spacebanana7 (u/spacebanana7)

spacebanana7 commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd

testing22321 · a day ago

You think illegal aliens working - by definition- illegally, show up on reports like this?

sigh If only the department of education was as well funded as the department of war.

spacebanana7 · a day ago

It’s a non trivial question.

Estimates of criminal activity, for example, are frequently counted as GDP in places like the UK. And even if you’re working in violation of visa rules, the IRS will still expect and enforce taxes.

spacebanana7 commented on Early Christian Writings earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego

tasty_freeze · 2 days ago

Bible scholar Dan McClellan is on youtube and does short videos rebutting popular youtube/tiktok videos that make claims that aren't historical. Dan has said that the four names were not assigned to the texts until the second half of the 2nd century, probably around 180CE or so. That leaves 80-100 years where the books were in circulation before the naming convention was established.

The subject of authorship comes up frequently so he has addressed it a few times, but here is a short (under 7 minute) video. It isn't just an assertion, he gives reasons why he makes these claims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyiUg1D6N0

spacebanana7 · 2 days ago

There’s a big difference between the gospels not being cited by name directly, and not having a name. For example, the Gospels often cite Isaiah without using his name - just lifting direct quotes.

And there’re allusions to apostolic naming in things like Justin Martyr’s first apology, Ch67 (155CE, dating largely from it being co-addressed to Marcus Aurelius):

“ the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permit”

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.ii.lxvii.html

spacebanana7 commented on Early Christian Writings earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego

Salgat · 2 days ago

Mind you I am only saying the earliest known writer, it's likely that most Christian writings are lost to history. And technically we don't even know who wrote the Gospels with any certainty. Only Paul's 7 undisputed letters are universally accepted by secular scholarship as being genuinely authored by Paul, the authorship of the rest of the New Testament is disputed.

spacebanana7 · 2 days ago

There has never been a manuscript of a Gospel with anyone other than the traditional author attributed. And they’ve always been cited by the traditional names - even in Islamic, Jewish or heretical writings.

The arguments made in favour of Paul’s authenticity largely come from internal textual cues - but is that really more persuasive?

I don’t mean to suggest too strongly one side of the Gospel authorship debate over the other, only that these issues mix objective facts with subjective interpretation in a way that makes it very difficult to outsource to scholarly consensus.

spacebanana7 commented on Early Christian Writings earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego

gdwatson · 2 days ago

It’s interesting that they’re organized by date. On an intuitive level, that makes sense. But so many of the dates are hotly debated, and reorganizing the list would produce such a different impression, that it’s a surprising choice.

I am not a scholar of such things, but a quick glance at the documents I am familiar with suggests that the date ranges represent uncertainty within the compiler’s point of view. That’s reasonable, but when it’s linked out of context it’s not immediately obvious that it doesn’t reflect the range of debate in the broader secular scholarship, let alone secular and conservative religious scholarship taken together. So caveat lector.

That said, the breadth of documents linked here is really impressive.

spacebanana7 · 2 days ago

Historical documents should really have four dates:

1) Oldest full manuscript to be carbon dated (or similarly rigorous scientific dating) 2) Oldest fragments to be carbon dated 3) Oldest citations 4) Estimated date from internal factors within the text

The initial methods would serve as an objective upper bound for age, and the later would give a more accurate subjective view.

spacebanana7 commented on Early Christian Writings earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego

Salgat · 2 days ago

Most people don't realize this but Paul is the earliest known Christian writer and the earliest surviving source for the Gospel. His letters also independently corroborate not only Jesus' existence as a real person (in addition to secular sources), but also that Jesus' close followers genuinely believed they met Jesus' resurrected form. Since Paul's witness is dated to within 3-5 years of Jesus' death, this also shows that the Gospel didn't develop as a myth/legend, but as something people genuinely believed who had personally met Jesus. It's a fascinating story of a Jewish religious scholar who hallucinates on the road to Damascus, has a sudden complete change of heart, and ends up transforming Christianity from a local Jewish cult into a worldwide religion.

