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> Didn't the documentary show possible ties President Clinton? The documents do. However Clinton did not invite Epstein to his wedding, or buy Epsteins jet after his suicide becaus…

Here's a direct link to a PDF. http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/Mar...

I assumed he read the Illuminatus! Trilogy and wondered where Markoff Chaney's name originated... There might be something wrong with me, now that I think about it. /s

I have 64Gb, a 9800x3d, and a 4070Ti super. It's still a little slow if I set it to the highest settings, but it's usable. Very cool either way!

I was going to argue that you seem like a bit of a rare creature, but I suppose you would know better than I. I didn't bring it up because I didn't want it to sound like a personal…

I agree with most of what you said, and it was well said. However, I disagree in two ways. Firstly, while villainizing them is unhelpful convincing them is utterly impossible when …

> they are optimizing but under differing constraints Most often this doesn't happen because one side fails to understand the other, it happens because one side is dishonest about …

You have a solid point. I also ignore the fact that RTO actually does improve the bottom line in some narrow scenarios, such as when it's used as a backdoor layoff in companies tha…

"Our plan is perfect, it's the world that's messed up!"

I was being hyerbolic. I should have made that clearer. That said, there is a nugget of literal truth to my statement. Market reactions are typically neutral to RTO announcements, …

You're missing the point. Sure, they're going to just keep doing what they've always done, but this time they're going to do it HARDER and with 15% fewer people!

Has anyone backtested a stock bot that just shorts every company doing RTO? It's clearly a leading indicator for company collapse.

> If the overview becomes a trusted source of information It never will. By disincentivizing publishers they're stripping away most of the motivation for the legitimate source cont…

I subscribe also, and prefer it for most things. However, it's pretty bad for local results and shopping. I find that anytime I need to know a local stores hours or find the cheape…

I would argue that all models are inherently incomplete because they are models (IE - they are the map not the territory). Rather than worrying about completeness, it's better to a…

This is the crux of the issue. The CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability) are the root of all security. However, those goals are often self-contradictory. There wi…

What would be the purpose of launching a decaying lump of monkey meat into space when the AI can explore just as well with a tiny fraction of the mass requirements? I'd wager that …

To tell the truth, I don't remember. I've kept a "quotes.txt" file for the last two or three decades where I paste in anything I feel is worth remembering. It's been in there as lo…

"We do our peers, countrymen, students, and children a grave disservice by admonishing them to think for themselves without also giving them the critical thinking tools to do so, f…

I suspect that you're right, but only because of the rise in AI. At a certain point we'll all have AI personal assistants that are easier to use, more convenient, and less harmful …

I found a tampermonkey extension for Firefox based on this comment. So far it seems to work well. I'm not sure if that's what they were referring to though.

Similarly, I've been watching the rise of the "minimal phone", and "analog tech" with interest lately. People have lost agency to the degree that they're looking to the very tech t…

Literacy rates have been declining in lock-step with the increase in social media usage. We are now at the point that 54% of Americans read below the sixth grade level. 1 in 5 are …

I would argue that TikTok is what terminally online means now.