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frezik

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  • We can measure its gravitation.

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  • What is observable is constrained by cause and effect. To see something, information must come from there to us. That cause and effect relationship cannot happen faster than lightspeed.

    We therefore have no evidence for anything other than the observable universe. Claims about anything else run into Russell's teapot issues. We can speculate, but it's ultimately nothing more than a story.

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  • Dark Forest Theory is probably wrong. In-universe, the series unknowingly undermines it with communication tech that can transmit instantaneously. That would take away the assumption that civilizations can't effectively communicate over interstellar distances and build trust.

    In reality, it's something of an extension of the "every individual for themselves" mindset of evolution--something White Supremacists have loved. Kin Selection Theory does away with that. There is a basis for building trust and working together within evolution. The precursor ideas were even done in Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" over a century ago. Kin Selection Theory put a mathematical foundation on it.

    I like the book series as literature, and the Netflix series has been OK so far (not great, but OK). Liu Cixin himself, however, has some really shitty opinions that come through the text.

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • Fuck you. Trans people are moving because of what's happening. Just fuck right off with your bullshit.

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • . . . "some leeway". That's a nice way to say "this never should have fucking happened, ever". Legal paperwork my ass.

    Edit: how about this? We toss you in prison for a few months while "legal paperwork" is in motion. Would that be alright with you?

  • White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

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  • We should believe him because DJT is an expert on grift.

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • No, I mean people who have green cards and married to citizens.

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • Did other administrations pickup people on the street and send people to El Salvador?

  • Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’

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  • every waking hour hating people because of different opinions

    You're talking about the Trump Administration, right?

  • Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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  • That's why you reduce the number of hours.

  • Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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  • Couldn't you get some kind of medication to help with that from our wonderful healthcare system . . . ah, yes, I see the problem now.

  • Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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  • I like to look at the employment population ratio of those 25-54. We don't need to count college kids, and we don't need to count retired folk. This is a nice, easy measure that doesn't need many judgement calls on who has a job and who wants a job.

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

    And yup, it's as close to the high as it ever was.

  • Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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  • How about we all spend 20 hours a week doing actually important jobs, not 40 hours on frivolous bullshit jobs?

  • Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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  • They messed with gamers.

    Gamers.

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  • On the contrary, this is pretty close to what we have right now. Companies don't like to spend much on R&D once they're out of the startup phase. A good chunk of that startup phase R&D was actually taking place at a university with public funds. This is especially true of pharmaceuticals. So the answer to the question of "when does it get handed off to private industry?" is to just look at what's happening already.

    The exception is big monopolies. AT&T's Bell Labs is a legendary R&D department. IBM, Microsoft, and Google all likewise have significant pure R&D going on, and even engineers who don't like those companies salivate at the opportunity to work in that capacity for them.

    But then you've got big monopolies on your hands, and that's a whole other problem.

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  • In the manufacturing space, people are questioning if patents help them at all. There is no stopping China from copying your design and selling it on Aliexpress. In fact, since you're almost certainly getting your product manufactured in China in the first place, there is no stopping the very manufacturing plant you're using from producing extras and undercutting you.

    Consider this old EEVblog vid about bringing a product to market, and the #1 tip is "don't bother with a patent": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BL1O0xCcY

    Patents have evolved to be useful to patent trolls. That's it.

    That's not what Dorsey and Musk are after, though. They want to kill copyright law because it's inconvenient for AI training data.

  • DOGE goons physically drag social security worker from desk

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  • None of this has anything to do with any good faith effort for clamping down on illegal immigration. Generally speaking, people in the country illegally don't want their names on records for receiving benefits.

  • We're cooked y'all 🤣

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  • I understand the motivated reasoning of upper management thinking programmers are done for. I understand the reasoning of other people far less. Do they see programmers as one of the few professions where you can afford a house and save money, and instead of looking for ways to make that happen for everyone, decide that programmers need to be taken down a notch?