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lake_vincent commented on Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (please), but don't we still lack any kind of fundamental definition of what dark energy/matter is other than..."the cause of the difference between what is calculated, and what is observed"? To the point that we aren't even really sure that there is such a "thing" as dark matter (in that it exists in any conventional sense)?

From Wikipedia: "Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe...The primary evidence for dark matter comes from calculations showing that many galaxies would behave quite differently if they did not contain a large amount of unseen matter. Some galaxies would not have formed at all and others would not move as they currently do."

85% is kind of a lot of "stuff" to be missing...

I find it kind of funny that humans are so confident that our models of reality are correct that we truly think it's more likely there's just hidden "stuff" than there's just something hugely wrong with our idea of what the universe really is, and how it works. Our physics works great in a lot of circumstances, but to be missing 85% of the damn universe might imply we are wildly off base when it comes down to the true nature of things.

Obviously, I don't have an explanation myself, and I understand that we can only work with the evidence we have, but I think it's a sign we need to radically rework our basic assumptions about reality, and not just look for our missing keys...

Perhaps black holes are the right place to look, but not as a cubby hole for our missing stuff - rather, as a path to transforming our assumptions about reality.

lake_vincent commented on Why You’re Angry at Netflix   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sharkweek
crossroadsguy · 3 years ago
Because it takes my money and makes me the product. It deploys pathetic dark patterns to make its catalogue look like its worth something. Actively hinders my attempt to search, browse to something I actually might find worth watching, however in most cases it doesn’t have that something. Whenever I see that red “N” on any program’s banner/thumbnail I almost get a mild repulsion anticipating its signature formula production shite show/film. But I am not really angry. I kind of feel disgusted by Netflix at this point.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
I feel the same way about the red 'N', and that association on a large scale is very bad for business. Once your logo becomes a marker for something to avoid, your brand is toast. Very hard to reverse such a perception.
lake_vincent commented on Ask HN: Will Google ever launch a successful new product again?    · Posted by u/CM30
rrdharan · 3 years ago
[infrastructure bias]

Kubernetes and TensorFlow should count, and are successful.

AlloyDB is IMO most likely to be successful (especially since AWS Aurora already proved the market): https://cloud.google.com/alloydb

Since this question seems to be much more about the consumer side, I think both Google Home and YouTube TV are independently considered successful though I have no doubt many people will chime in to note how much they hate either or both of those things.

lake_vincent · 3 years ago
It's interesting how legacy companies are not making exciting consumer/commercial products anymore, but infrastructure and technical projects are booming.

Google TensorFlow and DeepMind, Microsoft WSL2, Meta AI, etc. Also worth mentioning the many quiet efforts to get quantum computing off the ground.

lake_vincent commented on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks   twitter.com/pnikosis/stat... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
whatwherewhy · 3 years ago
Well, Gates is an asshole, Jobs was an asshole - where's the middleground? Maybe niceness leads to [business] mediocrity.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Just because the Great Pyramids were built with slavery doesn't mean that slavery is okay, or that there is not a better way to build a pyramid.
lake_vincent commented on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks   twitter.com/pnikosis/stat... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
rapsey · 3 years ago
To produce great work you also need some pressure. Otherwise people will get real lazy very quickly.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Exactly, which is why I am advocating precisely for giving people what they need. Some people need pressure to perform optimally, others don't. Some people need to put in 80 hours of work per week, others don't. It is simple and humane to approach it this way.
lake_vincent commented on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks   twitter.com/pnikosis/stat... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
jmbwell · 3 years ago
Years ago, I worked at a place that attempted this. They were so giddy about it. There wasn’t even a known leak, or, arguably, anything particularly worth leaking. They were just tickled by the idea that they could gotcha anyone who tried to leak something.

Then, as now, it strikes me as little more than sad and paranoid Tom Clancy cosplay.

I’d like to say I’ve moved on to a place with a culture of trust and faithfulness, but it doesn’t seem like anyone really trusts anyone anywhere anymore, and recent general infatuation with petty lords of chaos doesn’t seem to be helping.

So here we are, everyone fantasizing about espionage.

lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Indeed. For example, Musk fancies himself a champion of "hard work" but what he fails to realize is that humans have not actually merged with robots yet, and we still have human needs.

If innovation and brilliant thinking are part of your brand, you actually get higher quality work, sustained over a longer period of time, if you actually back off on the whip-cracking and just give people what they need to produce great work.

You get slightly slower growth, but more area under the curve in the long run.

lake_vincent commented on Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?   statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/jeffreyrogers
lmm · 3 years ago
Right back at you. You're making a whole bunch of assertions which are, to say the least, not widely accepted, and unsupported by any evidence or logic.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-indisputable-role-of-credi...

If you think this is not really happening, you are naive at best, complicit at worst.

lake_vincent commented on Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?   statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/jeffreyrogers
lmm · 3 years ago
Crime had very little relevance to 2008. I'm sure there was a certain amount of fraud going on, just as at every store there's a certain amount of "shrinkage", but the crisis was a good old-fashioned boom-and-bust cycle.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
I honestly cannot tell if you are joking/trolling or are just completely ignorant to the reality of what happened.
lake_vincent commented on Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?   statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/jeffreyrogers
cercatrova · 3 years ago
Well, I suppose there is no rehabilitating cult members. Your reasoning also doesn't make much sense, we can agree that there is financial crime in that time period while also acknowledging that superstonk-esque manipulation isn't happening. You're basically trying to equivocate that just because something in the category of financial crime happened before that it must also be the case that your Ken Griffin conspiracy theory is also true. It's a more general fallacy that is often seen online, not just in this instance.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
It's the exact opposite, bud.

You very strongly compared my theories with QAnon, which is actual Alice-in-Wonderland level crazy. To compare financial crime theories that (given the precedent) could very well be true , to fucking QAnon is ridiculous, and I found it extremely condescending.

You can disagree, and you can bring up valid arguments, but your posture was offensive and has no place here.

lake_vincent commented on Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?   statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/jeffreyrogers
cercatrova · 3 years ago
This is straight out of /r/superstonk or /r/wallstreetbets. The conspiracy theories about Citadel, Ken Griffin and Robinhood rival QAnon levels of culting. I've heard it said that these theories, including GME, are like QAnon for people interested in personal finance rather than politics.
lake_vincent · 3 years ago
Lol, right, because things like this have never happened before. In particular, the years 1998 - 2008 were devoid of financial crime, and are a decade of restrained, ethical capitalism that we should all aspire to. Gentlemen of Wall Street today are just trying to return us to that gilded age, and any suggestion to the contrary is conspiratorial madness I do say, good chap!

Thank you for pointing out my severe mental illness and inability to think clearly about such lofty matters. I'll go take my meds now.

u/lake_vincent

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