>If this “experiment” personally harmed you, I apologize.

There were several lines in that post that were revealing of the author's attitude, but the "if this ... harmed you," qualifier, which of course means "I don't think you were really harmed" is so gross.

What evidence is there that ALL humans crave power over other humans?

We're literally animals, evolved for dominance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dominance_hierarchy_sp...

One could try to argue that some of us are special exceptions. But, there's no evidence for that.

(The delightfully ironic humor of it is that people who presumably have your same point of view are down-voting me into negative)

Oh, it has to aluminium not aluminum, and probably aviation-grade aluminium.

If the choice is let's have [facebook|linkedin|bluesky] and someone has to suffer like this, or we don't have those things, than let's not have them.

I get why a firefighter may be asked to take risks to save lives. We should not ask these women to take these risks so that billionaires can become trillionaires.

No one should have to do this job. And if you can't make your social network function or AI thing function without it, then maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't have that social network or AI thing.

Now I'm scared at the idea of termites with thermite!

I like your sales guy. Might have punched them after a while but that's right up there with the time someone tried to tell me there was no iron in steel because it wasn't in the ingredients list. And this someone sold stamped steel parts!

I'm curious. I think the whole thing (space-based compute) is infeasible and stupid for a bunch of reasons, but even a class-A amplifier has a theoretical limit of 50% efficiency, and I thought we used class-C amplifiers (with practical efficiencies above 50%) in FM/FSK/etc. applications in which amplitude distortion can be filtered away. What makes these systems be down at 10%?

Yes, a 10% efficiency is very weird if true.

Nowadays such microwave power amplifiers should be made with gallium nitride transistors, which should allow better efficiencies than the ancient amplifiers using LDMOS or travelling-wave tubes, and even those had efficiencies over 50%.

For beamformers, there have been research papers in recent years claiming a great reduction in losses, but presumably the Starlink satellites are still using some mature technology, with greater losses.

>As a counter-example, you cannot expect an LGBT person to vote for a right-wing conservative who advocates against their own rights, even if that candidate makes the "right call" on every other issue.

I can't think of a candidate that fits this description.

Yeah, isn’t the point of extreme right to make the wrong calls for the majority of the population?

Historically, the right side was pro-monarchy. Then, you go extreme.

Terms like left and right only have meaning in one place at one time. So just because European conservatives 100 years ago believed something doesn't mean American conservatives today believe in that thing. That's why political scientists have terms like socialist, fascists, libertarian, etc. That's how US right (libertarian) is basically nothing like the right in Europe (conservative). That's because the basic axis of differences in the US is larger vs smaller government and in Europe it is completely different as both sides like larger government. I have tried to explain this to many Europeans over the years; somehow you are all allergic to understanding it. Its probably the only thing you all have in common.

The French Revolution, when left and right started, was 237 years ago by the way.

I agree about the scale being different across countries. The american politics would be only right on a common European left/right scale.

If everyone doesn’t understand, have you considered that another thing in common is what you try to explain?

> That's how US right (libertarian)

Except that the US right is not libertarian. If you ask them to describe themselves they often give that impression, but if you look at how they actually govern, libertarian is definitely not it.