Notices by Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)

I've had lots of good success with udemy courses when I'm trying to learn new skill or systems, but haven't specifically taken a networking one.

For free resources, this guy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7MNX_UD7vY

is a reasonable jumping off point for normies, though it may feel somewhat condescending to send to someone working in a technical roll already 🤷♀️

Usaid didn't do anything, they funded other people doing things with taxpayer dollars. If there were legitimate good things being done, those people are still there and everyone who wants them to keep doing those things has a chequebook.

There's absolutely no reason funding for anything good should pass through a cia money laundering operation on its way from our wallets to people doing good things.

Sorry if I came off as pedantic, I interpreted 'tasked' to mean 'required', but I can see now it could also mean 'delegated to' in this context.

The constitution explicitly allows the congress to establish a post office, it doesn't require it though. Same deal with the patent office.

Can't shotgun a bottle 🤷♀️

Nice work!

"Can't stop the signal, Mal."

But that guy with the sword could stop his body from holding in his blood 🤷♀️

• buy bitcoin ✅️
• swap it for xmr ❌️

This is as far as I've gotten.

This isn't Harley Davidson committing to make 100% electric vehicles by 2035 or Gillette trying to sell razors to guys by running ads about how much guys suck. Costco has always had a rock-solid value prop and they've never taken out ads to tell me they hate me. 🤷♀️ whatever they're doing seems to be working as far as I can tell, I'm not mad their board said they're sticking with the status quo.

On the substance, I don't find either the 64 civil rights act or anti dei laws particularly credible in light of the freedom of association guaranteed in the first amendment. Companies should be free to not hire the best employees if they want to, and let the market smack them around for it.

Although using cringe nicknames like that adds a serious credibility down-ranking for me, I've seen this claim made in a few different posts, so for the sake of argument let's say it is true. Nobody I've seen offering this claim has even attempted to explain why auto-paying social security for people who don't have valid birthdays in the system is in any way less concerning or worthy of investigation.

"Merit" in this case is judged subjectivity by each consumer at the point of sale, and incorporates many facets of the product, including ethical implications. If you don't like factory farming, you can pay more for free-range eggs. If you don't like plastic shopping bags you can buy a reusable tote. You can buy from a company that advertises their 100% recycled materials products, or their zero carbon manufacturing.

In this way, Capitalism adopts the ethics of whomever is paying.

What Capitalism doesn't do is force a single ethical framework onto other people; everyone with different beliefs, opinions, and preferences can all coexist in a free market. It is the epitome of true "diversity and inclusion".

Heros who will be remembered long after the names of the jackboot thugs who arrested them, and wrote those dumb laws, are lost to the sands of time.

They can't stop the signal Mal.

The issue with copyright is mainly due to excessively long terms that encourage authors to write one work and milk it forever, rather than writing more works.

This line of criticism is of course true, but hardly the 'main' one.

The state of Iowa once legislated an alternative value of Pi, yet all the circles in Iowa stayed the same shape. One could point out that the law didn't have the intended effect of making it easier for school children to calculate math problems involving Pi, but the main problem is that laws are just words written down on paper and they have no power to change the fundamental nature of mathematics.

Similarly the main problem with IP laws is not that they are counterproductive to their stated goals (though they are), but that thoughts and ideas simply are not contained in the set of "private goods" over which it is even possible to apply private ownership. And no amount of legislators furiously writing in dusty tomes can make it so.

People argue that the clients suck or that feature support is fractured

And then their solution is always to try to bootstrap an entirely new chat protocol instead of writing a competent, cross-platform xmpp cient 🤦♀️

I read We the Living, I thought it was pretty impressive for a first novel in a second language 🤷♀️

⅔ of peer reviewed published scientific papers fail replication. That means whenever you read a "new study finds" headline, the claimed effect is twice as likely to be false as it is to be true. The effect is smaller in 'hard' sciences and most pronounced in psychology and public health fields.

Literally the whole process of science is to not trust the science.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?”

It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has shown.” And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments–but be patient and listen to all the evidence–to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.

– Richard Feynman

See also: "government"

Lol, mine went on the attack when the camera got too close.