I think it is weird that the recent breakthroughs in sodium batteries have come from China; I would have assumed they would want to keep everyone reliant on their rare earth minerals.
I got this when I told Gemini "post office loss retirement prepaid" because of other articles I have read that I cannot remember.
"In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). This law forced the USPS to do something virtually no other government agency or private corporation has to do: prefund its retiree healthcare benefits 75 years into the future[0]. Essentially, they were legally required to fast-track billions of dollars into a fund to pay for the future retirement health benefits of current employees, and theoretically even future employees who hadn't been hired yet."
Reminds me of this from "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid":
"Let me rephrase these last couple of sentences without using the slightly
technical term "isomorphism". When a system of "meaningless" symbols has
patterns in it that accurately track, or mirror, various phenomena in the
world, then that tracking or mirroring imbues the symbols with some degree
of meaning - indeed, such tracking or mirroring is no less and no more
than what meaning is. Depending on how complex and subtle and reliable
the tracking is, different degrees of meaningfulness arise." - P-3
EDIT: I initially wrote "G.E.B." instead of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" which was too cryptic.
Kind of a non sequitur: I bought "The Genius of Lisp"[0] and it is not what I thought (a book entirely devoted to the history of Lisp - from MIT to Common Lisp and then to Clojure). Would anyone recommend another book?
I have always wanted a version control system that was basically Emacs/Vim/Neovim's undo-tree[0] but persistent and social. Why do I have to manually talk to git? You are a computer, track every modification I make while editing and let me decide (or help me decide) on what a checkpoint is.
