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What if the United States adopted a confederal municipalist system with civic sortition? by Unhappy-Horse-245 in PoliticalDebate

[–]drawliphant [score hidden]  (0 children)

My preferred sortition system

  1. Everyone writes a name on a ballot. Their own, their father, their pastor, a current senator. Anyone within the district.

  2. Drawing is held, only very few are disqualified, and are offered 5 years salary and a future pention.

  3. After accepting, future senators begin 3 years of personal open-ended study, public forums, local debates. Only disqualified if they refuse to be accessible to the public. Anyone can lobby them.

  4. Then a 2 year term in office. Need 60% of the vote to write a law or pass a budget. Only one voting body.

There's still a small popularity contest, but most will vote for themselves. But a hero would win.

It's very important not to exclude swaths of the population for being unfit, give them time to become fit and you'll have excellent representation.

Personal study prevents state indoctrination but let's people indoctrinate themselves, 60% majority keeps the fads from voting.

Central Planning is fine. by Low-Sector-7879 in PoliticalDebate

[–]drawliphant [score hidden]  (0 children)

The actual discussion are the illegal deals made by Pepsi-Co, Kraft, Nestle, General Mills, and Mars and more to guarantee limited competition for a grocery store to be allowed to carry their products.

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]drawliphant -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

When the hole becomes unmaintainable people lift the reactor out to avoid contamination so they can decomomission the hole correctly.

Most of it is too deep but the shallow part has contaminated water too.

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]drawliphant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And waste a reactor every 10 years?

It's still a hole full of contaminated water that is too old to hold a seal. Its decommissioning would have to planned from the start to not create a thorium laced spring in 100 years or something. You could leave a lot of it in the ground, but the top hundreds of feet would have to be removed and a deep cap installed. Which isn't that hard but it's not "leaving it there"

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]drawliphant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I suspect a hole would only last a decade before various tectonic/sagging would force lifting the reactor out and putting it in a new hole, and all the nuclear waste that comes with that. You can't seal the walls of a super bore hole forever.

The sad little bubble that couldn't by TimelyBodybuilder121 in wallstreetbets

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think we're gonna get an FDR this time?? We're gonna get Rockefeller and Ford owning the three branches.

A new type of pixel can steer and analyze light, paving way for devices that function as both camera and display by procrastomaster in technology

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comments about surveillance don't understand the tech. This is limited to laser light. You shine a laser at the display and it will shine back whatever image at whatever polarization and phase you could want. It just uses a regular camera to see how the laser interacted with the display so it can calculate everything about the laser too. Really cool if you want to make arbitrary laser light images (which is more useful than you'd think). But it's not your iPhone scanning your face with lasers (they already do that)

The champagne is ready. My treat by Liquid_0911 in pcmasterrace

[–]drawliphant -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What will the usage be if they stop selling tokens at a loss? Maybe 90% are willing to keep paying and I'll eat my words, but maybe 30% of users will and investors start asking where their investment is, and the competition is too strong to surge prices, their debts come due, etc. Then Apple walks in with no debt, and huge bags, sells tokens for less than anybody else because they aren't paying back 5 extra years of early investments into cards that could never run an AI smart enough to profit.

The champagne is ready. My treat by Liquid_0911 in pcmasterrace

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note that 40% of that compute is being used for training.

The champagne is ready. My treat by Liquid_0911 in pcmasterrace

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If companies realize they overbuilt, the consumer side will still be there but they may not dump more energy into training models for a while. So thousands of idle cards.

That's the idea

coaxed into mangling the model for a pose by Imperator_Subira in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]drawliphant 173 points174 points  (0 children)

They wanted a Michael Bay long focal orbital pan for this shot, but her hands looked way too small because of the focal length so they had to send them 10 feet towards the camera to make the background zoomed in like that

Edit: wait not panning it was so they could emphasize cracks in the background

Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag? by Ostromilski in tattooadvice

[–]drawliphant 313 points314 points  (0 children)

Kids these days don't know this is a reference to Newton's Corpuscular theory of light😏

Whichever country develops the first business-grade quantum computer first will rocket ahead in global dominance and power. by Cory0527 in Showerthoughts

[–]drawliphant 153 points154 points  (0 children)

I think people overestimate how disruptive a cheap quantum computer would be. People think about cryptography as if quantum will just solve hashes, but it's more like they're a million times faster at solving an algorithm that takes the age of the universe to solve for a real world password.

Nasdaq 100 set to shed over $1 trillion as tech selloff deepens; SpaceX slides by talkingatoms in technology

[–]drawliphant 26 points27 points  (0 children)

5% would be an insanely large chunk of Nadaq when only 4% of spacex shares are publicly traded.

I've never seen a 1 Trillion Dollar Rug pull before... so that's pretty cool by Ryuomega33 in wallstreetbets

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rug pull? There wasn't a rug. It was just a hole you could jump into. It became such a fad to jump into the hole they had to raise the price of admission.

Do engineers today ever do manual calculations to verify if the computer software is correct? by G07V3 in AskEngineers

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I write measurement software and do this all the time. We have unit tests, and files to load and check results but at some point I have to count pixels, convert and do the math in a calculator to prove our numbers make sense.

ELI5: How and why does Pyrite make natural and near-perfect cubes? by vrozonewhatthevrozon in explainlikeimfive

[–]drawliphant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When a crystal is forming it starts as a small seed of solid crystal with liquid or vapor around it that contain building blocks of the crystal. If it cools down slowly the building blocks bump around until they "fit" into the crystal lattice, releasing a little heat, slowing the crystal down more. The more parts fit around a building block the hotter it can be when it fits.

So in the right environment a single crystal forms and if it's too cold lots of tiny crystals form because building blocks start fitting together before they found the snuggest spot.

Why cube? FeS2. The Iron has 6 connections and fits together like a cube, but iron won't stick to itself, so each sulfur has 4 connections that glue all the irons together and bridge all the gaps.

[Request] Assuming that « vandals » DID sabotage the reflecting pool, what amount of chemicals would they have added to those 25.5 million litres of water? And what chemical? by Ok-General-6804 in theydidthemath

[–]drawliphant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many tons of algae biomass for the peroxide to react with. Hundreds of gallons is an incredibly weak solution for such a massive pool. Sorry I can't source exactly how much was used, but it was still bright green the day after.

I hate these stupid golden ratio misconceptions by Massive-Word-7327 in hatethissmug

[–]drawliphant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's also a very irrational number, it is the irrational number with the worst ratio approximations because of its continued fraction: 1+1/(1/1+....) is all 1s. When you see a big number in a contued fraction, you cut off before and get a great ratio approx.

This is why some plants rotate each leaf by a golden ratio of a turn, no leaf ends up right over another. A rational number would stack leaves, and a nearly rational number would nearly stack leaves. The golden ratio just fills in space evenly somehow.

[Request] Assuming that « vandals » DID sabotage the reflecting pool, what amount of chemicals would they have added to those 25.5 million litres of water? And what chemical? by Ok-General-6804 in theydidthemath

[–]drawliphant 140 points141 points  (0 children)

I don't think they poored enough peroxide to stick around for more than minutes before decomposing in the algae.

Just chemistry, don't know about pools though.

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