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steve76··on Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
Moral authority over martial or material. Nature wins without effort. Storms and earthquakes go where they want, regardless of who lives or dies.

The USA doesn't need the competition. Leave us alone please, for just once in our history. Our entire existence, the world has waged war against us.

Imaging black holes. Probes inside the Sun. Ever growing size of matter waves. Find peace please, or I build a horrible weapon of coarse resuscitation, a gravity application of pair production and coherent control that doesn't kill, but keeps people alive.

steve76··on Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
Law goes back to the code of Hammurabi, the start of civilization itself. The sole purpose is to limit the violence and not add to it. If there's anything arbitrary, it's the violence. The Magna Carta showed everyone is restrained by laws, or else there are no laws. We're back to being beasts again living in terror, squandering humanity's elevated position gifted to us, won long ago.

You can misspeak. Therefore, it's impossible for you to tell others what is perfect speech. That's all the Bill of Rights and freedom of speech is. It's unavoidable.

The best lessen enemies in times of contention, not create them. The USA took the gift of the New World and said if we're going to tell other people what to do, what's the minimum we have to do? We don't need to crush riots or deprogram people. Hundreds of cities burnt down in the USA due really dirty political tricks, and we left it alone. If people want to lead in the USA, they have to find a way themselves to overcome it without relying on tyranny, oligarchy or anarchy.

steve76··on The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem
"If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,"

"Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Looks like President Obama didn't just kill coal, but killed a lot of sick and elderly too. Under real de-regulation, energy is free.

It's not just frozen water in wells. It's also the seals. Oil has some viscosity, but a pipe from -9F to 120F is something I don't want to do.

This is why I don't like changing things. You don't see that Texas freezes over, the outliers that happen twice in the last 150 years. Any further regulation will go to graft and shoring up the defunded pensions of thieves and bullying criminal liars.

The solution is to look to our ancestors. Don't focus on the crime, the grievance. State it. You're were a victim. Move on. Focus on what's next. That's really what makes people free.

steve76··on Banned in Boston
Someone doesn't want drunks or junkies or people selling themselves or ugly stuff on TV. They go away on their own to live for self-improvement. Turns out, their lives are very nice and everyone wants what they built. They use the law to take it, bring back the drunks and drugs and criminals who churn people, and now all that is gone. Good people move away, and fools are left wondering why the world is so bad to them.

I'm waiting to hear someone ask why those people at the Capitol were so mad. What? They're crazy? Or do they have a legitimate reason to be upset? Either way, it's your show. You're the one with the trillions, the army, the never ending great debate. Maybe you're not that good at your job.

Or maybe, you are very good at your job, the job of processing people and ruining lives for your hallow celebrity and unrestrained ambition that changes every day and will do anything for a dollar. Congrats. You're a tv star now.

steve76··on US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
Today is Valentines Day. And a Sunday. Living in the USA, I have the luxury to acknowledge Christ, and love. Faith is doing what Adam could not do. Whether good things happen or not, humanity will always find paradise by limiting the violence and not creating it. From there arrives hope, knowing you found paradise while others are not. Their actions are not yours, and you wish them the best. Both annihilate the self, replacing it with paradise. Both require effort. Greater than both is love, not license, or the soft New Age. What's seen in nature, in Renaissance masters. Overwhelming power that dwarfs people, melting away one's faults with cherishment by someone else who's better in every way. No mysticism required with humanistic religion. Something more powerful lets me live. We exist because of forgiveness. That's good enough.

Authoritarians, their unchecked ambition, unrestrained by laws replace life with nothing. To them, a place with plagues and murder is a good place. Billions of people are something to be processed, to be mined for hollow celebrity and ambitious license unrestrained by laws. A genetic weapon released from a communist military lab??? Everyone is very lucky they're still breathing. This could have easily killed the world. And for what? A 1% margin on soy bean prices? Americans, people we trusted with power and money rushed to defend their precious marxism like some teenage girl catfished by jihadis in 2014.

Since everyone gets to what they want, I'm going to emit a matter wave into the center of the sun. The sub orbits a black hole. I make it so the surface of that black hole is a faster, easier path than completing an orbit around it. I expand that to the surface of the Earth for gravity applications, coherent control of pair production. All observable celestial bodies are thermal effects of what's here on Earth.

