In this video I have uploaded a very rare 2000 interview of John Hutchison on the Elaine Smith Show titled: What's New in Free Energy? The Next Generation is Here! John Hutchison demonstrates his hybrid free energy crystal converter which is a combination of thin crystal wavers and ground up exotic minerals, such as barium titanate. John also talks about how he had his guns and lab confiscated by the Canadian government, as well as Vancouver police raiding his apartment literally at gunpoint and handcuffs.
This interview is so rare that this may be the first instance of it being published online anywhere on the internet!
A warm welcome to INLEO @cathyarrow. I'm glad you're with us. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding with @bradleyarrow. May God bless and strengthen your union.
I am over the moon excited that my fiancee @cathyarrow in on Hive. Lots to teach her. I just told her it must be true love, doing something like Hive that she knows nothing about. But she did her first thread, responded to a few comments and did some up votes. :)
Wow, that's really cool. That's what onboarding is all about, start from where you are and you just did that, congratulations 🎉 🎉 to you both boss. Am sure she is gonna enjoy her experience in here.
I read somewhere that you can get the keys when you logged out and logged in back, you will be able to see the download keys button from the setting menu. Someone said it some time ago.
Obviously, there are gaps in our knowledge of Roman construction techniques and tools because we lack either written or physical evidence of these. Non-permanent materials have eroded away over two millennia and their characteristics elude us. Great structures like Hadrian’s Wall survive because of the use of stone or concrete.
There is, however, one clear example of a non-permanent structure which we know a lot about – Caesar’s first bridge over the Rhine. We know the story because Caesar tells us in volume four of The Conquest of Gaul. But construction techniques are only part of the story. Caesar built this bridge to show the Germans they were never safe from him because he had the skills to cross the river and attack them.
Agency, willfulness, and determination will likely be extremely valuable. Correctly deciding what to do and figuring out how to navigate an ever-changing world will have huge value; resilience and adaptability will be helpful skills to cultivate. AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less.
We expect the impact of AGI to be uneven. Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else.
The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically.
Downstream from Koblenz, there are two small towns named Andernach and Neuwied. Historical scholarship suggests Caesar planned to cross the Rhine in between these two locations. The distance between the shorelines in this area is 800 to 1000 feet. The average depth of the river is 16 feet.
Before we talk about the construction of the bridge, it will be useful to show a photograph of the model that sits in The Museo Della Civilta Romana in Rome.
Before starting construction, the Romans built a crane on a raft and floated it out into the river. You can see the framework of this apparatus on the left of the picture. The piers supporting the bridge were constructed of one and a half foot thick logs. These tigna bina were tied together in pairs with a two foot gap between them. They were then driven into the river bed at an oblique angle using a pile driver. This was apparently a large stone, attached to block and tackle on poles, that could be swung at the posts once they were tied into position. Once two sets of these posts were secure a large log (fibulae) was placed between them in the slot formed by the two foot gap. Angled supporting posts were tied to the tigna bina to provide additional support.
Caesar says the piles were positioned forty feet apart before they were driven into the riverbed.
Surprise playoff runs are no rarity in MLB, and someday there will be one more shocking than the 2024 Mets. What separates them from some of the others, however, is what they did to follow up their miracle finish. For comparison, look at the 2015 Mets, a team widely considered to be a fringe playoff contender entering the year who ultimately had a legitimate shot at a World Series ring. That group fell short, but the wide assumption in baseball was that they would be back and be led by their young pitching.
The winter of 2015 going into 2016, the Mets remained mostly quiet during the offseason. The team retained Yoenis Céspedes, which was their true major move. They also traded left-handed pitcher Jon Niese to the Pittsburgh Pirates for second baseman Neil Walker, and signed Asdrúbal Cabrera to play shortstop.
Across baseball, the Cleveland Guardians have failed to build off of multiple ALCS appearances as well as their 2016 AL Pennant, the Dodgers made the playoffs ten times in a row without winning a title during a full season before 2024, and teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers have failed to capitalize on consistent playoff appearances at different points. The common denominator between all of these examples is a lack of championship-level moves in the offseason, whether it be via free agency or trade.
The one exception? Last year’s Dodgers. The team went out and acquired Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Teoscar Hernández, all of whom played major roles in their championship season.
