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For context on fusion reactors I recommend edx's plasma physics and fusion course. From that it seemed fusion reactors that give a net power surplus, maybe, are just not possible in such confined envs on earth. 80 years of incredibly smart people with billions chasing the problem, with the first Tokamak reactor going back the 60s. Even ITER, the world's most expensive scientific endeavor ever, is still a question mark if it will work.

Would love to be convinced otherwise to be hopeful of confined fusion reactions on Earth.

Would love to see the 40 year update...

Shelling out our industrial/manufacturing economy for a "services economy" + big government/welfare economy has ended the middle class; meanwhile the political class (and media) have consolidated into a front group for an increasingly hidden ruling class/aristocracy, who like the companies behind shell companies are pretty hard to identify and lampoon.

This of course would be an intriguing book to read should someone dare to write it.

Just FYI no death has been officially linked to a "rioter", no firearms have been found in connection with it. Sites like ZH are tracking all this, because to many it smells like yet another staging of political capital.

Discourse degraded or maybe it's the coordination of thought made possible from the consolidation of media and the internet, that's made it now possible to target those who seem to threaten the ruling class and their ways.

Political theater be political theater. Wonder what new measures they want to push, for "safety" against "domestic terrorism"?

People won't trust the technology until people around them are safely riding in it. To be expected.

A nitpick, I'm living in one of these countries that "eradicated Covid" and the frankly obvious truth is they didn't, their borders were completely open for months after covid was detected and spreading like fire, and they never adapted the widespread testing and mortality classification regimes like the US did.

I don't know, anecdotally, relationships broke down with me and other stakeholders, and I ended up leaving the company, after I pushed hard for an amazing candidate, the first to ever ace my interviews, whereas said other stakeholders wanted a certain diversity candidate, who while I enjoyed meeting didn't do that well. The funny thing is in SF it's the bro-y white guy CEOs who push the wokeness the hardest. Almost feels performative. SF needs to solve these problems if they want to be a tech mecca.

Same. I remember receiving letters in Japanese at the time of the bankruptcy. I put them on my refrigerator for guests to see because I thought they were amusing. Now it's just depressing to think about.

I'm not sure you read the article. Author is alleging the prime broker/clearing house system regularly "gives out" shares to sell on the market (diluting company's shares) with no transparency in the reconciliation because the main clearing system is privately owned. You're better off reading the full article since my summary is extremely surface level.

> people might start to think 'Hate Speech' could be misused to pursue an agenda

If people don't already think this then they haven't been living in America.

We'll unlikely reach said number because over 50% of the population of the us is not interested in a vaccine because they do not view covid-19 as a disease much more risky than the flu.

Facing this reality, the policy will probably be once everyone who wants it has had a chance to get it, things will or should move towards normal.

Being watched and served recommendations is not the revolutionary paradigm for computers imo.

You're blaming election fraud as the culprit then not trump.

Half the country is mad as hell, because there's 3k+ signed affidavits, 140 congressmen, at least two majority of state congresses, reports from data scientists, cctv footage, voting machine forensic reports in MI and AZ, and a lot of dismissal by courts based on standing not merits. It's unprecedented and it's straight up totalitarian to say "no mention of election fraud is allowed"

? He repeatedly told them to be peaceful and then to go home. What/how exactly did he incite this?

Serious truth bending for political capital, which has been the DC establishment playbook the entire trump admin.

And YT deletes content mentioning election fraud, and twitter permanent bans the president, all under the historically totalitarian guise of "safety"

Nothing wrong here at all. As Eric Weinstein put it, something went terribly wrong at big tech.

> The covid-19 virus isn't the first coronavirus to jump from animals to humans

Sigh, while controversial to state, there has of yet been no refutation of the lab leak hypothesis presented by scientists like Brett Weinstein [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug

Wanting to discuss virus origins should not be political or knee jerk censored. At the very surface, natural origins next to a P4 lab doing gain of function coronavirus research is already asking a lot from us.

> sham “revolutionary” front groups used to disrupt a variety of political activities in this country

More recently, the riots leading up to 2020 election. Glad they mysteriously stopped now anyways.

Audit. The. Elections. First.

Our political establishment class is so detached from the will of the people I don't even know how to categorize the type of society America has become.

Piggy backing here, I exercised options 2 years ago when quitting my job. The company had a down round and I don't believe they have much of a future so I'd like to sell my stock back to the company, the stock at least being worth more now than the $30k I paid on exercise. Has anyone sold stock back to their company? What was the process like?

> Tony Hsieh died from injuries in a November house fire

He was locked in an external shed that caught on fire, not sure "house fire" is an appropriate description?

> What else can they do if they are really innocent?

They can choose to ignore the NYT, since during the trump years it's been laid bare that they're a political publication.

This title is actually wrong because networks don't decide who wins. If Biden wins, let it be because all due process was followed so that the 71MM who voted for Trump can get behind the new president. There are close and contested elections in various states, with mandatory recounts set, as well as lawsuits underway with affidavits of blocked observers and allegations of fraud. For the sake of not dividing the country, let the Trump half of the nation have their day in court, and then let's unify behind the new president.

Given that Jack Ma has been a member of the CCP since the 80s [1] I think his success has come a lot easier than Western entrepreneurs

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/alibabas-jack-ma-has-been-co...

Why are you assuming the editors think it's garbage and aren't acting politically. The fact that greenwald just resigned from the org he founded, and the scathing reasons he gave, makes it pretty plausble it's about politics not journalistic standards.

As a builder of chatbots and "conversational AI", non-annoying human-like chatbots are at least 20 years away, and ML approaches have not resulted in any improvements over basic symbolic reasoning approaches.

Really cheapening Snowden here if you think he wasn't going to sacrifice his life to reveal these practices if a little mission protocol document had been there.

> First, a mission statement to define and guide the project, and second, a contact email to ensure violations can be reported.

Having been an employee where partisan politics are brought up in the workplace, I applaud that it seeks to provide actual teeth.

Try listening to his addresses and speeches over the last couple years, and look at the policies he's implemented. Look at all the dishonest coverage, and yes his blunt way of talking doesn't help, but it's still hard not to conclude that the media is the primary source of him being considered divisive.