2024-10-14
Starship flown and caught, modern food sucks, real aint rational, un-bias via ignorance, Lisp machine hell, ignore polls we dont like, Trump is disliked, Republic of Oz, China leads in tech
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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster
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SpaceX's "chopstick" launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster
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SpaceX catches giant Starship booster during Flight 5 rocket launch and landing
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(2021) Excellent answer to "why is this a big deal?" Starship is Still Not Understood
- Spacex is building the transcontinental railroads of the solar system. There is mind boggling upside for them. I'm kinda disappointed Blue Origin seems to have fallen in a rut.
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We haven’t even technically had a launch with any payload.
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Tell me why I shouldn't be concerned about thousands of starships launching from Earth and emitting multiple megatons of Carbon Dioxide in the fragile upper atmosphere? Some studies indicate emissions here are significantly more impactful, and can also damage the Ozone layer as well.
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Food ingredients changed over 150 years
Egg yolks have either shrunk or lost their binding strength. old custard recipes that called for 3 yolks generally needed 5 or 6 "modern" egg yolks to set
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The "People's Car." How Nazi Germany Created the Volkswagen Beetle
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Navy parachutist crash-lands on mom, teen in SF Fleet Week airshow
Horseshit
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How have social media algorithms changed the way we interact?
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I'm sure they have as much integrity as the credit rating agencies that gave us 2008. Inside The Companies That Set Sports Gambling Odds
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Haah! You believe that? Irrational much!
This exploration has laid the foundation for a systematic conception of rationality, one emphasizing the alignment of beliefs and decisions with justification rather than an a non-existent equivalence to truth. Through the dissection of relationships between truth, justification and affirmation, as well as comprehensive steel-manning, we established that rationality cannot be characterized as merely the affirmation of true beliefs. Instead, it is the process of grounding beliefs in justification irrespective of their (elusive) ultimate veracity, especially due to the expected systematic nature of rationality.
- No, I hafta say that "Objective reality" does have a bearing on rationality.
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(Oct 2 2024) Explaining Falling Birth Rates
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Dating apps destroyed in-person romance. Now they're trying to revive it
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Toward Parsimony in Bias Research
One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people’s information processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and empirically demonstrated. Unfortunately, however, these biases have often been examined in separate lines of research, thereby precluding the recognition of shared principles. Here we argue that several—so far mostly unrelated—biases (e.g., bias blind spot, hostile media bias, egocentric/ethnocentric bias, outcome bias) can be traced back to the combination of a fundamental prior belief and humans’ tendency toward belief-consistent information processing. What varies between different biases is essentially the specific belief that guides information processing. More importantly, we propose that different biases even share the same underlying belief and differ only in the specific outcome of information processing that is assessed (i.e., the dependent variable), thus tapping into different manifestations of the same latent information processing. In other words, we propose for discussion a model that suffices to explain several different biases. We thereby suggest a more parsimonious approach compared with current theoretical explanations of these biases. We also generate novel hypotheses that follow directly from the integrative nature of our perspective.
- "when we look at few sources, we detect low bias. when we look at many, we detect high bias. therefore look at fewer sources to be less biased. ignorance is strength"
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin (HN comments)
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The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source | Hacker News
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Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps in First Year
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"One of my managers has just told me that Google has been messing with our ads"
one of my managers has just told me that Google has been messing with our ads, using its new AI features to invent and promote services that we do not offer, in order to get more clicks.
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Sex bomb: The collateral damage of OnlyFans' explosive success
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Limp Bizkit fraud lawsuit rattles music industry–'These accusations are massive'
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Redbox Is Dead, Now's Your Chance to Nab One of the Machines
While most machines will be salvaged for scrap, some film enthusiasts have already taken the initiative to visit retailers and take the machines home. Jacob Helton, a 19-year-old from North Carolina, convinced a contactor hauling one from a drugstore to let him have it instead. “I wanted a Redbox machine because I felt like Redbox is important in the history of American media,” he told the Journal. “Its collapse marks the end of the video rental era.”
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Introducing Our New Name - Minetest Blog
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, that era is over. “Minetest” is no more; the “Minecraft clone” is no more. With great thanks to the community for their input, we wave goodbye to Minetest and introduce a new era. Welcome Luanti!
