chrystalkey

Haha nice :) Yeah those black holes are everywhere these days when you dont look...

Said the grumpy grandpa, shaking his hand at the cloudy sky. I dont know what value that comment contributed, funding research is always a long shot. And often times it fails, but that is kinda its purpose, we dont know what we dont know.

This may say more about the people that surround you specifically. I have made the opposite experience.

wait, where did that come from? Your original comment was about politics, not the violence of certain groups. I think that shifts a goal post.

This does not seem very well tought out, gives off more of a frustrated teen vibe.

I wouldnt call the Munich one successful as in "nailed it". the shortcomings are many and increasingly visible

But you get the Environment for free if you choose the ISA, so ISA=>ISA ecosystem. It really does matter when making a decision

I too fell victim to mistaking LoRa for LoRa

*really really bloody good. i would more broadly say knowledge base? I have yet to find a tool that has so little friction in storing/retrieving (Text+img based) ideas + Interoperability + Speed

maybe that wasn't that good of an Idea either then? I would argue that this kind of interference is in every way problematic, especially when the outset goal is to erode trust in democratic institutions, which it is in this case.

thanks!

Can you recommend any good write ups or articles for this topic?

I use different languages for different purposes. Although bash euns everywhere, its a walking footgun and thus I only use it for small sub 100 line no or one option Scripts. the rest goes to one of Python, which nowadays runs almost everywhere, Julia or a compiled language for the larger stuff

I think this take on history is a bit rough. Free markets are a fiction. Their ideal picture can only exist in a capitalist sense due to the force monopoly of the state. Otherwise, what is stopping me to shoot you to get your means of production? And is that really a free market, given that I skipped the laws of supply an demand by taking your life? So some governance is needed to keep things kind of orderly. Now the question becomes how much, but that is a political question.

As for your second point: One could indeed argue in turn that they were. In both countries WW2 was preceeded by extremely harsh economic conditions for most of the population, while industrialists prospered, leading to extremist voting shares previously unheard of. Big Industry in turn directly sponsored the NSDAP in many ways, big and small, to get them into power. Hitler especially preached terror to the masses and met with Krupp, Bormann et al. in the backrooms to talk policy. So the previous comment had a point, yours not so much I am afraid. one particular item of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_Fund_of_German_Tr...

no, that is a terrible idea, and it is about scale and quality of life. First, there just is not the technology to do what you propose on Mars. The tech we have is limited to a few at absolutely astronomical costs and many many unknown unknowns. Second, life in a biosphere will not be able to compare to just living out in the open with (current+100Years) of Tech, Just think how much effort goes into infrastructure for people today, roads, bridges, water supply, electricity, and now imagine having to protect every kilometer from a hostile environment. Just extremely impractical.

Sure, a very select few rich people could survive this, but it just does not scale and is a pretty shitty life. There is no cost effective way around protecting earth's biosphere so that we all can continue to live here.

ad hominem never helped anyone

I work at a well known German company and I am employed a little less than half time as a working student to singlehandedly plan, manage and implement a project that is shown every now and then at technology conferences and demonstrations as one of two demonstrations. I am not able to decide anything on my own, since almost everything has to go through some superior to be bought/allowed. Despite this PR Desaster waiting to happen, no one else in the team gives any serious time to this project, but whenever the deadline of conference X comes around, I am the one being pressured to get things done. There are red flags on the project all around and I know it is not going to work since there has never even been a clear project vision from the start, and every month or so my direct supervisor comes along with a new turn, a new feature to be implemented despite it not working at all with whatever has been there before let alone as a complete concept. I have to actively un-implement certain features to make the next new thing work. Thank god I have a limited contract and I am out of there at the end of the month.

Sumatra is such an awesome piece of software, small, fast, almost entirely bug-free, incredible load speeds for large pdfs... my Linux alternative is Evince, which does about the same

That may just go to show how much you might be caught up in your bubble. All of that is a still very much active part of the human experience. Although technology has brought us great comforts and raised our living standards, art, music, anthropology, social sciences in general do absolutely have value to a great many people and contributed to a raised living standard in other ways.

Even if we decide the only relevant criterium is the free market, people pay for the ability to do these things, and for good reason, just as they pay for the ability to use and develop technologies.

I think it would be a great loss to all of humanity if we suddenly stopped paying for social science education. In a nutshell, and a bit polemic: What do you want humanity to be, a great many cogs in a science machine churning away without looking sideways? I would not want that.