Niek Koopmeiners

Politicoloog, maar werkzaam in data analyse. Vooral geïnteresseerd in Internationale Politieke Economie, datagedreven werken en automatisering.

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I disagree. I think economic systems like capitalism and money are rudimentary instruments that organically formed and just happen to pretty accurately approach the laws of thermodynamics that govern all systems, but because those instruments were not made with precise knowledge of those laws of thermodynamics in mind, they are flawed in one aspect.

They happed to be well equipped to measure the flow and amount of energy transformed by systems from high density to low density, but they fail to accurately measure and price the amount of energy needed to keep complex systems intact.

Systems move to chaos without that investment of energy to keep them intact, as all systems do. Our concept of economic systems and our concept of money fail to accurately measure and price the cost to our capability as a species to transform/utilize increasing amounts of energy if those systems happen to fail.

We need a new lens to look at our species, our (social) systems, a lens defined by entropy and the law of thermodynamics. Because without it, we will do science or economic activity with too little regard for the long-term stability of complex systems.

Useful increased complexity of systems increases our ability to transform energy, but if our full understanding of that complexity lags behind our utilization of those increasingly complex systems (such as our modern society), the costs of those systems dissolving into chaos increases a lot too.

The collapse of the Roman empire threw us back hundreds of years (and millions of productive lives of humans). The collapse of the thin biological film on this rock, which is a complex system itself, would maybe eradicate sentient life in this part of the universe for millions of years.

That’s an enormous cost when looking through the lens of how much energy is transformed from high density to low density, as nothing is better at that than the complex biological systems that is intelligent sentient life.

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@elonmusk @SpaceX Can we get a TMdB listing for this documentary series?

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Multicultural society is a contentious topic, but very cool that we have four teams to root for this World Cup! #WorldCup #football #multicultural #netherlands #curaçao #caboverde #morocco

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@YUNGJEFF Imagine this is the real world, some crazy pirates that on the whole maybe do good things by beating tyrants, are massively killing people with a funny looking and sounding tank, while having a great time doing it. Wild.

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@WouterSchiller Vibes, idealen en heersende interesses waren belangrijker.. “Ach, we zijn welvarend, voor onze mooie dromen kunnen we vast wel elk aspect van onze economie duurder maken zonder problemen.”

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@DGU_MR_CR0W @Catch22East @Dovydas44444 I worry for the times that ego gets checked. Being the most powerful, does not mean the whole world needs to do business with you. The US needs the rest of the world as much as the world needs the US.

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@RuffBuffet @BenTaylor80 @MaxKatt2 @SpaceX Please do some research, FTS has nothing to do with it. There is still fuel left in the main and header tanks on both Booster and Ship. Ship FTS is disabled after stage separation. Boosters always exploded because they either hit the sea hard or toppled over after soft splashdown

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It is the first V3. Lots of changes, not just quick fixes to reach shallow objectives faster, but to make sure they can rapidly build and re-use both booster and ship. Rapid reuse has never been done. This amount of payload to orbit has never been done. Building so many rockets of this scale so quickly has never been done. V3 is a complete redesign, but the one that is ready for production use. It took Falcon 9 a decent amount of flights to become the rocket it currently is. The first rocket with reusable booster and the most reliable, most often flown heavy lift rocket ever. Starship goals are many times more ambitious than Falcon 9. Do you really believe that it being on its 12th flight is a lot?

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It’s not really, they simulated it approaching the launch tower and being caught, but they did it above the ocean, so if something would go wrong, nothing gets hurt or destroyed. So it lamded perfectly like it would being caught by the tower. However, because there is no tower in the ocean, it tips over after landing in sea and breaks apart, which causes the explosion. This is completely expected. You could prevent it from exploding by reinforcing it in a way that it can handle tipping over and falling on the ocean. But seeing as the plan is not to land rockets in ocean soon and every ounce of weight has a huge impact on a rocket, you want the rocket not to be overdesigned to handle a situation that will never happen, outside of testing. And you wouldn’t be testing the actual Starship that you designed for the purpose that you have in mind, if it is reinforced to survive falling over on the ocean. But because SpaceX tests as they fly, to make it as representative as possible, work out all the kinks and make sure it is safe, they just let it break apart when it hits the ocean and let it explode. Added bonus is that it will sink to the bottom of the ocean quicker, instead of staying afloat too long. It did its job, it gave the necessary data. Soon the will actually bring it back over the tower to be caught and it will never have to land in the ocean and explode again. :)

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@Alan_T_Johnston @MaxKatt2 @SpaceX It actually sort of floats upright in the ocean, but almost immediately tips over, tanks rupture when the side hits the ocean, which causes the remaining fuel to explode.

