alsaaro

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by alsaaro 3mo ago
How universal is this argument; giving money to politically powerless groups (19th century Irish, homeless people, jobless people during the depression) somehow makes them poorer, seemingly this argument never applies to the already powerfu
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by alsaaro 5mo ago
Same. But perhaps the underlying technology is a superconducting SQUID. The ability to detect a heartbeat from distance is far fetched though.
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by alsaaro 7mo ago
I saw this and what makes this particularly pernicious that you assume it was a fan applying ai voice to his authentic words, but you don't know. There is also an ai slop channel featuring Leonard Susskind.
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by alsaaro 1y ago
Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.
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by alsaaro 1y ago
Kamala Harris is a progressive, who by certain objective measures, was the most left senator, even further left than Sanders. Of course in the general election she moved to the center, as did Trump. Kamala lost all seven swing states. The d
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by alsaaro 2y ago
You mean deep seek r1 generated this? With what prompt?
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by alsaaro 2y ago
A classless society that never aspired to have or need a warrior class, to a society that inexplicably needs a "warrior class" that presumably answers to the moneyed capital class alone.
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by alsaaro 2y ago
Or sci fi holograms?
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by alsaaro 2y ago
The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law -- the conservative Supreme Court has endorsed this.
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by alsaaro 2y ago
Curious how an ostensibly "conservative" court can ignore the concept of enumerated powers, the constitution clearly does not grant immunity to the President, so the conservative court invents immunity when none is explicitly gran
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by alsaaro 2y ago
I wonder if covid infections, perhaps in rare cases the vaccines themselves, is to blame for the post-pandemic phenomena of ADHD medication shortages, the crime wave, school discipline (lack of), the so-called college enrollment crises (pre
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Maybe. A better explanation for the slowness of the national laboratories is they their word will be taken more definitively on this issue than anyone else. They are the ones with reputations and have to answer to critics in the private sec
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by alsaaro 3y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1685088625187495936.html The most immediate and interesting are improvements to generators (35%) and SQUIDS.
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by alsaaro 3y ago
They claim to have observed the Meisner effect, quantum locking unique to superconductors, a pretty big signal, so more likely fraud than a mistake.
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by alsaaro 3y ago
The critical temperature (Tc) >= 400 K or about 127 C, so apparently this material requires relatively high heat to reach superconductivity. This is unusual, superconductivity is a low temperature phenomenon. Recently though, other resea
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by alsaaro 3y ago
The Republican Supreme Court cited a new conservative legal doctrine know as the "major questions doctrine" to issue this ruling. Biden's own words aren't relevant.
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by alsaaro 3y ago
The Republican Supreme Court ruled against this because it is not simpatico with their pollical beliefs. The statutory authority for Biden's actions is there, that doesn't matter because black-letter law and jurisprudence don&#x27
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Biden's legal justification for student debt forgiveness was the 2003 Hero's Act, which allowed the Secretary of Education to discharge student loans debt in times of national emergency (like a Pandemic). Trump cited this enabling
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by alsaaro 3y ago
The enabling law for this policy was the 2003 HERO's Act, which has been used prior to Biden's student loan forgiveness plan to modify loan conditions. So this policy was approved by Congress.
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by alsaaro 3y ago
China uses an ethnic quota system for underrepresented minorities for university admissions, just like India and the United States (until today).
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by alsaaro 3y ago
There was hasn't been a "prior Democratic balance of SCOTUS" the SCOTUS has been firmly conservative since Rehnquist (1986) and probably before that. What is notable about this Robert's Court, is that they have overturne
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Remember the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action in 2016 in Fisher v. UT-Austin, and two lower courts upheld the legality of affirmative action in this particular decision. What changed is the make-up of the court; other
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Judicial review has upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action policies for 40+ years, what changed is the composition of the Supreme Court and its related willingness to legislate from the bench -- abandoning stare decisis and judi
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Bad news for the ever impending recession.
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Why did it take them nearly 30 million in grants and 20 years to just now speak about delivering a prototype next year. Engines can be prototyped on the time scale of months not decades. Now they are soliciting the public to "invest&qu
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Remember John Edwards, former Democratic nominee for vice-President, was essentially indicted for the same thing Trump is now, that is using political contributions as hush money. Edwards was facing 30 years for all the charges arraigned ag
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by alsaaro 3y ago
Remember, a Grand Jury indicted John Edwards, a vice-Presidential candidate, for essentially the same thing Trump is being accused of -- that is using campaign funds to hide an affair. Prior to Edward's indictment he was thought be the
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by alsaaro 4y ago
As someone who has worked two of the most intensive blue collar jobs, people should be wary of romanticizing blue collar work. Blue collar workers are expected to really work at their jobs. White collar workers can chill if there is no work
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by alsaaro 4y ago
There's an excellent lecture series available free on Prime called The Roman Empire
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by alsaaro 4y ago
Not to be too big picky, but why are the first few photos showing the heat pump with a perspective that implies a small dimensions, as if it were some portable boombox. Also, why do the photos look indoors? What do you think of thermoacoust

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