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JackFron Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route

Despite the circular nature of the roads, the major circles in DC do not function like traffic roundabouts, nor we're they designed with such considerations. On the other hand I suppose most traffic roundabouts don't have parks in the middle.

There are actual roundabouts in DC, but typically they don't have names.

JackFron Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)

Someone is cheating on a LearnedLeague One Day Quiz…

JackFron Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record

Gombe Chimpanzee War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

JackFron Physicists may now have a way to make element 120

Is island-of-stability stability like 1 second stability or 1 million years stability?

JackFron What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?

There seems to be some amnesia about the sort of company AT&T was. AT&T was first and foremost a profit maximizer. They were the poster child for abusive monopolies. Remember until the 1980s, literally no one owned a phone. All hardware that connected to a phone line was owned by ATT.

JackFron What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?

The evidence pointing toward monopoly is IBM TJ Watson Research and Xerox Parc.

JackFron The Delusion of the Polygraph

I took a polygraph about 30 years ago a Ft. Meade during a background check for NSA. Honestly it took like 45 minutes, guy was totally pleasant and he treated it seriously, but it seemed mechanical, strictly scripted, and more like a box checking exercise.

However, I also had an interview with a psychologist which was very intense and manipulative, but effective, in eliciting true information about how much I was drinking at the time (too much, quite frankly). It was only years later that I realized that was the information they really wanted and all the other embarrassing sex questions were just to set me up.

JackFron Just Be Rich (2021)

> Because that’s what excess wealth is, a power dynamic powered by a suboptimal system masquerading as shades of a meritocracy that does not exist.

What does that mean? It's millenial Marxism unmoored from any specificity or facts.

JackFron OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs

There are interesting situations with multinational banks where actual requirements of the regulator in one jurisdiction are illegal in others. (It used to come up a lot with tax compliance in Switzerland though recently they’ve normalized them.)

JackFron OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs

IANAL, but I know you cannot hide criminal activity with an NDA.

Making people waive rights to Federal whistleblower compensation, doesn’t quite go there but comes pretty close.

JackFron What the Supreme Court's Nix on the Chevron doctrine means for food regulation

You know Chevron won Chevron v. NRDC, right?

JackFron What the Supreme Court's Nix on the Chevron doctrine means for food regulation

Let's refresh everyone's memory.

Chevron won Chevron v. Natural Resource Defense Council. The case focused on what was meant by a 'source' of pollution as used in the Clean Air Act of 1963. The EPA was on the side of Chevron, and NRDC sued in the hopes that the court would interpret the law as they, rather than the EPA, interpreted it. The court deferred to the EPA.

So while you think you might want deference to the agency, sometimes it's nice to have a judge.

JackFron Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

"Sticking Crayons Up Noses: A longitudinal study"

JackFron FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel

> For a period I had no FICO score, yet I was able to secure a loan from a Credit Union.

The credit union was content to use its own capital and hold your loan to maturity on its books. (I'm presuming you were probably a banking customer of the credit union, though I realize not necessarily.)

Non-credit union lenders though most often want to either sell your loan to investors or pledge it as collateral to borrow money for themselves, and for that they need a FICO.

> The score from what I have gathered when I learn really rewards those who remain in debt and pay substantial interest, not the frugal and financially stable (check to check is not financially stable). Basically encouraging to keep self in debt just at the edge of financial disaster's precipice.

That's not really true. Using a credit card for most of your expenses and paying it off in full every month is actually a great boost to your credit score. It's both an indication that you live within your means and you honor your agreements.

JackFron FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel

In those cases where the government handles recording all transfer, there is typically a fund which covers loss due to fraudulent or erroneous transfers. Thus there is still title insurance, it's just hidden from view.

JackFron Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

xroach - little cockroaches that would hide under your windows. When you closed a window, they would scurry around to hide under other windows.

JackFron The case for not sanitising fairy tales

> I am pretty sure people in some distant future will think about us as heathens for eating meat, driving cars and wearing plastic. I hope they will be wise enough not to cancel us complete for this and hear out other wisdom we might want to pass.

I think we're pretty poor at predicting what future generations will think about us. To that point I heartily recommend "But What If We're Wrong" by Chuck Klosterman.

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War Is a Racket (1935)(https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket) 383 points|pasquinelli|1 year ago|534 comments

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JackFron Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell

Doesn't this paper make a fairly straightforward claim, which is either true or not? Hasn't there been any further research in the past 22 years to either effectively support or undermine the conclusions?

JackFron How to test without mocking

> No side effects, no mock to maintain, it also test your auth and permissions, almost 1:1 with prod.

Can also be used to test version updates of your DB.

JackFron Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments

What resource’s depletion do you imagine is going to do us in?

I’m somewhat skeptical of climate change causing a civilization ending process, yet I find that vastly more likely than us running out of something.

JackFron Wells Fargo Fires over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity'

Work from home any two days, and come in the other three days?

That is both hybrid and flexible. You may find it depressing but it's not 'newspeak'.

JackFron Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

bookmaking != bookmarking

JackFron Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

Misread it as “federated bookmaking software for the independent web” and thought “Yes, a useful application of blockchain!”

JackFron What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)

Insurance is not always a for profit enterprise. There are very many “mutuals” who are literally owned by their policy holders.

JackFron Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Saturn_v...

Saturn V slight larger than Statue of Liberty.

I never realized that.

JackFron Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

I largely agree with you, but when it comes to evaluating competing methodologies, what you refer to as “agile in spirit” turns quickly into No True Scotsman. “If you project failed you mustn’t have been doing agile correctly.”

JackFron The Moral Economy of the Shire

Never new about that. Fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

JackFron The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery

> Eg the US is just coming off of 20+ years of riding on China’s back.

That China’s per capita GDP increased 4x over that period — was that because of, or in spite of the US ‘riding on their back’?

JackFron Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?

That is the point. I'm paying to sit at a place that's not work or home (or a bar.)