ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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They call it Sidewalk Walrus, It's made from LSD and Ambien. Found this dude at Hot Dog on a Stick wearin' nothin' but a tie dye g-string buildin' a diorama of a Hooters.
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tl;dr: a non-apocalyptic future in the US requires a stout alliance between millennial home health aides and their elderly clients. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/not-every-kid-bond-matures/
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Oops. Ethereum has a slight code flaw. No big; just all your money might literally disappear, that's all. It's probably not important.
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https://twitter.com/scottjohnson/status/927899437447315456
<<It’s that time of year again. Best of luck to those participating in Nano Rhino in November.>>
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Imagine what it would be like if America was a place where money could literally buy legislation
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/359110-gop-lawmaker-donors-are-pushing-me-to-get-tax-reform-done
<<Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) had been describing the flurry of lobbying from special interests seeking to protect favored tax provisions when a reporter asked if donors are happy with the tax-reform proposal.
“My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again,’ ” Collins replied.>>
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Complexity is not a sign of intelligence.
It is a sign of gatekeeping.
Make things as simple as possible
But no simpler.
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@vahnj I'll believe there's radical change when progressives win control at a national level... and then *continue gaining* rather than immediately facing blowback and starting to lose. When the other party is forced to adapt progressive policies or be destroyed.
Seeing a year or two of pushback doesn't mean much. Again, see: 2010.
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@vahnj We're not seeing radical change. It's still change, but it's not some massive rearrangement of US politics.
Virginia hasn't elected a Republican to statewide office in 8 years. Northam won continuing that trend.
There's somewhat of a blowback against Trump, but so far it's no bigger than the blowback than there often is against the party in power. (See: 2010).
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This is the story that Disney was so angry at the LA Times for writing that they barred their movie critics from Thor: Ragnorok pre-screenings.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/
<<Over the last two decades or so, as Disney’s annual profit has soared, the company has secured subsidies, incentives, rebates and protections from future taxes in Anaheim that, in aggregate, would be worth more than $1 billion, according to public policy experts who have reviewed deals between the company and the city.>>
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the two genders
The Legender Of Zelda
and
The Legender Of Link
Anyone know more instances with good ambassador bots - I've got a.weirder.earth, vulpine.club, and cybre.space . I like ambassador bots. If anyone knows more please suggest.
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A trillion for the Pentagon: check
A trillion for the nuclear arsenal: check
1.5 trillion for business tax cuts: check
Funding single payer #healthcare: Do you think money grows on trees?
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we have somehow constructed a future where everyone is starved for labor and yet the robots are coming to unemploy us all. so many folks close to me have been looking for work for **years** with no luck, people who i'd love to put to work full-time on any of a million critical efforts, but none of us controls the capital to purchase labor, and owning someone else's labor sketches us all the hell out because we only sell our labor because the alternative is death.
late capitalism is so bizarre
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And we'll bring up our concerns to them. We are realizing that ZERO consideration seems to be given to the ethical implications of tech.
They don't even have a pat rehearsed answer. They are shocked at being asked. Which means nobody is asking those questions.
"We're not making it for that reason but the way ppl choose to use it isn't our fault. Safeguard will develop." But tech is moving so fast.
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ethically bereft tech
Unnamed tech dad, just this weekend: "There's only one degree I won't pay for [my kids to get]: liberal arts."
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Wowaweewa. "Twitter Offered Russia Today 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-15-of-its-total-share-of-us-elections
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Oh good, yes, do let's put software designed in Russia on all of the Things on the Internet in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)
Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Its primary development is from a team of JetBrains programmers based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[3]
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In another parallel universe:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) was followed - naturally - by Princess of Persia (2004), where you play as Farah, and the Prince is the sidekick who pops up to give hints and solve obstacles.
@Efi No. Other way around. Our illusion of the way things work that makes us think quantum tunneling is weird is because we make rounding errors when understanding the universe.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
