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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.

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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

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

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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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