DradisPing
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DradisPing
1yr ago
I was most surprised by how 29% of the elite thinks that China is an ally, compared to 9% of ordinary voters. I would’ve thought the elites were the hawks! Maybe some of them have commercial interests in China or they want to work with China on climate change or they’re ethnically Chinese, anyway this is really odd to me. The hawk faction may be in control but the doves haven’t been totally eviscerated. Does anyone have any explanations or observations on this matter?
First here's a map of The Emerging US Mega Regions
The Northeast is the home of America's traditional ruling class. During WWII and after the Great Lakes region was getting rich and powerful. Unfortunately the Great Lakes region (GLR) is in road trip distance of DC and NYC. The North-easterners didn't like seeing them drive up in nice cars throwing money around. They saw them as uppity. So various federal policies were put in place to economically devastate the region.
One of them was encouraging companies to offshore the GLR manufacturing to China. China made sure the Northeast elites got rich off of the deal in various ways.
So the elites see China as a nation of obedient factory workers who know their place and pay tribute to the right people. Things like the 2022 visit to Taiwan by Pelosi were about sending a message to Xi Jinping to stay in line.
Of course that doesn't really line up with China's plans for itself. But admitting that destroying the GLR manufacturing base was a colossal fuck up is too much for most of the elite's egos to handle.
Hawks and Doves is probably the wrong way to think about it. The "Hawks" see China as an economic rival, there's no appetite for violence. The "Doves" are the ones more likely to use military force to keep China in line.
DradisPing
1yr ago
There's actual case law on the natural born citizen test. Both Obama and McCain were challenged in state courts with claims that they weren't. Courts decided that they didn't have the power to delve into the issue unless the candidate admitted they weren't qualified.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Whenever I hear about "A Princess of Mars" it seems like the proper way to adapt it is as isekai anime.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Timing wise it doesn't make sense for Putin to kill him. He was in prison and didn't have any significant political support on the outside.
So the likely options are:
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CIA / GRU / another western intelligence service killed him to get support in the west for more aid money. It did happen right around some votes, and Navalny wasn't likely to be of any other use to them.
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Natural causes. Russian prisons probably aren't great for your health.
There's less egg on the face of western allies then you think. CNN will just ignore this. Reporters will still talk as if it's settled that Putin killed him.
DradisPing
1yr ago
2012 - 2016 is when the SF tech industry switched from "free speech and neutrality are critical for our growth" to "kicking around our political enemies is a whole lot of fun". I think Obama's re-election campaign was the turning point.
Ellen Pao was probably always more comfortable with censoring and control. But in her actions she was just following the prevailing winds in SF.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I think the model of conspiracies is that for every n people in the know, you need n^2 people willing to cover it up. So a conspiracy of 3 people only needs 9 friends and family willing to turn a blind eye to anything suspicious and give the occasional alibi.
So a small conspiracy can exist. A large conspiracy can exist in something like the military where there are secret projects everyone in a large org agrees to hush up.
But a medium sized conspiracy where like 50 people need to know has problems, because it 2500 supporters is a lot.
In the case of the lab leak, if true then humanizing and enhancing respiratory viruses is clearly too dangerous. It should be banned completely. That implicates and damages a whole lot of people in universities, governments, and medical companies.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Ballot harvesting in States where it is illegal to deliver someone else's ballot is fraud.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Reddit was founded in 2005, so the shared hosting php servers at the time were quite a bit slower than they are now. Also phpBB has probably added some javascript to avoid the full page refreshes on each click.
DradisPing
1yr ago
"Children in cages" happened under Obama as well near the end of his second term. NGOs started bussing migrant caravans to the border and there was no capacity to process that many arrivals. So they ended up in caged holding areas (along with their parents, or whatever adult was accompanying them).
Under Trump there was an even larger wave. A liberal judge made a ruling that migrants couldn't be held for more than a short period, I believe 3 days, unless the government arrested them arrested them for illegal entry.
It wasn't possible to process them in that time, so the Trump admin decided to start arresting them for illegal entry.
An arrest requires parents to be separated from children. You don't throw kids in jail with their parents, you send them to some sort of social services.
Given the numbers and the short period the services set up for the children were unsurprisingly not adequate.
Congress wouldn't give additional funding, so the situation was hard to improve.
DradisPing
1yr ago
- The primary software for forums was phpBB, and it was/is awful.
- Reddit started as [del.ico.us](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)) with upvotes and comments
- Early on it broke every news story. It was an incredibly addictive source of info
- The early users found out about the site primarily through it's announcement on Paul Graham's essay section, so the early users were bright techies who liked to read
- Subreddits were added later, they grew out of it's natural development
Consolidating the ecosystem wasn't a goal early on. It was just a source for good links that grew steadily.
If you weren't there it's hard for you to understand how slow and awful phpBB was. Old reddit's use of JS to update the DOM was the top of the tech at the time.
Digg was founded at about the same time as Reddit and had a more Slashdot inspired interface. It's design came off as more professional and it was seen as the larger website. Although Spez said the daily hits were about the same or larger on Reddit.
Digg had a terrible v4 redesign in 2010 that caused much anger. Users fled to Reddit and Digg never recovered.
