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seanicus
·3 months ago·discuss
I think at this point we have to accept the fact that SV and tech founders in gernal are 60%+ p##os and 39% p##o enablers.
seanicus
·3 months ago·discuss
>>Great use of tax dollars.

I get the sentiment but just note that if you discuss this in public your answer to the problem of staff watching video of kids is... less regulation?
seanicus
·4 months ago·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

I'm an anti-imperialist so I do appreciate America's efforts to paint the international stage with it's brains. Not sure if what comes next will be better but I'm optimistic.
seanicus
·5 months ago·discuss
Any recommendations for how to approach K-12 math teaching? Got some (very) little ones and doing our best but both parents are definitely more humanities-brained
seanicus
·5 months ago·discuss
The Doomsday Clock really strains credulity; I'd love to see a case for how we're closer to (as defined in this article) total nuclear annihilation or even a limited exchange than we were at any point in the cold war. The case is not convincingly made by any of the subjects in the article.

Nuclear proliferation is still something to be taken with deadly seriousness but the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences needs to cut the hyperbole and present their case more convincingly.
seanicus
·7 months ago·discuss
In the universe of the Butlerian Jihad are you SURE that replacing "program" with "pogrom" was a mistake?
seanicus
·8 months ago·discuss
>>In China, the govt is more authoritarian

Gonna need a citation on that one
seanicus
·9 months ago·discuss
Yeah, but it's going to require a lot of thoughtcrime persecution before the rest of the US comes to that conclusion.
seanicus
·10 months ago·discuss
"Former" CIA
seanicus
·10 months ago·discuss
Lived in SE Asia fora few years and my understanding is that tan skin = outdoor labor = lower caste.

My spouse is asian and I'm N Euro - I would kill to have skin that just tans no matter how much sun you get. I think I've seen her get burns twice in over a decade and we do a lot of beach time.
seanicus
·11 months ago·discuss
I love the threat of displacing billionaires out of our economy whenever taxing the wealthy comes up like the monied class aren't already incredibly sophisticated tax cheats
seanicus
·11 months ago·discuss
That firewall isn't going away anytime soon. Americans are inundated with a deluge of foreign influence campaigns from a variety of foreign powers and no way China wants that pain revisited upon themselves.
seanicus
·11 months ago·discuss
It's hard to imagine what could even constitute a modern Sputnik moment, but it's an interesting thought experiment. I just don't think that Americans care enough, and both countries are way more dependent on each other than the US and USSR ever were.

Caveat I've been wrong on pretty much every political prognostication I've ever made, so buy some defense industry stocks.

Maybe US gets really good at maglev trains and in reprisal China goes full throttle on inventing teleportation/hyperdrive tech?
seanicus
·11 months ago·discuss
Same admin that opposes any real reporting on what they're doing except for entities that report glowingly on them. Trump Admin has loudly clashed with any and all legit journalistic entities (bad news: Newsnation and Zero Hedge are conservative hacks) so no reporting can be believed except ones approved by the state/Trump admin.
seanicus
·11 months ago·discuss
If one wants to be called a nazi, one should not be surprised by their results.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
seanicus
·5 years ago·discuss
I thought the same thing, but OTOH most of them have screens set on raise-to-wake so you can't sneak a peek at the time anyhow.