidney disease.
921.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
This is why I try not to have permissions to prod. Sure, in some sense as the AWS account owner and tech lead, I’m generally part of the trust chain and could grant them to myself. But there’s only misery available by having them bestowed n
922.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
What’s their total mortality by comparison, now?
923.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Yes — obviously Francis Collins, former director of NIH, just did the comparison wrong. And obviously the people you’re stereotyping were just “anti-vax” and “anti-mask”, not people who objected based on principle and were right. You’re a c
924.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Francis Collins has already admitted the policies were myopic and didn’t account for QALY — they were malpractice that focused on a particular disease while ignoring the holistic situation. Literally failed at basic medicine. Again, you’re
925.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Francis Collins has already admitted the policies were myopic and didn’t account for QALY — they were malpractice that focused on a particular disease while ignoring the holistic situation.
926.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
That sounds like a stereotype — “people who disagree with me are just dumb and emotional!”
927.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8: > “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” https://constitut
928.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
That seems like you’d be committing perjury, which the victim could prove easily by showing there’s no authorization.
929.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
If you submit a DMCA notice without authorization, then it’s perjury. If you submit one with authorization, then the authorizing party should put their IP as collateral.
930.
by zmgsabst 3y ago
> The electrical grid is already creaking, and the commuting situation is already absurd in and around the major metro areas. …which is definitely not also the case in California. > I find it fascinating how the US government pits eve

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