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@RuffBuffet @MaxKatt2 @SpaceX The FTS has nothing to do with that explosion. After successful stage separation, FTS is saved, meaning it is deactivated, because in space you don’t want to explode the ship into a cloud of particles. The final explosion was just the tanks breaking from the ship falling over.

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@AafjesCd @romysegijn @HenriBontenbal Bij het CDA steken ze altijd met fatsoen een mes in je rug, of laten je fatsoenlijk keihard vallen.

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@HennekamE @talithamuusse Haha recht op vakantie? Denk je dat de mensen in a Oekraïne recht hebben op vrede? Je hebt recht op niets. Het is een voorrecht, dat we zulke vreedzame tijden hebben gehad, dat het mogelijk is geweest en we het ons konden veroorloven massaal op vliegvakantie te gaan. Verwend.

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Sorry, US citizens, but a lot of people in your country are borderline schizophrenic. How can almost half of the nation be appalled by @realDonaldTrump if he embodies everything this age, especially in the US, truly is? This age of humanity is narcissistic, materialistic and values power plays and highly individualistic behavior. A lot of people in the US and other countries may pretend that they have higher standards, but society does not reflect that at all. Wealth inequality, consumerism, social media and the American Dream being perverted to just try to become as rich as possible.. Humanity in general, but especially people in the US, have become so very shallow. And we get mad when the leader embodies that. The democrats have been in power longer or as long as Republicans the last couple of decades. They are fully if not more complicit in the type of society that we live in. This is reality and reality is not bothered by you being appalled. Reality is not bothered by your hopes and dreams. Reality is not bothered by the picture in your mind of what you want the US or Western Society to be. Reality reflects what is. And there is no denying that we’ve created a cold, superficial, transactional and apathetic society. And Donald Trump is the perfect reflection of that. He is a symptom. And you are a hypocrite and out of touch with reality if you focus all your attention and anger on him. Your attention should be on the underlying system, the society that we’ve built. On the billionaire techbro’s (the only one I still have a little hope for to have an epiphany is @elonmusk) conducting one of the biggest social experiments on society in the history of mankind, which’s early results are most troubling. On the enormous wealth inequality. On consumerism vs capitalism (there is a distinction). On the risk of rent-seeking and club forming, which can harm the efficiency of capitalism. On the capture of institutions by wealthy individuals. You should focus on education. On community values. On your own blindness to the real problems and your blindness to your outrage being an easy cop out for taking real responsibility. Stop being borderline schizophrenic, being a proud and happy participant of this society and at the same time disapproving of Donald Trump. You can’t cherry pick reality, it is all or nothing. Systems aren’t build (or changed) in a single election cycle and not by a single person. Or one political party for that matter.

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Ik denk dat de reden waarom die schaamte er is en waarom mensen liegen, dat je voor bepaalde functies gewoon niet in aanmerking komt zonder een afgeronde academische opleiding. CV is zo belangrijk voor werkgevers en voor bepaalde carrièrepaden is de concurrentie zo hoog, dat werkgevers altijd zullen kiezen voor (op papier) de beste kandidaat, al voor er een sollicitatiegesprek komt.

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@suusonline @Vanberkel2508 Dat is helemaal waar!

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@RenskeLeijten Ik ben volkomen eerlijk op mijn CV, waar ik een gat heb en nog weinig werkervaring voor mijn leeftijd, omdat ik heel ziek ben geweest met “long COVID”. Ik word op geen enkele vacature uitgenodigd voor gesprek, terwijl ik wel de kwaliteiten heb. Blijkbaar moet ik gewoon liegen. :(

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@chaabanisaid90 @EmmanuelMacron Stop with this uninspired AI slop. Ugh, the internet is dying.

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@WouterSchiller @matthewstoller @reidhoffman It struck me yesterday, reviewing the fallout of these files, that the “rich and powerful” seem to be very weak human beings, unable to resist urges and groveling at the feet of other “powerful” individuals. That the only power they wield is having money and good connections.