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With political order restored by Mussolini's appointment and socialism in retreat, the Italian stock market soared. Elder statesmen of the Liberal establishment, such as Giovanni Gio-litti and Antonio Salandra, found themselves applauding the turn of events. They regarded Mussolini as a useful ally. But not unlike the horse in Aesop's fable, Italy soon found itself under
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Walk me through this for a moment. If superpositions are illusory in that they are purely mathematical concepts that have no basis in physical reality, how does that square with the ongoing success of quantum information science and quantum computing, where it seems as if superpositions are a real physical phenomenon that can be leveraged, for instance, to do things that can’t be done classically?
A prominent modern physicist espouses the idea that quantum mechanics is a form of giving up, just like Einstein said. I didn’t know this view was alive. (I don’t know enough to know who’s right.)
Well, I think quantum technology is just what you get if you assume the reality of superimposed systems. What do I mean by that? We know superpositions in the macroscopic world are nonsense. That’s clear. And I believe, in the microscopic world, it’s clearly nonsense, too, even though it may seem we have nothing besides superpositions to use for understanding atoms. And I think what people in quantum technology probably don’t realize is that they’re doing the very converse of what they think they are doing. They think they’re understanding quantum mechanics. Instead I think what they should be doing is trying to remove the quantum mechanics from the description, trying to use more fundamental degrees of freedom, like those discrete states I mentioned.
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Now that I've had Flooding sounding kinda smooth and without artifacts for a while, I do want some of the old ugliness back, but not all of it, which is tricky. I thought maybe cutting back on reverb based on pitch density would do it, but not really. I might have to do with the current mix, which is kinda round and bass heavy.Comments
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It's real nice when you find something you wrote years ago, like this script that automatically builds episodes of Small Findings from raw audio recordings are still running. Or even just simple internet-to-hard-drive and vice versa scripts.Comments
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Twenty minutes on treadmill, eleven pull-ups. Pull-ups felt strangely easy. No noticeable mouth bleeding, so I guess I'm safe to push it to this level.Comments
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On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlink’s in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to “jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack!” For the next hour and 40 minutes, the world’s richest man frowned his way through a livestream while people yelled at him.Comments
Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon,” an account named YakubsWorstCreation spammed. The message was a reference to Musk’s newest (disputed) child.
Gottadmit I L’d OL at that one.
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I look at Mastodon once a week, and it all kind of has this same vibe. It's always righteous and reactive. This isn't to say I disagree with the content of the posts, but if you're not a social media regular, it provokes a "why are you talking like this?" reaction.Comments
But I guess that's the function that follows the form of social media. In a way, my reaction makes about as much sense as looking at a karate school and saying, "There's so many individuals here, but I don't understand why you are all doing karate." People on short form social media are doing social media. -
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We went to another judo tournament today.Comments
The tournament went really well, logistically. They actually got done in two hours, which was amazing.
The guy went 1-2. The two losses were against guys from Pedro's Judo, the really serious place in Wakefield. They were just both very experienced and had lots of options. The guy is good on the ground but doesn't yet have a go-to forward throw. He escaped about three pin attempts, though, which is amazing, especially against guys like that.
There's a kid from our club that's been doing judo for a while. He loses a lot, but he just keeps going. I feel for him, but I'm genuinely impressed by that kind of attitude.
I saw another rather intimidating kid from Pedro's that normally beats everyone. He lost one match today, and then he started crying. No judgment, but from a general life-survival perspective, the guys that lose without it being heartbreaking to them in better shape, mentally. (There is a counterargument, though, that this is the behavior of champions. Champions often cry at losses because they want to win so bad. While I'm sure it's great to be a champion, sometimes it seems better to just be a guy that doesn't win as much but is less affected by that.)
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Tens of thousands of Bostonians tell the regime to keep its tiny hands off pretty much everythingComments
Speakers, who included Sen. Ed Markey, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Mayor Michelle Wu, as well as union leaders and organizers from the transgender community, lead the thousands of people at the rally in "Hands off!" call-and-response volleys.
That's good phrasing. The nepo baby part will get under his skin if it catches on.
Speaker after speaker also tried to gird the crowd for what comes next - Pressley said that when participants went home after the rally, they need to "roll up their sleeves" and think what they could do next to resist a tyrannical regime that includes a "Nazi nepo baby" from South Africa's apartheid era. -
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I took a CELPIP practice test section, which is a test of your English speaking and comprehension ability. I got a 31/38!Comments
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I'm doing out taxes myself this year. It's not too bad with Free File Fillable Forms (very weird name choice, IRS) and a copy of last year's tax return (which was done by an accountant). The last year's return is critical for giving you an idea of the general proper shape of things so you know if you're off course or not. It's probably not worth your time if you're working full-time, but if you're currently underemployed like me, might as well. You get to understand why the accountants and tax applications are asking for what they ask for.Comments
It is sort of a nice task that it's generally not too taxing (ha!), so you can listen to podcasts while you do it. It does get dramatic sometimes, though.
Usually, I do one supplementary form a day, but I actually got through way more of it than usual and am basically done. The other day, I thought I underestimated taxes for this year by quite a bit but today, I thought that filling out a certain schedule could get it back down to what I expected. After following a chain of forms that referred to each other, I unlocked the self-employment deduction, dropped down a tax bracket, and now my estimate is only off by a non-upsetting amount.
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Remarkable Things in the Government’s Alien Enemies Act Briefs to the Supreme CourtComments
The government’s position at oral argument was that, the moment the district court TROs are lifted, it can immediately resume removal flights without affording Plaintiffs notice of the grounds for their removal or any opportunity to call a lawyer, let alone to file a writ of habeas corpus or obtain any review of their legal challenges to removal. Oral Arg. 1:44:04-1:45:51. It is irreparable injury to reduce to a shell game the basic lifeline of due process before an unprecedented and potentially irreversible removal occurs.
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Dag, I forgot to buy some yen or other non-dollars.Comments
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A Lawyer Who Helped the Kushners Crack Down on Poor Tenants Now Helps Renters Fight Big LandlordsComments
This isn’t the point of the article, but I really liked this part:His longtime partner started to notice that he was agitated on nights before trials; sometimes he’d even mutter things like “objection!” in his sleep.
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Even soft ramen is reduced in enjoyability by having half your teeth sealed in plastic.Comments
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