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It would certainly help. And how does that additional spending compare to the defense budget, or the cost of going to war?

I'm wondering the same. There are some master&dynamic models that are mostly made from metal/leather, but they're above my usual price range. I'm not really an audiophile, I'll settle for lower audio quality, but I'd prefer to wear one that doesn't have me constantly guessing whether I'm poisoning myself.


The PDF lists specific products and their results, Sony WH-1000XM5 look good, so do a few others. Purchasing a known-good model might be a good idea but I question how effective this would be, given potential variance in manufacturing processes between lots.

I use SteelSeries Arctis 1 which wasn't tested. The Arctis Nova 5 scored "red" for parts touching the skin though, so...


Neato introduction, but the text reeks of LLMs so I stopped reading.


I guess so, but if you have to keep lifting weights at home to stay competent at your job, then lifting weights is part of your job, and you should be paid for those hours.


Why the scare quotes? Would you like to be more explicit about which ideology you think she fell into, and why you consider it extremist?

edit: this book? https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-...


Look her up on TikTok, she’s not mentally well. Extreme leftist ideology is what I’m talking about.

You should read the book, it’s pretty good. Isaacson is not at all biased towards Musk, he has a lot of critical things to say about him. The author is one of the most trusted and thorough biographers of his generation and is known for extensive primary-source research.

This verge article is cope, they are a very politically biased organization. Linking to them is the equivalent of me linking to Fox News and trying to pass it off as unbiased.

Also, those are not scare quotes. His “daughter” is a man pretending to be a woman because of mental illness and extremist ideology.


It doesn’t seem that leftist to me. Are you a shrink? Or are you using some kind of folk diagnosis to determine she’s mentally unwell?

What kind of ideology strips individuals of the right of self determination to live and be called whatever they want? That’s what most civilized people call extreme.

Can you give an example of “valid” scare quotes? Or a definition even?


Is there any evidence that Rust proponents did it, or are people assuming that because Rene has been critical of Rust? That would be horrible if true, but I'd rather not jump to conclusions that fast.


You're not likely to get any useful response. This person has been spamming variations on this comment for some time now and has never bothered to substantiate their claims.


The problem with this thinking is that the US government regularly engages in actual conspiracies, which the public only finds out about much later. COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, the Tuskegee experiments, Operation Paperclip, the list goes on [1].

So, while it's true that the overwhelming majority of conspiracy theories are dumb nonsense, it remains unwise to dismiss a theory just because it is a "conspiracy theory".

[1] This is almost certainly true of other governments as well! I'm just less informed there.


The problem with this thinking is that congressional oversight committees were set up directly because of these past abuses.

It remains unwise to believe in a conspiracy theory that doesn't account for why these oversight committees would be in on the conspiracy.


Am I crazy or was the parent being sarcastic? I know it’s hard to tell but it read that way to me


You're not crazy. The parent poster stinkbeetle is incoherently angry, he has no self respect or beliefs, there is no signal in his noise, he's being obstreperous and incomprehensible on purpose, he histrionically tries to play the victim of verbal violence when challenged on his racism, and becomes unhinged when asked to explain his own point. He's just another adolescent attention starved edgelord troll. For proof, just set showdead=true and read his comment history. Pity him, for he's having a terrible Festivus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=stinkbeetle


You've become completely unhinged, you pathetic boomer, because I mildly poked fun at your secular-religion. What are you even doing you poor simpleton? Not even your fellow adherents to the faith are impressed by your mega tantrum. Time to re-evaluate your life choices.


I'm a big qntm fan. I highly recommend their "antimemetics" SCP stories and articles.


There's a new, professionally-published book version of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" out as well[1], if you want to support Sam's work that way. I have print copies of both the self-published V1 and the new V2. I'm very excited about the latter, though I haven't finished it yet.

[1]: https://qntm.org/antimemetics


One small word of caution if you read the older version first: for what I assume are copyright reasons around using SCP in a professionally-published book, the new published version has had to strip out all the SCP references and change the names of all the characters, but it is otherwise very close to the old one. There are a handful of new scenes and some other small differences, but many pages and chapters are word-for-word identical apart from the aforementioned name changes.

This could just be a me thing, but I found this incredibly distracting after being so used to the old version, and just couldn't manage to enjoy it. Fortunately I bought the old one as well.


I’ve read the older version and really liked it, strange ending and all, and I’ve gifted the new version for X-mas. My xmas wish list is for a 6 episode mini-series funded by the fruit company.


I loved this book. The audiobook is available on spotify and was a great listen.


I really enjoyed one of their other stories - Ra https://qntm.org/ra


I'll add that Lena/MMAcevedo[0] is both a wonderful story and terrifying

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo


One of my favorites!


they’re so eerily prescient


I hope qntm has the chance to traditionally publish Ra and have it edited as well. I enjoyed the book a lot, but felt it needed a solid once over.

Really enjoyed the novel though! Planning to reread it in the spring.


I love Ra -- Fine Structure is also great!


Ra was a disappointment for me. If you end up rewriting your entire world at the end of the book, it is an intellectual failing to tackle the main issues straight on. Combine it with an mc who suddenly becomes just an idiot walked around and what you end up with is some SV eschatonism. Lots of preaching and ready conclusions, but little to return to later.


Looks like they got a publishing deal: https://qntm.org/publ


> Also, you're responding to an argument I didn't make. I said nothing about intersex people or any "one-drop rule"

@Defletter can see your comment history, as can I!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176554

When I noticed you gave up on our argument, I thought I'd see what else you were up to. It seems your only goal on this site is to defend JKR. Unfortunately, JKR's views don't actually make sense, which explains why none of your arguments in defense of her make sense either.


I was rate-limited so didn't reply. And when I went back to that thread the next day and remembered you were pretending not to know what the male sex is or human sex development works, decided not to bother wasting any more time.


Much like LLM output, I don't think Altman's words have any meaningful or consistent relationship to the truth.


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