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collapse_already , 5 months ago to asklemmy in A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

I give them some water, because it is probably pretty scarce and valuable by 2074. Then I ask them if they remembered to bring me the lottery ticket numbers for the big lottery that I win in October of 2024.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records

Even if we vote him out, he is going to claim he won and run a rebellion. Probably better planned and more successful this time. His opposition is largely a bunch of pussies that let him and his ilk trample the rule of law. There is no outcome to this coming election that is not a disaster.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records

I don’t see you offering a viable alternative. Your method is to just acquiesce? The rule of law has already failed. Trump is not in jail. The Supreme Court (1/3 appointed by Trump) is on the take from conservative billionaires. Congressional corruption put Gorsuch on the Court rather than Garland (longest vacancy by 3x the next longest), then turned around and replaced Ginsberg with an extremely quick turnaround.

The failure to act in kind has already weakened this country irreparably. Let’s keep letting them do what they do. It’s worked out terribly so far.

So yeah, I would rather my dictator than their’s, but I am going to get their’s.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused

I think the headline writers need some lessons in political antagonism. This should be “New GOP bill legalizes murder of vulnerable people such as disabled American veterans.” “Pro-military” party? Patriotic party? Thank you for your service, lol. We’re really pro-imperialism. Now that we have destroyed you, we just want you to go away.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records

Are you willfully blind to what happens if you let your opponents oppress and abuse you without fighting back in kind? I am not going to the gulag. Have fun there.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Slay Bans 😭

“yOOOOOO”

I had multiple iterations of those.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to technology in HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

How has HP not gone out of business? Their products are overpriced pieces of trash.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records

So only the one side should abuse their power? They are not going to stop abusing it just because their opponents took the high ground.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to asklemmy in Is anyone else caught in a weird Venn diagram of Imposter Syndrome and furious indignation and disdain for actual imposters in your field?

I have graduated to the stage of my career where I believe “I have to teach these kids how to do things correctly before my coworkers corrupt them, or they learn bad behaviors on their own.” I was thrown in the fire early in my career and am trying to be the mentor I wish I had. I know where my knowledge gaps are, but generally know who to rely on. I definitely generate the most value when I stick to my expertise, but I still try to learn more whenever possible.

I should remember this crap for my next self-evaluation (I hate that crap).

collapse_already , 5 months ago to science in Scientists Discover Alarming Evidence Global Warning Is Accelerating

I find the article’s quoting of Hausfather deceptive, particularly the part about not being well supported by the literature. I don’t think Hausfather thinks Hansen is wrong at all. I think he wants more data confirming Hansen’s findings. I read a lot of climate literature, and I have not seen any data that contradicts Hansen. If anything, 2023 seems like an even more rapid acceleration over what has been previously observed. This is the chart that scares the crap out of me:

climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

It takes an incomprehensible large amount of energy to heat the ocean and in 2023 the amount of heat it is storing jumped to an entirely new level. I think Hansen has to be correct for that to have happened.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to news in Gen Z is choosing not to drive

I am reading the article to say “even living out of your car is an unobtainable dream for man Gen Z.” When combined with the headline I saw recently about the return of company owned housing, the world is looking pretty bleak. We should expect unions to be making a comeback, but many seem to be brainwashed against them.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to technology in Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again

In the U.S., private companies spend about 5x on drug development than the government. The numbers are probably fuzzier than that though because I don’t think the government spending numbers capture things like grants to graduate students working on drug research.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to technology in Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again

You spent 2 billion dollars developing a cure for x? I reverse engineered your cure for $30k (or just looked up your formula in your regulatory filings for free), so I can sell the same product for much cheaper than you since I don’t have any development costs to recoup. If you can’t protect your investment, you won’t make the investment.

The problem here is not the patent system. The problem is relying on private for-profit industry to develop drugs. Not enough people get your ailment for a cure to be profitable? Sorry, you are SOL. Also, the current system incentivises developing maintenance drugs over cures. That’s one of the big reasons Type 2 diabetes has met metformin, janumet, glipizide, farxiga, ozempic, etc. All of those drugs are symptom management rather than treatments. A treatment would be a financial disaster for big pharma.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to technology in Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again

Patents literally are a government granted time-limited monopoly. There are a number of reasons why the government grants these monopolies. Perhaps, the ethics of medical patents should be debated, but if we collectively don’t grant patents on vital medical technologies, then I think it is unlikely that corporations are going to invest billions developing and testing life saving drugs. (Another debate: are private corporations the best stewards of developing this technology.)

For now, this is the system we’ve engineered ourselves into a corner with.

I don’t really care about some blood oxygen monitor in a smart watch, but inadvertently destroying the pharmaceutical industry over it probably ought to be carefully considered.

collapse_already , 5 months ago to linux in Something to ruffle some penguin feathers: The Unix Hater's Handbook

My first Linux installation was done using Red Hat CDs that I purchased for around $20. Probably around 1996. Patching was difficult. Drivers for many pieces of hardware didn’t exist. Remember Plug and Play was pretty new at that time frame. Lots of manual resolution of things like driver interrupt conflicts (boards had physical jumpers that you could move to change which IRQ they asserted). Looking back on it, I can’t believe any of us were doing it. But the eventual payout was wonderful. I can’t imagine what 1996 me would think about how easy something like the latest Ubuntu is. I would probably be pretty awed because I have a decent understanding of the massive amount of work that has been poured into the ecosystem now to make it what it is today.

All that said, I will always have a soft spot for Solaris on an Ultraspark. That shit worked great.