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I had the impression his point was that religion distracts people from improving this world, not that he had a substitute.

> we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the world is generally rotten

It has been argued - I forget by who - that this was the normal view of history across cultures for thousands of years, that there was a golden age before writing now fallen into decay, until Western progressivism became a prominent ideology.

It seems to me there is a lot of religious scripture in support of the idea that history is a cycle of decline, corruption, false prophets, and indiscriminate punishment from God.

Somewhere I read about an early space capsule that had ablative shielding made of hardwood, oak or something several inches thick. "Carbon fiber composite", right? The way I remember it, it was said to work well because the wood was dense and didn't just burn up; instead it slowly carbonized. If you've ever made a fire with a large log, it makes sense. It has to get really hot to catch, and then it lasts a long time.

But I remember it as being attributed to the USSR, and when I search the internet now, I get hits saying it was a story about the Chinese space program that might be apocryphal.

Jerry : If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

  "Offset cruciform shape with straight wing walls

  Greater torque transfer
  Removal walls larger than drive walls

  Facilitates disassembly without drill outs"

What I meant was that, aside from sunk costs, keeping the website nominally operational doesn't have to cost any significant amount going forward. Things are now arranged such that admitting defeat vs sinking more money in it are independent options.

Therefore as outsiders, we are unlikely to have useful information about whether it is now a "going concern" if he remains committed to keeping up a facade. It seems opaque, now that it is a members only site run by a private company.

If it's just a private company with a website that takes a dozen people to run, owned by the richest person in the world, then it could go on forever with any number of active users from zero to infinity.

Are you asking the people who quit logging in and assume it's dead but haven't seen for themselves?

Or are you asking the people who will pop up and say they're still there and it's better than ever?

Do you expect group "B" to tempt group "A" to log in again?

From the point of view of someone who has never in their career gotten equity, options, RSUs, or whatever, all that free money is being expropriated from their IRA or 401k and therefore retirement.

It's odd when you think about it - in Soviet America, poor capitalists get robbed by rich workers. What a country!

How can you determine that a something something service analyst at a random non "tech" company in Illinois is or isn't a programmer? If you don't identify an extremely technical position as a STEM job when it's not named in a particular way, then what are you counting?

Suppose someone does have an IT-related title, but they majored in biology and are working for a paper company in Pennsylvania in the HR department as a programmer. Should they be counted as using their degree? Are they?

What if you are counting employees of a large government organization and for obscure reasons, they call everybody who touches a computer an "IT Specialist"? Then you might be vastly overcounting.

People who have exactly the same title and work in the same small department, even, can differ wildly in their actual roles, too.

1. Does the restriction of no law enforcement or military mean no government use, assuming the government user belongs to e.g. a state or country with law enforcement and military?

2. Does the license allow use by nonprofits that exploit their workers?

   2.5 Is a nonprofit assumed to be defined the same way as the US tax authorities define it?

4. What exactly is a worker, for the purposes of the license? Is a worker that owns stock a worker? A pension? A 401K? Is a manager distinguished from a worker if both subsist primarily on salary or wages? Is a retiree who lives on capital a worker if they worked at one point? Are white collar workers "workers"?

I'm not saying that verse has any particular objective meaning that we must accept. I haven't the least interest in promoting correct theology.

It's just that not mentioning it - given its superficial relevance - makes the whole comment seem like a strange joke.

And it's also important that the exterior styling is as macho as can be. That requires it to be sculpted entirely out of voluptuous curves. Like a codpiece.

You can see a bright red example here (Mr. Lagaay's masterpiece was the Carrera GT): https://news.dupontregistry.com/porsche/rubystone-red-porsch...

http://www.bmwism.com/bmws_designers.htm

Juliane Blasi, a "German designer educated at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences in Design, Technology and Business" says: “If you look at the car you should not be able to see whether it was designed by a woman or a man”

Nadya Arnaout, a "German automotive interior designer educated at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG – Academy of Art and Design) in Offenbach am Main, Hesse and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA" designed interiors for BMWs until 2010 when she left to become the "lead interior designer at Tesla Motors".

I can't find anyone on the page who seems to be the design chief whose name I've forgotten. Wikipedia claims the F10 5-series was designed (exterior) by Jacek Fröhlich.

However, when I google it I see that Adrian van Hooydonk came after him.

>an in-joke gone too far

"Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of"

That's a significant part of why I never bought one.

The unprecedented 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption?

Have you ever been part of a corporate re-org where you were technically laid off and rehired and thus were legally forced to sign a new agreement? Such freedom!

All "contracts" that fit a pattern of take-it-or-leave-it with a zillion provisions should be negotiated by the government, a union, or some other collective entity with a reasonable claim to protecting the interests of the side that has no leverage alone.

Plenty of agreements are heavily constrained by regulators, (think insurance for example) and we take it for granted, so I am not suggesting any radical idea, just pushing back on the weasels who are always working at corrupting things.

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

I thought that was what put the end to taking MOND seriously. Isn't the whole point to explain the alleged dark matter by some uniform rules instead of local conditions?

But I never understood what started the interest in it.

Everything I have ever read by proponents on the internet has resembled "believing in stuff (like "luminiferous ether") you can't see is unscientific".

I have never understood the feeling that dark matter is illegitimate, because there are so many invisible things that we do take for granted, like radio waves.

I have written similar things before and gotten lectured by anti-dark-matter-ites on why radio waves are obviously different from dark matter, but it didn't illuminate anything.

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int((2^16 - 180) * 999999.9999 + 1) = 65,355,999,994

An AI that generates binaries directly is a compiler. Or a compiler/assembler/linker in one, whatever.

So it raises the question of what language humans should use to communicate with this compiler. What language does it compile?

If the language is some existing programming language, then how can the "AI" technology help much? Suppose it compiles C. The semantics of the existing language have to be maintained or it isn't C. So maybe AI can improve optimization by 0.0001%. Or do something really ridiculous based on the undefined behavior loophole. Who cares?

English (or Chinese or Norwegian) are not programming languages - they are too ambiguous.

Therefore it makes sense to me that a higher-level programming language than existing ones would be useful to talk to this hypothetical compiler - a language that gives the AI more freedom than the existing languages, but more precise than languages used by humans to talk to each other.

Maybe someone already has invented one, but probably the last word hasn't been written on the subject yet.

https://www.etec.energy.gov/Operations/Major_Operations/SNAP...

(This was not the RTG of Voyager and other well-known spacecraft)

During the cold war, starting in the 1960s, weren't there dozens of fission reactor satellites launched into orbit? I don't mean spontaneous decay devices like RTGs, I mean fission reactors. Primarily, but not exclusively Soviet.

I bring this up because every discussion I see of the risks of nuclear power in space seems to presume an alternate historical record where political opposition prevented it from becoming a reality. Where uncontrolled deorbiting of reactors or disintegration in orbit were hypothetical and unacceptable failures.

I don't know, were we always at war with Eurasia or was it Eastasia? Which history is the disinformation?

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