Randy Fischer

programmer, science nerd

[Randy Fischer @grfischer]

I don't post much, or follow many directly. Mostly I use lists, such as this one, focused on public health - https://t.co/GKshY4dKEa

p.s. I follow a few high-visibility vaccine deniers & lab-leak criers on that list - don't think me in agreement: forewarned is forearmed.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump literally trumped the law. No one is ever going to see Donald Trump get the justice he deserves for all of the crimes he's committed. Why? It's bad. It's REALLY fucking BAD. Listen:

[Randy Fischer @grfischer]

@ernietedeschi Not sure what's meant by 'entry level wages'. If it's the Federal minimum wage, that was $1.00/hour in 1958 and $15.00/hour in 2026. So today that's two hours and fourteen minutes of work vs. two hours and twenty-three minutes. Not much progress...8 seconds/year

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@JohnLeFevre Nonsense for the expenditures. From the USDA

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@yaelbt Excellent!

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@KurtSchlichter Dept of Defense Law of War Manual:

5.9 PERSONS PLACED HORS DE COMBAT
Persons, including combatants, placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack....
• persons who have been rendered unconscious or otherwise incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck ....

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@JessePeltan No kidding. It should be "fewer people".

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@elonmusk @grok "Just because your voice now goes all across the world does not mean you are any wiser than when it only went to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow

[Randy Fischer @grfischer]

@JessePeltan Then again, "Just because your voice now goes all across the world does not mean you are any wiser than when it only went to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow

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@Yair_Rosenberg Don't forget Miller's Crossing.

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@stewartbrand Earliest I can find: https://t.co/5zEkUeVHMz

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@mattyglesias Don't know if it's the case for MTA, but DOTs often limit bids to companies that have the capacity to successfully complete large projects. Some DOTs have a tradition of doing in-house coordination of lots of small bidders (IA), others let bids of much larger scope (GA)

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@zachweinberg Worth a look at per-capita CO2 production, to see where the low-hanging fruit might be...

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@GadSaad @ninaturner Let's just google that, shall we? https://t.co/5HZkCZJUPv

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@AoDespair Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face...

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@JamesFallows Can't the difference be at least partly attributed to the fact that the wikileaks documents were made public, and so the press was driven to hastily weigh in?

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@kevin2kelly @amcafee It's not clear to me why 10 people acting at 80% efficiency has an overall efficiency of 0.8^10 = 0.1073. That would be true, say, if each was doing a sub-task of one final aggregated task (as I understand Herbert Simon's - The Architecture of Complexity); but here?

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@CharlesCMann @Revkin @ConsumerReports IDK. I just looked up the 2024 Bolt and the starting MSRP is $27.5 K.

[Randy Fischer @grfischer]

@CharlesCMann I don't believe this is inflation adjusted (it's still pretty bad, mind)

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@kevin2kelly What is the story with that broom?

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@NateSilver538 Of course hindsight shows Ehrlich was wrong, but recall the rate of population increase was at the maximum at that time, so I figure he's justified raising a red flag.
Malthusian crashes have occurred; this from historian David Christian: