R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@fugueish@infosec.exchange Generalizing about a "Global South" is always misleading. My experiences here have little to do with what effect these changes have had on Mexico, Afghanistan, Indonesia, or Botswana. Maybe is as you say some of those places.

@fugueish@infosec.exchange Here in the "Global South" [blech] we also got cheap ride-hail and delivery services; are not cheap any more but are still a lot safer and more convenient than the corrupt criminal taxi system. Have improved the quality of life in that way. Not sure about the invisible underpaid workers. The visible gig workers report much higher satisfaction than with traditional jobs, but are much more precarious.

@ChofuAlum @ct_bergstrom Feynman wrote entertaining stories about such corruption in Brazil.

@peterme Your laptop is on the same LAN as the home server? Maybe the home server's network connection is slow. It is faster to transfer them from other places to the home server by sshing into it and wgetting them?

@ChofuAlum @ct_bergstrom Does who mean that?

More important than communicating with numbers is communicating with logical arguments. Accountants communicate with numbers but rarely show something surprising is true beyond all doubt.

@peterme Question unclear. Transfer them to your home server from where?

@ct_bergstrom Think this is actually more important than solving equations. Intuition for how things act at x → ∞, x → -∞, x = 0, y = 0, denominator → 0 is street fighting mathematics.

@0x0ddc0ffee That it feel better!

@ct_bergstrom Maybe is useful to be able to logically deduce asymptotes, intercepts, singularities, etc., for reasons more important than graphing them? Also is easy to graph things with Matlab or Jupyter and not notice the singularities

Death is preventable. Every day about 150.000 people die, because we do not yet have the technology to prevent their deaths.

Every day that we delay the arrival of that technology kills 150.000 people.

Every two months of delay kills ten million people, the same death toll as the Holocaust or COVID-19.

That's why is urgent to build and use AI, solar energy, Library Genesis, and other such generally applicable technology. Decelerationists are mass murderers.

@mmasnick How we know unsecured debtholders were treated like equity holders and not like depositors?

@aeva Software paleoethnobotany: "What the fuck were they smoking when they wrote this?"