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Firstly, getting this out of my chest: It felt like a really good note, except for the graphs. The author acknowledges that he is pulling the Bell curve out of his ass, but somehow…

It's amazing how the whole world can be in turmoil about a presence we barely bothered to actually look at because there's simply no point in doing so.

This is the only reason I chose not to delete some old accounts from different sites, and check on them yearly-ish. I used to think the internet as ephemeral, but I don't have that…

>Y2038 is in your walls Fuck me, as this is true

Related: Samo Burja is a sociologist with a pretty tidy and poignant YouTube channel. He has a lot of stuff on human institutions (from corporations to civilizations), their underl…

I found this so baffling that the best I can say is I don't know, and I've found no explanation satisfactory. "Denial" doesn't cut it, it's mass delusion. The first Chinese quarant…

Which brings us back to the matter at hand; devastating plagues have happened many times in Europe. This one is probably not going to be devastating, but we really don't know the e…

But back to the discussion about the WHO, their bland attitude is greatly to blame for the inaction of the CDC, and the rest of the world. As a case study, for some days half of al…

They showed a strong unwillingness to declare the high state of emergency from the start, which dragged the numbers 30 fold through delayed action. They were the one institution wi…

It's way thinner and full of holes. It's not so much about the skin on your cheeks, but your mouth, eyes, nose membranes. And even if you just dirty your cheek, the contamination m…

>the feeling of working for public good and not for some profit-driven corporation. By advancing human knowledge you are arguably working for hundreds of profit-driven corporations…

>AI-fueled eternal September We will see in our lifetimes how droves of spureous personas flood the internet forever

I wonder if one could earn a living as a professional shitposter for AI training purposes.

secret mind control programs. The human brain, being a computer, is expected to be alterable. But the extent of secrecy, shadiness and memory-holing of secret government programs n…

>Mathematics was never focused on proof until the formalization of math became popular approximately 100 years ago. We are transitioning surprisingly fast from kinda explaining stu…

The second tribe sounds more like engineering than science though

It's a good learning opportunity then, and it should be pointed out

Professional lawyers posing as peers psychologically tortuting him to shatter his worldview, while the professor that led the experiment manipulated him to continue. Given that he …

Imagine if the NSA suddenly had to spy on 5 million people. Oh wait.

"I am 12 and what is this" needed a comeback

I've posted several times about law lagging behind technology, and this is what I mean. If a new tech is in the horizon, you should already be able to realize what can be done with…

People discussing stuff and having those daily inconsequential political debates is what shapes society and culture. I do understand the practicality of the advice, and I've implem…

Gamma correction and monitor settings usually go criminally unnoticed. I had problems just working with designers, I can't imagine what silent mistakes it produces in color-critica…

This is why I liked their C2 approach