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bdjsiqoocwk··on 'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf]
> As seen above, this doesn't follow especially after the establishment of collective farming where everyone were considered workers.

Correct! Farmers owned the landed, the communists came and stole it from them - sorry "collectivized" it - and so made it worse for the farmers turned proletariat. So you understand that farmers hated communists.

bdjsiqoocwk··on 'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf]
Of course Lenin had an interest in selling the idea that everyone is actually proletariat. In reality by Marx's definition, proletariat are those who don't own the means of production (and are therefore stuck in earning by selling their labour), whereas farmers at least until the NEP died, mostly owned their own farms which means they did own the means of their production, which is also why farmers, or virtually everyone in the USSR outside the cities hated the communists.

But I got your point.

bdjsiqoocwk··on 'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf]
> nearly everyone in the USSR was working class

For most of its history, nearly everyone in the USSR was a farmer, so not proletariat and not communist.

> I would suggest watching the film

The first few paragraphs on how the movie is about a person remembering important episodes of his life got me curious and gave me Butterfly Effect vibes (good), but reading further down I started getting Mulholland Drives vibes (not good).

bdjsiqoocwk··on Memento Movi
FYI "memento movi" is a pun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

bdjsiqoocwk··on FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
That might or might not make sense depending on what df1 and df2 contain.

But what are you saying, that typing wrong things you might get wrong results? Yes, coding is like that.

What's your point, make a point.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
It's funny because I've had the opposite heuristic most of my line: the things I want to do most are whatever is hardest. This worked great for building my maths and physics skills and knowledge.

But when I started focusing on making money I've come to believe it's a bad heuristic for that purpose.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time
The West is a group of countries characterized by strong institutions and rule of law so Usa, Canada, europe, Japan, a Korea, Australia (it's not in fact a geographical term)

What I meant is that Ukraine is putting up a fight against an aggressor is doing unbelievably, and the west while helping isn't helping nearly as much as it should.

bdjsiqoocwk··on /e/OS: A complete "deGoogled" mobile ecosystem
What's with non mainstream things having such shitty names? e/OS/ wtf
bdjsiqoocwk··on FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
Nonsense, if you understand why df[df.sh ==val] you'll see it's great. If you don't, you can also do df.query("sh == val").
bdjsiqoocwk··on SpaceX just got what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches
He keeps retweeting lies...
bdjsiqoocwk··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
I read somewhere that the captain is Russian. What a surprise.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps
It was a while ago. I'll try again tomorrow, thank you.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time
The West doesn't deserve the allies it has in Ukraine.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps
Last time I checked I had to be a paying member to export. Is that still the case?
bdjsiqoocwk··on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written and more favorably
Dude you just got killed. Be a man and accept the L.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
> Maybe if you guys really think you are much better than Russia that it has no rights to fight back then go there and invade it

We don't want to invade Russia. In fact, we don't think about Russia at all.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds
I once met a guy whom I told I some times had lucid dreams. He replied matter factly - lucid dreams don't exist, with the same of contempt you'd tell a creationist that God doesn't exist. I said they do exist because I've had them before. At this point from his look he must believe I'm perhaps trolling him, like I'm claiming that I can fly or become invisible. After a lot of back and forth and a lot of condescension from him, he eventually admits he doesn't know what a "lucid dream" is. So he just thought it meant something like "I have visions in my dreams and they predict the future", and assumed that's what I meant without even bothering to check.

You wouldn't believe the kind of stupid people you meet at physics conferences.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)
This is called concern trolling.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Recovering from a kidney donation
Wait this isn't true is it?
bdjsiqoocwk··on We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour
So maybe think with your own head instead of just taking the average of everyone else's opinion.
bdjsiqoocwk··on What to Use Instead of PGP
Isn't this sunk cost fallacy?
bdjsiqoocwk··on Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash
Don't worry, I'm confident that with Enron Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency, if this is illegal now it won't be for much longer. People like Musk are just natural born problem solvers.
bdjsiqoocwk··on Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo
> feels like a misty-eyed throwback to 2005.

Feels like let's get people to invest in our platform and once they're locked in make them pay.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
Steam can delete a game from your account, they can't delete a cd that I physically have with me.

Why does this even need to be spelled out...

bdjsiqoocwk··on AI Sucks at Code Reviews
I'd still like someone to explain to my how chatgpt is so bad at solving leetcode exercises. Literally copy pasted publicly available exercises.
bdjsiqoocwk··on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day
Can you say "cisgender" on twitter? No? Not committed to free speech.
bdjsiqoocwk··on The death and life of prediction markets at Google
You should know that people at google are the smartest people on the planet. Several of them assured me so.
bdjsiqoocwk··on The death and life of prediction markets at Google
> Yet what executives would have wanted to know was “Will Microsoft integrate LLMs into Outlook by Spring 2023?”

I've said this many times: innovation at google is dead. This is yet another supporting data point. Firms that innovate aren't concerned with what competitors are doing. At google it appears it's their main concern.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Silicon Valley got what it wanted
All of them...?

Those with power want deregulation, those without want regulations that constrain those with power. Just so we're on the same page, those with power is corporate America, those without is everyone else.

bdjsiqoocwk··on Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)
Let's imagine a thought experiment. Imagine you tell an american "the USA did X", what's he gonna respond. I know what he won't, he won't say "but Russia...". That's because Russia is a culturally irrelevant country.
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