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- Comment on heater 1 day ago:
You’re going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle.
- Comment on Where it stops, nobody knows 1 week ago:
Careful, you mind end up like this:
- Comment on Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage' 5 weeks ago:
Iran has been on the sanctioned blacklist for Cisco (and other enterprise level tech in government use) sales for decades. The only way Iran could get the gear into the country is by using unauthorized channels. Knowing there were no authorized sales, this would be very easy way for state level espionage organization to build compromised devices to flow into Iran.
If you buy a stolen computer, and there is a virus on it, you don’t really have any claim against the computer manufacturer.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
You seem to be absolutely convinced the lens you see reality with is not a lens but reality itself and you are wrong.
You are misinterpreting the amount of confidence I’m portraying in this discussion, but that aside I don’t see this conversation continuing productively for either of us. I’m also not nearly as invested in it as I am gathering you maybe, and there’s nothing wrong with you being passionate about your position. I’m going to break from this conversation here so we stay on good terms with one another. Thank you for taking the time to share your views with me. I appreciate it.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
The only systems I can think of that function under the axiom that you suggest, which is that scarcity is a necessary obstacle to tackle before systems can resist destroying shared resources, are ecosystems dominated by invasive species and cancer. In both cases, it is the inability to tolerate abundance in a system because of an endless growth mechanism that causes the destruction of a dynamic encompassing stability.
Well, that sounds like an accurate description humanity in the last 1000 years at least.
In other words, every society that experienced periods not entirely ruled by an oppressive, authoritarian regime and that had/have some shared wealth whether it be in public spaces, public knowledge, public utilities, public education or other forms of public shared resource.
I think that statement is more supports my current position. You’re pointing out a temporary state, not an enduring condition. I could probably argue that even many of those temporary states of a successful shared commons were potentially built on the exploitation of others outside of those benefiting from the commons, but lets ignore that for now. None of those endured. Every single one has ended, or in some possible isolated cases that may exist today, have not shown they could endure with changing social or geopolitical conditions. These examples don’t live in a vacuum either. Unless the whole of humanity is onboard, a segment could pillage the shared commons of another society if they did not have adequate defense as has been shown in humanities history an uncounted amount of times. So what, in your approach, would change one of these temporary states to a permanent one that humanity would actually implement?
The way you understand how scarcity MUST impact systems cannot explain this blatant inefficiency in a natural ecosystem, individuals in nature are supposed to use EVERYTHING they can right?
Not right. There is no scarcity of resources for the bears because here bears use a form of violent authoritarianism to ensure resource (salmon in your example) availability for themselves. A dominate bear will kill weaker bears to ensure food, mates, and territory are established. In that sense, it mirrors the human reaction. Again, that points away from a non-violent benevolent society of a workable shared commons.
Except it didn’t because it turns out the Grizzly Bears discarding the Salmon ends up transferring a massive amount of nutrients from the Ocean to the Forest. The system benefits from slack, from a giving up of an individual boon for no perceivable immediate collective gain…
The only way I can see your example apply to humanity is if you’re suggesting humanity should enforce a class hierarchy where apex predators (small segment of high class humans) get first dibs of the prime resources, and lesser creatures (the middle class) and plants (those in poverty) benefit by what the bears leave behind. Isn’t this the premise of Regan’s much hated “trickle down economics”? I don’t believe you’re suggesting that, but I’m not seeing an alternate interpretation. I’m open to hearing your alternate explanation.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
Provide evidence for this claim.
I can provide zero evidence. I’m trying to imagine a world where your proposal works. Scarcity elimination the best possible way I could come up with.
I understand this has been established as our cultural intuition but it is a near axiomatic assumption that upon examination has very little evidence to support it, whether we look to the natural world or to human societies.
If your proposal doesn’t need to eliminate scarcity, I’m even more interested in how it is done. Whats the secret sauce society-at-large has been missing?
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 weeks ago:
I would imagine a system you’re suggesting would first have to eliminate scarcity of resources. We certainly have the ability to do that with our technology today but choose not to do so. Wouldn’t it require a turn to benevolence by all involved in the society to achieve that? If so, that doesn’t sound like a likely outcome. What, in your opinion, would it take to escape the Tragedy of Commons that is likely to actually occur?
- Comment on C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines 5 weeks ago:
My guess is an ongoing effort to attempt to diminish the value of all vaccines so the ACA mandate to cover vaccines can be gutted. Or rather thats what I’d think if they followed any logic. I think RFK is killing vaccines because it hurts his feelings.
