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Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by _heimdall »

Larrikin wrote: post #317
_heimdall wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Democratic Party is about as far away as you can get from any sort of Marxist political ideology as you can. The last comment or set the bar pretty high here. Many of Harris's policy ideas were more focused on the collective well-being than the individual, all of those are more Marxist than they could be. I'm not sure why you're jumping to Musk or Trump comparisons here. I agree with you in some areas that they…

You were called out and obviously don't have a valid response. You should have not responded and used one of your other accounts to reply elsewhere when backed into a corner. Now all it does is make people think that's a ridiculous defense and look through your post history and it becomes obvious the purpose of your account.

Well now you've got me curious. I didn't feel backed into a corner and I did respond here.

I also don't have multiple accounts or hide replies behind dummy accounts, people can think whatever they want about my comment history.

What exactly are you trying to get at here? What in my comment history, or in this thread, are you claiming shows some ulterior motive to my account?

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by actionfromafar »

_heimdall wrote: post #416
tsimionescu wrote: post #341

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No, this is quite wrong. It is well understood in American law that "spend every dollar we give" is exactly what the budget approved by Congress means. It is then the duty of the executive branch to do so in an effective manner. Laws shouldn't need to go into details on exactly how every last dollar is to be spent, they set the amount and the goals, and the executive exists to handle the details. The problem is that…

I'd be very curious where in our laws it is written that congressional budgets must be spent in their entirety every year. I could just be wrong here, happy to learn something new. > Laws shouldn't need to go into details on exactly how every last dollar is to be spent. Laws should go into every detail that matters to those writing it. If all they care about is that the money is spent and that there's an agency with…

Too bad the Chevron doctrine was ditched then. Now Congress has to specify everything, maybe? Who knows? I think that uncertainty is the point thought. The Judges Nine have a project 2025, too.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by freen »

hayst4ck wrote: post #256
freen wrote: post #238

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We have seen it happen over and over again. When was the last time real science came out of Russia?

I wouldn't put down Russia's achievements. They did manage to effectively disable their greatest geopolitical enemy and cause us to destroy ourselves. All the weaponry in every other country on earth couldn't harm America more than what they did with social media, some highly skilled "recruitment," and smart leveraging of monetary resources. They got us to vote against Ukraine at the UN without a gun. Even the worlds…

That not science, but yes, Putin has completely succeeded geopolitically.

As has been shown multiple times in debates, the only actually adversarial environment Trump has allowed himself to participate in (Obama went to the GOP and explained the ACA to them for three hours, in a town hall setting, completely televised.) Trump has shown himself to be completely and totally manipulatable. Easily baited, played like a glass harp, so to speak.

But that is not science.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by rayiner »

K0balt wrote: post #378
rayiner wrote: post #308

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“The executive power” means “all the executive power,” in the same way “the judicial power” in Article III means “all the judicial power.” Or do you think the other branches can properly exercise some judicial power? Advice-and-consent isn’t an exercise of executive power, it’s a check on executive power, just like impeachment. Sure, Congress can change or clarify the mandate of an agency, and the President must go a…

Ummm no? The president is not tasked with those decisions , those are the purview of congress who should be pulling to make those expenditures benefit their constituents as may be possible..

Congress does not decide how to make individual grants.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by myvoiceismypass »

coliveira wrote: post #287
jltsiren wrote: post #161

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This is based on a too literal interpretation of democracy. Democracy had a bad reputation in the ancient world, because unconstrained majority decisions often led to terrible outcomes. In the modern world, democracy usually means liberal democracy, which includes things like the rule of law and constitutional protections. As a rough approximation, a constitution exists to prevent the government from doing what the v…

One thing Americans don't seem to realize is that the current constitution needs to be rewritten once we get out of this mess. One of the consequences of dictatorships is that they deform the constitution for their purposes. It seems that republicans have done enough to deform the system in an irreparable way.

Rewrite? You'll never even get 3/4 of the states to ratify a single constitutional amendment ever again.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by inejge »

sneak wrote: post #58
arrobbiato wrote: post #53

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If you require taxpayers to consent to every single line item, voting is going to become rather cumbersome.