It's one thing to mine an asteroid with fuel cells and drones. It's another thing to microwave it out of the sky, as if I command the weather around us, the clouds above, and even the great heavenly bodies themselves!!!

steve76··on Chinese Demography
The actual membership of the communist party of China is 90 million. 1.6 billion are vassals to Soviet style satellites. Follow orders or be destroyed. They will kill a billion people without a second thought and then kill each other. Tyranny and authoritarianism is extremely brutal way of life. It sees people as a commodity, something to be ground up and made money out of as you saw in covid. Make a big list of your own people you want dead. Equip them with sticks, and death march them into starvation outside an enemy village. Then massacre that village. That's how tyrants fight.

Our fight concerns morals. Things like:

- Power is subject to the same law.

- Orders that demand perfection are not laws because power is imperfect.

- Instead of command economy, you must convince people and create the consumer demand first.

- Wealth does not concentrate and instead tends to accelerate bad habits.

- It's better to just walk away. Bad things are going to happen no matter what you do. Trying to control everything just makes it worse.

steve76··on How HN crushed David Walsh's blog
Web is network. Unmanaged is memory to GPU. Think play as you load with everything read from the network as billions of game designers build levels in real time.
steve76··on Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across galaxy
Something hot and bright far away emits photons. What are those? Heat transfer through the medium of time, right? A fast clock is bright and speeds up a slow clock that's dark.

What's the difference between a tiny spot on the Hubble, or any material for that matter, turning colder and darker always when pointed into that direction? Voltage spikes up at that sensor and it sees a hot spot because it caves in on itself instead of being hit with a beam of energy in motion for billions of years.

Weak force parity violation?

Is that just some higher abstraction on top of pair production and spontaneous particle creation?

Electromagnetism is the emission of photons and the absorption through the photovoltaic effect. Matter decay is mass decreasing and releasing energy without EM. Or EM plus negating the effect by messing with that EM counterbalance. Or gravity, the heat transfer through the medium of time, interaction so fine it looks like you are broadcasting to everything at once if something else tries to trace it.

That's what I'm thinking. Eventually spontaneous particle creation is the basis of all interaction. Not EM or photons. I think humans get to it, that we do it already. Massive celestial objects pop into existence because highly accurate sensors here on Earth say they must. Particles here pop into existence and they give the data of everything out there for no other reason than they must. Instead of being loss in a vast sea of stuff, the universe is a very complex filter to a massive energy source.

When they talk of causality violation, backwards time travel, I think of hitting the big bang itself, or original energy source. Throwing dynamite into the wave you're surfing on.

Forget worrying about a star crashing through Earth. Earth is the source of all destructive acts in the universe for the most trivial of reasons, and we have soverign access to all that out there to make our lives the slightest bit better for any reason.

Just some thoughts I get when I read these things. Thanks for that article.

steve76··on ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
I live in a rather hard hit area. It won't show up on any blighted or opportunity zones because attorneys or land owners connected to politicians can't make money off it. Here are some highlights:

A good month is one without gun shots.

I've been mugged coming out my front door by kids with knives.

An elderly woman was tortured to death during a home invasion.

A fight breaks out, police break it up and leave without arresting anyone, only for the fight to occur again 10 minutes later this time with gunshots. Police show up the next morning and pick up casings and then leave. Little kids were right in the middle of that 30 person brawl too.

Non-stop fireworks to cover up gun shots.

Mom moves into her new boyfriend's place, then break up and leave the kid. So you have kids growing up in a home with zero parents.

Garbage everywhere.

The attitude of always wanting to fight even when they mess up big time. Hitting a car, going through the garbage. Good things stay hidden. Vulgar violent things stare you down because they like getting grounded up.

When something really bad happens, like a home fire, they turn into panicked cowards. All that thug life goes right away on the slightest adversity.

Attorneys and corporate leaders have abandoned the people who got them here just to win at all costs. A vet who fought so they don't have to kills themselves every day. That's not going to last. WTC going down in a fireball should have taught them all something. Can't escape it, no matter how rich you are.

The leaders really are out of touch. They see the violence as like how mechanical bolts preload. People are killing each other. I don't feel it. That's good! It means I'm that far removed.

How can you help people when they don't help themselves. Police just keep a cap on it all so it doesn't take us all down.

steve76··on Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Wouldn't seeding be a problem? You would need to seed from something that supports webtorrent which uses WebRTC.

With dat-sdk, users just need to go to a webpage. You really just need WebRTC without torrents.

I got rid of multiwriter by just having a dat archive for each user, and the users sharing their dat addresses with each other. They write to their own. When that happens, events emit and users listening write to theirs.

