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It's not American evangelicals. It's been a long campaign and the evangelicals are still being targeted by Israel because no one else is left, but there aren't enough American evan…

Might be ridiculous but at least they're not parading kidnapping victims on Instagram to advertise as one sees in Israel. https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/2039724748309930448?s=…

kdb does two of those by default—columnar and it uses memory mapping (no serialization/deserialization) Not entirely forgotten in the database world!

"long term storage" for CO2 is to spew it into the air where it remains forever... free for Germany, not so much Australia, California, Florida, etc.

Cool, we can be like Cuba except we did it to ourselves

> The US car manufacturers are cooked. Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese cars and then Trump added tariffs on inputs. Americans are getting screwed!

> When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation. Ford's profit margin was 1.7%. Lots of innovative/productive American…

> no social democrats in sight The US already has social security, medicare, medicaid. It is often just plain worse/more brutal than Western European countries but the difference i…

> only have use as propaganda Propaganda helps you ascend to power and then constrains what you do with that power. Ultimately if you want to look objectively, you have to look at …

> These words have more conventional meanings. Kondylis disputes the typical interpretation of "conservatism." Historically it was a backwards justification of feudalism. Easy to s…

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ATS does this. Works quite well since multiplication by known factors and addition of type variables + inequalities is decidable (and in fact quadratic).

Xerox was when the US was on the up-trend, not committing economic suicide at the whim of a mad king.

Given the changes to R&D taxation and cuckoo tariffs I don't think private research will want to start a lab in the US like Bell did.

France is explicitly trying to poach researchers. UK is committing higher-ed suicide though it has a better reputation than the US in many ways.

For engineers, maybe. But with immigration restrictions, employers can no longer create a workplace where "work with the best in the world" is an attraction.

Before Trump/Vance nuked US reputation the interest on US bonds was low and provided a safe asset to investors. Spending on scientific research was a no-brainer.

>The heart of the model is simple and radical: people choose the identity they feel is most relevant to the social conflicts of the moment. A lot of this is in Kondylis (30+ years …

the negative and positive use of types (gating inputs vs. witnessing implementations) get confused when talking about programming languages. It seems to me the positive aspect is o…

in Haskell you can read off the generating function's coefficients directly from the functional equation T(z) = z + zT + zT² + zT² ghci> ts=0:(1+ts+ts^2+ts^3) ghci> take 12 ts [0,1…

Brian Hayden has a book right at the heart of this topic, how secret societies (terrorist proto-religions, think scientology+murder) anticipate civilization. You don't find such so…