thrance

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by thrance 4d ago
It's at Maison Poincaré, in a kind of theater room with a looping movie. There's some neat stuff, but it's mostly targeted at children.
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by thrance 4d ago
And he also gave up his trophy, which is displayed in a random corridor of a random math museum in Paris, where visitors pass by without looking, lacking most, if not all, of the context. Only because I knew the story and the man did I reco
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by thrance 5d ago
Yeah, and 9/11 happened for no reason either. Same with October 7th. We are always downstream of a past violence. Let's stop with the simplistic "they started it, so we are allowed to kill thousands of them", and maybe t
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by thrance 6d ago
It's a fun project, start here: https://chessprogramming.org
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by thrance 6d ago
> deadly mistakes like the Disney+ incident Well, that led me down a wild rabbithole.
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by thrance 7d ago
The warehouse manager has quotas very hard to meet without using illegal tactics like this, and the suits above picked someone psychopathic enough to fill that role, to ensure they would actually break the law to meet said quotas.
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by thrance 7d ago
Why reflexively side with Amazon on this? They've been known to engage in such anti-workers practice, and have spent millions on union-busting and other illegal stuff like this.
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by thrance 7d ago
Healthcare prices are not dictated by labor costs, but by how much the leeches who own everything are willing to charge people for it. For example, insulin is dirt cheap to make, yet billed at exorbitant amounts.
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by thrance 8d ago
I am focusing on that LA water issue because that's what the discussion was initially about. I don't think fixing inefficient resource allocation is "kicking the can down the road". You should read up on just how much wa
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by thrance 8d ago
It was not "just the mention of Penrose's name", it was this comment specifically: > "Any explanation by Roger Penrose is bound to be good" Is something wrong with my original comment?
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by thrance 8d ago
> Why develop local gas fields and solar when we can just invade nations with oil? Non sequitur. Better analogy: why dig new wells when you waste half of your oil anyway? Because that's what alfalfa is: wasted water. But it's s
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by thrance 8d ago
> do you think it would be 'better' if there were no dualists and no dualist essays and ideas? No of course not, people should be free to discuss and believe in dualism. What I find regrettable, is how often Penrose's name
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by thrance 9d ago
> You might make things fairer doing that but you won't make them better overall. Huh, yes it will? You don't need state violence to reduce wealthy farmers' water rights from 10B gallons per year to 8B, which will instantl
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by thrance 9d ago
There's a difference between making and testing hypotheses, and desperately scrambling to find proof to justify a conclusion made in advance in the face of mounting evidence that said conclusion is false, which is what Penrose is doing
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by thrance 9d ago
Except when he's rambling about quantum consciousness or other nonsense, which happens a lot nowadays.
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by thrance 9d ago
You don't have an energy problem, you have a political problem. Fresh water is wasted on thirsty plants destined for agriculture (like alfalfa), by rich farmers who inherited water rights put into law ages ago. It's very simple to
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by thrance 9d ago
Can we stop with this already? American oligarchs are perfectly able to destroy the country on their own. And they've been very transparent about their intentions to do so for a long time.
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by thrance 10d ago
It wasn't clear at all in 1934 that a war was coming. Maybe the most educated and politically conscious could have foreseen that something bad was going to happen, but I'd wager most of the World was clueless about Nazism up until
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by thrance 10d ago
There are major differences between an individual illegally downloading movies and a major corporation getting their hands on literally all of Human Creation.
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by thrance 10d ago
Okay, but I don't wanna. Would you have defended that same thesis in 1934 Germany, when the Right was pushing further and further into illiberalism? Should the Jews and Leftists have overlooked the mounting hate they received from soci
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by thrance 10d ago
Yeah, how dare he make such a statement as "trans people exist and deserve rights"? This is equally as offensive as the other side's position of "trans people are all mentally ill, they should be ostracized and made as m
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by thrance 10d ago
You're not making an argument there. The people, through the government, chooses what is a right and what isn't. Not you alone. Clean drinking water seems pretty fucking important to me, and to a lot of other people too, it seems.
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by thrance 11d ago
Ariane 5 was the cheapest option available for a long time, now they're a bit behind. But the ESA is now working on reusable rockets too, it seems, with their Themis program.
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by thrance 11d ago
People despise datacenters for what they represent: a contemptuous capital class who despises humanism, democracy, art and ecology, and is openly working to screw you over and dismantle all that is good in the world. I'm barely exagger
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by thrance 11d ago
The left has long been opposed to excessively watered golf courses too. I could probably find another piece of The Economist calling them foolish for that as well, if I searched.
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by thrance 11d ago
And (3) the axioms are correctly encoded too.
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by thrance 12d ago
Meaningless on its own.
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by thrance 12d ago
The answer to this question is, also, "X threw a fit". They sent Cease & Desists to nitter and xcancel.
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by thrance 12d ago
Come on, you can't compare that with Wiles's proof.
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by thrance 12d ago
There's a blocklist for ublockorigin, but I can't really recommend it. It's a bit over-zealous and sometimes blocks useful stuff. Link: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

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