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I have no idea what you're referencing, but if the top row is genZ, those are some malnourished vegetarians with accelerated aging.
To a great extent, yes. But also, when the genie is out of the bottle, it has a life of its own.
Diesel probably didn't envision tanks, the Wright bros probably didn't envision fighter jets, Tsiolkovsky probably didn't envision ICBMs. But then, the engineers who made those ICBMs also created the foundation of space exploration and our solar civilization future, and passenger airlines wouldn't exist without the development of jet engines for war, and... Well, Diesel probably envisioned everything and more, that dude was a real genius.
Everything is in motion. Nothing rests. There is no end state, or perfect Arcadia, or nice heaven with clouds and naked babies and a dude who never gets off his ivory throne. "The Kingdom is nigh" means basically now. What is now? Its the limit of a function at a given point, meaning it's purely hypothetical, but still useful.
The 6th day, as you almost certainly know, is symbolic of man. The seventh is symbolic of reason, being the cutting edge of the sword. So when God completes his work on the 6th day and then rests on the 7th, it means the point of creation is to create Man, and the point of Man is to reside in the intellect / the abstract / the pleroma / the forms. We bring forth matter from mind - or the form follows the function. Both functions - mechanism and f(x)=whatever. Both forms - things and the idea the thing conforms to.
I'd agree. But most economists probably wouldn't. IMO its psychology but empirical. Psych is valuable in it's own way, but considering psych a science and econ not is backwards. Psych can produce empirical data, but its propositions are entirely independent of the data ; econ is 100% data driven, and no proposition of any sort is taken seriously without supporting data. Basically, econ is, IMO, what you get if you do sociology/anthropology/psychology the "right" way - meaning, no voodoo, no entertaining but fantastical leaps born of pure fancy, which anthropology in particular specializes in. Certainly archaeology... The king of the sciences of bullshit.
Creation wasn't finished in 6 days. It wasn't finished. Its our job to finish it.
You're talking about pop econ - that's the talking points the normies get exposed to. Its not the real thing.
Thank god for the internet... Probably 80% of my studying is just searches or AI prompting. But without the class, I'd be unaware of a lot of things to search, so there'd be massive gaps.
Its at least half hands on. All classes have labs, and you can/should join a real lab outside of class.
Saying that economists are in the category of business is like saying that biologists are plants.
Studying plants does not make you a plant. Or a cell, or whatever. Studying the behavior of businesses does not make you a business.
Its just crazy that econ usually isn't considered a STEM field. Its more STEM than most STEM... I recently shocked a PhD microbiologist when I told her how far we go into statistics. She gave me a spiel about how much stats you need for bio - that shits done, like done 2x, at least.
One minute ago I learned what plasmids are. I feel like reality just changed. Suddenly bacteria look more like programmable factories than disease causing germs.
There's already some level of sneaky intelligence going on with the AIs most of us are using. The other day, I was brainstorming with an AI to solve a problem with a thing I want to build, and it guided me into mentally inventing q-PCR and then revealed that it's a real thing, along with all the usual blowing of hot air that they do. It was like the thing already had an idea and was trying to get a human to implement it.
Definitely. Or whenever it lands. Thereabouts
My current biology class isn't molecular enough. I'm getting bored. I honestly don't care about naming and classifications. I like knowing how shit works, and shit works regardless of the names assigned to them.
Fuck dying ; study biology, make sure the singularity happens.
They really should teach Mises in econ programs. Also I don't think economics is a finished or fully developed science. It can be further developed in at least two directions - one where it merges with electrical engineering, and one where it merges with Jungian psych, since its really just what you get when you do psychology with numbers.
"Biotech" is redundant and annoying. Biology is the mature form of technology. Its the final form, the real deal. I am reminded of that other super annoying word phrase thing - "avian bird flu." Remember that round of collective retardation? Every few years, the matrix glitches and tries to generate the most irritating thing for all the NPC's to mindlessly repeat.
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Idk why companies with websites want me to use their wpp so badly, but I don't trust it. What's wrong with running that crap out of a website? So... No.
Did it used to guarantee these things?
In economics, they actually teach that inflation causes economic actors to choose not to defer purchases, and that that is good for the economy because it increases spending. This is at least partially wrong, and I'm amazed it wasn't obvious immediately.
