technovelist

@realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @elonmusk Here's a proposal for an inexpensive ICBM shield. I'm sure you can improve on it but it should explain the basic idea. subphysical.com/SteelStorm.pdf

@rising_serpent Probably correct, although NYC did elect Giuliani after they got tired of crime.

I know many disagree, but I am of the firm opinion that the largest American cities have had such massive demographic replacement forced upon them that they will continue to vote themselves into communism regardless of how bad things get. Below a critical mass of white men, everything collapses.

@SaltyGoat17 He just didn't know how to spell "mental".

If you don't DISAGREE with this... YOU are an idiot!! And it's not even open for debate!

@ingelramdecoucy Unscientific and also un-American. Too bad; it used to be very interesting.

Let’s check in on what Scientific American is up to..

@HistorianUSA1 @TMobile I think she might be very pretty without all the red flags of insanity. It's a real shame.

After the third failed assassination attempt on President Trump, this T-Mobile employee from the Meridian, Idaho call center gloats: “They just don’t make them like Lee Harvey Oswald anymore.” @TMobile — you good with this? Does your company think political murder is funny?

@Skwerilleee See Lysander Spooner for details.

It's easy to get lost in all the abstraction when talking about what the role of government should be. A helpful technique is to remember that everything government does is ultimately done at gunpoint. Imagine yourself literally holding the gun. Would I use a gun to stop a murder? Absolutely. Would I rob my neighbor at gunpoint to pay for a library? Ehh suddenly that sounds pretty immoral.

@BlueskyLibs Imagine my shock.

Now they want Scott Jennings gone.

@DaftCyberpunker @ReddCinema Unless you're black.

@ReddCinema He wasn’t admitted because his application was boring. To get into an S-tier university, you need a strong, unique narrative in addition to raw stats. A long list of conventional accomplishments is not what they’re looking for

He had a GPA score of 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, and does lots of extracurricular work. He got rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.

@MAGABabyyoda @ReddCinema Because you're not failures. That's why.

@ReddCinema Why do Asians always get excluded in education?? Don't forget we are also a minority! ✌️

@DschlopesIsBack I'll never forget!

Never forget the pilots of Asiana Flight 214 -Captain Sum Ting Wong -Wi Tu Lo -Ho Lee Fuk -Bang Ding Ow

@InsideLucysHead ALOL!

Keir Starmer walked into a bank to cash a cheque... When he’s called over to the teller, he says, "Good morning, could you please cash this cheque for me?" The teller replied, "It would be my pleasure sir. Could you please show me your ID?" Keir said, "Truthfully (yea right 🙄), I didn’t bring my ID with me as I didn't think there was any need to. I’m the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom." The teller said, "Yes yer tool, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors, forgers, and requirements of the legislation etc, I must insist on seeing ID." Keir said, “Just ask anyone here at the bank who I am and they’ll tell you. Everybody knows who I am." The teller said, "I’m sorry, yer W⚓️, but these are the bank rules and I must follow them". Getting a bit agitated, Keir snapped, “C'mon woman, I’m urging you, please, to cash this cheque.." The teller said, "Look here yer bare faced liar, here is an example of what we can do. One day, Tiger Woods came into the bank without ID. To prove he was Tiger Woods, he pulled out his putter and made a beautiful shot across the bank into a cup. With that shot we knew him to be Tiger Woods and cashed his cheque. Another time, Andre Agassi came in without ID. He pulled out his tennis racket and made a fabulous shot where the tennis ball landed in my cup. With that shot we cashed his cheque. So, Keir, what can you do to prove that it is you, and only you? Keir Starmer stands there thinking, and thinking, and finally says, "Honestly, my mind is a total blank, there’s nothing that comes to my mind. I can't think of a single thing. I have absolutely no idea what to do, and I don't have a clue." With a big smile, the teller said, "Will that be large or small notes, Mr Starmer?

@ihtesham2005 Also of course you don't have to win a Nobel prize to change the world.

