Have you ever heard of Gentoo? It's really neat, it compiles every program you use from scratch!
One of the most important things I had to learn in school was that I needed to chill the fuck out.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
So what if the real reason Jews wear the Yarmulke (the little Jew Beanie) is that everyone from that region of the world at the time just has male pattern baldness right on the top of their heads and wearing a little hat covers it up to make it seem like they have more hair than they really do?
I think it's important to be reasonable in this respect.... It's already been 3-4 years since many people got their first shot, and just like we didn't actually have carts of dead people in the streets from covid, we don't have carts of dead people in the streets from the covid vaccine.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.
I mean, she started on the Disney channel, so I'm sure she's had to make some pretty bad choices for money...
The thing that EMP would hurt the most would be transmission systems.
For a longer term example of it, there was a geomagnetic storm called the Carrington event in 1859 that caused a number of interesting effects including aurora so powerful miners started making breakfast assuming it was morning, and induced electricity so strong telegraph stations caught on fire. Some telegraph operators were able to use their stations without connecting the battery, the induced emf was so great.
It's assumed that most electrical infrastructure would be destroyed if a Carrington event level solar storm hit our planet today. Even if it wasn't all destroyed, enough damage to the grid at this point I think there'd be some serious questions as to how much we could recover in a lifetime.
For a longer term example of it, there was a geomagnetic storm called the Carrington event in 1859 that caused a number of interesting effects including aurora so powerful miners started making breakfast assuming it was morning, and induced electricity so strong telegraph stations caught on fire. Some telegraph operators were able to use their stations without connecting the battery, the induced emf was so great.
It's assumed that most electrical infrastructure would be destroyed if a Carrington event level solar storm hit our planet today. Even if it wasn't all destroyed, enough damage to the grid at this point I think there'd be some serious questions as to how much we could recover in a lifetime.
I wrote a song as a student:
(Sung to 'hurt')
"I hurt myself today"
"To play Final Fantasy 3"
"I focused on the game"
"The only thing that's real"
I think I had to pee while I was downloading it on the school network and I'd have to log out if I left so I was just sitting there busting for a piss.
I haven't finished 7 even after all these years, but as far as I'm concerned that and maybe 9 are the last final fantasy games. Everything else is something else wearing the brand like a skin suit, the same way that Chrono Cross is a fine game but it isn't a sequel to Chrono Trigger stfu.
(Sung to 'hurt')
"I hurt myself today"
"To play Final Fantasy 3"
"I focused on the game"
"The only thing that's real"
I think I had to pee while I was downloading it on the school network and I'd have to log out if I left so I was just sitting there busting for a piss.
I haven't finished 7 even after all these years, but as far as I'm concerned that and maybe 9 are the last final fantasy games. Everything else is something else wearing the brand like a skin suit, the same way that Chrono Cross is a fine game but it isn't a sequel to Chrono Trigger stfu.
The sad thing is that the basic principles of macro and micro economics are actually quite intuitive, and get thrown out the window when someone is about to explain why you need to stab yourself in the heart to make sure the sun rises tomorrow or something equally crazy.
There's a part of crunchyroll with a bunch of android games you can get if you really wanted to do that for some reason.
Honestly, it's still basically true that Tesla is the world's smallest car company with the world's largest market cap, so it feels strange anyone would throw their hat in with that.
It's like you pick a gerbil on unimaginable amounts of meth to draw your carriage because it's faster than the horse, and never think "Hey, what happens when the meth wears off? What happens before the meth wears off?"
It's like you pick a gerbil on unimaginable amounts of meth to draw your carriage because it's faster than the horse, and never think "Hey, what happens when the meth wears off? What happens before the meth wears off?"
It seems to me that the more prescriptive it gets, the more suspect it becomes. It's called the dismal science, and it should be treated as a science where we're trying to understand the world and predict the future. The moment that you start slapping prescriptions right into the school of thought you're in, you basically given up the ability to make any predictions contrary to that prescription. At that point of course you're going to get most things wrong because your job isn't too predict things correctly.
I want to read some good books, I think I will try that one out.
I want to read some good books, I think I will try that one out.