If enough users stay on, listening to each other's address, I only need a web client.

Also, if I have offline support, like Workbox Background Sync, I don't even need internet and information transfers device to device with just an offline PWA. At least that's my goal.

steve76··on Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
I would say it's the reverse. A lot of that can be done remotely. There's just momentum, really big momentum, working against automation.

Education: Jobs exist to give people who aren't geneticists or neurologists something to do.

Diplomacy: Jobs are a past concession for people giving up private wealth for public development.

Defense: No coincidence a lot of jobs work the same as weapon systems. Regardless of nations, a lot of stateless actors today are really dangerous.

Unproven risk: Things can spiral out of control and it takes time for something new, like using genetics or beams to butcher cattle, to become palatable and accepted by the public.

Amortization: What do we do with perfectly working, if inefficient, process and infrastructure if everything is free, there's no demand, and without maintenance bad things leak out of it?

There are plenty of solutions that take out the physicality. I wouldn't bet against it:

What you do is you work on a larger scale. Instead of unbolting a muffler, just shred the entire thing. Cars are a public utility with a free tier. Take the same principle to unmanned private jets.

Take out the entire urban center with a rail system. Catheterization, preventative medicine, therapeutic imaging, genetics applied to chemotherapy, blood thinners.

I would also bet most people will be surprised at the amount of busy work. Kill yourself pumping a barrel of oil, only to drive to the coffee shop to complain about pumping that barrel of oil.

steve76··on For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
The article fails to show how dangerous those situations are.

A pneumonia patient walking through a hospital where people are recovering from strokes and heart attacks.

Wrestling with a police officer on a busy highway.

You can close down municipalities or live in places where there are no police. Then other people kill you for acting like a jerk. Beaten to death by the nurses or blasted apart by oncoming traffic.

So much better.

steve76··on Career advice for people with bad luck
I found this helpful when I'm in a rut:

Recommit to doing everything right, with a focus on the little things. Not just work or life. Daily routine and small chores. If you loose focus, acknowledge it and move on.

Focus on what's most important. Don't do anything else until what's most important is done. This helps stop overworking, scrubbing every bit of the kitchen when you should be getting clients or spending time with family.

Once your confidence builds up, take a real look at the top businesses.

Rich and famous?

Or just the public face of a lot of other people's hard work.

That's good! You have to be happy for other people's success. It's a luxury.

A really good credit card makes up a lot of business today. One good client pays the bills. Everything else likely gets a no. Getting a look even if it ends in a no is quite an accomplishment.

It's a fight at the top. A bad one. Some people want to do horrible things. Our side convinces people to pursue peace and knowledge. Sometimes you're just not ready.

There's someone here talking about a 6 month gap in their resume. The job interview is not a court of law. Just say:

"I had my own clients." > "oh yeah? How that go?" "Good! I made more money with them." > "Huh. So why you quit?" "I sold it. I sold the business."

Don't sell yourself short. Don't cheerlead either. Hindsight always makes you feel bad. Decide, and stick to the script no matter what. Admitting to mistakes and relating to people are for the ones at the top of the food chain. They might as well be in a different universe.

Also, there's the killer cold outbreak. If you're willing to work, I think they'll take you. A lot of people well off are not going to risk it. They'll go back home and take care of their family.

steve76··on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
The answer points to ingenuity due to a lack of resources which is susceptible to obsolescence.

School in the USA does a lot more than just educate, for instance child protection services and employment. The USA also takes everyone, specifically the violent and malicious, due to compassion.

The USA suffered: - multiple World Wars - a fifty year Cold War that was just as bad - multiple nuclear standoffs - horrific terrorism - black market drug smuggling, probably the gravest problem today - repeated invasions - a Civil War which involved foreign intervention - attempts at colonial occupation - originally being made as a death camp and penal colony

steve76··on Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
Reaction Commerce behind an Airframe static site up quick.

Have an http server between the two, and log the requests.

Users don't update products or orders directly. The critical data that needs to be logged runs on a private network. Something with a lot of validation updates that.

Don't delete services when creating new features. Keep them running.

Avoid a central source of truth. Instead log discrepancies. Then your procedure is "Don't do this" along with "do this".

A lot of microservices are built starting as low as you can go.

I prefer to install proven working software and close it to modification. Have a bunch of them running together instead of making something new.

steve76··on Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients
> i had to really force myself to fully breathe in

Focus on exhaling, emptying your lungs.

steve76··on Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools
For the reverse, working remotely, I found:

- Define a product instead of taking orders.

