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Probably my favorite description so far

https://anycrap.shop/product/broken-clock-that-s-right-thric...

This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.

Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.


It's just a clock going backwards with half the normal speed.


It generalizes to the formula r = -(n - 2)/2, so if we want a clock which is right every second, we could have a clock going backwards 43,199 the normal speed...


Another possibility with this idea is to have a normal clock but with the 3 and the 9 numbers inversed (going backwards at normal speed). Such a clock will be right 4 times per day.


Bike licensing has never and will never work. Plenty of cities have tried it and it doesn't make a difference.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/why-bicyc...


Your stats are backwards. Motorists do not follow the law 95% of the time, it's more like 34% of the time. It's cyclists who follow the law 95% of the time.

> A new study from the Danish Road Directorate shows that less than 5% of cyclists break traffic laws while riding yet 66% of motorists do so when driving.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists...

Cyclists break the law to avoid being killed by law-breaking motorists who think they're the only people who belong on the road and refuse to share it. Oh and if you want to talk just traffic signals, 84% of cyclists stop at red lights. It's nowhere near your made up 95% figure and there's no data to support that number. It's just a myth drivers tell themselves to hate cyclists.

> “The popular press portrays bicyclists as reckless and a pervasive problem with potentially dire consequences,” said the trio, noting that other studies have shown that the “red-light running bicyclist angers drivers more than any other road user behavior.”

> (A Transport For London camera study of 7,500 cyclists at five junctions found in 2007 that, contrary to popular perception, most cyclists do not run reds: 84% of the cyclists stopped at red traffic lights.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorist...


So if you have Neuralink (or anything similar that gets released in the future) you can be convicted of thoughtcrimes and that's a-ok?

What exactly is "on you" in this scenario? In your world is someone with Neuralink allowed to take their brain images and use that as an outline for a sketch they're drawing or you're not allowed to think of anyone naked ever again?


I've been in the exact same scenario twice and what I've learned is that internal tools (especially in big companies) only get "deprecated" but it's hard to abandon them completely.

I've found the decision to "deprecate" tools, especially long established ones, comes along with political shenanigans and especially so when the tool is used by multiple teams with competing interests. One team usually can yell louder than all the other teams and force the new tool to be very specific to their workflow, but because other teams have different workflows the new tool won't work for them. So you're in this limbo of supporting both forever until everyone can agree to switch to the new tool or someone important enough decides to completely turn off the deprecated tool.


It's hasn't been a conspiracy theory since the Panama papers came out. Everyone is now aware of the extent rich people go to use tax havens and are rightfully upset. They make record profits, encourage irresponsible consumerism, and don't even pay their fair share for the damage they inflict upon the world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/panama-paradise-pandora-pap...

Furthermore there's a reason rich people flock to places like Delaware, Washington, or California. Those states all have tax schemes that allow the wealthy to pay the least amount of taxes.

Hell us rubes even suffer through coach so that the ultra wealthy's luxury jets are subsidized.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ultra-wealthy-private-flyers...

We understand exactly what they're doing, just because we don't agree with it doesn't make us ignorant or uneducated.


People flock to Delaware because it's the most corporate-friendly state, especially regarding regulations and court cases.

Washington and California are two massive economies, so it's no surprise that rich people flock there.

If this CEO wanted to register a shell company to dodge taxes, he would have done it in better places than Southlake, Texas [1]. Anyone can register an LLC as long as they have valid identification and pay the $300 Texas filing fee...nothing nefarious.

Talking about the Panama Papers will be a long story, but notice how relatively few Americans are on that list. It was mostly people from developing countries with weak rule of law and high levels of corruption...the type where rich folks hide assets to avoid the government or rival business goons coming for it, and it's much easier to cheat taxes in those countries because of weak law enforcement.

1- https://pitchbook.com/profiles/limited-partner/232176-79


California and Washington are amongst two of the most regressive tax systems in the United States.

They punish the poor more than the rich in both those states. That's why they flock there and the size of their economy is a side effect of that.


California of all places doesn't have low taxes for wealthy people. Its tax system actually depends on wealthy people. (IPOs specifically)

It has low taxes for people who've lived there a long time.


TempleOS feels a little different because Terry was fairly well-known in the community and didn't try to hide his identity. I'm pretty sure he went to conferences and has met with actual people who could verify his identity.

I haven't seen proof that Jia Tan is a real person and to me that's the most malicious part of the attack. I'm pretty confident that whoever is hiding behind the Jia Tan identity is a well adjusted individual (or group) and knows exactly what they're doing. It feels far too coordinated and careful to chalk up to a psychotic episode or manic behavior.


Probably no data. China will not make data publically available if it makes them look bad.


How would they stop data from being collected by NASA satellites?


That sounds easy to solve - tell them to go pound salt. If it's a private mailing list where you're judge, jury, and executioner why would you cater to people who are looking to cause problems? Let them leave, there's a billion more people out there to join your list.

Moderation is easy. Moderating without hurting the feelings of anonymous strangers is hard.


The list is basically dead, has been for a while, but in its heyday had a very effective moderation by mockery and abuse: The Cult of Father Darwin (https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3209&cid=1412491).


> That sounds easy to solve - tell them to go pound salt.

Then your life becomes easy, because your mailing list becomes empty.


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