I always like to shout out good projects when it comes up though, and matrix conduit is a clean reimplementation of matrix that runs on really minimal hardware. I've got it running alongside ejabbered and lotide on an Intel atom d2550.
I feel like this design would serve to violate safety standards and result in careless wheelchairs falling down a bunch of stairs.
People who don't know fuck-all thinking that there hasn't been a new big thing for the past forever that was allegedly going to change the world and totally revolutionize whatever but didn't because it turns out there's constraints on technologies, no matter how well they demo in a super confined system.
it's happened a couple times where I live that some old dude who shouldn't be driving put the vehicle in the wrong gear and drove right through the wall of a restaurant.
I think it would be interesting to see a story with the following elements:
1. Someone makes a Faustian bargain understanding the consequences
2. That person is incorruptible in the beginning and uses their bargain to successfully achieve their goals, and
3. In the end they accept the price of their eternal soul or whatever it is because they remain incorruptible and are willing to make that sacrifice as they always planned from the beginning because the good they did is to them worth an eternity of punishment.
Sometimes people make sacrifices, knowing they will be sacrifices, and they pay the consequences of those sacrifices, tomorrow is better. It isn't a tragedy, it's a triumph of the human will.
1. Someone makes a Faustian bargain understanding the consequences
2. That person is incorruptible in the beginning and uses their bargain to successfully achieve their goals, and
3. In the end they accept the price of their eternal soul or whatever it is because they remain incorruptible and are willing to make that sacrifice as they always planned from the beginning because the good they did is to them worth an eternity of punishment.
Sometimes people make sacrifices, knowing they will be sacrifices, and they pay the consequences of those sacrifices, tomorrow is better. It isn't a tragedy, it's a triumph of the human will.
Jesus fucking Christ...
That case had nothing to do with the right to strike. It was about the right to sabotage and damage equipment as a bargaining tactic.
The idea that there's someone on the supreme Court that thinks that you should be allowed as a bargaining tactic to use actions that would be illegal in any other situation is horrifying.
And the logic. "Oh, there were violations of labor code so it was justified" -- where'd you get your law degree, a Crackerjack box?
That case had nothing to do with the right to strike. It was about the right to sabotage and damage equipment as a bargaining tactic.
The idea that there's someone on the supreme Court that thinks that you should be allowed as a bargaining tactic to use actions that would be illegal in any other situation is horrifying.
And the logic. "Oh, there were violations of labor code so it was justified" -- where'd you get your law degree, a Crackerjack box?
One massive problem I have with this framing is that environments are local, and California has a bad habit of exporting its local regulations to the rest of the world as if the rest of the world has the same local environmental issues that California has.
Water is scarce in the desert they've built the southwest on. So they should in fact save water, and it's pretty absurd shipping water across the country to grow it. Practically speaking, water isn't really a renewable resource in these locations given how the water gets there.
But the world isn't the southwestern US. In many places, water is a renewable resource, and a virtually endless one. In the southeast, the weather is humid and there's high rainfall. In fact, early on in American history, malaria was a huge issue in the southeast because the wet humid conditions are optimal for mosquitos.
So just as it would be absurd to enforce an air conditioner ban in Texas just because Alaska has no need for air conditioners, it would be absurd to enforce water conservation in Florida just because Nevada has water shortages.
Environmental stewardship isn't a blanket you can just lay over everyone the same and expect it to make the same sense. You need to do the work to figure out what your local environment needs, and what's going to be helpful and what's going to be hurtful. Historically speaking, environmental engineering efforts done naively have caused huge problems, including introducing invasive species into areas that didn't have them before, or wiping out species that were thought of as pests that turned out to be essential to the ecosystem.
Water is scarce in the desert they've built the southwest on. So they should in fact save water, and it's pretty absurd shipping water across the country to grow it. Practically speaking, water isn't really a renewable resource in these locations given how the water gets there.
But the world isn't the southwestern US. In many places, water is a renewable resource, and a virtually endless one. In the southeast, the weather is humid and there's high rainfall. In fact, early on in American history, malaria was a huge issue in the southeast because the wet humid conditions are optimal for mosquitos.
So just as it would be absurd to enforce an air conditioner ban in Texas just because Alaska has no need for air conditioners, it would be absurd to enforce water conservation in Florida just because Nevada has water shortages.
Environmental stewardship isn't a blanket you can just lay over everyone the same and expect it to make the same sense. You need to do the work to figure out what your local environment needs, and what's going to be helpful and what's going to be hurtful. Historically speaking, environmental engineering efforts done naively have caused huge problems, including introducing invasive species into areas that didn't have them before, or wiping out species that were thought of as pests that turned out to be essential to the ecosystem.
It isn't either/or.
It's undeniable that our DNA is key to fear on some level. Without your DNA, it's impossible to feel fear, since it's something inherited by being human. It's a part of your brain. Moreover, there are fears that children have before they have enough exposure to a culture to learn they're supposed to be afraid. Loud noises, heights, strangers, and separation from parents. They're innate.
On the other hand, obviously some fears couldn't possibly be written into our DNA because things we're afraid of didn't exist on evolutionary timelines. A good example is fears about new technologies and their impact on individuals or society. We know you can train people to be afraid of something through direct action or through society.
