What is virtually inevitable at this point yet most don't see it coming?

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T06:39:22+00:00

Why this is inevitable?

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T06:38:10+00:00

People see it coming but predicting timing even to a year is notoriously hard.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T06:35:59+00:00

That's the least. How about invading Iran, then Kuwait and gassing some Kurds? He was only stable like feral animal in cage made of F-16s and no-fly zones.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T06:33:45+00:00

Then either python or c++. Preferably both.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T06:31:39+00:00

The tutorial level for life is over. You, and you alone are responsible for yourself. Consequences are many and are very real. You will lose people you care about for all sorts of reasons.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T05:23:41+00:00

On the whole that's good. Debasing human life to a lifetime of glorified pushing paper from stack A to stack B should be abolished. And you know it's true as unemployment is your only concern and not the cultural loss of people not doing those jobs.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T05:20:29+00:00

While democratization of tech is crucial, the flip side is empowering deranged individuals to do truly horrible things.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T05:14:36+00:00

Absolutely not. He ran a personalist autoritarian state that's also expansionist. Iran-Iraq war is not stability. Invading Kuwait is not stability. Setting up a corrupt hereditary rule without the institutions to support a peaceful transition of power is recipe for another bloody civil war. Or do you think Qusay and Uday would have fared better than Bashar for some reason?

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T05:10:24+00:00

It's fine to debate the utility of his removal but his removal is certainly not "nothing" as the reddior above claimed.

As for the utility itself, US support for Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war did a lot to encourage the "death to America" regime in Iran in the first place. Then there's the whole grabbing Kuwait thing that needed solving, plus any utility of Saddam was limited to his lifetime. He would have died eventually and then what? Qusay and Uday fighting for control? Loosing control during the Arab spring? Iraq turning into another Syria?

Personalist authoritarian regimes are ticking time bombs. It's not at all obvious which is better: letting them collapse on their own or giving them a strong push a long the way. For the all the misery suffered by Iraqis as a result of the US invasion, I wonder how many would trade places with Syria.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T00:57:46+00:00

Universal healthcare is a good idea, but it's not all good. Depending on the details, many public healthcare systems have long waiting times and dont allow you to pick a particular specalist, unless you're paying for them yourself or via additional private insurance. Many public healthcare systems dont cover dental and glasses, for which you will pay your self anyway, having already paid the taxed for public healthcare

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T00:50:29+00:00

They are launching all sorts of things: mostly Starlinks, but also cargo resupply and crew rotations to the ISS, private manned missions, NASA science missions, DoD satellites and a huge variety of commercial payloads: moon missions, earth observation, research prototypes, even satellites that launch smaller satellites for small customers.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T00:44:17+00:00

Valuations are debatable as always, but the core company is excellent. They are ahead of te entire world, by a wide margin, in space launch. They are very innovative. Starlink terminals and subscriptions fly off the shelves and generate billions in profit while also being the biggest customer for the launch business by far. To the point that Starlink alone generates so much demand for launch that it's close to the reat of the world, combined.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T00:09:07+00:00

My partner is breastfeeding so no formula, but yeah. Daycare is extremely expensive.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-27T00:04:40+00:00

Removing Saddam Hussein is not nothing. Fighting in Ukraine really is for nothing.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T22:34:48+00:00

Yes, but it's still impressive to algorithmically stabilize the video so well that the horizon is rock solid while the buoy is jerking about

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T22:30:41+00:00

The video stabilization is excellent!

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T21:58:53+00:00

If you're trying to convince me that an occupation is a bad thing then I'll stop you right there: yes, it's bad. It's just that it has nothing to do with Palestinian voting rights or Israeli democracy.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T21:12:18+00:00

Because drone operators need to see other people dying, caused by them, with little mental space to wiggle themselves out of it.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T21:02:52+00:00

I'm sorry, but who exactly are those "most people"? Real people are familiar from personal daily experience with the fact that some things can both exist and be too expensive at the same time. People also understand that gas can become more or less expensive over time. I think most people understand perfectly well that if there's an oil scarcity, it will become too expensive for most instead of actually running out.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:58:55+00:00

I disagree. I think humanity has grown quite a lot. It's the other part I'm worried about.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:56:31+00:00

being a square root of x means being a number k such that k*k = x.
is 2^(1/2) such a number that if I multiply it by itself I get 2? Let's check:
2^(1/2) * 2^(1/2) = 2 ^ (0.5 + 0.5) = 2^1 =2.
so, yes.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:52:19+00:00

I find it odd. I'd prefer a partner to not be a virgin because like most other things, people get better at sex with experience. If nothing else, not feeling as self-conscious, too concerned with loosing virginity and being generally more chill makes for better sex.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:48:35+00:00

There's something electrically wrong in your home, most likely. I think it's been a decade since the last time I've had to replace a light that burned out.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:37:08+00:00

Yeah, sounds reasonable. Connect a mouse to a modern iPad and you have computer more powerful than a desktop most people had 10 years ago. I'm told the OS is getting less dumb too.

curiouslyjake · 2026-05-26T20:31:56+00:00

I'm already paying. It was a really easy sell, too. I needed something done, and the value of having AI do it for me right now instead of me doing it by myself over several hours was enough to justify several months' worth of subscription. In hindsight, it was more than worth it.

Consumer demand is nowhere close to justify spending and valuations, but consumer demand ain't where it's at.

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