prepare for a potential influx, /r/CTH might be a banned subreddit, partially for glorifying violence against slaveholders.

Looks like the link got DMCAed

I was surprised to see tickets sell out for them 4 months in advance on both dates.

Pedantic? I don't know which of these are inflation-adjusted. If you're going to bring up numbers as an authoritative source, you better have backing.

I don't think ergdj5 is explaining it. Ziq had created many sockpuppet accounts to populate Raddle in its early days to create the illusion that it was more active and more of a community than it was at the time, which was seen by many as a betrayal of trust, and Ziq saw as necessary to bootstrap a social media platform. I can see both sides, but mostly see it as a bit of failure of infrastructure, as other sites such as lobste.rs have an "invite tree" as a safeguard against sock puppetry, and to be honest, this whole site kind of started with controversy as it was created as a result of leftist infighting (when /r/leftwithsharpedge was banned from reddit), which I am almost able to look past because it's important that we're not on websites milk their users for ad revenue/cooperate with law enforcement/use proprietary software.

This article seems to focus on the way mathematics is taught to students, not how it's studied (as a field). It focuses on the "one right answer" approach, the pass-fail human calculator mentality that comes from standardized testing, which is the only metric by which schools get funding.

Math is useful for modeling things precisely, and making predictions from those models. It has no way of providing the answer to whether these models are accurate, whether the assumptions used are realistic or even useful.

Mostly private rocketchat/mattermost instances. Lobste.rs is open-source, but the main instance (for tech news) is invite-only. I think the fact that uses tags and not sub-forum, makes it better because it doesn't consist of fractured communities. And because the user-invite tree is transparent, it's harder to pad with sock-puppets.

Depends where you're coming from, and where you want to go. If you're anything like me, this chapter from Feynman might be a good place to start: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html

I've been wanting to give GuixSD a go, but I've got an NVidia Card on my desktop and an Intel wireless card on my laptop, so NixOS will have to do for now.

I've been doing comparative research into forum software, and the best I've seen is https://www.talkyard.io/. It doesn't aim to be a vote-driven bulletin board, more for general discussions, with either threaded tree-style comments or chat room discussion. We can set up a free forum until October, and then it's reasonably-priced after that, and I would gladly foot the bill if we were to make a community there.

The best improvement I've seen on the vote-driven social news / forum is from https://lobste.rs, which replaces sub-forums with tags. I think tags allow for more overlap between communities and more cross-talk, but unfortunately lobste.rs is invite-only and aimed at techies.

There is no end. Actions reverberate and will always have consequences, even if you're not around to observe them. Anyone who tells themself that "the end justifies the means" presupposes omniscience, and that's dangerous.

Injecting yourself with something was pretty common during the early age of vaccine hysteria to prove the safety of something (See Jonas Salk). This guy seems like he knew what he was doing, but he is aware that he's inspiring the theatrics of wreckless firms that don't know what they are doing and are just doing it for the money.

I see this often used within libertarian/capitalist circles to bash Elon Musk, but I also get the feel that it's just a proxy for the liberal purported environmentalism that he appeals to.

Anti-environment libertarians attack Elon Musk for not being a Howard Roark, while turning a blind eye to subsidies (either direct or legislative via lobbying) and government benefits that other billionaires get (probably because they have a steady diet of Koch propaganda).

I get that, but why not use "discontinuous" or something less ambiguous?

I have some sympathies with what the author is trying to communicate, but when they use language such as "quantum changes" it can lead to many challenges when it comes to physicists trying to communicate quantum mechanics to a general audience. Describing it as "quantum" intends not to describe something accurately, but to pull in the weight of another frontier of science unnecessarily, ("quantum" becomes a meaningless buzzphrase).

Not surprising considering how a significant portion of the American electorate consist of "populists" (defined here to be socially-conservative and left on economic issues) [ figure 2 from https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publications/2016-elections/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond ]

Reminds me of the surrogate on Arrested Development. Life imitates art.

We should be cautious of babe. It's an offshoot of Rupert Murdoch's the Tab, and writers only get paid if they get past a threshold of pageviews.

So are oreos, but you wouldn't expect to live a healthy balanced life off of them. You need protein and micronutrients.