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What’s your “wow”?

You somehow managed not to know the extent of his racism and cruelty?

Or you don’t think that anyone who provides material support to Nazis/Communists/Hamas/the IDF/MAGA is is basically one of them?

Or?

Trans people typically whose a new name, referring to their old name as their “deadname”. People who insist on using the deadname when they know the person has a new name are deliberately mocking, and even being cruel to, the person who has changed their name.

Musk continues to refer to his trans child by their birth name and gender. I can’t understand how someone would do that to their own child (much less anyone at all).

After purchasing twitter he chose for it a new name and wants everyone to use it, but by not bothering to I’m simply following his example.

This happened in Canada

I remember looking at a carton of Whole Foods soy milk that prominently said “no added sugar”.

I looked on the back and after water the second ingredient was “dehydrated cane juice”.

The food system has been gamed forever.

Since he deadnames his own child, I’m happy to deadname his business.

People at the time thought it would prevent war but it was irrelevant (neither hurt nor helped)

> It is possible to loathe Elmo but also conclude that given all the various factors driving your decision making, a Tesla ends up being the best fit.

Musk is unambiguously an unashamedly a Nazi, and not just for the triviality of his arm gestures. He calls people like my parents traitors for not sticking with their respective races and says people like me should “remigrate” because the west should be white only. He says people like my wife express “hatred against whites” and routinely retweets antisemitic posts. He called his ai system the “mechahitler” and it routinely returns racist responses when asked.

And when people patronize his businesses it amplifies his own wealth, which he then spends to spread his vitriol in multiple countries.

So yes, if you support Nazis financially or otherwise it makes you one too.

The Internet is almost 100% packet switching, a technique that someone brilliant in ARPA came up with the idea of claiming it was intended for nuclear warfare survival, in order to ensure funding.

“Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized. There’s an economy of scale of course, both in the building itself and in very local transmission. But all scale curves have knees, and one is survivability.

It’s possible a bunch of smaller 10 MW DCs might be faster to build, more survivable, and easier to get approved while being perfectly acceptable for most workloads.

Very much so! Though I was looking at the use case of the OP.

Federal reserve (Kansas) says in ‘25 these transactions were about $390B (there are qild estimates of $35T but these seem to be typos or deliberate misreadings of a prediction for 2035 from a crypto enthusiast). At forex scale or the scale of global GDP, 400B is invisible.

It could grow, of course, though the use case appears to be weak and unstable countries, which are by definition distant participants of global exchange, and unlikely to have any visible effect on the overall macro economy.

Interesting!

I just looked up the world bank’s estimates which say remittances are around $850B (including direct co-party islamic cash transfers, illegal in many countries). The amount using crypto is about $26B, so about 3%, hardly material at a macro scale (might be a big deal for a small country) so losing this would not be noticeable to the global economy.

Interesting use case. Not formally legitimate but even the US would prefer it not be stopped as even small exports exert a large impact on the price of oil.

But a good example of a macro impact on the global economy.

I'm a bit concerned about starting a flame war, but I barely follow any cryptocurrency news at all. So I am curious: would there actually be any negative macro consequence if this were to happen?

I know, at the micro level some people would lose their money, but does bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) have any practical, legitimate use with visible impact on the global economy (or even the national eonomy of any country with major footprint)? And I'd be sad for some of those people. but would it have any impact that I would notice? My money is in broad, boring index funds.

> RFCs were originally formalization of what was being used in practice

You may be confusing it with the IETF’s policy.

In early days of the RFCs, most started out as proposals, often but not always with some existing implementation as a jumping-off point to conversation (hence the name). I no longer remember why they started to be numbered and tracked, as the process naturally preceded that.

You can verify what I say by just reading some old ones at the rfc editor site.

Get through paywall: https://archive.li/2026.10.07-170143/https://www.nytimes.com...

He has a pm unusually large volume and has been around an unusually long time and they are the group responsible for anomalies in space-time.

The original title was too long and then when I considered how to edit it I realized that the original title was too obscure for anyone not steeped in that particular literature (“photo 51”)

All of that was common in MACLISP (MIT) and InterLISP (BBN) before PARC was founded. It was part of the lineage Alan talked about when founding PARC. DWIM was Teitelman’s PhD thesis (BTW his advisor was Minsky, which seems odd today but was normal back then).

> Most states in 2026 are slowly removing the need to display license plates at all

Do you have a reference? I have not read this, and California is going the opposite way.

Nobody seems to recognize how deranged it is that we drive around with easily identifiable numbers plastered on our vehicle. This has seemed weird and privacy-violating to me since I was a kid, yet even today when people complain about Flock cameras they don’t complain about what the cameras are looking for.

What if gun owners had to walk around wearing a huge plate with their gun registration number when they wanted to carry a gun?

And why do driver’s licenses have all sorts of extraneous info (all you need is a biometric, like a photo, expiration date, class of license, and any restrictions)? Just because I walked into a bar or bought a beer at the supermarket doesn’t mean they should be allowed to harvest my address, DOB etc.

The whole edifice is absurd.

Famously, when asked about a god, J.B.S. Haldane allegedly said that if there is a god or gods, they must have an “inordinate fondness for beetles.”

I really don’t remember much influence of smalltalk on interlisp at the time (I worked in the KSL, though I was working on 3Lisp so Interlisp was in theory just our implementation language…but of course boundaries were not what PARC was about.

Static test is still, IMHO best, but if they want that fancy transition they could at least have used a gif. All that js is terrible overkill.

Actual title was too long: “Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis”

It’s hard to strip it down these days as the OS image and its core, immutable filesystem cannot be edited. Admittedly this helps keep idiots from destroying their filesystem and also blocks many malware attacks on the system, but, for example. I don’t believe you can delete the chess program.

Don’t let them wear hats or have pockets!!

Maybe use a hologram

Sheesh, does nobody speak English any more? “Meteorites” are the members of that revolutionary faction who support more meteors.

FDA trials follow this approach. If something bad happens it’s logged as an adverse event; if they croak it’s a serious adverse event (SAE).

So if you have a treatment for moles, and a patient (trial participant) has a mole on their back treated and then falls down the stairs or is run over by a trolley the agency wants you to do an analysis to see if the treatment might have had something to do with getting run over or not taking the lift.

Note: this is not an exaggeration. I have written phase I and phase II clinical trial protocols earlier in my career.

Reddit is leaving me, by killing RSS. Oh well.