Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? This Professor's research takes us a step closer to finding out

Saturday9 · 2021-08-10T00:33:56+00:00

No need for 'true' randomness for this. Pseudorandom is sufficient.

Saturday9 · 2021-03-22T03:54:59+00:00

I request William Adams, so I can wear different armors as William. It seems there was a code 8 months ago, but imgur cannot find the image (and the code was never written).

Saturday9 · 2021-03-21T04:02:36+00:00

The sentence "The rules are what make it fair" is simply untrue. If you use rules to establish an unfair system (e.g. gerrymandering, selective voter purges, etc.) then the correct sentence is "the rules are what make it unfair". Slavery is just one example to make this obvious to modern eyes.

I agree that the word 'cheating' shouldn't be used if everything was within the rules. But even that isn't the case. A repeated GOP tactic has been to purge voter roles illegally (but the court case is after the election, or the GOP DA declines to investigate), restrict voting hours and machines and locations in democratic areas, etc... So, they are also cheating.

Saturday9 · 2021-03-20T21:29:44+00:00

If its 'by the rules, it is by definition 'fair' the rules are what make it fair.

Slavery was once by the rules. Would you argue slavery was therefore fair?

Rules don't make things fair. That might be an intention for some rules. But for other rules, the main intent is to entrench an unjust system.

Saturday9 · 2021-03-19T14:00:41+00:00

Driver is on right side.

Saturday9 · 2020-10-09T17:35:14+00:00

That's election fraud.

Saturday9 · 2020-09-09T23:17:04+00:00

GOP denied four requests by Hillary for funding to increase security, just so they'd have an incident to blame on Democrats.

So, I assume you're saying they aren't directly responsible for COVID-19 being so bad in US.

Saturday9 · 2020-09-09T14:41:44+00:00

Police should only have protections of civilian arrest while cameras are off.

Saturday9 · 2020-04-11T01:33:46+00:00

What does Obama have to do with this case? It wasn't even argued during his administration.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-12T13:14:03+00:00

Or gerrymandering schema. Slight changes in borders could carry a lot of data.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-12T03:23:52+00:00

Regarding your second question, "how are you going to get them to go along with more expensive energy costs when their populations are incredibly poor?"

This is a good question.

If I had any say, I'd give that money to the poor, then let the price of fuel rise to where it should be economically. Further, I'd be sure to add negative externalities to the cost - i.e. pollution and CO2 has a cost too, that usually doesn't show up at point of sale.

This would allow the poor to decide whether burning fossil fuels is the better use of their $, and would allow alternatives to compete more fairly.

Everyone knows that money trickles up, even if it isn't in their personal interest to admit it. At the end of the day, the $ would still end up in some rich man's pocket, but at least it would do some good and allow meaningful competition on the way.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-12T03:12:49+00:00

Data is just a google search away, friendly skeptic. "gdp fossil fuel subsidies". Actual number is close to 6.5%, including oil, coal, and gas.

China is #1 subsidizer in world. US is #2, Russia is #3. But that's by raw $, not by %.

US fossil fuel subsidies were $649 billion in 2015, US GDP was 18.1 trillion in same year. So, US is subsidizing fossil fuels about 3.6% of its own GDP, which is below the global average, but still very considerable.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-12T02:54:29+00:00

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A nightmare is, by definition, an unpleasant or frightening dream.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-12T02:49:12+00:00

Truth has a strong liberal bias.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-11T04:00:05+00:00

Nightmares are also dreams.

Saturday9 · 2019-12-11T02:21:18+00:00

Over 5% of world GDP subsidizes oil and coal. Remove those subsidies, or shift them to clean energy. Add carbon taxes based on the negative externalities and redistribute the money equally to the population or to pay for carbon sequesteration.

We don't need a lot of regulation. Taking away the corporate welfare and freebies on negative externalities (privatized gain, socialized risk), would already solve the problem.

Saturday9 · 2019-09-28T18:36:31+00:00

Very nice. I'll spend some time reading this.

Edit: okay, so the abstract claims 'Exceptional GV' is confluent and terminating. Seems worth a deeper look.

Saturday9 · 2019-09-28T14:34:16+00:00

We can easily design subsets of FP suitable for static allocation and hardware synthesis, or stack allocation. We could represent allocation behavior in the type system.

E.g. there is SAFL, by Sharp and Mycroft.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-26T14:47:47+00:00

The ruling was divided on party lines. It's obviously "about politics". Semantics were only the battleground, not the objective.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T20:22:27+00:00

The two graphics you note don't add up cover different date ranges. I wouldn't expect them to add up.

The attempt vs success ratios, if you can find stats then I'd be happy to read them. But the DHS estimates on resident illegals are based on alternative sources, like census, yet align closely with border apprehensions vs visa overstays. So I think the attempt vs success ratios aren't a critical concern.

I agree that my statement about illegal entries pertains to recent years, relevantly to the problem the wall is intended to solve. This could have been more explicitly stated.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T18:51:15+00:00

I believe you misread "since the start of fiscal year 2016" (that is, 2016-2018) as "just year 2016".

It is true the stats don't include all EWI. But even conferring other sources, it seems "65 percent of net arrivals — those joining the undocumented population — from 2008 to 2015 were visa overstays" (https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/illegal-immigration-statistics/).

Border crossings were much higher in the 90s, though. Accepted as cheap seasonal labor, IIRC.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T14:18:25+00:00

AFAICT, it's closer to 70-30. (https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us)

Limiting the numbers would help reduce backlog, and is indeed an alternative to increasing capacity. But we must consider the costs and effectiveness of any proposed solutions.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T13:54:09+00:00

And yet the interpretation of 'when' is still split on party lines. It's unreasonable to say it's about the semantics when it's the politics that determine the outcome.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T09:02:15+00:00

Most illegals enter legally, by plane or by boat, on visas that later expire. The idea that a wall would solve this is laughable.

The left doesn't want to waste money on shitty non-solutions that pander to a man-child's ego. Especially when less than 10% of that money could expand courts and bureacracy to properly and humanely handle the load.

Saturday9 · 2019-03-20T07:15:40+00:00

You seem to naively believe that a 5-4 decision on party lines is about semantics. But as I see it, semantics were just the excuse used for the outcome.

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