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Good problem connoisseur. Diabolical spear chucker. Dad. Crying is a luxury. 🏴🏴☠️
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Joined March 2006
Don't kid yourselves, CEOs aren't remotely close to being warlords. They are more like priests and in some rare cases shamans. This speaks to how few people today really understand violence.
Can't remember who said something like: If not for capitalism CEOs would be warlords. I thought the idea had a modicum of legitimacy, but was weak & small. All intellectual endeavors have probably led to an incalculable amt of peace, incl. the study of war & the shitty ones.
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If you lost your shit over Obama wearing a tan suit, but shrug or support a Trump third term... Where DO you take your clown car to get repaired?
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Prove me wrong: In the US, white is a legal term and therefore so is black. Wherever that takes you, just consider prohibition on that journey.
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In Recursive Worlds, designed by Neo-Metabolism, Sara Walker redefines life as a physical process that structures matter through recursive information across deep time. Challenging conventional physics, she introduces assembly theory to describe how complex objects—including
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being a google customer feels like they punish you for using their products
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Puff (Diddy) gated Wu-Tang Forever? Nah, that's vile. Again, RIP to DMX for saving Hip Hop from this devil.
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How did I miss this? Now I have to re-read everything I read by him. I was hoping for one more book by him.
We are no longer on the same planet as Vernor Vinge. He was one of the greats. I am glad to have met him, and sad that now we can only meet him in his books
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"elites who hold social status in society on the basis of...knowledge, skills, or institutional rank tend to be resentful and disdainful toward those who enjoy high social position primarily on the basis of their business success and accumulated wealth" https://t.co/hiBejHhUQC
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Don’t be surprised if China offers Terry Tao the chair of the mathematics department at Tsinghua University. And all the funding he wants. Because it is possible for the US to fumble the bag as the destination for global talent. And indeed it is fumbling that bag right now.
The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.
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Anybody out there interested in AI and good sci-fi read the novel Exadelic by Jon Evans.
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.@CJHandmer on how to feed the AIs. 0:00:00 – Why doesn’t China win by default 0:08:28 – Why hyperscalers choose natural gas over solar 0:18:01 – Solar's astonishing learning rates 0:27:02 – How to build 50,000 acre solar-powered data centers 0:40:24 – Environmental regulations
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“The arc of history is long, and it bends toward” *flips through history book* Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no
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