Is it bullshit? If you're using your 2a rights to fight against the government (tyrannical or not), it does not free you from facing the consequences if you don't "win", or prevent the government from fighting back (in…
We are already massively investing into renewable energy... to the tune of about $1trillion since 2020 in the US. In 2024, 95%+ of all new electricity capacity was solar/wind/batteries. Seems like you believe the…
This seems fine in theory, but as a rule how do you define what is plausible or not? And what actions are taken to mitigate theoretical misuse of a system? For many systems, you could come up with an infinite list of…
The example I gave is for sports. Not politics. My point is specifically that the politics side of twitter is probably giving people a weird/not fully accurate view of the site as a whole.
Is it dead? I feel like this is more of a "you" thing than you might realize. At least for sports, twitter is 100% still the dominant medium for reporting. I'm looking at the same post on a players status for this…
Not a huge fan of the sentiment in this article, and the very cynical way it was communicated, but the references to the library of babel reminded me of this fun site. https://libraryofbabel.info
"cre-" is a latin root meaning (more or less) "make" which is where we get "create" - both are likely drawing inspiration from that (as would be the case for Creo, a common CAD software).
> If I just add a few more parameters to my model I can make it fit anything! Dealing with people wanting to do this is story of my current professional life lol I would love to get them onto the same page that chasing…
I mean to be completely accurate the Earth doesn't strictly orbit the Sun. Both the Sun and Earth orbit each other around a point at their "combined" center of mass, the barycenter -…
This reminds me of a TIME article by former Governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb https://time.com/7346751/ai-impact-american-manufacturing/
Thanks for doubling down on being facetious and making me feel better that I didn't just jump to conclusions about you, and that I made the right assumptions lol
This is the mindset I'd expect from a toddler - "it hasn't happened to me yet so it's not a problem and people who think it is are overreacting". Should we also treat drinking and driving a no-big-deal thing since you…
My "we can't do that with the sun" statement was re: being able to use diplomacy to avoid it, not that there aren't theoretical (albeit far fetched) solutions. We can't create the conditions where the sun doesn't "want"…
True. It would admittedly be a much different and more challenging problem to stop something coming back in from Space as opposed to an ICBM - you're right there. But yea the mutually assured misery that it might cause…
That's a valid point. I guess in my mind an EMP is an act of aggression that has viable ways of being stopped (as opposed to mitigated) whereas a solar storm is agnostic to anything happening on Earth. Even if the…
Not sure that I can speak to everything, but I did take a course specifically on space weather + it's impacts on Earth and have some context I can maybe share. For your first point, you are correct it is a national…
and followed up with a classic "I know you are but what am I" by you lol this thread looks like it's folding in on itself
You'll be thrilled to learn that you can sort any product on Amazon by average customer rating and "most popular" (total number of sales) in order to find exactly that product. Customers are real humans with autonomy…
It's possible we're not on the same page on what you meant, but after your clarifying, it still requires defining what a "bad product" is, and that's not as easy as it feels like you're suggesting. A cheap product can…
I appreciate your response and perspective, and I apologize that my reply had been more snarky than it needed to be. I'm not here just to defend Amazon, it has it's issues, but it has also provided a lot of value to…
> I think deficient or faulty products exist and amazon often sells them. So nothing I said disagrees with this. I agree that "pseudo-scam" products and counterfeits exist on Amazon, but if something is risky/dangerous…
> there are a lot of cheap air fryers that are not worth buying over a one or more "good value" alternatives OK, but the customer is the only person who gets to decide what that means. "Reversing the idea" is just…
"Nuance isn't relevant here because I've already assumed what they're doing is strictly bad" is what I'm haering. Engaging with the nuance means engaging with the fact that rent-seeking can only exist where value (real…
You raise a very good counter to what feels like the main thrust of the guys article. It put to words something that felt "off" to me while reading it, that there was an assumption made that was never stated and was…
ORD to MKE is a 60-90 minute drive depending on traffic. When you account for going through ORD security, boarding, taxiing at ORD, etc. I'm not so sure that it's a win for travel time. Depends on where you're starting…
Is it bullshit? If you're using your 2a rights to fight against the government (tyrannical or not), it does not free you from facing the consequences if you don't "win", or prevent the government from fighting back (in…
We are already massively investing into renewable energy... to the tune of about $1trillion since 2020 in the US. In 2024, 95%+ of all new electricity capacity was solar/wind/batteries. Seems like you believe the…
This seems fine in theory, but as a rule how do you define what is plausible or not? And what actions are taken to mitigate theoretical misuse of a system? For many systems, you could come up with an infinite list of…
The example I gave is for sports. Not politics. My point is specifically that the politics side of twitter is probably giving people a weird/not fully accurate view of the site as a whole.
