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Discord should be illegal and we should use IRC. It did the same thing better without centralized logging.

It's hilarious and depressing that one of Trump's supposed goals was making the US into an industrial powerhouse again, and yet he's acting to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry as opposed to encouraging the kind of resource efficiency that would make the US competitive long term.

The same type of people who ran interference for the tobacco industry to prevent the public from believing cigarettes cause cancer are at work confusing people about global warming. In fact it's the same people in some cases.

This is a weak argument. Swarms of LLM agents have been regurgitating the work of academics and ruining their PhD work without attribution. It's not analogous to what you're describing.

Hello, NSA representative.

Sure, but I don't rob anyone at all, regardless of how awful they are, and I have definitely been the victim of grift, because I pay taxes in the US.

"where is the conference celebrating white men?" -how you sound

Bitcoin rich people generally did nothing legitimate to earn their wealth and are often straight up devious criminals, so hearing this story about them being robbed is just a rare instance of karmic justice, IMO.

I think we agree.

Yeah, a lot of people can't figure out how to structure databases or what indices to add to them, but no, that is not the only problem just because it's the one you deal with.

> Plenty of people have a very strong vested interest in preventing data exfiltration from company hardware

The US government's own digital security people disable Intel's management engine on sensitive servers. What does that tell you?

NOBUS.

Sorry, but you're wrong that wine isn't overwhelmingly sweet. The standard is about 15% alcohol and lots of sugar that has not been turned into alcohol, because it was added after fermentation. There are dry versions, but they are rare, just like dry hard ciders are rare. Sugary shit is what sells to the fat gluttons who prop up the industry.

Wine is also sweet and sweetness is unhealthy. Part of the Gen Z crowd that doesn't give a shit about wine is correctly disillusioned with flawed culture. We don't live in a world where you can get by growing grapes and making wine at your small vineyard. It's industrial. There is no bottle of wine actually worth $1000 to anyone with a sense of pragmatism and the fact such expensive wine exists just turns people off from caring about wine. A lot of societal ills come from the fact that we have old people unwilling to change running the world. Gen Z is doing okay considering the rent-laden prison they grew up in.

There's no government that can solve for the problem of people who are at their core antisocial and want to conquer those around them. The rest need to be vigilant, and there's no utopia where people have to be so vigilant and suspicious of each others motives. Then when vigilence against evil wanes among the well-off happy types, when people start building bunkers instead of trying to fix anything, we get this impending collapse.

Do you have a smart tv that might be getting used as a residential proxy?

Mathletes, assemble!

In the US, at least, good governance has been subverted, the political machine is bought, the free press is like a caged animal, and so on. The pillars of democracy have crumbled under the weight of kleptocracy.

Wanting to not want is still wanting, I suppose. But it misses the point to frame it that way. The argument that we innately have endless desire is just not true. It is a quality particular to certain people.

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't speak negatively about private equity firms.

No, it isn't. Think about monks and so on. Some people live properly modest lives, not hedonistic ones.

The problem is not democracy, it's corruption fueled by sociopaths who insist on controlling everything and buy politicians. The problem with everything in society is that many people are fundamentally broken. Plenty of people aren't broken and can get along without committing crimes or plotting to take over the world.

If we were able to find cancer cells with a precision down to 1 cell, killing them would be trivial. There are lots of cells in a person. It's possible we will get there someday. I think bioengineering is the most likely route. I.e., design a virus to specifically target the type of cancer cell you mean to eradicate.

My phone is not that old but it stopped getting OS updates and I stopped considering it a way to do anything banking related when my bank declared that my phone OS was too old to run the app.

Yeah, this is a frequent failure of science communication. Misleading clickbait overselling a paper that made real progress in some capacity. I'd be more interested in hearing the truth of the matter and about the researchers passion for their study area. Spinning everything into some high stakes breakthrough that fundamentally changes our understanding of the world just makes me feel like my time was maliciously wasted and that I shouldn't click on news about science.

Mass damper systems were really important in cars too before we had deep simulations of structures. Putting some loosely coupled weight in some spot to keep the whole thing from vibrating was a breakthrough.

I think what they're getting at, and is valid, is how the speed/torque relationship is similar to voltage/amperage. There's nuance which can separate those ideas.

Archive.org. I watched the whole of Norm Macdonalds "cancelled" (in the "cancel culture" sense) show/podcast on there. Oddly, he died a few days after I finished it.

That's a pretty decent example IMO.

As someone familiar with electrical impedance, I don't like this article. It's trying too hard to sound smart.