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The US is a flailing gerontocracy in steep decline.

robot vacuums never made economic sense over a maid service

A few hundred people working on String Theory for about four decades is about $500 million. Hope this proof was worth it.

This shouldn't be flagged. This is valuable information that might save countless lives given the current trajectory.

Harvard's physics and astronomy departments seem ridiculous and need a full reset (fire everyone and hire new people).

After Liquid Glass, I hope he was forced out of Apple. Either way a net benefit to Apple.

If there was a wealth tax on every billionaire, it could be a factor of 100 or 1000 higher.

Alcohol is a poison and a Group 1 carcinogen. There is no minimum safe dose.

Whether something is implemented on Jan 1 or Jan 15 is irrelevant to the grand scheme of things

It's a trivial statement since many equities are correlated on a multidimensional manifold of characteristics. Jim Simons was just early and now rentech is nothing special.

They're free to support Nazis, I'm free to not buy their product.

Just make sure your favorite employer's IT department is aware of this before they make a purchase order.

what a useless paper

If anyone here has investments in US dollar denominated assets, move them out of the country. The US is entering a death spiral.

TikTok's algorithm favors him. The moment it doesn't, it's banned.

How do blue book exams translate to real world problems the students will encounter?

Why not open book + AI use exams, because that's what students will have in their careers?

I'd be embarrassed to work for Meta or have it on my resume/CV

It's Avi Loeb. He's considered a crackpot now.

h-index is a measure of citations, not reputation. It is easily gamed.

One can get cited a lot for stirring up crap or making wild and wrong claims.

He's going to end up in jail or deported at this rate. The current crop of politicians have no inhibitions to do what they please irrespective of laws.

Neither SpaceX or Blue Origin do science. And the budget Congress just passed actually doubles down on SLS/Artemis rather than SpaceX or Blue Origin.

All while the great things NASA does, like science and astrophysics, being cut.

The new NASA budget cutting science is a travesty

eh this seems to make a lot of unjustified assumptions approximations hyping some simulations that may or may not have any relevance to what happens in nature

the stock price moves prove it

The people voted for this.

Not aliens sending signals, but some kind of interstellar industrial accident more likely.

A huge unforced error by the United States.

Monumentally stupid considering what China is doing.