Another fascinating topic in biblical study is the criterion of embarrassment, where the early Christian writings left in bizarre and unflattering events that members of a cult would generally leave out. The most obvious example is the crucifixion itself (considered by Jews to be extremely shameful and cursed), the repeated unflattering presentation of the disciples (portrayed as regularly confused, lacking in faith, petty about status, falling asleep at critical moments, even rejecting Jesus at the end), even Jesus' own despair when he was publicly humiliated and executed, crying out asking God why he was forsaken. This is in contrast to Islam, which has Jesus rescued and replaced at the moment of execution.

spacebanana7 · 2 days ago

I feel we should be hesitant about claims like this. It might well be true that Paul was the earliest writer.

But it also seems strange that Matthew, a presumably literate tax collector, wrote nothing at all before Paul despite being a disciple during the time Jesus was around.

spacebanana7 commented on Early Christian Writings earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego

final_aeon · 2 days ago

What's the answer? Why have they diverged so much?

spacebanana7 · 2 days ago

The Catholic answer is relatively straightforward in terms of decisions at various councils (or similar structures) about the trinity, iconoclasm, clerical celibacy etc.

With some mix of apostolic succession providing authority and the Holy Spirit guiding the big picture.

spacebanana7 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

seg_lol · 3 days ago

Your numbers don't line up, if you are spending 5k in cloud costs, and on prem is 1/3 of cloud. At 48 month replacement cycle, 1/3 of 5k * 48 months is 80k. So it is 80k vs 5k a month for 48 months.

I think the primary reason that people over fixate on the cloud is that they can't do math. So renting is a hedge.

spacebanana7 · 3 days ago

It’s not really about the numbers though.

Even spending 10k recurring can be easier administratively that spending 10k on a one time purchase that depreciates over a 3 year cycle in some organisations because you don’t have to go into meetings to debate whether it’s actually a 2 or 4 year depreciation or discuss opportunity costs of locking up capital for 3 years etc.

Getting things done is mostly a matter of getting through bureaucracy. Projects fail because of getting stuck in approvals far more often than they fail because of going overbudget.

spacebanana7 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

TonyStr · 4 days ago

Capex may also require you to take out loans

spacebanana7 · 3 days ago

Which is incredibly difficult in the public sector. Yes, there are various financing instruments available for capital purchases but they're always annoying, slow and complicated. It's much easier to spend 5k per month than 500k outright.

spacebanana7 commented on xAI joins SpaceX spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork

Ms-J · 6 days ago

I'm not endorsing merely listing, but yes Blue origin.

You are correct about the issues of navigating the DoD but that isn't a reason to accept these assholes the process needs to be open to normal companies and promote standards without any grifter connections.

spacebanana7 · 5 days ago

Yeah I hope their procurement becomes more open, but feel pessimistic because that’s been an ongoing simplification project for decades.

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cwal37 · 5 days ago

> As someone who generally stays out of politics, I didn’t know much about the incoming administration’s stance towards tariffs, though I don’t think anyone could have predicted such drastic hikes.

I have an appreciation for very bright lamps, and the project is neat, but that stuck out to me.

I'm always fascinated by people who both feel comfortable ignoring maybe the single most impactful society-determining apparatus but will also say "no one could have seen that coming", where that is whatever they were unaware of because they chose to check out. I find the stance so fascinating because for myself, it would be impossible to not try and understand why the world is the way it is.

Everything is downstream of politics whether people want to recognize that or not, and choosing to ignore it is, in fact, a political choice.

spacebanana7 · 5 days ago

I had a university friend who spent hundreds of hours on his YouTube channel whilst the rest of spent hundreds of hours arguing about politics.

He’s now unimaginably successful at YouTube but at least I’m better at predicting the content of tomorrow’s newspapers.