porous_grey_matter

A single diode a micrometer away from anything else is not suddenly a transformer without which a 400 um^2^ antenna stops working.

They’re fabricating micrometer components with a 90nm process. That’s pretty well in the classical regime. If they’re seeing substantial tunneling at that scale it would be rather noteworthy to say the least.

i remember there was a diode and transistor that were literally completely seperated from the traces of the rest of the chip, and yet they were functional pieces and the chip wouldnt work if you removed them. If that was true they would be getting the Nobel in physics for discovering some incredible new quantum phenomenal, it would be front-page news everywhere. I highly doubt it’s true.

But then it wouldn’t rhyme with extend :(

Ohh right i follow now

I thought vosotros was an informal second person plural, like ihr in German, jullie in Dutch, or kind of like y'all in English. Not the formal second person singular+plural that many European languages have.

Nonsense. The “it’s just opinion” canard is so tired, please just let it die. By publishing an opinion in a well regarded (deservedly or not) news outlet, they launder ideas into mainstream acceptability by announcing that a reasonable person could hold such an opinion. A reasonable person can not hold such an opinion as this. If it was published with a warning and an analysis of how dangerous this is and to make people aware of how the extreme right thinks, that would be one thing. But publishing an opinion without comment is endorsement, no matter how much people say it isn’t.

You argue like Charlie Kirk. You think you have a clever gotcha and you can probably convince children with this, but there’s no meaning. People don’t read Newton when they study Newtonian mechanics either. Unless they’re particularly interested; of course they can get something out of it, but you’d never start there. It’s not weird to name a field after the person whose ideas kicked it off.

Why wouldn’t learning about politics in depth be like academic study, though? Learning about basically anything in depth is academic study. Sure, there are valid forms of investigation or knowledge which have been shut out from academia, but even if your preferred version of knowledge is more intuitive and experience based, eventually

Why is that weird? Marx wrote in the 1800s, quite a few things have happened since then.

Love in the face of extreme pressure, caring for people at the bottom of the hierarchy, sheltering people from political persecution, staying connected to your community, are the opposite of complacency. Violent resistance is cool too tho :3

I just don’t find the argument that an (in all likelihood American or British) almost certainly anti-communist organisation writing a report about their political enemy proves anything about their level of democracy or lack thereof very compelling. Especially if those same organisations rate a system in which ordinary people have almost zero influence as being somehow more democratic. Again, I’m not saying those countries are perfectly democratic. But in my opinion these reports are pretty much worthless. Agree to disagree I guess.

I know very little about North Korea so I’m not willing to make any claims about it either way. I can tell you I don’t believe that western media or organisations will ever give accurate information about it, so I don’t buy many of the stories you hear. I’m also not saying that does make it democratic. We were talking about Cuba though. In the interest of getting on the same page, do you think people in the Anglosphere or Europe are in free, functioning democracies?

Idk, I’m not gonna read the whole discussion very carefully so maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not sure why you think that having multiple political parties is identical to being democratic? To me democracy is about how individuals can actually have a say in a decision making process, and about how the will of the people is expressed in government policy and the law. I don’t see any reason why electing representatives within a party is necessarily any less democratic than having multiple parties. Given the numerous studies that show how badly the policies of, really any western country except maybe a few tiny social democratic ones, actually reflect what people want (and even the nordics aren’t doing so hot on that front the last few years) I don’t really see how we can feel so superior about anything really.

according to tankies from .ml, cuba is a socialist workers Yes paradise where everything goes well all the time, no one is unhappy Obviously not, and this is just bad faith. Not even the tankiest tankie would argue this, and it also deflects from the causes of why things are bad in Cuba (hint: it’s got a lot more to do with their neighbour than anything they’re doing) complete and utter democratic freedom Complicated, I’d also say no, but this kind of statement is meant to imply that it’s some kind of totalitarian nightmare, which is ridiculous since it’s a massive improvement on the regime before it and also pretty easy to argue more democratic than, again, the country that this criticism is being made from. If you have genuine arguments about why things in Cuba are bad, why not make those instead of the flimsiest possible strawman?

Having lived in the UK as a (white) foreigner… You are not a whole lot better over there. “White supremacy” is a bit of a loaded term with a few different meanings. By your question, I guess you mean people who dress up in nazi cosplay? Those guys are still fairly uncommon everywhere, but the thing is that there is a porous border between your average racist prick and one of those guys. As they feel safer to express their true beliefs, they do so more often, and they want to wear the signifiers of their movement. They’re very safe in the USA right now so you see more of them. But in my opinion, “white supremacy” is better used to refer to a culture which values white people more or thinks of them as higher on some kind of natural hierarchy. That is, after all, what the words literally mean. Although it’s a broader definition, I think it’s clearer, because it removes the confusion when the average racist pricks start dressing up in fash drag when someone who lets them gets into power. Explicit racists (as opposed to your normal somewhat prejudiced person who still doesn’t believe racism is good) often talk about “hiding their power level”, i.e. not letting on. What I’m saying is, the UK is similar to the US, just a bit shyer.

the distinction between those is much more modern than the book, but sure, in today’s terms probably yeah

It's Google forms. I'm pretty sure they'll handle this case. Anyway, it's not that unlikely, for example, python's ints are arbitrary length (and convert to bigint under the hood when needed) and can just directly be used as hashmap/dictionary keys.