In total, the Mets have spent over $1 billion in total contract value this winter. Soto’s $765 million led the way by a significant margin, but the Mets did not shy away from spending afterwards either. The Mets had every excuse to ride the tail of their 2024 campaign, touting their success, fan interest, media attention and simple all-around fun they had. However, as teams have shown before, hoping those factors extend into a new season and are enough to help repeat and grow upon prior success rarely works.
20 years fits with Kurzweils prognosis of a singularity, but it’s conservative as it extrapolates past progress into the future, which was based on humans using technology to built better technology. In other words it’s an extrapolation that assumes static human intellect as driving force with the exponential being based on the feedback loop of tools being used to built better tools. Once AGI arrives and thus recursive self improved, it’s likely that the exponent gets a lot larger, as at least one additional order of exponential growing starts that interacts with the already existing one. It’s not just increases in absolute intelligence in AGI, and the use of surrogate models like alphafold to shift the heavy lifting of experimentation from physical to digital space.
It’s also that AGI (even only at human levels) is faster (e.g. a human mathematician equivalent in AGI thinking faster by 1000x should achieve 1000years of progress in just one year). Plus scalability, we have a couple of millions of scientists and engineers in the world, once AGI at that level is scalable, agentic and has perhaps also physical embodiment if needed, we could could have billions and trillions (again limited by the rate of recursive self improvement), all communicating and transferring gained knowledge at electronic speeds. Humans as the current drivers of progress are not subject to recusive self improvement outside of tool usage and specialization. Thus Kurzweils estimate for 2045 is likely far to conservative, also we might get AGI/ASI prior to his 2029 expectation (which he himself acknowledged recently).
Instead of hoping to build off of their achievements last year, some of which can be left up to random chance, the Mets took steps to make sure that they will be a better team entering 2025 than they were entering 2024. This does not guarantee year-over-year growth or a deeper playoff run for the Mets, but the team enacted the correct process. Every now and again, an inspiring one-off will win a ring while on a Cinderella run. Far more often, however, teams that utilize strong practices, implement good processes and make the playoffs routinely win championships.
Since 2015, only three teams have made the playoffs at least eight times: the New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Dodgers. The Yankees are the only club among that group not to win a ring, let alone two, and only have one pennant to show for their work.
With the word "debanking," crypto execs and investors have found immediate allies among top Republicans in both houses of Congress and in the White House, who are ready and willing to investigate any potential malfeasance that occurred when Democrats were in charge.
President Donald Trump has coopted the agenda for political gain. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, he accused JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America of politically motivated debanking, claiming major financial institutions have shut out conservatives under pressure from regulators. The banks denied the claim and Trump hasn't provided any evidence to back it up.
Once the support structure was in place, logs were laid across the piers and then boards were used to form the roadway.
I estimate that the piers were about twenty feet apart so a thousand foot river span would have required 50 piers. The bridge was built in ten days which meant workers would have placed five piers per day assuming the roadway was built as a parallel process over piers already completed.
The Romans had a variety of familiar tools at their disposal, including adzes, hammers, saws for cutting boards, and block and tackle. They used 9 inch nails to fasten boards together.
Once the bridge was complete, the army crossed over the Rhine. They spent 18 days in the land of the Sugambri, burning abandoned villages because the enemy had fled their homeland in fear of the Roman juggernaut. After treating with the Ubii, Caesar crossed back over the Rhine and destroyed the bridge behind him. Ten days in the making, Caesar’s Rhine bridge lived for eighteen days.
This diagram shows the principal landmarks. The camp was formed by intersecting roads, with gates at the end of each. The main building of the camp was the Principia, located at the intersection of the two main roads.
The walls of the camp were designed to neutralize an attack. The first step in building them was to dig a trench six feet deep. When the trench was complete its sides were graded into a “V” to prevent an attacker from jumping across. The soil from the trench hole was then piled into a rampart frame of logs, making the total thickness of the rampart 3-5 meters. The top of the rampart was covered with palisades to produce a fence. Each legionnaire carried two 6 foot palisades in his kit which were tied together when placed.
Crypto exchange Coinbase was one of the top corporate donors in the 2024 election cycle, giving more than $75 million to a group called Fairshake and its affiliate PACs, including a fresh pledge of $25 million to support the pro-crypto super PAC in the 2026 midterms. Ripple doled out around around $50 million.
Coinbase and Ripple were both involved in protracted legal battles with the SEC under former Chairman Gary Gensler.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 6, along with Fred Thiel, CEO of bitcoin miner MARA Holdings. In a hearing titled "Operation Choke Point 2.0: The Biden Administration's Efforts to Put Crypto in the Crosshairs," they described aggressive pressure from U.S. regulators to effectively push banks to cut ties with crypto firms.
"No one wants to see anyone denied basic banking services on the basis of their political views or whether they happen to work in an industry that might be out of favor with the current administration," Grewal told CNBC. "There are concerns across the political aisle and across the Congress that banking services have in the past been weaponized in order to run roughshod over those who may be out of favor."
As part of its probe, the House committee is investigating claims that bank executives and financial regulators secretly blacklisted crypto firms.
Thiel, in his testimony, said that the "discriminatory banking and financial policies threaten the digital asset ecosystem" and that "banks and payment processors are effectively deciding which industries can exist and grow within the U.S. economy."
Camp gates were designed to prevent the rush of an attack force. Techniques to prevent this usually involved a ditch in front of the gate or an angling the wall at the gate formed into a curve. Roads in the camp were 18 meters wide which was also the distance from the rampart to the first tent line.
Camp structures were sized according to importance of the occupant. The commander occupied the Praetorium (part of the principia), while the tribunes had their own barracks. The legionnaires slept in leather (calf or goat) tents designed to be waterproof. Each tent was ten feet square and housed eight men. Each century had eight tents for eighty men since sixteen were always on guard duty. Centurions had their own larger tent.
Silivergate attributed its insolvency to "increased supervisory pressure on Silvergate and other banks focused on servicing crypto-asset businesses."
Signature Bank was seized by regulators in March 2023. Former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, a Signature board member, claimed that the FDIC shut it down specifically "to send a very strong anti-crypto message." The FDIC arranged a sale of Signature's assets, excluding $4 billion in crypto-related deposits.
Mike Lempres, who was chairman of Silvergate and previously spent two years as Coinbase's legal chief, wrote in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this week that the "federal government is finally changing course after four years of vilifying cryptocurrencies and using legally dubious policies to force companies to bend to its will."
While the crypto industry at large is rallying around that message, many in Congress are focused on making the case that banks were targeting conservatives for their political views. Carter said lawmakers are trying to reach a wider audience because "most regular folks don't care about crypto."
Formed in the 50s A.D, Sicarii was a fringe sect of Zionist fanatics known for carrying concealed daggers (Sicae) and using them against their enemies and Jews they considered enemy sympathizers. Their lives were dedicated to the expulsion of the Romans from the promised land by terror or whatever means they could employ. When the Roman general Titus captured Jerusalem in 70 A.D, the stage was set to retake Masada, destroy the Sicarii and return the fortress to Roman control. Flavius Silva was given command of the assault in 72 A.D. and immediately set to his task.
It is estimated that the fortress held approximately 1,000 people including women and children. Of these there were about 500 warriors.
Silva’s approach, like all Roman generals, was methodical in the extreme. He knew Rome could not afford to have any of the Sicarii survive the attack so he put together a plan to deploy a series of forts and built a circumvallation around the rock.
The focus of the assault was a 90 foot siege tower, built with a battering ram, ballastas and scorpiones. As the Roman soldiers pushed it along, it was protected by ballistas located on the sides of the spur. Once the tower reached the fortress wall the ram was put to work attacking the gate and blazing torches were sent over the wall. The next morning the Romans threw gangways from the tower to the top of the walls and entered the fortress. All inside were dead. The Jews had arranged a mass murder to avoid the taboo of suicide. Each Jew was assigned someone to kill in progression until only one was left and he committed suicide. Two women were found alive hiding in a basement and revealed what happened.
We know that the final assault took place in May of 73 A.D, but the rest of the timetable is obscure. If Silva took command at the end of 72, he would have put his plans together before beginning construction, perhaps in early 73 A.D. This was not a classic siege where the goal is starving out the enemy. The Sicarii were small in number and had an adequate food supply. The timetable for victory was determined by the availability of the siege tower and its ramp. Once the tower had been pushed to the walls of Masada, Roman forces were able to enter the fortress and the assault came to an end.
Trump Media reports $400 million in 2024 losses
Trump Media & Technology Group is worth almost $7 billion, but the company generated less than $4 million in revenue in 2024, according to a new filing.
Trump Media & Technology Group shares were down about 1% in extended trading on Friday after the operator of Truth Social released its 2024 results.
Here's how the company performed:
Earnings: Loss of $2.36 per share
Revenue: $3.6 million
The company's revenue declined 12% year over year, according to its annual report. The company saw its net loss widen to $400.9 million from $58.2 million in 2023.
In 2024, Trump Media incurred merger-related legal fees because of obstruction from former President Biden's Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a statement. A change to a revenue-sharing agreement with an advertising partner resulted in lower sales. "Additionally, revenue has varied as we selectively test a nascent advertising initiative on our Truth Social platform," the company said in the annual report.
"We will continue to explore opportunities to partner, merge with, and acquire other entities that are able to function effectively if TMTG evolves into a holding company with subsidiaries spanning several industries," Chairman and CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican Congressman was quoted as saying in the statement.
Amazon 'anti-union propaganda,' employee surveillance loom over labor vote at North Carolina warehouse
Amazon workers at a facility near Raleigh, North Carolina, are wrapping up a vote this weekend over whether to unionize.
Italo Medelius-Marsano was a law student at North Carolina Central University in 2022, when he took a job at an Amazon warehouse near the city of Raleigh to earn some extra cash.
The past month has been unlike any other during his three-year tenure at the company. Now, when he shows up for his shift at the shipping dock, Medelius-Marsano says he's met with flyers and mounted TVs urging him to "vote no," as well as QR codes on workstations that lead to an anti-union website. During meetings, managers discourage unionization.
Workers at RDU1 and other facilities told CNBC that Amazon is increasingly using digital tools to deter employees from unionizing. That includes messaging through the company's app and workstation computers. There's also automated software and handheld package scanners used to track employee performance inside the warehouse, so the company knows when staffers are working or doing something else.
Amazon said it doesn't require employees to meet specific productivity speeds or targets.
Amazon, the nation's second-largest private employer, has long sought to keep unions out of its ranks. The strategy succeeded in the U.S. until 2022, when workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to join the Amazon Labor Union. Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
In December, Amazon delivery and warehouse workers at nine facilities went on strike, organized by the Teamsters, during the height of the holiday shopping season to push the company to the bargaining table. The strike ended on Christmas Eve. Amazon said it had no impact on the company's operations.
The hugest driving force behind the tragedy of the commons phenomenon, in my opinion, isn't necessarily the greed of humans. While that obvious does play a factor, I would suggest that it's actually the fear of other's greed. The niggling thought that "Everyone else is going to be selfish and take as much as they possible can, so I'd better do it too so I don't get left behind." Whether it's true or not that the rest of the community will actually do this, we each of us believe it is true, driving us to found our own fears. Which is why when regulation is proposed, and introduced, all but the greediest people will gladly work to make it happen... because then we know we're not going to lose our share to everyone else.
"We believe that both decisions should be equally protected which is why we talk openly, candidly and respectfully about these topics, actively sharing facts with employees so they can use that information to make an informed decision," Hards said in a statement.
Hards said the company doesn't retaliate against employees for union activities, and called claims that its employee monitoring discourages them from unionizing "odd." She also disputed Medelius-Marsano's claim that the company tracks employees by scanning their badges.
The trireme was developed during the early fifth century B.C. in Greece probably from designs the Phoenicians were using. The “tri” in trireme refers to the three types of oarsmen in the ship - thalamites, zygites, and thranites. Why these types existed and how they functioned is a mystery.
There are four principle ways to configure oarsmen in a trireme: in a single line on each side of the boat; vertically, one group above another; assigning multiple rowers per oar; or placing rowers next to each other on a common bench. The following discussion will attempt to determine which of these options was in use.
Greek triremes had a length of approximately 120 feet, as verified from available dry-dock ruins. One hundred twenty feet is also the engineering maximum because, even with internal support cabling, it can be shown that wave action will break a longer wooden ship in half. Because of the limit on the number of oarsmen who could be placed on each side of the ship, designers had to come up with other ways to arrange them.
John Logan, a professor and director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University, told CNBC in an email that Amazon has "perfected the weaponization" of technology, workplace surveillance and algorithmic management during anti-union campaigns "more than any other company."
While Amazon may be more sophisticated than others, "the use of data analytics is becoming far more common in anti-union campaigns across the country," Logan said. He added that it's "extremely common" for companies to try to improve working conditions or sweeten employee perks during a union drive.
The absence of historical writing on the configuration of the rowers leaves us in the dark – but we have other sources. The poets, philosophers, and playwrights of Athens have come to the rescue with tidbits of information.
From the standpoint of pictorial evidence (pottery and the like), we come up empty. The most widely analyzed artifact showing a trireme is called the Lenomant of the Acropolis believed to have been carved in 400 B.C.
*In Aeschylus’ Agamemmon the statement is made that the thalamites sit below the zygites.
*Polybius describing a collision during the battle if Chios in 201 B.C. states that one ship penetrated the middle of the hull of the other under the thranites thole (fulcrum pin).
*Polyaenus notes that in a storm additional thranite oars were put out to aid in steering indicating that the thranites sat in the rear of the ship. Some historians believe that the Thranites were in the aft position, the zygites in the center, and the thalamites in the bow. This suggests a bow to stern division of rowers as opposed to a vertical division which doesn’t make sense given the need to layer the rowers and equip them with different length oars.
*A trireme oar inventory has been uncovered which lists 62 thranite oars, 54 zygite oars, and 54 thalamite oars.
*There is an Athenian dockyard record that indicates that thranite oars no longer serviceable could be made into zygite oars, i.e. be shortened by cutting off the worn parts.
A demonstration of this configuration was made using oar lengths of 10,12 and 13.5 feet and showed good results.
During the Golden Age of Athens, the trireme was the warship of choice. A dockyard record from 325 B.C, however, lists 360 triremes, 50 quadriremes, and 7 quinqueremes indicating an evolution in craft types.
By the First Punic War the Romans were using mainly quinqueremes as discussed in the previous article. With incomplete knowledge of how triremes were manned, we must throw up our hands as we contemplate how a quinquereme could be rowed using five groups of rowers. Most likely there was a group who moved their oars from a standing position, but this is a guess.
A few more relevant points are interesting. The trireme was said to be capable of 8 knots, which is good compared to sailing ships of the time. Pliny cites some Roman sailing records the fastest of which is a run from Ostia to Africa of 270 nautical miles at an average speed of 6 knots. How long the rowers could maintain their speed is unknown. One would imagine exhaustion setting in after 10-20 minutes, but we don’t know whether all rowers were pulling in order to make an 8 knot speed.
And one more thing. Rowers were not slaves as portrayed in popular culture – at least the Greek oarsmen weren’t. There are pay slips extant showing that the thalamite rowers were paid less because their oars were shorter.
The NLRB last November ordered a third union vote to be held at BHM1 after finding Amazon improperly interfered in two previous elections. The company has denied wrongdoing.
Amazon staffers told Wiggin that during the union campaign, the company tweaked some performance expectations to "improve working conditions" and dissuade them from unionizing. One employee said these changes were partly why he voted against the union, according to the study.
Lawmakers zeroed in on how surveillance can impact organizing efforts in recent years. In 2022, the former NLRB general counsel issued a memo calling for the group to address corporate use of "omnipresent surveillance and other algorithmic-management tools" to disrupt organizing efforts. The following year, the Biden Administration put out a request for information on automated worker surveillance and management, noting that the systems can pose risks to employees, including "their rights to form or join a labor union."
For its fourth quarter results, Meta said sales were $48.39 billion, up 21% from the prior year. Microsoft said its fiscal second-quarter search and news advertising revenue soared 21% year over year, although it doesn't provide specific sales numbers. Amazon said its online advertising business grew 18% year-over-year to $17.29 billion in the fourth-quarter, and for its fourth-quarter results, Alphabet said its Google advertising sales grew 11% year over year to $72.46 billion while YouTube's ad revenue rose 14% to $10.47 billion.
The First Punic War began over a silly dispute. The Mamertines, Italian mercenaries from Campania, attacked and took control of Messana (Messina) Sicily. They were soon defeated by Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, and afterward appealed to Rome and Carthage for aid. The Carthaginian’s “helped” by placing a garrison there, which was not what the Mamertines were expecting. Angered by this offense, they requested a treaty with Rome. The Senate knew a treaty would mean war with Carthage so they debated long and hard before deciding to move forward.
After the first land skirmishes of the war, Rome realized that Carthage would not be a pushover and defeating them would depend on their ability to fight at sea. With that in mind, the Romans proceeded to build 100 fivers (quinqueremes) and 20 triremes during the winter of 261/0 B.C.
"Advertisers feel like consumers are susceptible to advertising and are investing in that," Luria said.
Luria noted that while Google is the dominant online advertising business, it's losing some market share as its core search engine is increasingly challenged by other companies investing in artificial intelligence and related services like ChatGPT.
"They are the biggest digital advertising platform by quite a bit of margin, but a lot of that is based on search, and their search franchise is continuously being eroded," Luria said. "It's being eroded by Amazon, being eroded by Meta, being eroded by the AI players."
After the fall of Scipio, Duilius was put in overall command. He set out for the north coast of Sicily to intercept the armada of Hannibal (not the general) which had attacked the port of Mylae. As the Romans approached, the Punic navy put to sea. Overconfident, the Carthaginian commander allowed his battle formation to fall apart, making himself vulnerable to the Roman corvus. The thirty leading Punic ships were boarded and taken, while Hannibal escaped via longboat. In all 50 Carthaginian ships were captured in Rome’s first great naval victory.
Duilius did not pursue Hannibal because he had to rescue Segesta from a Carthaginian siege by deploying his marines from the Gulf of Termini. He returned to Rome for a triumph in 259 B.C. carrying with him the beaks of the captured Punic ships which went on display in the Forum. Oddly, he was never given another commission.
In a previous post (June 6th, 2011) I wrote about the fall of the Roman Republic. The key milestones of the collapse were described with commentary describing the impact of each of them. The fall of the Republic can be seen as a connected string of events that snowballed into an unstable political system with no center of power. Once anarchy became the rule, the strongest man with the will to defy tradition was destined to take power.
The fall of the Republic began with the plight of the ex-soldier landowner whose loss of property produced a permanent underclass of poor in the city.
This is similar to the period of the turn of the twentieth century in the United States when poor immigrants flooded our cities and could not obtain work. And today we have a thinning out of the middle class as some move up the social-economic ladder and a greater number move down. America is currently experiencing a chronic state of high unemployment which may have broad social implications – dependency, crime, etc.
The deaths of the Gracchi drove a permanent wedge between the Senate and the people causing two political factions to appear: Optimates, who were the champions of the patrician class and Populares, who were the champions of the plebs. These factions were more divided than the political parties in America today because in Rome it was a case of human survival -- wealth versus poverty rather than a battle over ideology.
The other fallout of the deaths of the Gracchi was the public perception of the destruction of the rule of law. For any political system to be legitimate, it must be willing to stand behind a legal system that will protect those without power. By stooping to assassination, the Senate had proved themselves illegitimate – no better than the barbarians they felt superior to.
When the Jurguthine War broke out in 110 B.C. the Senate’s appointed commanders were repeatedly defeated to the embarrassment of the Roman people. Finally the people, through the assembly, picked their own commander, Marius, to win the war. Marius solved Rome’s recruitment problem in an eyelash by removing the property qualification for military service and at the same time shifted the soldier’s loyalty from Senate to commander. From that point on the supreme commander was the “emperor maker” of Rome.
How is this similar to what we see in America today? There is no question that the power dynamics in the United States are different than they were in the time of the late Roman Republic. Fortunately for us the military has always been more loyal to the president than its commanders. Loyalty is so ingrained in our soldiers DNA that it would be hard to image any deviation from that course. Commanders have occasionally defied presidents, most notably in the case of Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, but these were the rarest of events in our country’s history.
Ensuring that the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed is critical. The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care about (health outcomes, economic prosperity, etc.) get better on average and over the long-term, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and getting this right may require new ideas.
In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention. We are open to strange-sounding ideas like giving some “compute budget” to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI, but we can also see a lot of ways where just relentlessly driving the cost of intelligence as low as possible has the desired effect.
The danger to the American political system rests in the accumulation of power in the central government and the consequent loss of freedom that accompanies it. Rather than leveling the classes, this trend will divide them further. It’s up to the people to push for a balance between government and liberty. If we take the middle road, our republic can survive.