Is it dead? I feel like this is more of a "you" thing than you might realize. At least for sports, twitter is 100% still the dominant medium for reporting. I'm looking at the same post on a players status for this…
Not a huge fan of the sentiment in this article, and the very cynical way it was communicated, but the references to the library of babel reminded me of this fun site. https://libraryofbabel.info
"cre-" is a latin root meaning (more or less) "make" which is where we get "create" - both are likely drawing inspiration from that (as would be the case for Creo, a common CAD software).
> If I just add a few more parameters to my model I can make it fit anything! Dealing with people wanting to do this is story of my current professional life lol I would love to get them onto the same page that chasing…
I mean to be completely accurate the Earth doesn't strictly orbit the Sun. Both the Sun and Earth orbit each other around a point at their "combined" center of mass, the barycenter -…
This reminds me of a TIME article by former Governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb https://time.com/7346751/ai-impact-american-manufacturing/
Thanks for doubling down on being facetious and making me feel better that I didn't just jump to conclusions about you, and that I made the right assumptions lol
This is the mindset I'd expect from a toddler - "it hasn't happened to me yet so it's not a problem and people who think it is are overreacting". Should we also treat drinking and driving a no-big-deal thing since you…
My "we can't do that with the sun" statement was re: being able to use diplomacy to avoid it, not that there aren't theoretical (albeit far fetched) solutions. We can't create the conditions where the sun doesn't "want"…
True. It would admittedly be a much different and more challenging problem to stop something coming back in from Space as opposed to an ICBM - you're right there. But yea the mutually assured misery that it might cause…
That's a valid point. I guess in my mind an EMP is an act of aggression that has viable ways of being stopped (as opposed to mitigated) whereas a solar storm is agnostic to anything happening on Earth. Even if the…
Not sure that I can speak to everything, but I did take a course specifically on space weather + it's impacts on Earth and have some context I can maybe share. For your first point, you are correct it is a national…
and followed up with a classic "I know you are but what am I" by you lol this thread looks like it's folding in on itself
You'll be thrilled to learn that you can sort any product on Amazon by average customer rating and "most popular" (total number of sales) in order to find exactly that product. Customers are real humans with autonomy…
It's possible we're not on the same page on what you meant, but after your clarifying, it still requires defining what a "bad product" is, and that's not as easy as it feels like you're suggesting. A cheap product can…
I appreciate your response and perspective, and I apologize that my reply had been more snarky than it needed to be. I'm not here just to defend Amazon, it has it's issues, but it has also provided a lot of value to…
> I think deficient or faulty products exist and amazon often sells them. So nothing I said disagrees with this. I agree that "pseudo-scam" products and counterfeits exist on Amazon, but if something is risky/dangerous…
> there are a lot of cheap air fryers that are not worth buying over a one or more "good value" alternatives OK, but the customer is the only person who gets to decide what that means. "Reversing the idea" is just…
"Nuance isn't relevant here because I've already assumed what they're doing is strictly bad" is what I'm haering. Engaging with the nuance means engaging with the fact that rent-seeking can only exist where value (real…
You raise a very good counter to what feels like the main thrust of the guys article. It put to words something that felt "off" to me while reading it, that there was an assumption made that was never stated and was…
ORD to MKE is a 60-90 minute drive depending on traffic. When you account for going through ORD security, boarding, taxiing at ORD, etc. I'm not so sure that it's a win for travel time. Depends on where you're starting…