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dakr commented on When random people give money to random other people (2017) quomodocumque.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/munificent

msgodel · 3 months ago

What incentive is there to work to become rich if you have to give it away anyway?

dakr · 3 months ago

This argument reminds me of theists asking, "without a god, what is there to keep you from being amoral and running around killing people?"

Humans are capable of and do, in fact, act on more than just one or two simplistic external levers. We have agency, understanding, and drive to have empathy and to create.

dakr commented on NASA Is Worth Saving caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

knowitnone · 3 months ago

that a very vague vision; a bunch of words with no actual goals.

It used to be "land on the moon" - they've done that. A space telescope - they've done that many times. What is their goal now because I don't know and most Americans don't know but NASA certainly want us to pay millions for their toys. Set a goal, ask for funding. At this point, NASA shouldn't even be ran but the government. Run a patreon and have citizens pony up the money. Those who support NASA can fund NASA.

dakr · 3 months ago

You've probably heard it before, but research and progress go hand in hand, and science is not synonymous with unpractical. For example, data from NASA missions that track water over the globe are used by climate scientists, yes, but also farmers, local water management agencies, and the military. These projects that account for less than half a penny of each dollar spent by the US govt. have a wide range of audiences and uses.

dakr commented on NASA Is Worth Saving caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

knowitnone · 3 months ago

No.

What else is there for NASA to accomplish scientifically speaking? land on the next planet but for what purpose?

They've got the James Webb out there but what has that revealed for us except better quality images. Do you care if you find out certain planet has O2, C, H20? I certainly don't.

You can argue that NASA has developed some tech that is used in our everyday live but I argue we could have developed that same tech without going to space.

dakr · 3 months ago

But who would have had the idea to make the technology? We don't know what's possible until after we do it. Science research pays dividends in knowledge and technology that we didn't know to look for otherwise.

dakr commented on NASA Is Worth Saving caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

jeremyjh · 3 months ago

That's right. NASA's assigned piece was to build a rocket that could fly to the moon. They agreed to do it, and they spent the money. They have not built the rocket and never intended to.

dakr · 3 months ago

I don't think it's as simple as that. Many strings were attached, many changes were made to work that had already started. It's a mess to be sure, and NASA was not the only cook in the kitchen by a long shot. I'll just leave this here, people can make of it what they will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

dakr commented on NASA Is Worth Saving caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

jeremyjh · 3 months ago

Yeah I don't get to choose what I work on either. I still try to actually do what I have promised to do.

dakr · 3 months ago

At your work you're hopefully not held responsible for the business decisions made above you, just your assigned piece.

dakr commented on NASA Is Worth Saving caseyhandmer.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

jeremyjh · 3 months ago

The article is concerned with the fact that NASA is incapable of fulfilling its missions. It says NASA has spent $100B on a moon rocket that cannot go to the moon and will not go to the moon. NASA is worth saving not because someone is talking about cutting it, but because it has already been lost and needs to be recovered.

dakr · 3 months ago

A rocket it was told to spend money on by lawmakers. It's not NASA's own creation.

dakr commented on Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/voxadam

palmfacehn · 3 months ago

Wherever budget cuts are proposed, you can rely upon detractors to present the issue in apocalyptic terms. If we believed all of these claims, then it would be impossible to cut the scope of government spending. Furthermore, if we accepted the premise promoted by some commenters here, then research, which is presented as incredibly valuable - would be unable to be funded or valued in the private market. For these reasons I regard this topic to be filled with political hyperbole.

Yes, there will be occasions where valuable research is funded by the state. It doesn't follow that this is the only way to fund research. Arguments can be made for either case. Depending on your ideological background you may find some of them amenable. Pragmatism may also play a role. However, presentations like this are completely divorced from reason.

dakr · 3 months ago

If it were cutting back, I can see your point. This, however, is a gutting. The proposal is a nearly 25% cut in one year to a funding level not seen since 1961. Talent will leave, institutional knowledge will leave, and rapidly. Knowledge transfer will not happen and projects beyond those explicitly cut may falter (people work on multiple projects).

Keep in mind, NASA accounts for ~0.4% of the national budget. We're not saving a ton of money here, just killing expertise and ceding space excellence to other countries

dakr commented on Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/voxadam

vlod · 3 months ago

The All-In-Podcast recently interviewed (1-1) Jared Isaacman (NASA admin nominee) about the bloat.

Worth watching the whole interview ~1 hour.

[0] Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview https://youtu.be/6YdOjoaQTOQ?si=FUeL8mJ6LwHwO_B4&t=1275

dakr · 3 months ago

The interview where several billionaires floated the idea of getting rid of congress so that private industry can then somehow operate unfettered.

dakr commented on Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/voxadam

newhope1978 · 3 months ago

so your reason that why we need them is because they are wage slaves that will eventually replace us? Why not just use the billions of dollars spent on immigration to boost wages, make life more affordable, and give tax cuts to ACTUAL AMERICANS as an incentive to have more kids?

dakr · 3 months ago

Tax cuts aren't what people are waiting for to grow their families. It's parental leave, childcare, affordable healthcare, and the feeling that the system their kids will grow up in isn't getting actively gutted in favor of the rich and religious zealots.

dakr commented on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky

no_time · 4 months ago

But that isn’t tinnitus right? I noticed mine right around the same time and I call it the “aether noise”.

To me, regular tinnitus (which I also had for a few days after concerts) could be matched and recreated with a tone generator, and is much more “in your face” despite being the same volume by the end of my ears healing.

Aether noise on the other hand sounds multi tone, not a buzz or a hum. I have not yet managed to recreate it. I can hear it all the time if I can focus on it, but it only calls attention to itself in dead silence.

Do you have visual snow by chance too?

dakr · 4 months ago

The audiologist I went to said tinnitus is anything you can hear that doesn't have an external source. In his case, he's always been able to hear his own heartbeat.