We decided to avoid using “free” or “libre” in the name because we don’t think it does the project justice. Luanti will always be free software, but that core principle is not everything it has to offer. Projects like Blender, Krita, or Godot are awesome, and they don’t need to convince you about their libre nature by putting it in their names. They are libre, but they’re also much, much more!
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speaking of Godot: Top redot developers left redot and announced a new fork of Godot
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Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%
The new technique is basic—instead of using complex floating-point multiplication (FPM), the method uses integer addition. Apps use FPM to handle extremely large or small numbers, allowing applications to carry out calculations using them with extreme precision. It is also the most energy-intensive part of AI number crunching. The researchers call their new method Linear-Complexity Multiplication—it works by approximating FPMs using integer addition. They claim that testing, thus far, has shown that the new approach reduces electricity demand by 95%.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Harris / Democrats
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The Univison Town Hall Imploding: They Flew in Audience Members
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Tensions rise between Harris and Biden teams as election nears
One person involved with Harris’ campaign told Axios: “The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign.”
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Opinion | Ignore the Polls - The New York Times
Here’s a bit of advice to help maintain your sanity over the next few weeks until Election Day: Just ignore the polls. Unless you’re a campaign professional or a gambler, you’re probably looking at them for the same reason the rest of us are: to know who’ll win. Or at least to feel like you know who’ll win. But they just can’t tell you that. As of Oct. 10, The New York Times’s polling average had Kamala Harris leading Trump by three points nationally. That’s tight, but the seven swing states are tighter: Neither candidate is leading by more than two points in any of them.
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Black Voters Drift From Democrats, Imperiling Harris’s Bid, Poll Shows - The New York Times
Nearly eight out of 10 Black voters nationwide said they would vote for Ms. Harris, the poll found, a marked increase from the 74 percent of Black voters who said they would support Mr. Biden before he dropped out of the race in July. But Mr. Biden won 90 percent of Black voters to capture the White House by narrow margins in 2020, and the drop-off for Ms. Harris, if it holds, is large enough to imperil her chances of winning key battleground states. Ms. Harris is no doubt on track to win an overwhelming majority of Black voters, but Mr. Trump appears to be chipping away broadly at a longstanding Democratic advantage. His campaign has relied on targeted advertising and sporadic outreach events to court African American voters — especially Black men — and has seen an uptick in support. About 15 percent of Black likely voters said they planned to vote for the former president, according to the new poll, a six-point increase from four years ago.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Mark Milley warnd Donald Trump is ‘fascist to the core’ in Woodward book - The Washington Post
Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley warned that former president Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country” in new comments voicing his mounting alarm at the prospect of the Republican nominee’s reelection, according to a forthcoming book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” the general told Woodward. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.” By the following year, Milley was receiving a “nonstop barrage of death threats” that he attributed to Trump’s political rhetoric and his fixation on retribution for his perceived enemies, Woodward writes.
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Trump targeted in THIRD ‘assassination attempt’ as gunman arrested outside Coachella rally
Donald Trump seems to have faced yet another threat to his life when a man presenting fake VIP credentials was taken into custody after a shotgun, high capacity magazine and loaded handgun was found in his vehicle at a rally over the weekend. Vem Miller, 49, was taken into custody after he was stopped at a checkpoint near the former president's rally in Coachella, California on Saturday. Local law enforcement claimed the incident is 'probably' a third assassination attempt - after Trump was shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, and an armed suspect pointed a gun at him in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September. a source close to Trump campaign downplayed the threat and told DailyMaill.com that the gunman was apprehended before posing any danger.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
China
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China's Reusable Satellite Returns to Earth After Experimenting with Crops
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The front line of the tech war is in Asia
In both countries, deep mistrust has led to a policy of shunning the other’s digital infrastructure. Uncle Sam bars Huawei, a Chinese firm, from installing its telecoms kit in America; China discourages the sale of Silicon Valley’s servers and cloud-computing products within its borders. Yet in much of the world American and Chinese infrastructure—the data centres, undersea cables and wires that underpin the internet—sit side by side, as the two countries compete for market share, profits and geopolitical clout. The fiercest contest is in Asia. There the presence of Chinese digital-infrastructure firms is already substantial. Some 18% of all new subsea cables worldwide in the past four years have been built by a single mainland firm, many criss-crossing Asia. Alibaba’s cloud operation is active in nine Asian countries and Huawei has built many mobile networks.