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Not sure what you mean, are you talking about ER = EPR? I think that's mostly a way of accounting for entanglement between particles, but it doesn't create the particles to begin w…

I'm surprised Sabine doesn't mention the way fermions are treated in Loop Quantum Gravity [1][2]. My understanding is they are treated as "non-local" or open loops of gravitational…

> I don't see why we shouldn't be optimistic here because historically speaking things have gotten much much better! To me, a gradual and consistent ramping up lvt would be probabl…

Worth noting that the company they work for is called Sama, which if I'm not mistaken, derives its name from the word 'equal' in Sanskrit. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2…

Bible time! When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food…

Don't know about regulation, but the development of the internet was initially subsidised by the US government [1]. AI research has also been subsidised in the past. The famous MNI…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul#Roswell_incident

Good to see I'm not the first one to notice. Some of the author's points are super vague: > Use Postgres for caching instead of Redis with UNLOGGED tables and TEXT as a JSON data t…

> in 1994 when the Apartheid government handed over power to the ANC, basically everything the government had in the pipeline was scrapped It's worth noting that under the Aparthei…

Can't cooking solve this problem? Rare meat is problematic for this reason. Also my understanding is that some traditions in Judaism and Islam even for allow insect consumption. ht…

It's worth considering that IVF fertility treatment often has discarded zygotes.

Nicaragua is not such a good analogy since US foreign policy had a deliberate negative effect on Nicaraguan politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States . A b…

Recently the fed has been buying corporate debt etfs[1]. Not an expert, but I assume that must increase the money supply in the general economy? QE also pushes down the interest ra…

> You are the boss of a company of one Nitpick, but companies have limited liability, natural persons do not. It's for that reason that I would probably never get hired if I actual…

> When unions get involved with promises of higher wages, it disincentivizes the business from growing in that area because it has effectively no benefit over the higher cost areas…

Not just denialism, but travel costs could also be an issue. I know in more highly vaccinated countries the government had to basically pay people to take the vaccine.

> I'm older, so I have 'habits' that don't tend to change. > So what is the government reporting? In addition to CPI, the government also reports CPI-E for elderly consumers. It is…

The US was founded as a rebellion against aristocracy. However, in 1825 Jefferson noted that, much like today, the country was becoming increasingly controlled by what he termed 'm…

> Many companies don't have sufficient margins to raise wages. Not too sure how you came to that conclusion. Profit margins for many companies in the UK seem to have actually gone …

It's worth noting that their search and other services rely on something similar: https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of...

Yeah, I had a laugh there as well. The author's equivocation between cancel culture and Stalinist censorship does seem like a bit of a stretch. I think a better analogy would be th…

The US government once made a microblogging service called ZunZuneo [1] for Cuba in an attempt to encourage political change there. It failed to achieve its intended outcomes, but …

Not to mention that one of the largest maximum security prisons in the US is actually a repurposed antebellum plantation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary…