I can't imagine that that'd happen, they need to maintain some level of "we're trying here" in order to effectively rile up their base to vote. Not appointing someone to the NLRB is much less noticable than Supreme Court justices stepping down. I think that the optics are best for both parties if the Supreme Court is basically always a 5-4 split one way or the other, or it is always 5-4 (R). That way the line is that it's always this close to {getting the Supreme Court back,the other team getting the Supreme Court} to mobilize voters.

I think CloudFlare uses lava lamps because it's a cool story, but there are ways you can get truly random bits from other things, like this. Generally, you want to have some sort of physical process going on that provides random entropy, because CPUs by themselves can only produce pseudorandom numbers. For example, random.org uses atmospheric noise, which is random and unpredictable when you look at very tiny variances. You can also use, e.g. a super sensitive Geiger counter to measure random bits of radiation, or if you shoot photons at a semi-reflective surface, sometimes they go through and sometimes they reflect. For the type shown here, though, the most common kind of noise they use is from quantum effects relating to transistors, as far as I know. This is an actual source of randomness, so if it's done right it can be just as good as lava lamps or Geiger counters or whatever.

I might be wrong about this but my understanding is that on Linux you'd pipe the output of this in somewhere and tell the kernel to use it for entropy, and if it gets insufficient entropy it realizes this and starts producing random bits slower. So like normally the Linux kernel samples mouse movements for randomness, and so it makes more random bits the more you jiggle your mouse. These hardware RNGs are best used for headless servers that don't have as reliable entropy at their disposal.

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

• The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
• The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
• The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
• The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
• The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
• The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
• The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
• The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
• There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

This also shows how fake prices are. They can handle their costs going up (paying more workers) without increasing prices because they know that people can't afford groceries right now.

I fucking hate this bazinga brained "throw precaution (and/or regulations) to the wind" bullshit. I know that's like the SV MO but it makes me really just want to go out and do something really cool.

"Oh yeah let's just send thousands of new satellites up every year and every 5 years we'll let them burn up upon reentry and send up more!"

Another thing, and I know these techbrained libertarian types don't understand this, is that even if you accept this is something that humanity needs, you certainly don't need companies competing by each running their own satellite arrays. This is a natural monopoly to end all natural monopolies.

Yeah actually it seems that SawStop is being very disingenuous with this where they're trying to lobby for this "safety" bill to be passed that makes it so only they can sell table saws. If they really cared about safety, they should make the patent free for all to use like the 3 point seatbelt

I'm sure that will come, with Meta so deeply invested in outsourcing fact checking to state department ghouls

Do you have any book recommendations for learning more about this? Really anything about how the world bank or IMF function as an arm of imperialism would be much appreciated.