A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doing forgettable work. His name was Richard Hamming. He won the Turing Award. He invented error-correcting codes that made modern computing possible. And he spent 30 years at Bell Labs sitting in a cafeteria at lunch watching which scientists became legendary and which ones faded into nothing. In March 1986, he walked into a Bellcore auditorium in front of 200 researchers and told them exactly what he had seen. Here's the framework that has been quoted by every serious scientist for the last 40 years. His opening line landed like a punch. He said most scientists he worked with at Bell Labs were just as smart as the Nobel Prize winners. Just as hardworking. Just as credentialed. And yet at the end of a 40-year career, one group had changed entire fields and the other group was forgotten by the time they retired. He wanted to know what the difference actually was. And he said it wasn't luck. It wasn't IQ. It was a specific set of habits that almost nobody is willing to follow. The first habit was the one that hurts the most to hear. He said most scientists deliberately avoid the most important problem in their field because the odds of failure are too high. They pick a safe adjacent problem, solve it cleanly, publish it, and move on. And because they never swing at the hard problem, they never hit it. He said if you do not work on an important problem, it is unlikely you will do important work. That is not a motivational line. That is a logical one. The second habit was about doors. Literal doors. He noticed that the scientists at Bell Labs who kept their office doors closed got more done in the short term because they had no interruptions. But the scientists who kept their doors open got more done over a career. The open-door scientists were interrupted constantly. They also absorbed every new idea passing through the hallway. Ten years in, they were working on problems the closed-door scientists did not even know existed. The third habit was inversion. When Bell Labs refused to give him the team of programmers he wanted, Hamming sat with the rejection for weeks. Then he flipped the question. Instead of asking for programmers to write the programs, he asked why machines could not write the programs themselves. That single inversion pushed him into the frontier of computer science. He said the pattern repeats everywhere. What looks like a defect, if you flip it correctly, becomes the exact thing that pushes you ahead of everyone else. The fourth habit was the one that hit me the hardest. He said knowledge and productivity compound like interest. Someone who works 10 percent harder than you does not produce 10 percent more over a career. They produce twice as much. The gap doesn't add. It multiplies. And it compounds silently for years before anyone notices. He finished the lecture with a line I have never been able to shake. He said Pasteur's famous quote is right. Luck favors the prepared mind. But he meant it literally. You don't hope for luck. You engineer the conditions where luck can land on you. Open doors. Important problems. Inverted questions. Compounded hours. Those are not traits. Those are choices you make every single day. The transcript has been sitting on the University of Virginia's computer science website for almost 30 years. The video is free on YouTube. Stripe Press reprinted the full lectures as a book in 2020 and Bret Victor wrote the foreword. Hamming died in 1998. He gave his final lecture a few weeks before. He was 82. The lecture that explains why some careers become legendary and others disappear is still free. Most people who could benefit from it will never open it.

@ihtesham2005 "The harder I work, the luckier I get."

@n3ckf I used to go there with my mother also. She is also no longer with us.

Not politics or space! A Longwood Gardens Christmas walkthrough - I used to take my Mom here ever year (but she's no longer with us). Enjoy America's most beautiful garden youtube.com/watch?v=SyANyc…

@n3ckf @TooWhiteToTweet I was born too early for this. However, I did skip 2 grades and started college at age 16.

@TooWhiteToTweet you should read about this my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/ - i know about it because i was in it (in the 1970s)

What could be more important than identifying high IQ children and investing in their development for the betterment of society? Retards. We invest in retards, forsake the smart kids, and do our dystopian best to ensure continued societal decay.

@Imnotbright2024 @libsoftiktok @Aetna I will say that you definitely chose an excellent username.

@technovelist @libsoftiktok @Aetna Health insurance companies are public corporation who's shareholders want the line to go up. You get rid of government; health insurance companies will run amok to maximize profit. Healthcare before WWII? Literally does not apply to today's world.

Last week I randomly got a $9,000 bill for a hospital visit from last year. I called them up and they said my insurance decided not to cover it. Why? Because. .@Aetna can just decide they’re not interested in covering something and then you’re left with an inflated bill to pay out of pocket after the fact. This is in addition to a $2,000 bill that I already paid. They just don’t want to cover it despite me paying a monthly premium. Meanwhile illegals get free healthcare. Honestly fuck you @Aetna. I’m gonna do everything I can to destroy you.

The wait time issues are baked into the system. Every healthcare system rations care in some way. There is no alternative to that. The question is how do they do it. In the US it's partly by price and partly by where you live and a lot of other things. In "universal healthcare" systems, it's by waiting. If you die before you get to the top of the list, too bad. That's the reason why people come to the US from Canada when they don't want to wait indefinitely. It's also the reason that when an American entrepreneur offered to put an MRI machine on a flatbed and take it to Canada to improve their access to that technology, the Canadian government would not allow it. You see, if you have a diagnosis, they have to treat you. So therefore they don't let you get a diagnosis. Do I think the US system is good? No. It's basically a combination of the worst features of government health insurance and "private" (oligarchic) health insurance. But that does not mean that making it all government is the solution. The solution is to get the government out of healthcare. That's the way it was before World War II. During the war, companies were not allowed to raise salaries so they provided "free" health insurance. There is no reason why your healthcare or payment therefor should be linked to your employment. That is an artifact caused by government intervention. For some reason other types of insurance are not like this. And although they are not perfect, they are better.

@technovelist @libsoftiktok @Aetna Then you fix the issues with wait times. Not "wait times too long? Oh well, just go financially bankrupt instead and do nothing"

@Imnotbright2024 @libsoftiktok @Aetna Like in Canada, where tens of thousands die on waiting lists? No thanks.

@libsoftiktok @Aetna If only silent and boomer generation didn't continue voting for the same politicians the past 40+ years. Maybe we'd have universal health care.

@MerebugC @libsoftiktok @Aetna That's the law. It's not enforced.

@libsoftiktok @Aetna Open and absorb

@libsoftiktok @united Lock him up.

Meet Matt Doogen, he’s a pilot for @united. He just changed his cover photo on Facebook to “8647” which is known to symbolize kiIIing Trump. Would you feel safe with him flying your plane? Any comment @united ?

@Milajoy No.

I am ROLLING with laughter. This communist Mayor of New York can't pay for ANYTHING, let alone all the freebies he promised. New Yorkers got taken for a ride BIG TIME. Will they ever learn?