- Comment on Not deviled eggs, but still satanic 5 weeks ago:
Looks like shakshuka, Eggs in Purgatory, and Eggs in Hell are all names of the same dish.
TIL!
- Comment on Not deviled eggs, but still satanic 5 weeks ago:
Looks like shakshuka, Eggs in Purgatory, and Eggs in Hell are all names of the same dish.
TIL!
- Comment on Not deviled eggs, but still satanic 5 weeks ago:
Is this possibly a slight mis-translation of “Eggs in Purgatory”?
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it
This is what I faced too. The power company only allowed to install solar generation capacity 110% of my power consumption over the last 12 months. So we had to spent a year being very wasteful of electricity. That allowed me to put up panels covering the entire roof.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
I have a modern house with modern a heat pump, and I agree this winter was pretty brutal, but nothing close to yours. Can I ask what you pay per KWh?
- Comment on Fuck yeah democracy 1 month ago:
I wonder how quickly he’ll flee to Minsk or Moscow as soon as the details of his deeds in office are uncovered by the new administration.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return.
This is the missing conceptual understanding that probably 90% of LLM users lack. They really don’t know how LLMs work, and great them like AGI. Sadly this includes adult policy makers in our society too. Efforts like those of these these researchers act to educate the public.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine.
Hang on. Are you suggesting its unethical/immoral to lie to a machine?
Additionally, the authors didn’t submit the article to a magazine. They posted the articles as preprints which can be very questionable anyway as there is no peer review. The machine chose to ignore rigor and treat them as fact.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
I give you… “The Grant Money Printing machine!”
Need a grant? Create a disease and submit a paper. Then write a grant asking for money to solve your invented disease.
- Comment on Moon Mommy Milkers 1 month ago:
You mean like the NASA continuous livestream showing the outside of Orion ?
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 month ago:
That just isn’t true.
If you want a well researched and referenced argument. Here is a good one.
It takes far more people to build, maintain, and service airplanes and the infrastructure to support them than to do the same for trains, and even when traveling a train requires fewer personnel per passenger-kilometer.
If you’re moving the goalposts to include all the infrastructure of air travel, then you must also include the infrastructure costs of long haul rail travel. Building out new rail travel for hundreds of miles of long haul service (which is what I think OP is looking at, and what I specifically replied to) is monstrously expensive.
Airplanes and cars are massively subsidized
Can you point me at examples unsubsidized financially self sustaining (profitable) long haul rail anywhere in the world?
and their uncovered externalities are much more costly to society too.
We’ve to enough moving parts in this conversation. Lets table this one to include actual costs paid and ticket prices please.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 month ago:
Even the hassle of flying is worth the time and money saved.
You’ve touched on the answer here. The answer is duration of travel. The same labor that is required to move one trainload of passengers on a long haul route can move many many times that number of passengers on an aircraft simply because the aircraft spends less time traveling. So the cost of the tickets must rise to cover the costs and eek out some profit.
- Comment on Don't overthink electric car charging (we should be doing it differently) 1 month ago:
“The last people you should be getting advice from about electric cars is electric car enthusiasts.”
And then, Alex the electric car enthusiast himself, goes on to say later:
“I don’t know why the world isn’t getting excited about this! You can literally have a gas station at home using the exact same technology that operates a clothes dryer!”
I love you Alex! Never Change!
First, he’s right in his first statement. Those of us that really are enthusiasts will go far beyond what is needed, and may lose sight of what someone that isn’t an enthusiast actually cares about.
Second, a suggestion for Alex, if you are on the Fediverse: You very briefly touched on the NEMA 6-20, but I think it needs more attention.
To me that outlet (which goes on a 240v at 20A circuit) is the sweet spot for home EV charging with regards to speed and low cost. Why? It uses the same common cheap 12/2 household wire that many of your existing household circuits use. With copper prices always on the rise, larger gauge wire starts getting exponentially expensive. The magic is really the 240v. You don’t get double the charging speed of 120v, you get nearly quadruple! And for the same wire! One other change I’d recommend is getting hardwired EVSE (car charger) because it can let you charge faster on the same wire as a plug in charger (because of electrical safety codes). If you have an electrician at your house running a circuit anyway, having them wire up a hardwired charger at the same time is not a high price increase.
