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A surprisingly large cohort of tech people are completely fine with fascism. I suppose it "technically" solves a lot of perceived problems in society, so it appeals to many people who severally lack in empathy or critical thinking.

Are you aware this is a thread concerning Israeli settler violence? The settlers are not settling on empty land..

I suppose to the same place Palestinians are supposed to go..

You could find about it after 1, 2, 3 years or a decade. A person you know might find it and use it to blackmail you. Lots of potential for damage.

It's almost like there's a spectrum of things. Some that you'll never catch and some that you will with reasonable effort. Where the above falls in this spectrum is clear, and should be thought about accordingly.

Well, you know, there are the ladies of the evening..

One danger of aging population that doesn't get acknowledged often is that as the population ages, so does their voting and investment behavior.

Older people take less risks and it will reflect in funding available to innovation. Of course it will fall on the younger generation to support the older, but they will have less and less say in what goes on, and will have less opportunities to prove themselves.

There is no way this will end well.

So you go have a shag in an alley and I'll stumble upon you and your partner with my camera. How will you know I published it and where? Maybe I'll just upload it to some seedy website that you never visit.

The good old "if only they named it differently it would be easy".

It's just not true. Mathematics is far deeper and richer than pretty much any other field. The naming of things is not stopping you from understanding it, but the sheer magnitude of it. Yes, as an adult it's easy to give a new look at the things you were flooded with in college and understand a tiny fraction of it with time and no pressure, and conclude it was easy all along "if only it was done like ..."

Go ahead and keep trying to learn for weeks with fast pace and kind of crappy material, and you'll remember why it actually was difficult.

You're probably right. I was quoted this as something Zapp said by someone recently, and I didn't go verify if it really was so.

I think it was the brave captain Zapp Brannigan who said it first, but might be mistaken here.

> Plumbers are feeling pretty good right now.

Until their job market is flooded with all the career switchers.

These math advances are more or less zero-sum wins, as in there's not much gained for the outside world, and a chance to prove an important theorem is taken away from humans. In a sense it's hard to celebrate it. If, however, they were able to advance medicine, science or technology, it would be a different story.

That should still be possible if you get a decent PhD and some teaching experience. Typically the research oriented people don't care for the less prestigious teaching positions on college level. At least, that was my experience back in the day.

They'll eat a shit sandwich if it means others have to smell their breath.

That's a rather strange concern to have.

*Algebraic geometry

"There's purpose of science is to make boring what was once exciting."

-Boaz Barak

It freaked me out he'd let his 9 year old watch T2, but then again, I was probably around that age when I first saw it and I'm not in prison (yet).

Talking and deciphering the thoughts of our AI gods?

Well, academia was always like this. There was never room for chill people to begin with.

It's not weird at all if you consider half the commenters here are talking straight out of their asses. Apparently being mediocre at software engineering makes you an expert in criticizing other fields.

Also, the independent authors might have spent some time to actually understanding the results and producing a readable manuscript. The AI papers are pretty badly written.

Also not sure how accessible the nuclear launch API is. I doubt we are just a REST request away from a nuclear catastrophe.

What I mean here that it's a trade off.

Choosing a decaying city might mean lower taxes. Or better health care. Or tax breaks for the elites. You know, things we choose as a collective.

Right, then you need a medical professional willing to do it, and that probably gets difficult.

I'm against the death penalty, but the engineer in me wants to solve this problem.

So why not put the patient to sleep first with anesthetic drugs? After that the mask should not be a bother.

I find it fairly plausible that life exists anywhere the conditions are even slightly favorable. All you need is just enough time for some atoms to form a self-replicating configuration and that pretty much kick starts it.

It might not evolve into something very complex, though.

This comic is amazing. When I first discovered it I spent 2 days reading it at every chance I got. What a crazy story.