Most developed countries have figured this out. Some set amount of parental leave can be used by the parents of the child with the government paying some percentage of their usual salary instead of the employer. In…
Creating an atmosphere and magnetic field for Mars should be easily doable, although I don't think either is necessary for human life on Mars, by comparison to ensuring our species survives for 500 million years. Only a…
Humans will be long extinct in 500 million years. That's not really something we need be planning for.
They'd be better off reading Zubrin's The Case for Mars since SpaceX is essentially just following the plan he outlined in that book.
> All successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so. So it's no coincidence that societies prosper only to the extent that they have customs for keeping the conventional-minded at bay.…
This is distinctly at odds with the techno-optimist view that is so prevalent on this site, and in the tech world in general, that expects technology to address societies ills in a way that allows us to forgo systemic…
The point isn't that those institutions have existed for long periods of time, but rather that they attempt to address long-term issues.
Yeah, I didn't expect that to go over well on a distinctly techno-optimist site.
> So is it a coincidence that 99.9% of hunter-gatherer societies have chosen to industrialize? I don't think there is much evidence of this. Would you say that hunter-gatherers in Australia, Africa, or the Americas…
The US had, by far, the poorest response to covid of any developed nation. Which is to be expected when the US is only a borderline developed nation.
> I mean, it's succeeded so far. There have been and will be growing pains, but so far the standard of living has increased over time. To declare failure is just speculation. Industrialized society has been reducing the…
In the political context obstructionism refers to attempts to delay or otherwise interfere with the legislative process. Which the Democrats may engage in, but I haven't seen any evidence demonstrating that. Sanctuary…
The CARES Act was a compromise, the refusal by the House to enforce subpoenas was a compromise. Even their choice of presidential candidate is a compromise of sorts, see Biden's "nothing would fundamentally change"…
You make a lot of good points here. What is expected of students in University these days is a joke compared to historical standards. Ironic given the more demanding job market expectations.
Ah okay, I guess I didn't realize how different they were. Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to check out that book, it sounds fascinating.
Abstract Algebra by Pinter and Introduction to Topology by Mendelson are two fantastic books, published by Dover, that are too elementary to be used as university textbooks on those subjects but as a result are great…
+20C global average warming would correspond to roughly +40C land average warming. With polar regions seeing significantly more warming, at least +60C. That would see the coast of Antarctica averaging Death Valley's…
I'm an academic who has never been to Antarctica. But I've done at least one mountaineering expedition (recreational not professional) every year for the past 30 years, where our lives would have been on the line if we…
I wouldn't be surprised. But who is going to put up with that kind of aloof and standoffish behavior? You're probably going to come across like a monarch that doesn't want to come into contact with the common folk.
I read that. Restrictions on sexual relationships given an uneven power dynamic are common, but an inability to shake someone's hand or put a hand on a shoulder? That's not maintaining professional boundaries, it's…
Yeah, that's intentional. It's a reference to an old comedy sketch.
Intensional intuitionistic type theory is a programming language. Throw in higher inductive types (still a programming language at this point) and Voevodsky's univalence and you've got HoTT. Then sure, the simplicial…
Here is a discussion with Chomsky on the topic. https://chomsky.info/20020322/
One of the points Chomsky makes frequently is that anarchism (at least in his view) is not opposed to any and all power structures. Legitimate ones can exist but they need to justify their existence.
There is no irony. They are free to be as illogical as they like. I can't impose reason upon them as they clearly reject it. Empathy is entirely extraneous to the discussion. If someone responds emotionally to an…
Most developed countries have figured this out. Some set amount of parental leave can be used by the parents of the child with the government paying some percentage of their usual salary instead of the employer. In…
Creating an atmosphere and magnetic field for Mars should be easily doable, although I don't think either is necessary for human life on Mars, by comparison to ensuring our species survives for 500 million years. Only a…
Humans will be long extinct in 500 million years. That's not really something we need be planning for.
They'd be better off reading Zubrin's The Case for Mars since SpaceX is essentially just following the plan he outlined in that book.
> All successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so. So it's no coincidence that societies prosper only to the extent that they have customs for keeping the conventional-minded at bay.…
This is distinctly at odds with the techno-optimist view that is so prevalent on this site, and in the tech world in general, that expects technology to address societies ills in a way that allows us to forgo systemic…
The point isn't that those institutions have existed for long periods of time, but rather that they attempt to address long-term issues.
Yeah, I didn't expect that to go over well on a distinctly techno-optimist site.
> So is it a coincidence that 99.9% of hunter-gatherer societies have chosen to industrialize? I don't think there is much evidence of this. Would you say that hunter-gatherers in Australia, Africa, or the Americas…
The US had, by far, the poorest response to covid of any developed nation. Which is to be expected when the US is only a borderline developed nation.
> I mean, it's succeeded so far. There have been and will be growing pains, but so far the standard of living has increased over time. To declare failure is just speculation. Industrialized society has been reducing the…
In the political context obstructionism refers to attempts to delay or otherwise interfere with the legislative process. Which the Democrats may engage in, but I haven't seen any evidence demonstrating that. Sanctuary…
The CARES Act was a compromise, the refusal by the House to enforce subpoenas was a compromise. Even their choice of presidential candidate is a compromise of sorts, see Biden's "nothing would fundamentally change"…
You make a lot of good points here. What is expected of students in University these days is a joke compared to historical standards. Ironic given the more demanding job market expectations.
Ah okay, I guess I didn't realize how different they were. Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to check out that book, it sounds fascinating.
Abstract Algebra by Pinter and Introduction to Topology by Mendelson are two fantastic books, published by Dover, that are too elementary to be used as university textbooks on those subjects but as a result are great…
+20C global average warming would correspond to roughly +40C land average warming. With polar regions seeing significantly more warming, at least +60C. That would see the coast of Antarctica averaging Death Valley's…
I'm an academic who has never been to Antarctica. But I've done at least one mountaineering expedition (recreational not professional) every year for the past 30 years, where our lives would have been on the line if we…
I wouldn't be surprised. But who is going to put up with that kind of aloof and standoffish behavior? You're probably going to come across like a monarch that doesn't want to come into contact with the common folk.
I read that. Restrictions on sexual relationships given an uneven power dynamic are common, but an inability to shake someone's hand or put a hand on a shoulder? That's not maintaining professional boundaries, it's…
Yeah, that's intentional. It's a reference to an old comedy sketch.
Intensional intuitionistic type theory is a programming language. Throw in higher inductive types (still a programming language at this point) and Voevodsky's univalence and you've got HoTT. Then sure, the simplicial…
Here is a discussion with Chomsky on the topic. https://chomsky.info/20020322/
One of the points Chomsky makes frequently is that anarchism (at least in his view) is not opposed to any and all power structures. Legitimate ones can exist but they need to justify their existence.
There is no irony. They are free to be as illogical as they like. I can't impose reason upon them as they clearly reject it. Empathy is entirely extraneous to the discussion. If someone responds emotionally to an…