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every generation thinks the world is going to end. it hasnt ended and it isnt going to end. you are a narcissist
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People assume that technology, once seized, will keep operating the same way it did under the engineers who built it. It will not.
Those who have never built anything treat technology as lifeless objects that can simply be taken. The moment they do, what they hold is no longer living technology. It is a corpse that begins to rot.
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"the bitter lesson for search is to grep over a filesystem, just like how google works" - rich sutton
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What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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This was one of my best clip finds honestly
Peter Thiel explains René Girard's theory of Mimetic Desire:
"We're more ape-like than the apes."
"That's how you learn language as a child. You copy your parents. And then that's how human culture gets transmitted. We wouldn't be humans if we weren't these incredibly powerful imitation machines."
"Napoleon said that it was amazing what you could get generals to do if you gave them medals."
"A lot of the builders I would admire the most are ones who had a somewhat idiosyncratic, sustained vision."
"Like @elonmusk going to Mars—it was somewhat out there, but man, it was not a socially conventional idea. But the way in which this was extremely generative was it suggested a whole avenue for growth and for building where if you didn't do it, maybe it would never have happened."
"I would still rank Elon and in some ways Steve Jobs as the two great non-mimetic builders."
"Jobs put together all these pieces, and in some ways they were out there, but he combined them in a unique way to sort of bring forward the internet-enabled phone."
Via @WalterIsaacson
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Lex Fridman interviews a PHP security researcher
Lex: My guest today discovered a critical vulnerability in PHP. What is a vulnerability.
Researcher: A weakness that allows an attacker to compromise a system.
Lex: But aren't we all vulnerable.
Researcher: Yes, but
Lex: Is love a vulnerability.
Researcher: We're talking about remote code execution.
Lex: Could an attacker remotely execute love.
Researcher: No.
Lex: Stalin executed millions.
Researcher: What does that have to do with
Lex: Do you think Stalin was happy.
Researcher: I have absolutely no idea.
Lex: Fascinating. We're 3 hours in. Let's talk about consciousness.
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If your company refers to engineers as the IT department, you have nothing to worry about. You were already breached last week.
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amazing how they don’t even pretend elon committed a crime, because they know it doesn’t matter if he did. they’ll find something. the point is just they really hate him, and when democrats really hate someone he belongs in prison.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."
Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:
"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him."
"So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list."
"He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard."
They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
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The moral case for capitalism is that your life belongs to you. Your work, your savings and your plans don’t become somebody else’s property because they have a moving speech about how they’d use them.
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Elon Musk has just confirmed that @SpaceX will attempt to catch Starship on flight 15 next month.
They've released a new simulation video of what it will look like:
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Deuce Bigalow makes a great point here; France has universal healthcare, five weeks’ paid holidays, heavily subsidised education, extensive welfare benefits and a 35-hour working week. It also has public debt exceeding 110% of GDP, government spending approaching 57% of GDP and one of the highest tax burdens in the developed world. None of these benefits are free. Someone pays for them, whether through taxation today or borrowing against tomorrow.
And despite all that spending, public dissatisfaction persists. Perhaps the lesson for Australians is that the government cannot simply spend its way to prosperity or public contentment. I think we better learn quickly.
France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
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ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
