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wowfunhappy said, "I don't know why people keep using it."

so maybe it's an idiom that's spread beyond Twitter.

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Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

I don't even know what this means. Does the janitor have "something to do with Stanford" ?

Cupertino95014on Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN

He quotes from The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz /s

How many of those killed were actually Hamas fighters?

Cupertino95014on The Naming of America (2023)

> I think his use of "it has been argued", "have been credited to", and "purportedly" in this context are not weaselly, and are fine in reference to unsubstantiated arguments that people have made.

No, it IS weaselly. Unless there is any substance to the argument at all, it's like saying "it has been argued that the earth is flat."

Maybe say "it has been argued without evidence" like journalists do /s

Cupertino95014on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

Hear.

Just keep getting reelected, since no one expects you to accomplish anything. People in the rest of the country push "term limits" as the solution to everything. I always point out that we've had them in CA for 20 years. It just means that they run for a different office after they're termed out.

Or become lobbyists.

Cupertino95014on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid

TCR could have been justified by everyone having massive faith in the future, as OP is suggesting happened with roads. But you're quite wrong that "few people sat around asking whether or not it was worth it", as Iron Empires details:

https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Empires-Robber-Railroads-America...

it was hugely controversial in Congress.

I don't happen to know about roads, since that wasn't one single thing. But I doubt they happened because of blind faith in the future, either -- it was probably more businesses demanding roads NOW. So the argument that no one questioned them is dubious at best.

Cupertino95014on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid

You could go on newspapers.com (free for 7 days) and look at those old papers. I know that the Transcontinental Railroad was intensely controversial.

What's "bad-faith" about it?

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

"Someone might be misled!"

Classic cry of the people who want to regulate and control everything.

Maybe if the certificate is worthless, the students will figure it out? Maybe by doing a little research before they invest their money and time.

I know that for a course to be eligible for government reimbursement under any program (job training, GI Bill, etc.) the government has to investigate it. So presumably the bad ones are either already ineligible, or someone's not doing their job.

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

In the spinoff, the part that became Agilent should have stayed "Hewlett-Packard." Because you're right, Agilent and its spinoffs are the true inheritors of what Dave and Bill built.

The part that stayed HP should have been renamed "HP Computing" or some BS corporate acronym ("HPC"??)

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

> who you’re paying for

Only ignorant people think that all beginning courses are taught by real professors. That hasn't been true for generations.

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

Most of these classes would fall under the heading of "light entertainment for people with the money to afford it."

Take a look at this one:

https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/detail/20241_...

It doesn't claim that Anja Lee has anything to do with Stanford, except for teaching this class.

https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/detail/20241_...

You probably do learn something about photography from Mr. Feria for your $480.

Cupertino95014on Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

> many of the "extension" courses at universities are taught by people with at least a minimal affiliation to the university.

That might be true at Harvard, but it's not at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, or Stanford. Probably others, but those are the ones I see catalogs for.

Cupertino95014on Crows are even smarter than we thought

You're right: you said "statistically we never had any luck trying, or by an exhaustive search of all possible perpetual motion machines." as an antithesis.

I took "reasoned to be false" as sort of a weak and refutable statement.

Cupertino95014on Crows are even smarter than we thought

There's plenty to find. Ask any dog or cat owner.

I think if your 4-year-old aliens were found, many humans would find them charming and fun pen pals (assuming they're not dangerous).

It would be useful as the fly by of Pluto, where we finally found out things we couldn't possibly have known looking from here.

Cupertino95014on Crows are even smarter than we thought

It isn't just statistics and bad luck for PM inventors. There are physical reasons arguing strongly that it's impossible.

Cupertino95014on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision

> All you need to do is ...

That's not all you have to do. I'll let people who've owned houses in snowy climates amplify that.

In a building, water is your eternal enemy. Keeping it out of places where it doesn't belong accounts for a good part of the other things you have to do.

Cupertino95014on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision

No. They liked it that way, and thought "beauty" was bourgeois.

Cupertino95014on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision

> the worst architecture you'll find anywhere would have to be the strip mall architecture

That's like asking which is worse: pancreatic cancer or Huntington's Chorea?

both pretty bad. Wouldn't want either.

Cupertino95014on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision

> I point to the Barbican in London

https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/architecture/our-build...

To me, this looks more like an East Berlin apartment building for the Communist Party elites. Not as ugly as the workers' buildings, but that's not saying much.

Cupertino95014on In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision

> the architect Walter Gropius, a well-known flat roofer and ostensibly Tessenow’s opposition, insisted “the question of whether a roof is flat or pitched is to be answered solely on the basis of practicality, technology, and efficiency.

hey Walter: have you heard of snow? It's known to fall in Berlin. Not so much in Jerusalem.

Cupertino95014on Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker

Me, too: Android phone and Mac laptop.

Cupertino95014on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Perhaps if NK wanted to be understood they'd allow tourists to come in and wander around and talk to the happy natives.

Just answer us this: is an NK citizen free to emigrate to some other country?

Cupertino95014on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

> what a fool you are.

You still haven't told us whether you've been there or not.

As for the Western picture of it: it comes largely from NK citizens who've escaped. Call it "propaganda" if you like, but if it were false then there would be a net inflow of people who are as hip to reality as you think you are. Is there?

South Koreans would be trying to move IN if you were correct; after all, they're closer than anyone and they speak the language.

Cupertino95014on What it's like to work on cold cases

> a bad choice of words

I think you had ample chance to sell your ideas, and you lost:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051617581/minneapolis-police...

Cupertino95014on Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

> You have lost

You are not THE judge of that, nor in fact are you ANY judge.

And I did not compare you to Hitler; I simply said that some facts do not merit the whiny question, "oh, do you have a link for that?" The debate about social media has already happened, and you're the one who lost.

If you want some links, as it appears you do, just go to scholar.google.com and search "social media harms." It says "About 1,390,000 results." (that doesn't mean you would get that many if you kept scrolling, of course)

Edit: we're done here. Have the last word if that's important to you.

Cupertino95014on Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

Sorry, pfdietz, but I'm not responsible for proving to you that the Holocaust happened, Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK, tobacco is harmful, or diabetes is related to the pancreas. Or that social media is harmful to children.

And "classic crank behavior" describes you.

Cupertino95014on Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

Why don't you read up on the responses to your "study", and tell us what they said?

You don't get to make other people do research for you, so I'm not going to do that.

Cupertino95014on Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

wrong. It's common knowledge that social networks are harmful to teens. You're the one with work to do.

I don't have to match a pro-tobacco post with a billion medical studies. When you contradict established fact, you're the person who has to prove it.

Cupertino95014on Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional

This reads like the transcript of a discussion comprising a bunch of computer science students.

Words are not mathematical symbols. I know you'd like them to be unambiguous, but they're not. First-year law students would probably just smile tolerantly and pat you on the head.