The appearance of smartphones also played a role. Reddit added a json api early so there were apps on every platform. Even without them Reddit's minimalist design made it easier to build in phone support. I never actually tired, but those phpBB forums look like they'd be very hard to use on mobile. The UI doesn't look like it'd be useable on small screens without major work.
DradisPing
1yr ago
HFT operates at such low latencies that they choose where to locate their servers based on length of fibre optic travel. Within the same city. When things are that tight the programming language will matter.
Golang 1.0 came out in 2012 and Rust in 2015. HFT was long established by then, so they already had significant C++ codebases.
Also at the highest performance levels they may be using things like SIMD or CUDA, and the C++ tools for those are much more mature.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Genesse Moreno
For more culture war relevance, Moreno seems to have voted in the 2020 election.
https://twitter.com/o____principe/status/1757299884229582857
DradisPing
1yr ago
E Jean Carroll's account is inherintly less beliveable because she has no evidence of contact. It's just a claim that a random celebrity raped her in a store fitting room years ago.
Tara Reade at least had verifiable professional contact with Biden.
I have a problem with both accounts. Carroll comes off as a nutter. Reade looks like she's coming forward because of some other grevances. I think Reade could be exagerating.
DradisPing
1yr ago
The protestors would not have been able to enter the Capitol had they not had the numbers, the motivation, and the willingness to get violent.
See here's a key point of disagreement. On Jan 6 Pelosi and the DC mayor refused national guard support. Then Capital Police security was running at half their usual numbers, "due to covid messures". Then they started getting agressive with the protestors at the front. Then the line broke because Capital Police fired tear gas upwind and gassed their own lines.
If security had been run in a normal fashion then no one would have entered the capital.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I just finished Project Hail Mary and it was excellent. A fun sci fi novel. I had worries at the beginning because "man wakes up on a spaceship with amnesia" isn't typcially a genere I enjoy, but the book really works.
DradisPing
1yr ago
People have a hangup where they interpret visible damage to the body as suffering.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Nitrogen narcosis is what they are condemning as inhumane.
DradisPing
1yr ago
It's not an invasion, it's illegal immigration.
It's more of an invasion than Jan 6 was an insurrection. A govenment brininging in foreigners to prop up their domestic power is usually considered colonization, that might be a better term.
The federal government does in fact have the legal authority to administer immigration law.
The situation is a little more complex than that. Imagine if Trump were President. The courts would never rule that the executive branch has unlimited power to interpret and adminster immigration law without review.
However the current administration of immigration law by the Biden admin isn't consistent with the laws congress has passed. However the courts and legal class generally support what Biden is doing.
They don't want to give him carte blanche power. They don't want to stop him, or are at least afraid of pushback from the legal establishment.
So what do they do?
So far their answer has been to use standing to block any lawsuits. Things are going to get interesting if Texas can force the Feds into court.
DradisPing
2yr ago
I don't know what your health and altheticism levels are, but if they aren't blockers you should try to find some social sports activity. Specifics are very location dependent.
A recreational cycling group, beer league softball, curling, dodgeball at the local rec center. There should be something you can do and enjoy.
Running around until you're exhausted with a group is good for stress and should lead to more lol type moments when everyone is tired.
DradisPing
2yr ago
Previous suits to hold manufacturers responsible for gun violence have all fallen flat, so it’s a pretty major milestone that this is being heard at all
It looks like they did some pretty blatant forum shopping. The first circuit has 11 judges and only 3 republican appointees, with the most recent being by George HW Bush.
The gun manufactures should be protected by both the foreign government issue, as well as a federal law immunizing gun manufacturers. The tactic lefty judges have been using lately is to just ignore those issues and let the lawsuit proceed. The SCOTUS doesn't take many cases and they get a bit lazy and think they can just review the whole case in the end.
The manufacturers will see a doomed trial with biased judges and settle. So the SCOTUS will never have a case to review.
That's what happened in the Remington lawsuit, Mexico is seeking to repeat.
though it does seem unfair to Mexico if their own laws are being completely circumvented
Perhaps they should invest in some sort of wall to reduce smuggling.
DradisPing
2yr ago
Is that realated to "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes or is it completely different?
DradisPing
2yr ago
Since this is Friday Fun, I just want to say that Alien Ant Farm is a tragedy of the early 2000s.
They could have been the Michael Jackson rock cover band that everyone wanted. But no. They had to try to be real musicians and write their own material.
Covid is science's Chernobyl from the other reply but I think he stated it in a more straightforward way in a 2020 interview with Michael Malice or Unregistered Podcast. Unfortunately those are very long and I can't find the right one.
Probably one of these if you have enough time: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=yarvin+after%3A2020-01-01+before%3A2021-12-01
Here's a similar comment, I'm not sure if it's the exact bit I remember https://youtube.com/watch?v=BUhYbbBfG2c&t=2804
DradisPing
2yr ago
I think Moldbug nailed it with his analysis. Researchers want to work on the most important problems in their fields. In viral research it's deadly airborne diseases. There's a shortage of deadly pandemic viruses to study, so they create them. That way they have something to write papers on.
SMAC is tragic. They can't make another one because the publisher went bankrupt. All of the IP rights were bundled and poorly split and auctioned off. Now it's not clear who owns what.
Any attempt at a remaster will be met by lawsuits from people with various claims.
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