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For background on KYC in the banking context @patio11's podcasts and essays are worth consuming:

  Patrick: Yes, so "Know Your Customer" (KYC) and "Anti-Money Laundering" (AML) 
  are mandatory elements of the international compliance regime that have been 
  in place in the United States since the early 1980s. Over time, this regime 
  spread globally, largely fueled by the U.S. leveraging the dollar as a tool 
  of foreign policy—a point where I find myself agreeing with critiques from 
  the crypto community. Their complaints about this are largely accurate. You 
  can see this clearly in the documents as these laws were passed and as 
  supranational bodies increasingly tightened regulations on banking secrecy 
  havens.
  

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/true-crime-ba...

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th...

what, they keep no records, or as lege branch they aren't foi-able so you won't ever know if they do or not?

An interesting substory that is simultaneously reminiscent of the Fogbank story and how Hayek's "curious task" is much more broadly applicable:

  There is a good cautionary tale here from the Space Shuttle era. That vehicle 
  had heat resistant tiles that had to be attached to the aluminum belly of the 
  orbiter. A special cloth had been certified for wiping the aluminum clean 
  before applying the primer that securely bonded the tiles to the metal. After 
  years of uneventful use, tile engineers discovered that new replacement tiles 
  were no longer curing properly.
  
  A careful investigation revealed that the supplier of that special cloth had 
  changed the lubricant used in the machine that sews its hem. Minute amounts 
  of the lubricant were being deposited on the stitching, and enough of that 
  residue was getting on the aluminum skin to prevent the tile adhesive from 
  curing properly.

There are existing free textbook publishing organizations. From a satisfied consumer point of view: https://openintro.org/ and https://openstax.org/.

> I first came into contact with this high-cost/low-quality problem as a student

The challenge with this perspective is that it focuses on monetary cost (what I have to pay to take a class) instead of positioning knowledge transmission repositories within a value framework.

Enforcement is right of boom, essentially a safety net for the negative external affects of a person having already made a series of choices that resulted in an enforceable outcome. My impression from the thread is a query to identify the things that can prevent an enforceable outcome in the first place.

While one might say strict enforcement would discourage particular behavior choices. I would not disagree and add that suppression of behaviors is not as effective as replacement of behaviors.

My kid is using a webcam based head tracker with a combat flight sim of some sort. You don't want to move your head too far since you are looking at the monitor right? It works kind of like mouse acceleration where if you move your head quickly, it changes perspective further.

There are broadly available third party RP2350 boards with subc and a variety of additional capabilities if that is important for you.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-us/collections/rp2350

https://www.sparkfun.com/sparkfun-pro-micro-rp2350.html

https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2913.html

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO-RP2350-p-5944.html

Memorizing binary would certainly revamp the A in STEAM.

  STEAM takes STEM education a step further by integrating “Arts” into the 
  acronym, encompassing language arts, drama, graphic design, visual arts, 
  music, and new media.

https://www.k12.com/stem-education/stem-vs-steam/

> If a local district starts losing funding, then it would have to close / shrink schools, and people from outside the educational system would be allowed to establish independent (secular) charter schools within the district.

K-12 education funding is strange. It has social welfare like elements like an entitlement, but is provisioned as a conditionally compulsory service like a jail.

It suffers from similar cost/benefit illegibility as healthcare, with its triangulation of patient, provider and payor, only remove decision making from the patient and on the provider side add local politics to upper management and union rules to workers.

Maybe that it works at all is testament to people caring about kids.

Thank you kind person for posting this. I've just started my Pandoc journey formatting books for reading in a secondhand Sony DPT-RP1.

An interesting aspect of this story is that America has an idiosyncratic approach toward firefighting vehicles that demands very large bespoke vehicles from a limited set of vendors [0] that are primarily used to bring a set of first responders to medical emergencies. [1] This philosophy carries on to other aspects of fire fighting like the very famous wooden ladders of San Francisco. [1]

Cost insensitive customers with bizarre business requirements, what could go wrong?

0. https://www.slashgear.com/1890538/why-american-fire-trucks-b...

1. https://www.pulsara.com/blog/why-does-911-send-a-fire-truck-...

2. https://sf-fire.org/our-organization/division-support-servic...

Thanks, sounds reasonable

Aside from rising seas, there is regional destruction of protective barrier islands from poor resource management and sedimentary processes that should have moved the agriculture transshipment activities of BR/NO to the Atchafalaya River in the recent past. This is easier said than done and there is a strong video about how the Mississippi’s current path has been maintained by the Old River Complex:

https://youtu.be/XpjPe4kbpYo

Edit: better video

> more trustworthy than all of our current top politicians of both parties.

Big if true. Has he addressed the previous rug sweeps about clerical child abuse?

If one considers a firm to be a non-human entity that exhibits cognition, then yes. Various religions also exhibit those characteristics, which would fortify the Roman pope’s position with irony.

See Joscha Bach’s claim about religions not publishing their A|B testing at 51:47:

https://youtu.be/7bqdPHLIY8w

This is really sad. I was hopeful the Lone Star Flight Museum would take it over. I spent a few afternoons there with my then much smaller kids. It was a not overdone museum where you could explore around inside the vehicles like a Sikorsky S-34 and the not-working simulators.