Pretty interesting going back to some of the econ podcasts I listen to and realizing how ignorant they are.
In one show they talked about how good it is that the government says everything is fine. in another it says entitlements are great and the guest shrugs off the existential crisis of government debt with a dismissive "it's a political problem, we can figure it out", and "entitlements are fine, America economy big!"
No wonder my predictions got so much better after I stopped listening to them. Imagine how disgraceful it is that these alleged economics reporters are likely to die in the gutter penniless because they don't seem to know fuck all about the markets or the economy.
In one show they talked about how good it is that the government says everything is fine. in another it says entitlements are great and the guest shrugs off the existential crisis of government debt with a dismissive "it's a political problem, we can figure it out", and "entitlements are fine, America economy big!"
No wonder my predictions got so much better after I stopped listening to them. Imagine how disgraceful it is that these alleged economics reporters are likely to die in the gutter penniless because they don't seem to know fuck all about the markets or the economy.
https://fbxl.net/safestspace/index.php
I forgot about this: it's the safest space social network.
Basically it lets you post anything you want but if anyone reports your post it's immediately and irrecoverably deleted.
For people who really want to silence all speech they find offensive (except 'reported post removed')
I forgot about this: it's the safest space social network.
Basically it lets you post anything you want but if anyone reports your post it's immediately and irrecoverably deleted.
For people who really want to silence all speech they find offensive (except 'reported post removed')
If you think about it, thinking you can change is a matter of faith, you can't know you'll succeed until you try. If you truly believe you are powerless you won't try and you will fail.
I followed Doctorow early on when I joined the fediverse, but found while he has good things to say he's also got some really dumb things to say. I must've pushed back at some point so I'm blocked lol. never read him before that. Only followed I think because I recognized the name from xkcd, but I did know enshittification was his concept.
I don't think I'm missing what you're saying, it's more like that's another angle to it. Forcing positive results through means like p-hacking is certainly another means to bamboozle with bullshit. You're absolutely correct however, negative results are just as important. I recall AvE trying what he found in a paper on making transparent wood, and ultimately he didn't succeed, and nilered tried to and got closer, but it's important to have that sort of work because sometimes a negative result doesn't mean the positive results was necessarily wrong but that things the first experimenter took for granted ended up being important to why it couldn't be replicated, but that data is lost if it isn't published.
I don't think I'm missing what you're saying, it's more like that's another angle to it. Forcing positive results through means like p-hacking is certainly another means to bamboozle with bullshit. You're absolutely correct however, negative results are just as important. I recall AvE trying what he found in a paper on making transparent wood, and ultimately he didn't succeed, and nilered tried to and got closer, but it's important to have that sort of work because sometimes a negative result doesn't mean the positive results was necessarily wrong but that things the first experimenter took for granted ended up being important to why it couldn't be replicated, but that data is lost if it isn't published.
The reason that I assume it has something to do with capitalism is that Cory Doctorow who coined the word explicitly places the blame on capitalist forces. He says platforms start off being good to their users to lure them in, then slowly start to abuse their users to claw back the value and make the platform profitable. If something else doesn't follow that criteria, then it isn't the thing as he described it.
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."
I subscribe to a number of academic journals, and I tend to agree with you that there are legitimate criticisms of science and academia. Foremost, I think there's an incentive to bamboozle reviewers and readers with bullshit. You'll see papers using 37 letter words where a simple description would suffice. Often you'll see a long and extremely complicated explanation and then after reflecting realize that they are describing a simple and standard method that anyone would use, but they can't just describe things properly because you won't get published for that -- you gotta break out the thesaurus. (Even in my own field I see it, that they'll use non-standard descriptions of simple things)
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."
I subscribe to a number of academic journals, and I tend to agree with you that there are legitimate criticisms of science and academia. Foremost, I think there's an incentive to bamboozle reviewers and readers with bullshit. You'll see papers using 37 letter words where a simple description would suffice. Often you'll see a long and extremely complicated explanation and then after reflecting realize that they are describing a simple and standard method that anyone would use, but they can't just describe things properly because you won't get published for that -- you gotta break out the thesaurus. (Even in my own field I see it, that they'll use non-standard descriptions of simple things)