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taken without consent; every constituent who voted for every representative who ratified the 16th amendment is now dead

Isn't it nice when you get nerd sniped by complete nonsense? I wanted to see what amendments would get invalidated using the quoted line of reasoning, aside from the whole Bill of Rights. Using the date of ratification from Wikipedia and subtracting the voting age at the time gives you the absolute lower limit of the age of any voting constituent:

    Am  Ratified    VA  Latest BD   Age
    -----------------------------------
     1  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     2  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     3  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     4  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     5  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     6  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     7  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     8  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
     9  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
    10  12/15/1791  21  12/15/1770  254
    11  02/07/1795  21  02/07/1774  251
    12  06/15/1804  21  06/15/1783  241
    13  12/06/1865  21  12/06/1844  180
    14  07/09/1868  21  07/09/1847  177
    15  02/03/1870  21  02/03/1849  176
    16  02/03/1913  21  02/03/1892  133
    17  04/08/1913  21  04/08/1892  132
    18  01/16/1919  21  01/16/1898  127
    19  08/18/1920  21  08/18/1899  125
    20  01/23/1933  21  01/23/1912  113
    21  12/05/1933  21  12/05/1912  112
    22  02/27/1951  21  02/27/1930   95
    23  03/29/1961  21  03/29/1940   84
    24  01/23/1964  21  01/23/1943   82
    25  02/10/1967  21  02/10/1946   79
    26  07/01/1971  21  07/01/1950   74
    27  05/07/1992  18  05/07/1974   50
Using the SSA cutoff date of 115 years, we see that the 20th and the 21st are a bit iffy, which isn't so bad because the 21st is the repeal of the 18th, and the 20th is a bit technical, but: women's suffrage is kaput! Slavery is OK again! Senators are to be appointed! Etc. At least term limits still apply, whew.

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Post by rayiner »

jltsiren wrote: post #305
rayiner wrote: post #262

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This is Orwellian double-speak. You’re defining “democracy” to mean “not democracy.” Nor does the “constitution” support your view. Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” What you’re calling “democracy” and the “constitution” is neither. It’s Wilsonianism, an idea invented by a eugenicist who hated the constitution as well as democracy: https://fedsoc.or…

I don't see how your reply is related to my comment. I was not defining democracy. I was describing the common real-world usage of the term, which has a more specific meaning than simple majority rule. It is commonly used as a shorthand for "liberal democracy". Some Americans use "republic" for the same concept, but that's misleading in other ways. Partly because some countries that are commonly understood to be libe…

“Liberal democracy” is bullshit. It just means that liberalism always beats democracy.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by freen »

freen wrote: post #240
Mathnerd314 wrote: post #184

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All of the important programs have temporary restraining orders. That's actually the standard the judge applies, "is there a possibility of irreparable harm?" (e.g. lives lost). It's not perfect but no system is.

USAID saved thousands and thousands of lives every year. And that is a massive understatement of the suffering and misery USAID prevented. It’s gone. People are dying because it’s gone.

Downvoted why?

By the by, USAID was investigating Starlink in Ukraine. [0]

CFPB and Twitter “money” [1]

FAA and spacex.

Etc etc etc.

[0] https://oig.usaid.gov/node/6814 [1] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293382/x-elon-musk-dog...

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Post by directevolve »

cyberax wrote: post #270
ajross wrote: post #186

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States have "power", but not money. There are no state level science grants anywhere at the scale of the linked article.

CA spends around $11B on the University of California system. The NIH budget is $47B. I haven't done the math, but I would hazard that the total amount of money spent on science by the Federal and the individual state authorities would be comparable. It's just that historically the Federal government was leading with the fundamental research, but if push comes to shove, states can start spinning up replacement progra…

I foresee three big challenges to funding science at the state level.

Shifting to state-level funding would require states to independently raise new taxes. Each state would have to work within the constraints of its state level constitution for levying that tax. Research would no longer be pork. This seems politically difficult.

States would have to either coordinate on which grants to fund or accept a siloed, fragmented system. That seems inefficient.

Institutes at lower-income states would not be subsidized by higher-income states and fail. That seems wasteful.

All that said, it might be the only alternative.

Re: Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

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Post by freen »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #268
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #63

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> We may be looking at a lost decade. We're looking at the US wilfully letting go of the possibiility of remaining the most powerful nation in the world. Reduced health, reduced education, reduced funding for research, reduced international aid programs (which both garner goodwill whilst also creating a bulwark against those who profit from misery), reduced oversight / regulation of the power of capital, alienation o…

I keep oscillating between are they just stupid or are they malicious and I'm starting to settle on the latter given the kinds of actions this administration is taking. Ironic that their voters thought they'd be mAkINg AMeRIcA gREaT aGAin when in fact they're going to cause us to lose our leadership role in many areas.

Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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