chrisg23

"This insistence that acknowledgement of facts has an ideological narrative is a pernicious strain of anti-science thinking."

That is very well put. This should be added to the general list of fallacies in argument, and like the other ones (the slippery slope, hasty generalization, Post hoc ergo propter hoc, etc.) more general awareness should exist about these.

The current wave of anti-science, anti-logic, rejection of objective data, etc. is like nothing I've experienced in my lifetime. This is a subjective observation, maybe it has always been this way and I never paid attention because I was caught up in whatever I used to be caught up in.

Different domains. Admiral Rickover focused on the nuclear propulsion aspect of the navy. Its like comparing the CEO of a company with one of the heads of engineering.

It my impression that most people in the EU and outside of it think the citizens of the member countries can vote to replace that or change things, so its ok.

Seems like something I'd be afraid of though if I were a EU citizen, or in a neighboring country the EU wants to absorb next.

If you are trying to create satellite internet in low earth orbit (for reduced ping/latency) the satellite moves faster than the earth spins, and the user on the ground loses point to point contact. So there has to be another satellite already over the horizon before the first one goes out of view. Wiki says Starlink sats travel at about 340 miles above the ground.

The easiest alternative to implement is having the satellites in a geostationary orbit so that they are always above a single spot. The altitude necessary for this is higher than 20k miles, and results in very bad ping/latency. Inmarsat is one of these, and I had a chance to use it in the past. It was slow and laggy, as the realities of physics would suggest.

So more satellites means more potential coverage of the globe, or increased capacity over existing coverage regions, or both. It seems very important.

The Indian satellites in the article weighed on average around 6 kilograms. A starlink satellite weighs 227 kg. You can put more telecom equipment in 227 kg than in 6kg. A better metric than #of satellites is probably total mass of satellites, to make broad comparisons more meaningful.

All I know is I moved to the Dallas area 4 years ago, and I'm still shocked at the housing affordability compared to where I moved from. Both in terms of absolute price and general overall cost of living.

If she likes to hold them to expiry like you pointed out, then isn’t it odd to not have let the nvidia options expire? I’d need to see her full trading history to make sense of whether or not she is using insider information to influence her trading patterns. Given her net worth of over 100 million dollars I am a little suspicious, but lacking details it’s hard for me to make a judgement and I assume you are correct.

Or we can ban members of the government from trading stocks and investing while they hold office and then not have to have this discussion. I hate all politicians republicans democrats and Bernie’s (not picking on Mr. Sanders but I don’t know if there’s another registered independent in high level government) if they even have a sniff of engaging in fuckery, the job should be too important to show any possible signs of impartiality. That boat seems to have sailed away though minus their being an actual grassroots populist movement to overhaul government. And those keep seeming to dissipate or get co-opted when they do start to foment, like the occupy Wall Street type things that in my life seem to keep popping up, gaining traction, and then becoming something no one hardly talks about anymore.

From wikipedia:

Pix is an instant payment platform created and managed by the monetary authority of Brazil, the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB).[1] It enables instantaneous payments and transfers in Brazilian real, even outside banking hours or on weekends, with no fees.

Pix was announced in February 2019 and became fully operational on 16 November 2020. It rapidly became the main payment system in the country; by July 2024, Pix transactions had reached almost R$2.5 trillion per month, with more than 70% of the country (over 150 million people) actively using it.

It seems like it is not available outside Brazil and their currency, but is wildly successful (70% adoption in 4 years) and anecdotally on other forum discussions I've heard the people like it.

Also from the article itself

"Pix reached 63.8 billion transactions in 2024 — a 52% increase from the previous year, according to a recent survey by the Brazilian Federation of Banks. Pix overtook debit card transactions in January 2022 and credit cards in February 2022; it now dwarfs transactions via credit cards, debit cards, bank slips, wire transfers, prepaid cards, and checks combined."

It seems like a smashing success, and maybe Visa and Mastercard are trying to pressure the government of the USA to get them back on their rails (that they collect fees on for usage.)

17* year history on this site, but the earliest use of "crazy" in a comment was from 9 years ago.

I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being.

Splitting hairs? Maybe but I understand where the OP is coming from. Here's the 8 times (7 because one of them is the post we are discussing)

What a crazy thing to be doing, the mad situations companies get themselves into when they should just have networked cameras and VPNs or at the very least distributed ingress machines!

Its been getting crazy expensive for decent GPUs for a while for gaming and I can't see the next generation doing anything but being much higher due to the AI boom.

Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive.

I sure hope it turns around at some point and it doesn't become C-AIDS, but it explains why Flu and RSV and sepsis et el are going crazy at the moment, immune systems are in bad shape.

It is no more crazy than telling them to diet given that is shown not to actually work.

People do some crazy things with Spring and interface injections in Java and it can get really Opaque quickly but also often it really is just 1 class implementing an interface and there are no tests using the interface at all.

There is a bug in the update process that can cause the phone to slow and drain battery like crazy.

So maybe it is that serious for a user with a 9 year history that used the term not once in the manner he is advocating against.

It’s not cool anymore.

To add to that, I was shopping for a car last fall and did research to compare small suv type cars and I found Tesla’s to be surprisingly affordable - or another way to put it I was shocked by how expensive new cars are today in general. I was going to get a conventional vehicle but it wouldn’t have been that much less. With notably inferior performance and lacking the tech, some of which I find really useful.

I looked at other ev manufacturers in the USA and saw no one is competitive with Tesla on price and performance and ended up getting a model y. If I was someone that lived my life attempting to align my purchasing choices with my political identity I see how I could be discouraged from buying any ev in the USA at the present time.

I gotta add that when I bought the Tesla the price of BYD’s cheapest model, the seagull, was 12,500 at the lot in South American countries. If that model was available in the USA (thanks, auto industry lobbyists) I would have just bought that as a beater instead. But it isn’t. So I got the expensive but hopefully long term reliable more expensive thing.

What if someone else posts your personal data on the public internet and it gets collected into a dataset like this?

My cousin in Europe drinks milk from one of his neighbors everyday. He does heat it first, I don't know how hot it gets and if it kills as much as the pasteurization process.

The benefit is you get the freshest milk possible less than a day old, from a cow you can visit and see that it is being treated well. And since its your neighbor you can ask what they feed the cow and say no if they are feeding them newspaper or other shit.

The downside of course is you have to live on or close to a farm, or in my cousin's case be in a country where its totally normal to have animals in your yard in the city. (City outskirts to be clear, 10 minute drive to the city center from his house if that.) I got on the roof once when I visited and saw over the wall his immediately next door neighbor's hogs.

About the risk: yeah its risky but humans have always drank raw milk until very recent times and still do in many parts of the world. You don't drink or sell milk from a sick cow or if the milk doesnt pass the smell test. Drinking raw milk is risky for most people because we live in packed cities and get our milk from factory dairy farms that could be hundreds of miles away or more, and the industry has evolved around the idea of let the animal be unclean, let the animal products be unclean, and then deal with sanitizing the dirty animal products. Milk gets aggressively pasteurized killing the bad bacteria but also the good. Meat (chicken mostly) gets bleached with chlorine. And there's color preserving injections all over to both make the meat heavier by volume and keep it from changing color through natural processes like oxidation. Have you ever seen natural pork be pink for more than a few hours after its been exposed to the air? The ham is a sham.