Yes, an example is "Local stellar kinematics from Hipparcos data" [0]. Afaict: stars have color (red or blue shift) which represents relative motion; Hipparcos is a large large dataset from an eponymous satellite; fancy math determines relative motion based on position and inferred distance.

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9710077

Thank you for posting this. I wonder if anyone has made a physical galactic orrery. It seems that the concept is used in the video game Warhammer.

Something implicit in the diagrams of the galactic plane but not explicitly stated is that the solar system travels clockwise (retrograde) around the galaxy [0]. I find this unexpected as I thought the same "right hand rules" of planetary motion [1] were somehow connected to those of electromagnetism [2] and would apply upwards in scale.

  The Sun follows the solar circle (eccentricity e < 0.1) at a speed of about 
  255 km/s in a clockwise direction when viewed from the galactic north pole at 
  a radius of ≈ 8.34 kpc about the center of the galaxy near Sgr A*, and has 
  only a slight motion, towards the solar apex, relative to the LSR.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_standard_of_rest

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_of_astronomical_bodies

2. https://www.arborsci.com/blogs/cool/three-right-hand-rules-o...

The author's cited phenomena may be AI assisted plagiarism but is just plain plagiarism that could have been done the old fashioned way, and someone who is willing to plagiarize has the ethics to do SEO really well.

> aren't actually datable, because it's rock

To add to the methods shared by others, one way I think is really cool is optically stimulated luminescence.

  So, a grain of quartz destined someday to become the perfect OSL sample will 
  begin its journey by emptying its electron traps. This typically happens 
  through steady sunlight exposure, in a process called bleaching. Bleaching 
  resets the OSL clock. In this example scenario, the grain is fully bleached 
  by the sun as the wind blows it across the landscape, until it finally 
  settles and additional wind-blown material buries it.
  
  Once it is cut off from light, the OSL clock begins running. The sediment now 
  surrounding the quartz will include tiny amounts of radioactive isotopes, 
  exposing the quartz to a steady flow of ionizing radiation. The quartz 
  captures electrons from this radiation; the radiation flow is called the dose 
  rate. This is like the steady ticking of a clock. The quartz begins trapping 
  electrons, and because it is cut off from light, the trapped electrons will 
  continue building up at a fairly steady, measurable rate.

https://desert.com/osl/

Also dinosaur bones.

  As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed 
  of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the 
  fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated 
  concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in 
  mythological stories. . . .

  Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and 
  measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and 
  museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric 
  creatures and to explain their extinction. . . .

https://classics.stanford.edu/publications/first-fossil-hunt...

This appears to be "free as in beer" in that they do not mention any changes to intellectual property considerations.

  In 2019, The Tribune became the first legacy publication to transition to a 
  nonprofit. This move changed our calculus. We are now an independent news 
  organization, not owned by any person or company.

The change to corporate structure is probably more significant than removing pay to read. If they can attract a big and broad enough donor base of civic associations etc then they will be well insulated from the vicissitudes of quasi-ad "underwriting."

> click through EULAs

Every year "don't agree to things on behalf of the company"

Every day "click here to agree that ..."

The ambiguity is part of the charm. Something that reveals more about the beholders than the artist makes for stimulating conversation and discovery.

Even the new positioning of the art on a plinth in some open space is enigmatic. If it were a critique of the powers that be, why would officialdom collaborate in propping it up?

Yeah, nuclear provides a steady base load, so the percentage goes up or down depending on overall grid utilization. Right now its doing 2.28 MW [0], which is more than what Wikipedia claims as its "Nameplace capacity" of 2.256 MW [1].

0. https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

> At least in Germany, you are legally allowed to make patented things for yourself or science to some capacity.

Yeah, it has always amazed me that Ruf could market their own versions of the 911 without there being a design patent legal problem.

Yeah, Google has MuJoCo so it seems natural to get hooks into Blender.

MuBlE: MuJoCo and Blender simulation Environment and Benchmark for Task Planning in Robot Manipulation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02834

> It will exclude the poorer from astronomical research, except within the limits enabled by whatever cooperation the richer will be willing to do with them.

Isn't it the case that most astronomical research uses source data from large telescopes and sky surveys? An example is the Rubin Science Platform [0] which makes available images and metadata from the Rubin Observatory along with compute and APIs?

https://data.lsst.cloud/

How is a 10 minute continuous exposure functionally different from 10 minutes of video with every frame stacked? In the former, each photodiode acts as a compositor for each pixel instead of whatever algorithm is chosen to combine frames in the latter?

> True meditation, . . . takes intense willpower.

This seems counterintuitive. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but in my newbie practice it seems to be like resistance or cardiovascular training where there is effort in the moment and a sense of one's limits and a sense of unfolding and gains toward more depth and weight and duration. Like the gym it can be disappointing to lose ground after a break but there is also the contentment of regaining strength similar to rereading a familiar book and seeing it in new light.

There have been times that required more purposeful scheduling and preparation that is my default mode and times when whatever was in my head made me just actively hate sitting there and fail to realize that sensation as an ephemeral state. I accepted the door was closed that day and came back the next to pick up at the stopping point.