
Dale Webster
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Dale Webster
@greatirl
Caught in a high-speed, hateful procedure
Katılım Haziran 2009
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@bizlet7 It isn’t specifically the planning that was missing, it’s that they didn’t have a story to tell.
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What’s extremely weird about the sequel trilogy is they didn’t plan it out.
This is the biggest trilogy of all time by the biggest entertainment corpo that has ever existed and they couldn’t bother to write all three movies together.
The random nerd at the comic book store could have done a better job.
_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_@st_louis_stan
There's something uniquely and almost spiritually bad about The Last Jedi, you'll commonly hear people say "I watched it and realized I was done with Star Wars forever" as if it the film reached into the viewer's soul and snuffed out a last flicker of childlike wonder
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Clearly it’s not obvious, but it is called a shuttlecock lol. If you’ve ever even played around with a badminton racket you’ll know you can tap those things and send them soaring. Light weight, concentrated centre of mass with a wing, rackets have long necks, game played in large open spaces. I wouldn’t gamble on a millionaire question but it’s not a surprising answer.
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@miketheunderdog @ferafestiva23 Behind the specifics of the policy what he is actually saying is he demands total authority over the labour markets and intends to wield it punitively. The words are righteous, the intent is evil.
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@ferafestiva23 If you can afford to pay 5 employees for 40 hours a week at £12.71, then you can afford £2.29 an hour more.
It’s one coffee each - and you are a skilled businessman, right?
Who knows, maybe they will be able to afford to buy a few of those coffees themselves?
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It was pointed out here x.com/sureimcertain/… literally one of the first responses.
For each of your conjectures on the naming of pop tarts I can simply ask “why?” The real explanation is given by the person who named them. For each of the invented reasons you will have to further invent contrivances to explain away evidence. For example, only one of your theories explains why there is a Wikipedia article with a citation for a book with further citations for the origin of the name being a pun. The other theories require contrivance to explain this (the article is mistaken, the authors are lying), which is… easy to vary.
You say it doesn’t matter that you learned it from Wikipedia but it is incredibly important. It is evidence and criticism that force theories to adapt or die and that is what makes hard to vary a strong signal for truth.
Something Wicked@sureImcertain
@dchackethal These are conjectures, not explanations.
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> …you didn’t offer any explanations for the naming…
I offered 3, as you say yourself.
> …as was pointed out…
I just reviewed the thread and found no such tweets.
> You claimed one of them was correct, but not how you knew that…
Wikipedia. Not that it matters.
> If the code does as intended then the problem is understood.
Nobody has written code specifying HTV. So per BoI nobody has understood it.
> Reread Deutsch…
😂
You sound kinda piqued that someone is criticizing HTV. Why?
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Simple Refutation of David Deutsch’s ‘Hard to Vary’:
libertythroughreason.com/simple-refutat…
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@greatirl @necros111 Historical data doesnt match your hypothesis. I've spent my whole life analyzing data and making projections from them, and made a decent living out of it. Maybe instead of calling me dingus, consider my perspective and you might learn something from it?
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@dchackethal You’re trying to explain the result of human creativity without actually evoking said creativity. The hardest to vary explanation of why a person named them pop tarts is the explanation that person gives.
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@necros111 @julianibarz They’re the same thing dingus. Money isn’t a resource, people are. Profit means more people can do more things, which increases human welfare. Literally think for 5 seconds and it’ll be clear.
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@julianibarz Capitalism alocates capital to maximize profit. Do you want it allocated to maximize profit or human welfare? Simple as that.
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@HinataMotivates Always felt this was uncalled for. Tim is obviously not gonna concede, the exercise is just to embarrass him.
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@brivael Money is not a resource is all you need to say. The fundamental tenet of every broken economic thought.
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Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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GPT has a new phenomenon that's driving me nuts and I don't quite know how to describe it.
- Ask it if I can do something
- It says "no you can't [incredibly twisted restatement of what I asked but also not at all what I asked]"
- It then tells me how to do the thing wonderfully
- And finishes with an insulting "But you can't just [stupid thing I never actually said]"
It goes something like this:
"Can I form and coach a youth soccer team for my kid and play in P/D level leagues? Or do I have to be part of a full club?"
Then it says:
"For official competitive teams in Utah, you cannot just form a random team and enter a league.
"There is a lesser-known option: UYSA allows independent teams to enter leagues if they meet requirements. [...lists some simple requirements...]
"But it’s not “show up with a group of kids on game day”—it’s more like running a small club team administratively.
I never said just "show up with a group of kids on game day"!
It does this to me with code too. It's so weird.
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@ramit Firstly, 3 years goes by in a blink when you’re doing fun stuff like travelling.
Secondly, fire is for stupid people.
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@RAWigger To remind us what he should be doing, and would be doing, if not for the plot of the series. Dumbledore even says as much like 5 mins later.
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@waitbutwhy Despite the poll, I think in reality nobody presses blue. Think about your loved ones and which button you’d want them to press.
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Actually what she’s missing is that language is an infinite regress. You can’t define anything without words that also need definitions. Two people will never hold the same understanding of a singular phrase, and that’s perfectly fine.
The real point to be made is that identification is a deductive process. You determine what things are by understanding all the things that it’s not, and then you give that thing a name. There is no such thing as an identity of one’s subjective experience as there is nothing it can be deduced from. An identity is built entirely from your theories about the world. Your ‘self identity’ is your own theory of how you are deduced from others. Who you think you are is not an objective statement written in the ledger of reality, it is your opinion. And everyone who has ever identified you from others has their own theory of who you are.
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"A definition where you include the term to be defined means nothing." Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) breaks down why "self-identification" fails the test of basic logic. Using her famous "wampoosle" analogy, she illustrates how a lack of objective criteria turns language into a meaningless tool.
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@Shawnkimli @pubity Ok. The phone without a replaceable battery is a better product and I have no interest in replacing the battery. Get it?
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@pubity Wild how people will go harder for billion-dollar companies than for their own rights as consumers.
Make it make sense.
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Starting February, 2027, all smartphones sold in the EU must have batteries that users can replace themselves, using basic tools at home.
Replacement batteries also have to stay available for at least 5 years after a product’s last sale, and software locks that prevent third party repairs will be banned.

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@JagE11912532 @internetsebo I’m 32 and the only person on the team younger than me is a 24 junior eng
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@internetsebo The best part about being a 32yo senior software engineer is that I'm not old enough to be against AI, and I'm experienced enough to know how to use it effectively compared to these young devs who don't have any experience pre-AI.
Best of both worlds
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the 29 year old dev on your team trying to keep up with AI
B&S@_B___S
He may be old, but he still loves to dig a hole on the beach
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