Musk is an idiot who bought Twitter stock, tried to pump and dump, waived due diligence as part of the pump, and found himself contractually obligated to buy the company. Everything since then is what Musk thinks are good ideas.

We can and do. GPS satellites need to be regularly calibrated to Earth clock signals or they’ll start to drift their calibration by meters per day.

It’s kind of an old concept. The idea is that truly new discoveries, like new theories and inventions rather than expansions or extensions, mostly happen by serendipity. So if you have more people churning ideas you get a higher probability of winning serendipity.

Look man everything else is spinning so why not the tiny bits too

We fixed the B12 thing. Vitamins.

FO3 was kind of a disaster in terms of narrative and roleplay. And the established world building.

It’s mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.

Gose beers finally arrived in my area after years of waiting. Still fifty IPAs to every gose but it’s something

During WW2, the Allies wanted to armor their planes better so more would survive missions. But armor is expensive and heavy so you’d have to prioritize where to put it.

So they go out and collect data on the returning planes to see where they’d been hit. That picture is basically the data collected: where returning planes had sustained the most damage.

So most of the engineers looked at that and went “Aha, the points with the most damage should be armored, since they get shredded up pretty good.”

And one engineer went “Um actually, if they got shot there and came back, armor doesn’t matter. We need to armor the spots with no bullet holes, since a plane shot there wasn’t able to return.”

And so it was, and they called it Survivor Bias.

In this case, it’s survivor bias about becoming more conservative as you age

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When the West’s entire doctrine revolves around air dominance, being able to knock their planes out of the sky for cheap is quite effective.

Just close your eyes. Illusions don’t work if you can’t see them

Company is worth a smooth 100 mil. They can afford to hire more people to keep the rate of videos going while improving quality.

Ehhh, not really. If showing 10,000 people an ad costs you $10 and even one person made a purchase off that, you’ve paid for the ad buy. Internet ad conversions are considered unbelievably excellent if 1% of viewers click on the ad and 1% of those people make a purchase.

Also, if you don’t advertise, then your competition that do advertise are going to eat your lunch.

Actually? I thought it was because Marxist-Leninist. Domains are like ten bucks a year

Hexbear tends to appear to other instances as overtly political because the bears will come out of the woodwork to dunk on libs. It’s a culture that goes back to /r/chapotraphouse, when posters would share screenshots of some moronic reactionary take and drag the offender into the thread to bully them for being racists or transphobic.

Internally, hexbear mostly consists of trans positivity and pictures of owls

I’ve got a Windows desktop and a MacBook. For the life of me I cannot figure out why coding on the desktop feels like ass.

Does a more recent stack translate to any real benefits?

A damning condemnation of your education system, to be certain

I want for very little. Therefore I clearly want ads personalized to me that try to make me feel inadequate so that I do want more.