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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3d ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/pennsylvania-girls-10... "The borough also says visitors encounter its "Play Smart Rules" when entering the park, including a specific instruction: "
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Memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong(theconversation.com)
3 points by GlibMonkeyDeath 4d ago|1 comments
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4d ago
Had this experience recently (not 9/11 memory, but some other event.) I 100% thought it happened, but a friend showed me that what I remembered was impossible.
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5d ago
From the link you just posted: "A lot of bullshit jobs are just manufactured middle-management positions with no real utility in the world, but they exist anyway in order to justify the careers of the people performing them. But if the
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs >Graeber classifies a job as bullshit if society would be no worse off (or even >notice) if such job(s) disappeared, and names five classes of meaningless jobs: >flu
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5d ago
I've always had a problem with Graeber's definition of exactly what a "bullshit" job is. Every time one is identified, the "well, akshually..." comes out, and often for defendable reasons. Take "social med
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5d ago
There is a reason this exists: https://xkcd.com/793/ I sadly share this as a physicist. To be fair, sometimes this arrogance can be useful. I worked at the boundary between domains my entire career where there aren&#x2
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7d ago
Especially when it comes to biological things. Just look at Novartis this week - three failed clinical trials of promising drugs ( https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/novartis-faces-... ) These are some of the b
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 10d ago
I've said this in other threads, but the increase of safetyism is partially because we have lost the informal social networks of the single-income household. Kids running around always had an adult nearby, even if they felt "alone
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 11d ago
Goddamn, this is a disappointment. Everyone thought (and probably still thinks) Lp(a) was/is causal. There is a very "neat" story about how the shorter LPA genes (with fewer Kringle repeats) leaves the Lp(a) cholesterol parti
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 13d ago
"Divide their annual recurring revenue by the total headcount. If that number is below $150K, the company is either pre–product market fit or scaling too early." Most of the time, if you are a technical person joining a company th
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How Much Redistribution Will AI Require?(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by GlibMonkeyDeath 13d ago|0 comments
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 14d ago
"What a shortage really means from their perspective is that they can't find enough workers for the price they want to pay" Exactly - we are in agreement
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 14d ago
Wow, these anti-natalist people really misunderstand the nature of risk. Yes, a person can get a bad roll of the genetic dice - or save an entire community through personal sacrifice and dedication to fairness. Have they never watched &quo
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 14d ago
Ah yes - the older H1 program started in 1952 (I was confused by the article calling the H1 visa "H-1B" - they aren't the same.)
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 14d ago
"The H-1B program was started with the vision of finding von Brauns across other industries and bringing them into the US" Is this true? I thought the the "O" visa accomplished this. H-1B is for specific worker shortages
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 17d ago
This is an example of "statistically good advice, but there are exceptions." For a famous list of exceptions, https://www.inc.com/business-insider/founders-who-started-fa... I would also look up the term &quo
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 18d ago
The thing is, the "old" internet is still out there. No one is stopping you from writing a futile blog (as I do.) Or using YouTube only for instruction for tasks around the house. Or learn about any topic imaginable. It's jus
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 25d ago
It's the ultimate flat tax!
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 26d ago
That's because the US national debt is indeed not like household debt. As a household, I can't choose to print more GlibMonkeyDeathBucks and hand them out to service my debts. I also don't have my own standing army to defend
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 26d ago
"grow" == "inflate"
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
In my opinion you are under-appreciating the external validation. Removing grades disincentives excelling. Why work any harder than getting a "pass"? At the larger schools (like Michigan), professors (if a professor is actually gr
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
This has the knock-on effect that it becomes impossible to excel in your first semester. Both of my kids worked hard and were prepared for college, and they did very well their first years, as they were used to the pace and level of informa
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
America: hold my syringe...
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
Can you give an example? I've actually been pretty happy with how the latest ChatGPT answers senior-undergrad level physics questions.
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
So a 40% drop in sex/nudity since 2000 in movies. I'd be curious to see the breakdown by type of movies. The demise of the teen sex comedy couldn't come fast enough for me. Ditto the trope of murdering every young women who d
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 1mo ago
I am learning a lot about radar :) This radar is using 1 MJ, 3 millisecond pulses at ~3-30 MHz (not ~5 ns pulses at ~3 GHz), so peak power is a far cry from the 2e15 W in the article (~3e8 W.) That's why I think the 2e15 W in the artic
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
Replying to myself here, but three things: 1) the receiver arrays are about 50x 6m diameter (3m radius) antennas ( https://www.seti.org/projects/ata/ ) So that helps about 7x. 2) The 2e15 W/10 MJ/pulse has
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
Huh - very interesting! Now I am going to have to calculate this for myself! Seems that (r_d/(theta_e z))^2 P t_p ~ 100 hv (~100 photons at 3 GHz; a single 3GHz photon is about 2e-24 J) I'll drop this to 1 photon below. Where r_d
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
>Earth's television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable at distances up to 0.3 light-years, less than 1/10 the distance to the nearest star. This is what I always thought was one of the major problems - unless an alie

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