I know this is a Tesla specific charge, but the value here is showing all the various current ratings and how that scales with charging speed. Check out our 240v 20A hardwired charger performance (in the green square):
15 MPH of charging from cheap 12/2 wire (regular yellow romex)!
One extra note here, if you already have a dedicated 120v (15A or 20A) circuit to your garage with a regular outlet on it, you can simply change the breaker in the box to a 240v breaker and change the outlet receptacle in the garage with zero modification to the wire in the wall) and get the benefits of 240v speed charging!
- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 2 months ago:
If you owned one of these and it broke it would have been replaced under warranty, but instead of shipping you another USS Defiant CD player, they’d send you a USS São Paulo CD player. You could still call it the Defiant after-the-the-fact, but deep down you would know it wasn’t the same.
- Comment on Le boo hoo 2 months ago:
On your last note, I agree with you that empathy is important. I do give a shit what other people think and feel, but not when they are clearly line stepping, judgmental, and disrespectful. When they do that, it just proves it is time to move on.
I was mostly referring to empathy for the groups of men that want the show emotions for sports.
However for the shitty people we are dismissing, I can show empathy buy understanding about the different socio-economic condidtions that likely make them into a raging homophobe or toxicly masculine asshole, but I in no way forgive them or condone their behavior. Understanding is a part of empathy, but it doesn’t have to follow that those that are disrespectful of other are to have that behavior be tolerated.
- Comment on Le boo hoo 2 months ago:
It’s usually pretty subtle. People will quietly lose respect for you and shut you out over time, or just gossip about you behind your back.
Oh okay. I suppose that might happen more often but there are trash people everywhere that do shitty things like that based upon race, sexual preference, etc. I don’t spend any time sorting them into different groups before I dismiss them and ignore them.
That being said, I dont give a shit about people’s perception of my manliness or sexuality.
Yep, that’s my same state. As such, I don’t feel I have a need for a “safe space” in sports to express my emotions. I have no problem with other men expressing their emotions in sports spaces either, I just personally have that need for a defined space.
I’m often DISAPPOINTED in people for how they react and judge sometimes, but always happier when those people remove themselves from my life. I don’t fawn after the approval of random assholes, be they male or female, and I never let it affect who I am. That’s what manliness actually is about: self actualization.
I agree entirely. Just to note, self actualization absolutely also encompasses “empathy” as well, and that, in my mind, is one of the most important aspects. Knowing yourself means perceiving the world and those around you, and understanding the impacts of that world on others, and the impacts we each have on those. I’m pointing this out because what it looks like we’re having here is ultimately a discussion on empathy.
- Comment on Le boo hoo 2 months ago:
Men are often sanctioned by women when they show weakness.
I’m a man. It is extremely rare for me to experience this firsthand. I can count on one hand how many times in my entire life, and its been decades since the most recent time/ Even then it wasn’t criticism from a woman was close to me.
- Comment on Anybody else do this today? 2 months ago:
This kind of thing used to stress me out. It took me awhile to finally find peace but it comes down to this:
We all know what Uncle Ben told us that ‘With great power comes great responsibility’, and while that’s true it also must follow that ‘With little (or no) power come little (or no) responsibility.’
The systems in place have taken nearly all power out of your hands to fix the situation yourself. If you had (even temporary) admin access available to you, you would have fixed the situation yourself in a few minutes and completed the task. However, the systems around you are designed to limit your abilities, and channel you through narrow support paths that they themselves are limited in what they can do.
You responsibilities are to properly identify the need for support and follow the path (no matter how inefficient), and notify your direct boss of the situation that is causing the delay for the deliverable. You did 100% of your job here. No, it shouldn’t be this hard to get this thing done, but it is, and its entirely out of your control. Because you have little to no power to fix the system, you have little to no responsibility for the problems it produces.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 2 months ago:
I know, right? Save the cheerleader, save the world! /s
- Comment on Political leaning 2 months ago:
Don’t forget the controversy around Leo Trapeze before he was exiled.
- Comment on Political leaning 2 months ago:
Carl Mark is like the dollar store version. Everyone remembers when Carl Mark and Fred Angles wrote the Kommunist Metafisto.
“Mom can we have Communism?”
“We have Communism at home.”Communism at home: Carl Mark
- Comment on Political leaning 2 months ago:
I had to read it three times to realize “mow” was “Mao” (Zedong).
Also I think reading it that many times has caused me to have a stroke.
