@Prometheacc 96 hours is too short but that's basically what Darpa does. "we need this thing that's never been done before in 3 months. how much money do you need?"
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Concept: World Progress Marathon.
We should treat technological progress like Formula 1. Every 4 days, governments announce one concrete engineering challenge and temporarily unite every relevant startup, lab, manufacturer and company. No bureaucracy.
No "we'll have a prototype in 3 years." Just 96 hours. Build it or fail.
Imagine the challenge is: "Cross this impassable muddy terrain." Overnight, the origami wheel startup is summoned, AI labs optimize the design, materials companies develop the tires, robotics teams build the drivetrain, drone companies map the terrain.
Everyone contributes what they're best at. Four days later, the vehicle either crosses... or it doesn't. The point isn't just to solve problems, it's to speedrun civilization.
Constant pressure would force companies to build modular tools, faster manufacturing, reusable systems and rapid collaboration.
Innovation wouldn't be measured by PowerPoint roadmaps or valuations, but by one simple question:
Can humanity solve this real-world problem in 96 hours?
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@impossible_eng @Aaronia_AG functional, signal integrity for these RF paths.
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3rd Generation 8 Path Preselector Filter up to 18GHz 😎
Now offers perfect impedance matching, 10ns switching speed & over 80dB of rejection.
#aaronia #rf #sdr #spectrumanalyzer #minicircuits #pcb
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@impossible_eng @DrJenniferWeber @NYPostOpinion If a class is disorderly then blame should be placed upon adult in the room which is the teacher.
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Nearly one in two students in the NYC DOE public school system attends a school where most kids are failing math, English language arts, or both. Additional funding hasn’t worked. These students deserve real accountability. My latest in @NYPostOpinion:
nypost.com/2026/07/13/opi…
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Amy Coney Barrett shares rare personal story about son, 12, in plea for beefed-up SCOTUS security trib.al/ydUbFvW
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@Jon_Blevins_ @TodayinHistory I'm glad you're no longer a national security executive.
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Today in 1949, the Vatican under Pope Pius XII condemned communism and excommunicated all who supported it.
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Big city public schools don’t exist to educate children.
They exist to employ education majors.
Jennifer Weber@DrJenniferWeber
Nearly one in two students in the NYC DOE public school system attends a school where most kids are failing math, English language arts, or both. Additional funding hasn’t worked. These students deserve real accountability. My latest in @NYPostOpinion: nypost.com/2026/07/13/opi…
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@SaurabhRauniyar @DrJenniferWeber @NYPostOpinion What is a teacher supposed to do when the class is all dancing on their desks?
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@DrJenniferWeber @NYPostOpinion Can we monitor teacher’s performance based on class’s collective outcome? I am fine giving more resource to schools in poor neighborhood but can we rate teacher’s performance pre/post getting additional resources 😳
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@PhilSustainable @DrJenniferWeber @NYPostOpinion "we can't fix education until there's no poverty" is not a solution that's a cop out.
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@DrJenniferWeber @NYPostOpinion 1 in 3 NYC students are chronically absent & ~150k are housing insecure. You can't pass math/ELA if you don't have a desk or a stable roof.
City Hall must fix attendance & housing, those are the root issues, not the tests or school funding. 🏠📚
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@JacobAShell I'd like to say that "science advances one funeral at a time" but I'm afraid the younger generations are worse.
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Tbh I’m getting sick of this whole discourse beginning and ending with using “exposes”(“look at how ridiculous they sound lmfao”) to generate social media traffic. There needs to be a carrot and stick which results from these exposes, or they have little longterm value. Academics who hold these noxious views supporting censorship should be pushed out of positions of academic status and power. Those who’ve held better views all along about academic freedom of discourse and inquiry should be given more status and power. It’s that simple.
The fact that Rouse is the most powerful person in U.S. Anthro in 2026 goes to show how pointless these “embarrassing exposes,” which have been ongoing since the mid 10s, really are. Disciplines don’t self-modify just because people on twitter are passing around something embarrassing that got written up by the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Academic incentives are simple. We like tenure. We like being affiliated with fancy institutions. We like sabbaticals. We like salaries that are pegged to be just under what lawyers make, but we only do 1% the gruntwork.
Reward the right people with the right incentives and the problems retarding the disciplines will go away within a year.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
It’s amazing how Anthropology keeps proving that the Vanderbilt report was right about it. The president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) says the field is open to debate. Then she’s asked about a panel on “Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology” that the AAA canceled in 2023. The interviewer reports that “the AAA said at the time that the panel would have harmed members’ ‘safety and dignity,’ and that its premise contradicted ‘settled science.’” The AAA president says, “we know, factually, that there are different types of ‘sexes’ and ‘genders’” and that teaching otherwise is “the equivalent of turning an astronomy department into an astrology department.” She adds (regarding the panel): “It should never have been accepted. At this point, we are demanding that people do good peer review, because that’s what happened — they slacked on the peer review.” The interviewer: “There was a survey in 2022, published in the journal Forensic Anthropology, that asked forensic anthropologists about this question, and 42 percent of them said they agree that sex is binary, and 56 percent disagreed that it’s binary. So that ratio would seem to indicate that, in the field, the question hadn’t actually been settled.” AAA President: “I don’t believe in opinion research.” The interviewer: “In the AAA’s response to the Vanderbilt report, you wrote that anthropology contains ‘vigorous and ongoing debates about theory, evidence, ethics, method, public engagement, and the future of the discipline itself.’ Is there any contradiction between those stated values and the cancellation of the panel in 2023?” AAA President: “Rigorous debate with factual information, or rigorous debate with just people who like to troll people on social media? […] I don’t think we’re contradicting ourselves. I think that that panel might never have made it into the program, if it had been peer-reviewed properly.” It was generous of the Chronicle to use a question mark in the headline for this interview.
