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Tell that to gestures broadly at American capital in the last 4 decades.

I mean this in the kindest way possible...stop being glad about that stuff. It's technobabble nonsense. It's not cool, innovative, or even truly productive. The "we can fly a rocket backward" shit is so boilerplate obviously iterative from a physics perspective. It's a mistake to be happy for these peoples' achievements anymore and it's old news.

This is the only planet we'll ever meaningfully have and we're killing it for "eternal" growth.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

...meaning both houses of Congress.

Forgot the /s tag

What a hilariously fact- and understanding-free piece of ragebait.

...and if you had actually seen our ballot for this primary, you'd know that anyone with a semblance of care to know who they were voting for and why constituted veritable weeks of legwork. The governor's race had like 60 people running, not to mention all the judge seats, etc.

You mail in your credit card payments? My bullshit detector is absolutely pegged right now.

As someone who took both a 4 year latin curriculum and a year of koine Greek in HS: unqualified no.

Really wish I were fluent in Spanish or Japanese or really anything spoken.

You got a bad/dry one. Happens all the time with home grown and less frequently with commercial products. My backyard trees have improved, but only with fairly intensive upkeep.

The flavor coming right off the tree can be truly candy-like given optimal conditions. After tasting the best ones from my own tree, I had the revelation that so many things that are "orange flavored" are mimicking navels specifically.

I'll pick a bone on the flavor comment because a good Washington Navel is probably one of the best tasting oranges in existence.

It's the pervasive theme in the book, but never really given a conceptual grounding further than "this sort of looks like recursion or can be modelled circularly so it's a strange loop". The vagueness of it reveals itself as being "more intuitive", because a vaguer pattern will have more matches. I don't remember Hofstadter digressing on whether these loops work "in reverse" either, which is sort of what the author here is denying. Basically positing that f doesn't have a well-defined inverse.

It's only a little bit comforting that computers still live in meatspace when you consider something like an AI-controlled Metal Gear roaming around though.

I see it's still the season of perpetual hope wherever you are...

Yeah, but there's nothing like some sweet, sweet justification.

The author disclaims that he's not a homeowner at the very end of the article, but these types of pieces steelmanning renting always read to me as thinly veiled pleas of "please exit the market so I can have more".