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Physicists have a term for conspiracies, they call them symmetries.

> I’m all for setting the minimum wage for farm workers at $25/hr. Within 2-3 years every manual farm worker will be replaced by a machine, and we’ll all be better off for it.

Oh yeah you think the only thing between us and a fully automated robot-run future is labor market conditions? The perfect robot slaves will not be forthcoming for quite awhile. We will have to settle for human slaves, or in modern times, immigrants totally reliant on their employer and without the normal rights afforded citizens for our low prices. I sympathize with libertarian and capitalist ideals but I find it disturbing that the agricultural and energy base of the US economy is anything but free market.

I'm laughing at the word "nudgelord". That's a good one.

I sympathize with the authors pain and understand what they are striving for though I also don't have clear cut solution in mind. A lot of blood sweat and tears are expelled for compatibility amongst things that for the most part are not that important or interesting, because they are a trivial data transformation. The choice of calling convention, endianness, data layout. Imagine if an engineer's design could only work if a specific thread handedness was specified for each screw. It feels like a problem that could be solved with something better, but there's a "leaky" aspect that has to be addressed. Sometimes a uintX is a number with ordinal and/or arithmetic properties and sometimes it's a bit field where every bit has a semantic meaning.

Viral research is useful I'm sure it just annoys me when the media is framing the lab leak theory as some absurd and incredibly unlikely possibility. My point is that like a nuclear exchange a low probability times a lot of damage is high risk

Covid has killed an order of magnitude more people than atomic weapons. We got to learn the hard way how destructive viruses can be. People clutching pearls over the potential to mislead are missing the point. There should be a frank and critical discussion about the risks of viral research, especially near populated areas. But entertaining the possibility of a catastrophic accident is now considered conspiratorial thinking

To borrow a phrase, one temperature reading is weather, a million is climate. While it seems difficult to attribute any given extreme or uncharacteristic weather event to climate change, the fact that average temperature is increasing means a larger average kinetic energy in the atmosphere, which in the aggregate should lead to more extremes. Of course there is more to it than that, since the Earth's albedo and atmospheric composition is also changing. Even more worrisome the ph of the ocean is changing, which could have profound consequences for oxygen producing phytoplankton, which again affects all of the above and us. Not a mathematician but I wonder can these discrete perturbed and repeated simulations approximate some well defined probability measure over the actual system?

These regulations seem worse than nothing. We already have browsers, we can block and filter cookies based on our individual preference and adjust depending on our tolerance for privacy vs functionality. How has this changed the data collection practices of Facebook or Google in any meaningful way? Not enough people are asking what effect the many new regulatory burdens will have for the internet. It entrenchs the existing players (know who has the money to hire 20 compliance officers for every Tuscan villa?) and makes the barrier to entry to compete more difficult. Plenty of proto facebooks have fallen by the wayside. Remember AOL? Remember Myspace? Now the big players have a hand in writing the law that potential competitors will have to comply with.