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The point is to develop skills and knowledge, so I would agree. Do you disagree?

The Cell paper uses the heading "Summary" rather than "Abstract". When and where and why did that change? I don't see it in other papers and in other links for this paper. Maybe I don't read Cell enough?

> every megacorp's

It's not just one of every megacorp, it's by far the most commonly used email in business, Microsoft's Exchange and especially Exchange online.

Are you suggesting that no development is justified? I think we can expect that for any email client, there will be demand for one of the most popular email servers, and one that is required for most corporate use.

It's interesting that this common decision, both for business and 'mission' purposes (often people also love what they do, the community around it, etc.), is mysterious.

There's a nihilism that says it all doesn't matter: truth (we are 'post-truth'), justice, freedom, and human rights (we worship power), etc. The nihilism is a pretty dumb idea, transparently so. A large bunch of people advocating for it won't make it better - plenty of history already shows that.

The truth is much easier - easier to think about, much easier to support, easier to work with. I hope you'll consider joining us on the bright side - it's a much more fulfilling life and people desparately need you.

> based on the premise that republicans are racist

They offer plenty of evidence, and so do the Republicans themselves, some of whom openly embrace white nationalism, Christian nationalism, replacement theory, etc. Openly defying convention and saying racist things is commonplace and cliche. Going back further, someone in this thread even quoted the interview about school busing.

>> Nobody opposes legal equality.

> Possibly that's true now

It's clearly not true: Acts of hate and discrimination are at highs; White nationalism and Christian nationalism are at multi-generational highs, with advocates in the White House and Congress. Leading news organizations promote replacement theory; laws openly discriminate against immigrants, liberals, and LGBTQ+ people.

Much of that is not done by and otherwise not uncommon in the Republican party.

> It just seems like unsustainable absurdity for the primary purpose of rubbing everyone else's face in it. I suppose that's what makes some people good at being CEOs

The arrow points the other way: Power corrupts, corruption then loses power.

Spending resources on rubbing people's faces in 'it' doesn't produce anything of value; it wastes valuable resources on personal desires, which is corrupt.

A traditional model of Chinese history is the pattern of the dynastic cycle: The dynasty rises to power, then they are corrupted (I'm not sure of the model says 'corrupted by power' specifically) and decay, and then finally lose their mandate and fall.

Much better to have democracy, where you can vote them out much sooner and generally they can't stay for generations. And also, better to have well-governed corporations where the board is independent from the CEO.

Which companies? Where can we read more about the no-TX design?

I wonder how much sugar craving depends on age. As a child I would happily eat spoonfuls of plain sugar. Children seem much happier eating candy, etc. than adults. I wonder if sugar provides some additional value to children.

So when adults say, 'I discovered I didn't need as much sugar', maybe they, like the children, are just following their biological urges.

I did a very quick look for research on the question but didn't find anything.

> Republicans. All you hear from the latter is oldschool liberal egalitarianism

That seems very hard to reconcile with Donald Trump, overwhelmingly popular party leader, as well as many, many other Republicans who express hatred to contempt and create legalized discrimination against many groups, LGBTQ+ people and immigrants for example.

Democrats of the time, when making the decision, knew they would lose the South. They did and the Republicans pursued what was/is called the "Southern Strategy", appealing to the former Dems.

> That’s a weird way of framing

It's not weird; it's conventional political history retold over and over.

The US military has a major logistics problem for forward bases. Their plan for conflict with China, 'archipelagic defense', relies on prepositioning small, mobile land units in the 'First Island Chain' that runs along the Chinese coast through lots of small islands from Japan through Taiwan (probably without US forces directly on Taiwan), and then through the Philippines bordering the South China Sea. The land forces would use anti-ship missiles to contain the Chinese navy.

But in contemporary warfare, with sensors everywhere combined with precision missiles and drones able to strike at long ranges, anything that moves is at great risk. After the shooting starts, logistics could be very difficult.

Geothermal could solve much of that problem for energy, but I wonder how feasible it is to dig a hole for a temporary base. What if you're there for a month? A year?

> That was back when Democrats talked about class a lot more than they did about race.

Democrats took on race as an issue in the early 1960s, leading the Republican's 'Southern Strategy'. White blue collar workers only shifted to the GOP in the last 10 years, I think, especially for Trump.

I posted the OP because it is an innovative application of geothermal - an application that demands power without a supply chain and without vulnerable (to military attack) infrastructure such as solar panels or windmills - and also because, given the US military's extremely large budget, the investment could do a lot to develop the technology.

Here are the two Defense Innovation Unit annoucements, which have more detail:

https://www.diu.mil/latest/u-s-air-force-u-s-army-the-defens...

https://www.diu.mil/latest/preview/three-additional-next-gen...

