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Blowing something up, tweaking the design a little, & blowing it up again isn't engineering. Failing repeatedly without a hard stop to re-engineer is not saving time or money. #spacex

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Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards. [Lawrence National Laboratory project to contribute to basic knowledge about the interaction between regulation and innovation.(2015)] (pdf)

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This is not simple name-calling, but a phenomenon that features actions that are so outright dysfunctional & at odds with any sensible course of action that it seems a hidden agenda could be involved. theconversation.com/donald-trump...

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"Automated 'wordmills' produce the popular fiction (or 'wordwooze') of the future." Lieber's sf satire on the writing, publishing & consumption of hack literature takes on new relevance in the AI era.

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How the tax system evolved to favor capital over labor news.mit.edu/2020/3-quest...

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Quite possible that Natalie Harp has been writing Trump's recent tweets about LA "insurrection"...they certainly lack Trump's familiar style. Imo they're also not written by Stephen Miller. www.thecut.com/article/nata...

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Fact check: True.

submitted 12 days ago • 131 comments

Reality doesn't matter. It's mediation all the way down.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Extreme weirdness as a privilege of the ultrarich

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Between regular aggression and passive aggressive is the place where I live: half-assive aggressive

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Revenge suggestions for Elon: 1) Explain how you rigged the election for Trump 2) Create the Trump pee tape we know exists

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MAGA world's reaction to Elon Musk turning on Trump & his "big beautiful bill" reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where Kirk defeats an imperious computer by confronting it with a contradiction of its own making. "It does not compute." You can almost hear circuits crackling between the lines

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

We really need to start caring about lying, as a society

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Musk's Starship misadventure reveals - again - that he isn't an engineer or a scientist. At some point, you stop tinkering & take time to do a thorough design review. Reacting quickly to multiple, variable failures in one trial after another = diminishing chances to find & fix fundamental problems.

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A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

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I can't understand the rationale for employing bizarre legal strategies like the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal aliens in the US. It's not that hard to go through the immigration courts. Clearly there's an agenda above & beyond simply cracking down on illegal immigration.

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