David Chaplin @Davidchap9000
long-term optimist, short-term pessimist, all-round skeptic. Not particularly notable, really. Cape town Joined February 2017-
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He faces the mother of all Junckers dilemmas, because the short-term austerity required to set a solid market foundation will still have lots of populist fallout. “We know what we have to do. We just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”.
He faces the mother of all Junckers dilemmas, because the short-term austerity required to set a solid market foundation will still have lots of populist fallout. “We know what we have to do. We just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”.
For a while I’ve had the vague sense that the world is on some sort of pivotal cusp, as if it’s struggling to extrude a giant compacted turd. All this (gestures at everything futilely) feels like it might be the proverbial It, but Im not sure yet if the key is the billionaire…
Listen @twitter if you do these surveys, at least change the bloody question. I’ve had this ridiculous one at least 5 times now and none of us has the time to waste
@dailymaverick @StephenGrootes All the parties on both sides of the chasm miss the fundamental statistical reality in democracy. Probably because most are led by innumerate rhetoricians. It’s simple: The winning party is invariably the one that attracts the median voter in the greatest numbers. This happens…
Dear @twitter please stop showing me the same memes and stuff from the same profiles repeatedly for days on end. You must have seen me actively scrolling away from it the first twenty times or so, can’t you take a hint?
Is it possible that the ANC’s cuddling up to the Russian bear is simply a matter of political finances? Could it conceivably be that simple — or that craven? dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-0…
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Pronounced “D-cup”.
Cosying up to Russia and China harms South Africa, and the world econ.st/3IRi4ZR
@Davidchap9000 Good afternoon, please report this by logging a service request. See: eservices1.capetown.gov.za/coct/wapl/zsre… select Sewer and the relevant issue. Thank you
Wordle is a brilliant game because it combines luck and skill just right. To get it in 1 requires pure luck & if you can’t get it in 6 you have to be spectacularly unlucky. But your own accum. stats distribution between 1 and 6 do show how good you are at it, that’s not luck.
Western Cape will be cold, wet and windy, but snowfall unlikely, says forecaster capetalk.co.za/articles/41988… via @CapeTalk
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@PhysInHistory Nikola Tesla was brilliant in some respects, but naive in other ways.
Ten years later, still on it.
Ray Kurzweil's forthcoming book The Singularity is Nearer discusses achieving immortality through mind uploading/duplication scenarios. In Heavens on Earth I worked out the computational numbers needed for true resurrection. How likely is this ever to happen? A GOOGOL GOOGOLPLEX…
@Davidchap9000 @jimalkhalili I think I must be getting old, as I still admit to thinking things. I do occasionally say 'my understanding is...'.
Those who say sex is a spectrum don’t realise how rare intersex humans are. Frequency histogram runs out of graph paper, so represent frequency of unambiguous males & females by NY’s twin towers respectively. Then frequency of intersexes is a medium sized molehill. Sex is binary.