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hackrnusron What Makes People Act on Climate Change, According to Behavioral Science

Not exaggerating the risk.

hackrnusron Proton releases end-to-end encrypted password manager

Looks like Bitwarden rebranded.

hackrnusron Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Donates $300M to Harvard University

Ken Griffin belongs in jail, not on Harvard's list of biggest (and most corrupt) donors:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-08-22/s70822-20127538-288680...

https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/reddit-trends/citadel-s...

https://www.cryptotimes.io/sec-chair-gary-gensler-accused-in...

https://newrepublic.com/article/162053/bernie-madoff-dead-he...

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/skorea-fines-citade...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-citadel-settlement-routin...

https://franknez.com/robinhood-and-citadel-colluded-night-be...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/ex-citade...

https://www.reuters.com/article/sac-fund-citadel/update-3-sa...

More on Harvard's new president here:

https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudin...

Given the mere 'slap on the wrist' that she gave Prof. Martin Nowak for helping Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution on the brewing child sex-trafficking charges for more than two decades, I'm not surprised that she sees nothing wrong with facilitating a little "reputation laundering" for Ken Griffin as he seeks to avoid being held accountable for his own misdeeds.

It's the same reason why this old geezer

https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-simons-renaissance-mit-s...

was buying "good will" from universities like MIT while the IRS was deciding whether or not to prosecute his firm on tax evasion:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/hedge-fund-slammed-over-6-8b-i...

BTW, the 'student financial aid' that Griffin references in his latest gift to the university should perhaps be more accurately translated to read here as 'tax minimization strategies for the rich'

https://www.google.com/search?q=ken+griffin+net+worth&oq=ken...

to help prop up a $50 billion organization's exceedingly bloated and thoroughly unaccountable bureaucracy,

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...

hackrnusron SympyGamma: A SymPy Version of Wolfram Alpha

Mathics.org

hackrnusron Processed foods key to rising obesity 'Protein hunger' drive obesity study shows

But what about global warming?

Isn't rising sea levels more important than rising obesity levels?

hackrnusron The end is nigh for gas-powered cars

... but not before the climate change 'crisis' -- in the integrity of how scientific research is conducted and presented in this field -- mints a few more Elon Musks.

hackrnusron PineTab-V and PineTab2 launch

When will they offer a retina screen resolution?

My Google Nexus 10, still running strong from more than a decade ago, has a 300dpi screen.

hackrnusron Setting Up Git Bash / Mingw / MSYS2 on Windows

Why not just install everything from msys2 to using pacman?

hackrnusron GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam

Because it couldn't explain corporate executive compensation levels?

hackrnusron ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high

Wonder if this is a result of all the cows farting.

hackrnusron Ask HN: Recommendations for personal files backup/sync?

Kopia

hackrnusron Ireland Asks, What If Artists Had a Guaranteed Basic Income?

Why just artists?

There are also too many scientists and engineers out there doing meaningless "bullshit jobs," also known as "bullshit research."

hackrnusron Musk, Wozniak and others want to stop AI development

What a joke. Sounds like some folks just want to pause the race to give themselves some time to catch up after being caught off-guard by OpenAI.

hackrnusron JavaScript language proposal: function implementation hiding

This is why I enjoy using emacs so much.

hackrnusron Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility

In sports, transitioning that late in life (i.e. after going through male puberty) would not allow her to compete as a so-called female.

Why should math be any different?

hackrnusron How to Learn and Teach Economics with Large Language Models, Including GPT

Much simpler formula:

1. Brainwash

2. Rinse

3. Repeat

hackrnusron National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science

Here's 'Loury on Murray' for a Friday night laugh:

https://glennloury.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-charles-murr...

hackrnusron Show HN: XPlore – find hiking/biking/walking places that you've never been to

In certain cities, this is probably a good way to get some people killed.

hackrnusron OpenAI co-founder on past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’

Open source is always a dangerous thing ... because it can grow "like cancer."

Just ask Bill Gates.

hackrnusron Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding

Thanks ... I'll try installing the Google drivers.

hackrnusron The Wage Gap, State by State

Why did Scott Adams compare women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy?

hackrnusron Neovim got a 10BTC ($247k) donation

Too bad it didn't go to emacs.

hackrnusron Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI

Haha!

hackrnusron 4.5%, and the Demographics of American Murder

You know what's a better idea than removing all the "damn" guns?

Mandatory life sentences for everyone who uses them to murder someone else.

hackrnusron Suburbs Destroyed America

Bicycle lanes destroyed cities.

hackrnusron Free Git GUI for Mac and Windows

Is it open source?

hackrnusron Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding

Has anyone gotten this mode to work with Windows yet?

hackrnusron Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding

Has anyone gotten this mode to work with Windows yet?

hackrnusron The climate cost of the AI revolution

Okay, so the Earth is about to get a little hotter now.

Why not just replace your air conditioning unit with a more powerful model?

hackrnusron MIT 24-Hour Challenge

If you believe that the child of this donor

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/07/mit-gets-a-140m-anonymous-...

has the same chances of being accepted to MIT as yours or mine, regardless of test scores, then "I've got some property overlooking South Beach down on Martha's Vineyard that I'd like to sell you," as Alan Dershowitz recently told a news reporter :)

Regarding your degree of faith in the ability of humans to cooperate without ever defecting, let me refer you to this aptly entitled book:

https://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-O...

How do you think Harvard and MIT helped Mr. Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution on the child sex-trafficking charges for over thirty years?

Type into your favorite search engine: "Martin Nowak Jeffrey Epstein Alan Dershowitz and the legal definition of a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization" if you need a refresher.

And quite frankly, I could care less who MIT or Harvard accepts these days. Admission to these schools has become nothing more than a modern-day equivalent of the 'beauty pageants' of yesteryear ... for all of the nerdy teenagers who don't look good enough in a bathing suit for Mr. Epstein apparently:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-want...