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Venetian flood barrier finally working 🔗
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Great news for the lagoon.

The DC Eviction machine 🔗
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Works like this pretty much everywhere; Americans hate due process, it gets in the way of imposing tyranny.

Communism and COVID 🔗
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Cappy dropping facts on why the men are finally getting angry

OBOR making good progress in SE Asia 🔗
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Correctly realizing the path to peace is trade

McAfee gets clapped for Tax Evasion 🔗
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Note that .gov doesn't really care about his sleazy ICO Pump & Dumps.

Lefty narrative coalescing around contact tracing being the answer 🔗
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Why do they always choose the answer that enables the most tyranny when "misused"? It can't just be stupidity.

Also, the comparisons they draw don't mean "hurr durr we should have just done contact tracing like they did" as:
  • Not all of these examples used contact tracing
  • The ones that did had a level of cultural unity and political situation that would allow the public to trust that this is OK.
The USA has none of the unity or political stability to pull any of the listed measures off successfully, so none of the listed efforts would have worked. Greater than 10% of US society is guaranteed to evade lockdown restrictions just to spite the government regardless of whether this is safe or not. It is a very low trust and superstitious society with a germanic work ethic, so the most sensible strategy would have been to just let it ravage the population. The strong would survive. The USA is more akin to a crucible than a fortress, and the political elite of the USA were fools to not recognize this and act accordingly. Why the hell do you think an abnormally high amount of the population in the USA are on psych drugs? Why do you think 14% of people have fled to the bottle during the "plandemic"? This society is so sick that it either breaks you or forges you into one of the strongest individualists in the world. When libertarian expats have said that many other places contain "great capitalist conditions but poor capitalists compared to the USA", this is what they mean.

Yet more intel bad news 🔗
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Yet he hints at the reason Intel isn't going away any time soon:
Intel lacks at multi-core performance and programs that make use of multi-core architecture run faster and better on AMD chips, and that's the problem Intel is facing. It's just a matter of time when developers will make use of higher core numbers, and distributing the workload across more cores will also reduce the power consumption of the CPU, which is essential for light and portable laptops.
It's "Just been a matter of time" for a decade now. Intel wisely understands that clock rates do in fact matter. Intel actually seems good to me from a "cheap and hated, but strong" point of view at the moment.

Poll: Majority worried about civil war 🔗
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I still remain unconvinced; that said I do believe the potential for peasant unrest is quite high. Not civil war; the elites are of one mind.

Female teacher bias: Reducing male participation in STEM 12% 🔗
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Guess they want to reduce it further? I assume we have to flay the skin from young men to achieve true equality.

Climate Change dorks: rolling blackouts good 🔗
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And they wonder why people listen to them less and less.

Accurate blood test for Alzheimers? 🔗
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Huge if true

Argentina: Longest and among most draconian lockdowns has failed 🔗
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As expected. I'm sure they can destroy the peso once again thanks to this

The vTuber teleconferencing future is here 🔗
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I was wondering how long it would take for business teleconferencing to become infested with vtubers.

Soon it will be considered a human right to appear on screen how you identify. Catfishing enshrined in law.

Meanwhile, google is encouraging people to stop using so many filters. You don't say, having an emotional investment in a world of lies is corrosive to your mental health???

Carbon-14 Diamond battery update 🔗
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Nice to see a sane follow up here

EARN IT gets out of committe 🔗
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Christmas is coming up, so let's see if they can keep it delayed until a midnight voice vote.

MI5 now legally as evil as the FIB 🔗
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Crimes A-OK for informants, etc.

Armenia: calls for ceasfire 🔗
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This is strictly for show, they know the Medes and Turks have no interest in peace at this point.

Wolfram on FTL 🔗
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Great stuff. Wolfram is one of the brightest minds alive.
So what does this mean for negative mass in our models? Well, if there was a region of the hypergraph where there was somehow less activity, it would have negative energy relative to the zero defined by the “normal vacuum”. It’s tempting to call whatever might reduce activity in the hypergraph a “vacuum cleaner”. And, no, we don’t know if vacuum cleaners can exist. But if they do, then there’s a fairly direct path to seeing how wormholes can be maintained (basically because geodesics almost by definition diverge wherever a vacuum cleaner has operated).
Interesting to see he has arrived at Sidis' conclusion, here and in regards to the reversal of the second law of thermodynamics:
...once we have a simple state it’ll tend to evolve to a randomized state—just like we typically see. But the picture also shows that we can in principle set up a complicated initial state that will evolve to produce the simple state. So why don’t we typically see this happening in everyday life? It’s basically again a story of limited computational capabilities. Assume we have some computational system for setting up initial states. Then we can readily imagine that it would take only a limited number of computational operations to set up a simple state. But to set up the complicated and seemingly random state we’d need to be able to evolve to the simple state will take a lot more computational operations—and if we’re bounded in our computational capabilities we won’t be able to do it.
Later on he considers the idea of a "space demon" wherein you do branch prediction on the margins of a light cone (where it's easy enough to be possible) as a way to exceed e:
The key question is then whether there are sufficient “pockets of computational reducibility” associated with space tunnels that we’ll be able to successfully exploit. We know that in the continuum limit there’s plenty of computational reducibility: that’s why our models can reproduce mathematical theories like general relativity and quantum mechanics.

But space tunnels aren’t a phenomenon of the usual continuum limit; they’re something different. We don’t know what a “mathematical theory of space tunnels” would be like. Conceivably, insofar as ordinary continuum behavior can be thought of as related to the central limit theorem and Gaussian distributions, a “theory of space tunnels” could have something to do with extreme value distributions. But most likely the mathematics—if it exists, and if we can even call it that—will be much more alien.

...in a sense, much of the historical task of engineering has been to identify pockets of reducibility in our familiar physical world: circular motion, ferromagnetic alignment of spins, wave configurations of fields, etc. In any given case, we’ll never know how hard it’s going to be: the process of finding pockets of reducibility is itself a computationally irreducible process.
Interesting that modern risk theory also deals with these extreme value distributions. Perhaps there is utility there.

BMW latest fined for bribing dealers to phony up sales numbers 🔗
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Commonplace behavior, which explains the slap on the wrist character of the fine.

The world improvers have nearly destroyed american dog racing 🔗
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Expect greyhound populations to drastically plummet.

Colorado pardons all imprisoned for Marijuana convictions 🔗
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Great news.

A black brit on them catching the American mind-virus 🔗
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So much of the British reaction to the death of George Floyd has constituted a failure of nerve. Desperately seeking to assuage their feelings of guilt, to do something, many Britons have sacrificed their critical faculties to a narrative that does not actually help black people—a narrative that, by reducing us to passive abstractions, only makes us more invisible.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, critical theory may be all well and good but the evidence increasingly shows it is bringing about nothing positive for the groups it purports to fight for.

CA: Covid affirmative action to reopen 🔗
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This is beyond deranged. I know of no virus ever which any "race" of human is immune to which all others are not as well.

Apparently you can rent quantum computing on amazon now 🔗
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I'll have to BOLO for startups actually using this for something useful.

Fed sissy fight over regime change funding 🔗
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Great, hope they tie themselves in knots forever.

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