- Don't be afraid to cut bait.

- Work the job while quoting.

- Clients are not equipped to provide technical direction.

Maxing out the ratings on Upwork only finds people who work towards that rating, sometimes even complete offshore teams.

steve76··on First mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics
To add on that, for all cases really means a lot more than bends in pipe or air off a wing or smoke which we have difficulty with today. You'll need to hit everything, plasma on the Sun, exotic matter, it leads to quasiparticles for the many-body problem.

My interest in this subject is I hope new developments lead to cardiac therapies. I send some buzzing acoustic signal with a pacemaker, I can treat blockages in the brain or tumors in hard to reach organs. A lot better to me than building faster missiles to blow more people up.

steve76··on First mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics
Actually I think it's the reverse. The equation works. What we don't know is what happens on the inside of a point or the edges of boundaries.
steve76··on Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week
That's good!

I'm routing for Mr. Elon Musk. There's plenty for everyone. It's not a zero sum game.

steve76··on Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
If we discover how to read historic climate data from carbon atoms, like we do with radioactive decay, do you see all the money we spent so far as a waste?
steve76··on Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics
Buckyballs have mass, yet exhibit wave interference. We can make them bigger and bigger, and focus them as if they classically popped into existence.

I wonder if it holds up on very large scales, like if we can cover an atmosphere, or a star in one. What would that mean? Elements now are just variations of carbon structures?

And could we at that level build a virtual one? Develop some exotic particle in the atmosphere, get really precise at moving it around, and model the entire Earth, Solar System or Galaxy as interactions as fullerenes?

Just thinking.

steve76··on Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
How do you know India and China are exempt? It's the only place in the world that does smelting. Everything in the USA is second gen.

There's a lot of gamesmanship out there. Every part has different numbers for certs. Vendors go out of business because of some scheme with cold unit testing.

Imagine if people were straight with each other. Wow work would be really nice.

steve76··on What Is a Manifold?
I took apart a furnace once to replace an igniter.

I was thinking I was going to find a series of pipes or tubes fitted together.

Instead I found just two pieces of pretty thick sheet metal, close to plate thickness. They just went through a metal bender to form the pipes, and bolted together with a gasket in between.

Maybe that's how it got started. A plane, wrapped around something.

steve76··on Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
What would be nice is if could write recommendations automatically, then you pick and choose which one you want.

You could scaffold a project, and it runs, and then you check back to see what it recommends.

steve76··on Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
>> a clone of some upcoming business model

>> target foreign contracts

Both involve working for someone for a long time, then leaving on your own. Really high risk, and people will just dump all their problems on you.

steve76··on Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)
Is this like Wheeler's Delayed Choice experiment?
steve76··on Going Solo, Successfully
The article mentions that incorporation is a protection against loss. The best protection are successes like these. Like what you do, and like helping other people even more.

Do anything you can to stay out of court and everything you can to leave on good terms. Having an LLC is not a license to mess up. If anything it raises the standards, and people will still come after you, sometimes even if you did a good job!

steve76··on Innovative Cultures
- Taking money from worldwide monsters who view mass murder as hygiene

- Taking money from taxpayer bailouts and inflating prices

- Dumping all your problems on the people who fought for you and gave you the room to get you started

- Paying lawyers to stack the deck in your favor and jail your competition

- Forcing your customers into debt by making your $2,000 products a necessity.

- Turning your great country into a place where only cheap plastic goes in, and cheap paper goes out

That's not failure.

But being 2 weeks late on a feature is.

Got it.

PS: Take a good look at how you really make money. It's the most vulgar uncultured garbage I've ever seen. Porn has more dignity.

Teach lessons. Otherwise you just race to the finish line as fast as you can, cowering to arbitrary delusions, and end up as some grotesque burden on everyone.

There are loftier ambitions than cell phones, clickbait, mailing out boxes of tomorrow's garbage, or making cartoons. These are no different than police sting. You are a fool to think power gives it up to make things better.

Aim for lofty ambitions first. Take all of creation before working for kings. And when you do, know there are poor people out there who can take them out with nothing.

steve76··on Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (2012)
I would start with identity, that's all everything boils down to, and that math is as much a language, a shorthand to express ideas and communicate across the world like some state department, as it is computational.

Then I would explain that imaginary numbers mean harmonics. exponential functions give you a derivative, one function can serve as input to another, PID control, ... ... and that's about it.

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