> Berliner said the social media posts demonstrated Maher was all but incapable of being the person best poised to direct the organization.

> "We're looking for a leader right now who's going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about," Berliner said. "And this seems to be the opposite of that.

Berliner could have stopped at criticism of the coverage, but now seems to be looking for ways to attack the institution in destructive ways. Berliner knows these attacks could bury and destroy NPR. NPR holding onto Berliner this long might be a mistake - it invites the tidal wave of attacks from the right, and the 'centrist' Dems will join in (like cowards joining the bully) - but at this point, it may be time to fire them.

The real test of the CEO will be handling this crisis. It should not be unexpected in the modern world, and there are playbooks for being effective. It's now part of the job.

Blue collar workers used to be overwhelmingly Democrats.

The Christian Science Monitor has long had top quality journalism, and sections on religion. What is their relationship with Christian Science (and what is that? is there a unified institution?)?

Every news outlet and broadcast media outlet are losing audience rapidly. There's no evidence of correlation between NPR's coverage and that outcome.

For example, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conserv...

> Woke people believe math is racist.

Could you give us an example? I know about racism issues associated with math education, but I've never heard that 'mathematics is racist'.

> They get people banned or fired from universities.

What does that have to do with denying or rejecting science? Also, sometimes people get fired for legitimate reasons; the fact that they were fired is not a sign of problems.

> I mean there have been N-treads about the latest woke idiocy on campuses across the states here on HN, why are some people always pretending it doesn't exist?

I'm sure you know that there are powerful tides of misinformation and disinformation on the Internet - about climate change and vaccines, for example. Lots of repetition doesn't make something true. In fact, science is founded on the opposite: One person's verifiable facts are believed before the entire world's repetition.

What in a 'woke' ideology has denied basic, consequential science?

'Stone age' is a very broad term. Usually it's described in two periods, the Paleolithic during which tools were made by chipping stones to form edges and points, with dates back to the first stone tools (2.6 million years ago, or possibly 3.3 mya based on newish evidence); and the Neolithic, when tools were made by grinding and polishing and also when plants were domesticated (~11,700 years ago, afaik).

There's also mesolithic, inserted between those two, though I haven't heard it used much.

> There was a fanaticism that's hard to grapple with philosophically, a thing that's far outside rationality, a magical thinking. How much more "magical" can you get than disregarding natural physical laws, and substituting your own? That's the definition of magic.

People now deny climate change, often because it's 'liberal' - think of the incredible consequences of climate change, far greater than the disregarded physics, and yet it's ignored. It's the same with vaccines - people are causing their kids to become sick and sometimes die. It applies to many more things these days - anything 'liberal' is automatically rejected, regardless of cost.

If they do something wrong, it might not be recorded.

One perspective:

'Film buff' responses are common to every major change in technology and society. People highly invested in the old way have an understandably conservative reaction - wait! slow down! what happens to all these old values?! They look for and find flaws, confirming their fears (a confirmation bias) and supporting their argument to slow down.

They are right that some values will be lost; hopefully much more will be gained. The existance of flaws in beta / first generation applications doesn't correlate with future success.

Also, they unknowingly mislead by reasoning with what is also an old sales disinformation technique: List the positive values of Option A, compare them to Option B; B, being a different product, inevitably will differ from A's design and strengths and lose the comparison. The comparision misleads us because it omits B's concept and its strengths that are superior to A's; with a new technology, those strengths aren't even all known - in this case, we can see B's far superior resolution and cleaner image. We also don't know what creative, artistic uses people will come up with - for example, maybe it can be used to blend two very different kinds of films together.

These things happen with political and social issues too. It's just another way of saying the second step in what every innovator experiences: 'first they laugh at you, then they tell you it violates the orthodoxy, then they say they knew it all along'.

I have no personal experience in professional stage or film, so I'm out of my depth. All I can do is rely on people who do know.

I've known about those capabilities for a long time and I've always wondered: How commonly is that used? For what use case(s)? What makes PDF the format of choice for that purpose and not, for example, a CAD file? What PDF apps are popular for creating and using those files?

So any active content is discarded? That may suit your use case but will be insufficient for others.

I'm not commenting on OpenBSD's security, but I think some of that goes too far:

> OpenBSD is designed as a single system with a single codebase, and has a general aversion to features such that it is difficult for an undersecured random library to become a vehicle to breaking a major, important component.

From what I understand, those security benefits aren't incidental; they are a major reason for doing those things.

> a clever contributor

Doesn't seem like it would be very hard for someone to join the team and obtain maintainer status? Also, remember the social engineering done by the xz attacker to get their exploit included in updates - that also seems a bit challenging in the OpenBSD project.

OpenBSD seems to do more careful code reviews than other projects, but I don't know that I have an objective measure of it.