First, it's questionable whether anyone actually chooses to buy now rather than later for fear if inflation. When you want or need something, do you rush to do it before inflation makes it more expensive? If you live during a hyper inflationary period, sure, but not normally. And that behavior actually makes inflation worse, and is often the trigger that pushes high inflation into hyperinflation. But maybe you're buying some production input in bulk and want to lock in the price by using futures contracts, like when a chemical company buys a shipload of oil, or a cereal company buys a shitload of oats. Is that motivated by a desire to beat inflation? No, its motivated by a desire to have predictable prices. And besides, any futures contract has a seller as well as a buyer - sellers are likewise motivated by a need for predictability, not a need to move production forward to beat inflation, and even if either side was motivated by inflation, the other side cancels it. Upward price pressure from demand is cancelled by downward price pressure from selling : if net more buyers enter the market, upward pressure pushes prices up, but that logic doesn't apply to inflation because inflation is a trend, a long term phenomenon, and is subject also to suppliers responding to the increased price by supplying more. Some goods certainly are more price inelastic than others, where there are greater hurdles to supply expansion, so if purchases of such goods are pulled forward, there will be inflation in that sector, but then you have to answer the question of whether those prices will sustain the upward trend or if they'll pause and wait for the rest of the economy to catch up, assuming there's some rational equilibrium (which is itself a shaky proposition sometimes).
Second, its questionable whether bringing purchases forward is actually "good for the economy" (in quotes because: what does that actually mean?) Supposing that inflation actually does bring purchases forward, how long can that be sustained? There is an assumption that the economic actors have some reservoir of savings, either their own savings or the borrowed savings of others, with which they can increase their spending. But that's probably mostly wrong too, since a company sitting on cash is forgoing opportunities. But that logic can't be applied only partially - it must also be applied to debt. If a company is able to borrow, its rational to do so, as long as expected returns from an expansion of operations exceed the cost of the debt. Since the first (and possinly only) axiom of economics is to assume that economic actors are rational, then it follows that all actors are tapped out and at their limit for borrowing. Then it follows that they can't respond to an expectation of inflation with earlier or more spending. If there are some that, for whatever reason, needed to see that inflation to start behaving rationally, then it must be outliers, unless you think you can invalidate the first principle and foundation of economics.
But let's suspend our disbelief and suppose that this phenomon of purchases moving forward actually occurs - is it "good for the economy"? Well, if debt is being used to make the purchases, then you are moving debt accumulation forward as well as purchases. What's the cause of recessions? Its debt. Businesses reach the rational limit that they can borrow, and stop borrowing. Since the purpose of taking on debt it to expand operations, it follows that a recession is when businesses stop expanding operations, and it follows that debt has reached its maximal growth for the current size of the economy. Now, if its rational to take debt as long as there's a return greater than that debt's interest, then the point where businesses stop taking new debt is when new operations have zero return. And the cost of debt increases the more you already have (yes, its nonlinear, I know you can get more credit as a consumer the more you have) - creditors are also rational economic actors, and avoid lending to someone likely to default, and the highly the chance if default, the higher return they'll need to be persuaded to take the risk. So, you have to assume that businesses are at or near their limit for borrowing - not that its impossible to borrow more, but that its not rational to to so, since its likely that the interest expense will exceed returns. Now, what happens when sales slow? Then they're losing money, since the debt they used to expand was based on an expectation of future returns. And now you want to add to that, the proposition that expectations of inflation cause actors to buy (meaning borrow) more now rather than later? Instant recession. This is not how I would define "good for the economy."
Conclusion : its hogwash. Inflation does not accelerate purchases or the economy as a whole. Its a bold faced lie. Future note : deflation (also slows the economy). Other future note : it would be better to incentivize saving than spending, and having an I nation target instead of a savings target is utter idiocy.
The future of computer science is biology.
The future of nanotech is biology.
The future of materials science is biology.
In the beginning and the end, its all biology. Full circle.
Oh I see... Interesting. You may be on to something there
Risk seeking when avoiding losses? Not sure I follow. Example?
🤔 I keep hearing communists say that capitalism doesn't work without growth. I disagree. If you were in "degrowth" (which is actually what these imbeciles call it), only capitalism could efficiently allocate increasingly scarce resources.
Oh fun, another wave of bots on nostr... Here we go again, which relay do I have to cut...
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Predictably, I am now sick with a sore throat. I'm surrounded by thousands of kids... I guess I should be surprised it took this long.
🤔 there could be such an epic castle on that rock...
I don't have a decent answer, but I'd bet the answer has something to do with those kings being held hostage by their parliaments, which actually happened. Some were even murdered by their captors. Its probably similar to how Biden disappeared during his presidency but fake signatures kept the executive order train rolling.
