Knowing that the nature of gravity is just the curvature of spacetime, it seems arbitrary either way. I But I hadn’t heard that, interesting. Like that other commenter, my first thought was “the enemy gate is down”.

You always have to define what “up” and “down” mean. On earth, we define “down” as the direction gravity pulls, and “up” as the opposite of that. But out in space, that definition obviously doesn’t make sense, which is why you’re asking.

So either,

1. there is no up or down anymore, or
2. we come up with a new definition

One of the common definitions astronauts come up with is relative to the “plane of our solar system”. If you can imagine a giant piece of paper cutting through the middle of the sun, and extending out so big that it also cuts through all all the planets that are orbiting it, that’s called the plane of the solar system. Then we say “up” is one side of that paper, and “down” is the other side.

But again, that only works as a convention in our solar system. Wherever you are, you have to define up and down, because they don’t mean anything by themselves.

I would not say “often” better academically. It’s up to the resources the parents have. Poor families doing homeschooling end up poorly educated, wealthy educated families are more able to educate. Humans already did this up until the advent of modern public education systems.

In a public school, the idea is that both the rich family and the poor family are offered the same education, and this is better for society as a whole. I will agree that public education isn’t perfect and could be improved in almost every way, but opting for private education is leaving your child’s future up to random chance as dictated by your social status.

At some point you will try to socialize your homeschooled kid. If you live in a rough community where drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancies are relatively common, you won’t be able to avoid the same influences you’re trying to avoid in public schools. Except now it will be all they know.

IMO exposure to a larger population of people in a public school gives kids more reference for all the kinds of people in society, and control over who they want to interact with. Then it’s the parent’s job to make them feel empowered (not pressured) to make the best choice they have available.

If there is an HR dept, I would raise this with them. If you are no longer on the clock at 5pm, there’s nothing stopping you from hopping out of the vehicle wherever it is and going home. Keep a record of everything, what was asked of you and when, what action you took and when, and maybe even have a witness sign off. If they try to fire you with cause, you can sue for wrongful termination. Just remember that HR is there to prevent the company from being sued, they are not your friend.

At the end of the day, the real solution is obvious: this is what unions are for. Collective bargaining is how you even the odds with greed.

A bunch of people who couldn’t tell their left shift from their right shoelace think you don’t know what you’re talking about lol.

I agree, to a person who knows the machine, an AI is like a compiler: you know the output you’re going for, the tool helps you get there faster. Expecting you to do something the slow way because someone else doesn’t know how to code is nonsense. There is a massive difference between using it as a tool, and blindly taking generated code.

If the internet existed in the 70s, I bet people would have asked for a disclaimer on compiled assembly.

You could have thought the same about the Soviet Union in 1987. Are you counting it if the US is dismantled and a new country is established in its place?

You know that from 1979-2020 China had legislation in place to limit the number of children people were allowed to have, right? They only JUST lifted that restriction. Their population curve is very deliberate.

I think it’s much more likely that climate change disrupts the food supply and the global population takes a dive.

“A republic, if you can keep it”

It really feels like they spent decades getting the entire Republican congress, SCOTUS, and finally the president in on a Hydra cabal plan, recognizing that if everyone cooperates, the branches of govt simply transform into their own personal dictatorship. Congress’ job now is to literally just sit there and say “yeah, we’re just gonna do nothing. That’s the plan.”

They have no intentions to recognize the midterm results. Trump is more likely to personally nuke Chicago than cede a single inch of what they’ve built.

“Officer, you’re reading too much to the speed I was going. It wasn’t even on my mind, I was simply pushing the gas pedal.”

40y is half a century. You can confidently say the US will be “on top” in 2065? I’m not even confident the US is currently on top.

Meanwhile, China has all the expertise, all the manufacturing, the population, the resources. The west is floundering to cut off their oil supply in the middle east like that will do anything, but they are beating us in renewables and battery tech too. At this point, China’s best strategy is to just wait us out.

You have no basis for that claim. Following the Roman Empire, the most powerful nation on earth has been different every century. The US has already been on top for two centuries, it would be a statistical outlier at this point for it to remain that way for much longer. And if you’ve been paying attention at all, the US has almost completely eroded its soft power, is already running a deficit that would kill any other country, and is now adding the full cost of its illegal tariffs and at least one more war in the middle east to its bill.

It is looking supremely unlikely that the US will be able to call itself a superpower in a few decades.

So in other words, the next 40 years will look just like the last 1500.

The headline made me think for a second that there was a company called “Dystopic”. I thought, well at least they know…

The number of die-hard MAGA supporters is not much lower than that.

Let the little children come to me. And do not forbid them, for such is the kingdom of heaven.

The church is just unrecognizable from how I was raised. But I do suspect it will be a religious push, not a scientific one, that sees us on the other side of all this. That’s just how humans do.

I’ve not heard of those, but to me this is a competitor to the much more ubiquitous Obsidian. Which works great, and has a whole community of support, but is not open source.

Personally, I don’t need my notes app not be responsible for syncing across devices either. I already have that for other file types (photos, media, etc).

I’m not against these features being added, but this app is young, afaik it’s one person writing it, so I’d rather see their time be spent making the note taking experience as good as it can be.

I also generally wouldn’t trust one person to properly audit the security of the networking and encryption features. If I wanted those features, I’d still give the community time to peruse the codebase.

I think it makes sense to handle this at a lower level. After using other notes apps, the thing I want is for it to not have some arbitrary opaque file hierarchy that locks me into it. I want a plain dir of .md files, some resources they link to, and that’s it. If I want disk encryption, there are solutions for that. I can use something like LUKs to encrypt my whole drive, or even just the notes directory.

For android, afaik everything uses disk encryption by default.

The unix philosophy is do one thing really well. We don’t need a note taking app that also handles encryption.

No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.

That seems as reasonable as suggesting they could pass a law requiring everyone to hire a govt licensed computer user in order to interact with their devices, and otherwise touching a keyboard or touchscreen would be illegal.

It doesn’t feel like a realistic estimation of what they would actually try to do. There’s too much that is currently dependent on Linux, you’d do better to just dismantle and ban the internet.