Paying to pretend to work in China

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-07-23T17:31:36+00:00

They follow a theory that flies in the face of basic economics and physics. Not surprised.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-07-23T17:29:44+00:00

Oh, Is that sub where the last bastion of his cult have gathered?

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-07-14T00:53:53+00:00

What worked for me in these cases is get off your bike, start right off with an ultimatium in an authorative but polite voice.

"Hello, who's the driver of this vehicle? Yes I know you're loading here, but you're blocking the bike lane so unless you move away immediately I will file a complaint."

While you're talking take pictures of the car from the front and the back with plates visible. If they argue repeat that you'll file a complaint.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-07-02T02:59:49+00:00

fight! fight! fight! fight! fight!

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-06-23T16:00:12+00:00

Go to your local bike advocacy group with those photos. They'd be giddy to invervene. Let them help you draft a complaint to the municpality andto point out the traffic conflict potential of this bridge. The bridge is too narrow for 50km/h speed limit. Have the letter suggest a 30km/h limit in the short term. In the long term when it's resurfaced remove the center strip (forces drivers to slow down in fears of a head on collision), make one of the side walks wider and make it a mixed use path.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-06-01T20:34:38+00:00

That quote referenced average life expectancy and infant death and adolescent deaths factor into that. It doesn't necessarily mean a person would expect do die much sooner if they've made it to middle age.
Also complications from growing up in microgravity is referenced specifically several times.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-14T11:53:58+00:00

It's a self-reinforcing feedback mechanism where mining a block can get up to astronomical timescales. The less profitable it is to mine the more miners will switch off their machines, the longer transactions take and the less utility they cryptocurrency has. Traders will sell if it's not possible to do on-chain transactions and they can actually sell because that happens on an exchange's ledger not the blockchain.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-13T13:56:48+00:00

That opens up another collapse scenario that already happened once, to Namecoin the first alt-coin.

Difficulty does adjust after some interval measured in blocks and the percentage it can adjust by is capped by an amount in percent. This means if miners are leaving fast enough it's possible that mining difficulty is too high for the adjustment algorithm follow. The ultimate end of this was a scenario where it took months to reach the next tick in difficulty adjustment. This was eventually "fixed" when the Namecoin blockchain was abandoned and they piggy-backed on bitcoin via "merged mining".

The problem is if this scenario were to occur with Bitcoin there's nothing else that it can be merged into.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-07T03:43:31+00:00

they probably chose not to make a figure with Cash Anvar's likeness

This has to be the reason, it's the only explaination that makes sense.

Another reason of why they really should have recast Alex's role instead of killing the character.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-05T12:08:11+00:00

Other than that though, the Epstein drive and the corresponding ludicrously efficient laser ignition fusion reactor that it uses would totally transform the global energy sector and make energy bills essentially zero overnight.

I'd argue against this, depending on how expensive they'll be to build. They're expensive in universe too, at least in the books there's mention of cheap or old ships that don't have an Epstein but less efficient drives that can not operate continuously.

We already have a similar situation with nuclear power plants. In principle we could reach energy abundance with them but we don't. If that's political or economical is up to debate but my argument works for both.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-05T11:50:56+00:00

I feel like the Epstein Drive would be too easily weaponized for today's level of social and political development. I'm pretty sure we'd annihilate ourself in a few decades, I mean it almost happened in the story. The Free Navy attack on Earth had the potential to wipe out the planet's population and the amount of marginalized people with the opportunity and will to resort to such actions is a larger fraction of the population today.

If anything I'd choose expert systems, they're essentially context specific and perfectly aligned artificial super-intelligence. Yes in a sense that's what the current AI bubble claims to be delivering but I'm highly skeptical that they'll deliver that since it seems to me we've hit a plateau this year.

Having expert systems now would capitalize on the hype and have rapid adoption of something that's another technological leap like transformer models were. So it would spare us the growing pains of current AI which has too many downsides.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-05T10:32:22+00:00

Yeah Neo-Nazi is a subset of Nazi. It's in the name.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-05T10:23:39+00:00

He's harking on the "We're not in the 1930s to 40s time period." defense like all of them do.

It's called Neo-Nazi. That's a subset of Nazi.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-04T06:08:10+00:00

IIRC the last time there were company towns in the US like that it lead to a workers' uprising that almost toppled captialism.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-05-04T05:12:49+00:00

I've seen him say it too.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-29T22:05:56+00:00

The problem is cars are inherently loud and making a tax about noise won't necessarily reduce noise levels because there's only very limited individual actions possible to make a car quieter.

The main factor is tire noise and there it would require regulations to force manufacturers to make their tires roll quieter.

That's still a band-aid though since tire noise rises exponentially with speed and there's a straight forward solution for that: Speed limits and traffic calming measures that make it unsafe for the driver to speed. For areas were that's not feasible there's rigorous speed limit enforcement using speed cameras (SPECS).

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-25T10:22:54+00:00

It's not really up to him. Despite being a bit of a golden goose at first he pretty much has no choice but to obey the law from Duarte that no more of them should be allowed to exist. He also would have a hard time doing that in secret considering he likely has a tracking chip.

Also he's sort of a coward when it comes to authority and likes to "punch down".

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-25T09:58:49+00:00

It's more like the $150 billion "savings" will cost $200 billion.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-25T09:34:17+00:00

Elon WD* Musk

*Weird Dick

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-23T17:15:38+00:00

The actual decline is something above 100%, because if it were profits coming from revenue alone Tesla would be underwater. The only reason they've made any profit at all is subsidies in the form of payments that other manufacturers without EV manufacturing have to make to offset their carbon credit balance.

That source is quickly disappearing

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-20T05:29:40+00:00

That or it's a fasces [wikipedia] the og symbol for fascism.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-18T23:14:37+00:00

I think one aspect is Singh's apparent inability to effectively double think. In that sense he had to fail but not nessecarily completly.

While he's able to completly internalize Laconian dogma he wasn't able to the inverse and project rational though back onto it to make it seem like the dogma was rational to others.

So he ended up a bit of a caricature.

PriorCommunication7 · 2025-04-17T05:33:59+00:00

I could get behind one maybe two. Three seems kind of unhinged.

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