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@NewYorker It's interesting to see people's attitudes in these replies.
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On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant.
From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe
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Howard G. Rogers, Polaroid's chief chemist, and staff members pose with 5,000 bottles of chemical compounds used to discover the Polaroid color film process, 1963.
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@AnechoicMedia_ Anarchist housing typically has a "no police" policy or you'll get kicked out. Shockingly, they also have a rape problem.
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"Consider the potential impact" here links to a flow chart of alternatives to calling police on someone, lest you "impact their life".
But the advocates also say to never approach a bike thief alone, which obviously implies that bike thieves are frequently dangerous and present a threat of violence, which implies "the community and I" cannot "handle the situation" unless that community response looks like a gang of armed vigilantes with overwhelming force.
By the way the presence of the sexual assault hotline on this list of non-police "resources" implies they think rape victims should shut up, lay low, and speak with a counselor rather than call the police to apprehend the rapist.
Kane 謝凱堯@kane
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s official advice if your bike is stolen is to “consider the potential impact of calling the police” on the criminal.
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@impossible_eng @nypost Do you think it’s possible that the reaction she received and the threats she got from the left after the Dobbs decision has scared here into changing the way she votes?
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@impossible_eng @RonDodson Does satire have to have terribly flat lighting and lame blocking?
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This looks insufferable. I wish this preachy slop utter failure.
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@impossible_eng gotta be a really ugly chair to give you less satisfaction than a ppt presentation!
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Right before starting a management consulting job straight out of college, I used the few days I had off to build a chair. Went to home depot and bought wood and nailed it into the shape of a chair.
My thinking was that building things like chairs was something I always wanted to do but wouldn’t have time to while working 14 hour days in consulting.
Weird how now I think building chairs is likely way more valuable and rewarding than any consulting job.
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@antifascistfagg @ReviewsPossum Trust really isnt the issue in the small biz case, rather it's that you cant pay your bills with haircuts or pizza. It's the boundary between barter and the rest of the world that's the problem and it comes up really fast.
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@impossible_eng @ReviewsPossum I feel like barter is great for people who trust each other already and don't care about necessarily getting the "correct" exchange value of their products. Essentially, those who are willing to help each other out at their own expense sometimes.
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That's called a barter economy. It becomes untenable once your village's population exceeds twelve and no one can agree on how many chickens a cow is worth and you realize how hard it is to carry a dozen melons to the market to buy some milk.
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
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@LayoffAI I'm sure it's really tough after making $180k - $220k for the last decade to leave and go back to a place where the average annual salary is 99% less than that.
Give me a break.
This person is going back and living like a king.
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LAID OFF META EMPLOYEE MAKES "THE DIFFICULT DECISION TO MOVE MY FAMILY BACK TO INDIA"
14 years in the US on temporary work status.
Career path: TCS to Amazon to Meta, the #4, #2, and #14 H-1B sponsors in our database. 333,334 H-1B LCA filings between them since FY2015.
Meta cut him in May. The 60-day clock did the rest. His family starts over in Hyderabad next week.
A temporary visa that runs 14 years is not temporary. In this case, the only part of the system that worked was the layoff.
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@NoMoreBikeLanes Virtually all ped and bike infrastructure is based on nothing more than wishful thinking.
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engineered conflict. side-paths make us invisible to motorists at crossings! esp when cyclist riding the wrong direction. right-turning motorist not expecting a bicycle approaching from the right side. this is why contra-flow bikelanes & 2-way cycletraps are deadly for cyclists
blue_racer@blueRacerOL
Radfahren auf dem Lande. Baut Radwege haben sie gesagt. Da fahren Radfahrer sicher. Ja, totsicher. BNP Radweg im Zwei Richtungsverkehr #Fahrradalltag #Autoterror
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@Jon_Blevins_ @TodayinHistory Pretending there was a genocide in Gaza discredits your entire rant.
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A couple of decades too late and more than a dollar short.
The Vatican should have denounced it in:
-1917-1922 when Russia was fighting for its soul
-1924-1939 Stalin's terror
-1939-1945 when England and the USA had puppet leaders enslaved to Bankers (🧃) fighting to give the USSR half of the World.
The problem with the Vatican is that it lacks a spine.
Two recent examples:
-The Pope should have come out against the genocide in Gaza and excommunicated all involved in supporting Israel.
-The Pope should also have excommunicated everyone involved in the Epstein / Mossad demonic abuse and cannibalism of children.
Christianity has been neutered and feminized over the last 120 years.
It needs to turn to God, despite the pain, the sacrifice, and the discomfort.
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