So I think it's fair to say that our mental landscape is built on a combination of the reality of ourselves as embodied humans with a brain built through evolution, and the reality that our brains wire themselves in response to the world around us.
That being said, I think there's a lot of things where we're more afraid or less afraid of certain things because we're predisposed through our genetics. For example, some people have hypothesized that some fundamental fears we have as adults are heightened by an innate predilection. In particular, the fear of being rejected, particularly by members of the opposite sex, is so intense it can't be explained by mere societal conditioning. There's a voice telling us that if we're rejected by our tribe, that's a death sentence -- even though in our modern society that simply isn't the case and in fact our entire culture is opposed to that notion. As an example in the opposite direction, we are wired to worry about urgent imminent threats, but we don't worry nearly as much about things that may be just as dangerous but only on a longer time horizon. So for example, a gradually worsening financial condition can be a fundamental existential threat, but we're not wired to worry about it until it's an imminent and urgent problem, which might explain the massive debt burdens people likely can't ever pay back on average and how people don't seem to change their habits despite that.
Neurology and genetics and epigenetics are all almost infinitely complicated when combined together. It's incredible.
It's undeniable that our DNA is key to fear on some level. Without your DNA, it's impossible to feel fear, since it's something inherited by being human. It's a part of your brain. Moreover, there are fears that children have before they have enough exposure to a culture to learn they're supposed to be afraid. Loud noises, heights, strangers, and separation from parents. They're innate.
On the other hand, obviously some fears couldn't possibly be written into our DNA because things we're afraid of didn't exist on evolutionary timelines. A good example is fears about new technologies and their impact on individuals or society. We know you can train people to be afraid of something through direct action or through society.
So I think it's fair to say that our mental landscape is built on a combination of the reality of ourselves as embodied humans with a brain built through evolution, and the reality that our brains wire themselves in response to the world around us.
That being said, I think there's a lot of things where we're more afraid or less afraid of certain things because we're predisposed through our genetics. For example, some people have hypothesized that some fundamental fears we have as adults are heightened by an innate predilection. In particular, the fear of being rejected, particularly by members of the opposite sex, is so intense it can't be explained by mere societal conditioning. There's a voice telling us that if we're rejected by our tribe, that's a death sentence -- even though in our modern society that simply isn't the case and in fact our entire culture is opposed to that notion. As an example in the opposite direction, we are wired to worry about urgent imminent threats, but we don't worry nearly as much about things that may be just as dangerous but only on a longer time horizon. So for example, a gradually worsening financial condition can be a fundamental existential threat, but we're not wired to worry about it until it's an imminent and urgent problem, which might explain the massive debt burdens people likely can't ever pay back on average and how people don't seem to change their habits despite that.
Neurology and genetics and epigenetics are all almost infinitely complicated when combined together. It's incredible.
I had a moment when I was writing my book that made me feel important but also small at the same time.
My parents, grandparents, great grandparents, are an uninterrupted line going all the way back to the first single celled organism on earth.
I'm carrying the torch as the avatar of this inheritance, but part of my job is passing the torch to my son, who will hopefully go on to sire a long line of his own.
So many things you don't realize are part of that inheritance. You're scared of things because your grandparents were scared of those same things and survived where others did not. You like certain things because your grandparents liked those same things and survived where others did not. A multi-billion year line of winners, passing forgotten knowledge to you through your DNA.
Suddenly I realize my generation really needs to understand stuff like this more. So nihilistic (in the sense of no value, reason, or sense) when reality is the opposite of nihilistic. Just being alive today is something unimaginable.
My parents, grandparents, great grandparents, are an uninterrupted line going all the way back to the first single celled organism on earth.
I'm carrying the torch as the avatar of this inheritance, but part of my job is passing the torch to my son, who will hopefully go on to sire a long line of his own.
So many things you don't realize are part of that inheritance. You're scared of things because your grandparents were scared of those same things and survived where others did not. You like certain things because your grandparents liked those same things and survived where others did not. A multi-billion year line of winners, passing forgotten knowledge to you through your DNA.
Suddenly I realize my generation really needs to understand stuff like this more. So nihilistic (in the sense of no value, reason, or sense) when reality is the opposite of nihilistic. Just being alive today is something unimaginable.
It just occurred to me that super saiyan god goku looks an awful lot like Crono. Toriyama will have to sue Toriyama for this.
What even is a "broken window fallacy"? Probably fake news, since I own a window shop amirite?
Sometimes people think "strategic voting" is just voting for the lesser of 2 bad options, but not always. For example, if enough people vote for a specific spoiler candidate, it can deliver a message to one of the two major parties that they need to change. It might contribute to losing the current election, but who cares if the person you're hiring for the job is just as bad but has a different letter next to their name?
You don't always vote for the spoiler, but in certain instances, at certain moments, it can fundamentally change the conversation. If you get 5% of the vote you were supposed to get 0% of, everyone's watching.
You don't always vote for the spoiler, but in certain instances, at certain moments, it can fundamentally change the conversation. If you get 5% of the vote you were supposed to get 0% of, everyone's watching.