trophycase

None of those news outlets you mentioned are "hard left". They are corporatist status quo. They are all in support of Joe Biden who is hardly "left" at all

Most of central america and the caribbean is like this, from my experience. I'm not convinced that it has to do with the two separate currencies.

One line security. Airport is a ghost town. No food. Almost all young people in 20s and 30s. That was my experience

But "you need to set up the Kafka consumer" and "you just need to set up the Kafka consumer" have different meanings.

You're not just pruning, but changing the meaning. The latter implies there is only one thing you need to do, while the former is open ended, and could imply the beginning of a set of needs.

"Just" can also add emphasis. "That's stupid" and "that's just stupid" have different nuance.

That's not strictly true. If we assume that a person provides little/no value to the group until the age of 10-11. Then someone who lives to 50 as opposed to 40 spends 10 more years working productively for the betterment of the group. This of course assumes that they produce more benefit than detriment to the group during those 10 years.

Thus if there are group selective pressures at play. Those with adults who live longer may outcompete those who do not.

Startup implies tech and/or "nontraditional" business and also tends to imply VC money. A restaurant isn't a "startup" because it's a restaurant, a hardware store is a hardware store. But what is a VC backed meal kit company: a startup. There's no actual word for it so startup is the catchall term

Work is what gives life meaning for many people. You can't just say we'll automate most productive tasks then expect everyone to be mozart or do yoga all day or something. That's not a future I want.

Thank you for this quote. I've long felt this. Another thing about the simulation hypothesis is that it seemingly offers no explanatory power. That is, I'm not sure how a universe that is "simulated" and one that isn't (thinking about it more I'm not actually sure what the difference is) would actually differ. Maybe would explain the observer effect in QM cause of lazy loading or something?

Ah yes. Hard decisions about whether the new CEO will wipe his ass with that 11 billion, or use it as fuel for his fireplace. Decisions, decisions.

Nope, no glee.

"I believe I used the words 'I wonder if...'."

Your claim was so absurdly offensive, it doesn't change because you add some qualifiers for plausible deniability. Trump just lies when it suits him. We've known this for 5+ years now and this is completely within his MO. Say one thing until it can't be defended any longer then just deny you said it or claim you were saying something else the whole time. This has been obvious throughout this whole coronavirus episode.

"Here we go again with the Foucault power dynamics stuff, seeing everyone as groups of competing interests rather than individuals with opinions"

Go and talk to anti-vaxxers or flat-earthers, or watch them being debated or interviewed. There simply just isn't any evidence that will convince them otherwise. This isn't a matter of "opinion" it's a matter of unwillingness to accept any information unless it's framed within certain narratives of "the government and scientists are lying" "you can't trust the establishment" "science doesn't know anything"

Also I'm not seeing people as groups of competing interests. Actually just as individuals with competing interests. Not sure where I grouped anyone aside from the POTUS and non-POTUS partition. Just saying, he doesn't need you to defend him.

"People aren't so easy to fool"

Yes they are lol.

"I wonder if the resistance to trying hydroxychloroquine is at least in part because some people secretly wish for the virus to continue killing people so they can blame Trump for it"

Case in point right here. What a ridiculous claim. Your mind is already made up so you'll believe what you want. That's just the reality of post-truth. Not what is being said but who is saying it and in what narrative of power dynamics are they saying it.

These "I'm independent but..." comments are absurd. I'm not sure what apologizing for one of the worst presidents of all time gets you, and he certainly doesn't need your sympathy and defense. He's the most powerful person in the world, so just remember the power dynamics at play here.

"for whatever reason"

I think part of the reason is that business has co-opted optimism and positivity. To the point where being positive seems to not be genuine. Furthermore, I think if the 80s-00s have taught us anything, it's that technology and business aren't going to fix the core problems us in the first world are facing currently... trust, community, health, environment, stress, etc. especially considering these are mostly problems caused by technology and business.

Never going to happen. The general populace is full of bootlickers

Do not buy and hold leveraged ETFs interday. Buy puts if you want.

Nope, as pointed out by others. This doesn't do anything to solve the systemic problems that allowed this to happen and us to be woefully unprepared for this.

They won't lol. FFS joe biden is getting nominated

If I know anything about American politics it's that EVERYTHING is partisan

True, but the president also appoints a lot of officials as well.

The death rate of 3.4% as claimed is massive. Some people look at that and think it's small, but for something so contagious that's huge. If it spreads on a pandemic scale someone you know will die from it, almost guaranteed. You just can't say that about the flu.

I guess the silver lining here is that perhaps another person has finally learned about the value of privacy. And that "nothing to hide" is bullshit

I mean half of the economy is digging ditches basically. A few small portions of the economy produce the necessities of life while nearly everyone else just circulates money around through entertainment, advertisement, etc.

Making verified an option for everyone is one step away from making it mandatory for everyone.

Just leave, it's probably not worth your time anyway. And also why support Bloomberg who is trying to buy an election?

In my understanding, randomness cannot be "computed"... if you can compute randomness then it isn't truly random.

Maybe, but it might be a nice wake up call that there is a problem.

Lol, literally nobody supports Bloomberg. He's only riding on name recognition alone.

Well just reading the headline, I immediately thought that in terms of absolute sales numbers, they were as bad as since the dot com bubble burst...

Only to learn after that it's talking about a percentage drop?

Are you claiming that anything useful that requires thermodynamic work can be monetized? You may be right but that isn't obvious.

Idk, where I live in the city I find these trends pretty shocking. Mind you 2010 is 10 years ago, but just from looking at the people around me I'd expect this to have leveled off or reduced.

What's your criteria? Theory of mind? IMO if something is at the level that they can experience pain, then they are conscious enough to suffer.