There were children fishing there today. No sunbathing fish pics today
🤔 reflexes might be more fun, tho... I'm gonna ninja creep up on em
So I'm spending a couple hours walking every day now. I need it. Anyways, I feel like I've made a discovery or something... There's a small lake I walk past, and every day thus week I've been hearing a big splash as I approach it. Today I finally saw the culprit - there's little fish, about the size of my palm, sunbathing in the shallowest part. Who ever heard of fish sunbathing? They're just laying out, soaking up sun, like some of these chicks at the university clearly must do.
Tomorrow I'll try being sneaky and get a pic
They don't use Alibaba's services from within Brave. They have dedicated apps, like Alipay.
Brave didn't do shit.
The eastern or newer additions to the new soviet empire have been complaining for years that the EU forces its vegetables into their markets while using regulations to destroy their domestic producers
I'm no fan of communism, which in practice really only means a state with no limits, but I also noticed that my health dramatically improved when I lived in China, and then immediately nosedived when I returned to the US. They don't buy our soy. And every time America tries to make a trade agreement with China, they (we) try to push GMO soy on them. That soy is a weapon, and China knows it.
It might fragment, but that also only strengthens the EU. The superstate doesn't want powerful substrates that can get their own way. The EU **_wants_** to destroy the states that comprise it, and it purposely stokes regionalism wherever it can. Its trying to Balkanize Spain, and will certainly do it to Italy too.
I wish, but I don't think so. I think everything we call a flaw in it is actually a strength. It is stronger by having masses of stupid brainwashed people, and its stronger by having those people dependent on the state. Defying the natural laws of economics actually strengthens it because all the ruined lives and livelihoods can only go begging to the state, or jump through whatever hoops it contrives to secure an advantaged position. States are only made stronger by being worse.
Its corruption. The whole point in democracy is to facilitate corruption. The soy big ag gets a protected market, the pharmaceuticals companies also get a market, and all the politicians get kickbacks or stocks. And everyone is hoodwinked because its taboo to say what democracy really is, and in polite society only the pageantry and false moral superiority of praising democracy is permissible.
I definitely don't miss it 😂
No, I need to release muuuuuch more
Well... I guess I'm the guy that pulls that average up.
This is how baby lawnmowers are made
2nd day of class, in my retarded quest to learn biology... I'm hating this. Looking back, those intense summer classes were heavenly. I basically had the campus to myself. Now the Stpuid is so thick you could cut it with a knife. And summer classes move at a pace I can handle - this shit now is so slow... Like, my bio 2 professor is actually going to spend 6 class periods **_on one chapter!!_** In summer class, you get half of one class per chapter. Skim it, or skip it, but its on you, and thank god for that because you can just relax and focus. This spoon-dribbling crap puts me on edge. I have to spend **_3 weeks_** on one fucking chapter!?!? And then there's the bus. I can't drive. Stroke... need a neurologist to clear me to drive again, and I don't think that's happening soon. I am literally spending more time just waiting for the bus to show up (its a university city bus, not the yellow big bird buses of our younger imprisonment) than I am taking the classes. I've travelled - I've used buses in various countries. Never. Nevvvvvvvver have I seen a worse managed bus system. Pick your third world shit hole, and I guarantee its better than this.
If you can set up either, you can also just roll dice and use a strong passphrase
Strange that Rousseau is so loved by the left
I've been trying for two hours to turn this off and go to bed, but every time I try, he says something amazing and I have to keep listening. Definitely don't listen to this!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8M4i9fvq1M
I need more info about them too
The need for bitcoin is just so obvious... Like, you have free and fair trade on one hand, and imperialism on the other hand... You can trade and get rich and find infinite win-win situations forever and there's absolutely no limit to what's possible, or you can fester and be poor and angry and limited and fight until inevitable extinction. Its so fucking obvious. Is the whole world just retarded?
In last night's dream, I was playing Space Engineers and, quite wonderfully, had Shostakovich's Walz #2 playing throughout the dream.
So of I course I had to look it up and hear it for real, and I'm pretty sure I've linked this before, but damn its good!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhYAS1Kyp8
Never seen the whole thing before...
So many drugs, so little time 😂
Yeah there's definitely some stuff going on from the one sided symptoms, but all I can get from doctors is a puzzled look. I don't think we have one iota of the medical/bio knowledge we all imagine we have
