dude, people join irl face to face cults, of course they do

We’re British

important point lol, 90s sucked in eastern block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cross_(demography)

also a couple of east asian countries like at minimum japan, south korea, taiwan were proper tinpot dictatorships until 90s

https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html

https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-ponzi.html

i can only watch in disbelief

no no no no it’s on by default so it’s opt-out, and switch for that isn’t even implemented yet

can you get methadone substitution therapy under these laws?

the death penalty for anything approach? yeah nah that would be war on drugs dialed to 11 and it sucked

CS and advanced statistics is what lots of applied math is anyway

does DSP count as maths, because there’s plenty of that in radar design. or any other sensor with some double-use potential for that matter

in this economy?

apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf

smokeless powder is, sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin#Industrial_exposure

it’s hacky and wrong. or you could use different hardware, maybe from competition, because result isn’t worth electricity it used

gpus as used for genai aren’t really suitable for normal loads like aerodynamic simulations, genai uses low precision data like fp8, fp4, blackwells and such are optimized for it so hard that you can’t really do anything else on this thing

oh you “did your own research”. i work in pharma and there’s plenty of real problems to be solved instead of chasing wishes of dead chinese emperors

no serious pharma company tries to do that, it’s all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality

i’m of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want

yet another reason for installing pihole

you might end up like ray kurzweil, aging no matter what despite 300 pills popped every day

thiel isn’t funding unlicensed drug trials for longevity/immortality just so that he’ll become more progressive in the process

with 200, 300 year old oligarchs values they grew up with are gonna stay influential much longer

For the record, i just intend to outlive my enemies

my background in biochemistry makes me think it’s almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don’t worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn’t, i’d argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you’ll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it’s really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on