"Imperium – power, and essentially the power to command the people under arms – was the real basis of the Roman state. However it had come into conflict with the developing rights and liberties of the Roman people, and had accordingly been divided among two senior and four junior magistrates; and certain restrictions had been placed on their use of it, by custom and statute. Imperium, especially consular Imperium, was also the object of the legitimate ambition of the ruling class, which was unwilling to share it among a larger group of magistrates, and also unwilling to allow the same individual to hold it more than once or twice in a lifetime with the result that someone else, who as a member of the aristocracy had a prescriptive right to it, was excluded.
Furthermore, in order to prevent the working of the constitution from being hamstrung, the consuls had to be prevented from neutralizing each other’s effectiveness and also from poaching on the reserves of their juniors, the praetors.”
The phalanx at the Punic center had been manned by expendable Gauls who were not the tactical focal point of the battle but instead were used as a drawing card for the Roman legions.
It’s hard to believe that Hannibal had only arrived in Italy a couple of weeks earlier after his tortuous journey over the Alps where he lost as many as 20,000 men. To plan and engage in a major battle in that short time is a testimony to his leadership.
Anyone in 2035 should be able to marshall the intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025; everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine. There is a great deal of talent right now without the resources to fully express itself, and if we change that, the resulting creative output of the world will lead to tremendous benefits for us all.
For years, Meta has been funding research into ’embodied AI’, aiming to create AI assistants that can see, hear, and navigate the 3D physical world. The company’s top AI scientist, Yann LeCun, has also emphasized the limitations of language models and is working to develop new models that can better understand physical space.
Furthermore, Meta plans to build “more direct expertise in the space” by developing retail locations similar to the Meta Lab store it opened in Los Angeles in November, although retail partners will remain the primary drivers of hardware sales volume.
Before moving on to Lake Trasimene, we need to discuss the politics and structure of the Roman Army as it impacted military operations during this period. At the time of the second Punic War no consul was allowed to have more than two legions under his command, severely limiting the size of his army. Moreover, on those occasions where the consuls represented rival factions in the Senate, they refused to cooperate in a combined command structure and, instead, operated separately. The only option to overcoming this limitation was to invoke a dictatorship, but the Senate had not yet lost confidence in its commanders in the period after Trebbia.
Flaminius and Germinus were elected consuls for 217 B.C. and each took command of his army in the spring. Flaminius was positioned to pursue Hannibal if he chose the center route through Italy while Germinus’ army was located to the west. Once Flaminius became aware of Hannibal’s moves in his direction he made the unwise decision to go after him without waiting for Germinus to reinforce him. Aware of Flaminius by reconnaissance, Hannibal’s movements took him near Lake Trasimene which he immediately recognized as the perfect location for an ambush.
The paper, published in the journal Nature, explained that a lithium-ion battery consists of a cathode, anode, and active lithium ions in between. The study noted that a typical battery is retired when it loses too many ions.
“Our approach is to retain the cathode and anode, which are still functional while addressing the problematic part. We aimed to develop a transformative functional material that provides precise lithium-ion replenishment to significantly extend a battery’s life span,” noted Gao.
Whether you are a new soul or an old dog on the Hive blockchain, you have probably heard of Moonkarts by now. This retro-style arcade kart racing game developed by Arcade Colony is getting quite the hype lately not only within but beyond the Hive chain.
Unlike most other play-to-earn games that we play these days, which only rely on card-based strategies with a simple 2D UI and without much visual appeal or thrill, Moonkarts is changing the scenario as it brings the actual thrill of playing an arcade-style 3D racing game.
🧵/1 I'll never forget the day a natural disaster turned my life upside down. My property was destroyed, and I was left with nothing. The experience was devastating, and it nearly took a toll on my mental health.
🧵/2 It happened during my final year in school. I had just rented a new apartment, and I was excited to start a new chapter. But little did I know, the apartment was located in a flood-prone area. The landlord had renovated the apartment, making it look brand new.
🧵/3 He assured me that the area was safe, but it was all a lie. But the flood came unexpectedly, and I lost everything. I was lucky to have friends who helped me with accommodation and clothes. But the experience left me traumatized. Read more about this post by clicking the link below.
Oh, wow! This is awesome. I'm happy he found a life partner 🧡😍. A big congratulations to you @bradleyarrow. May God bless your union and make the wedding a successful one. I hope to see more of her around.
On #InLeo, the #anything #app on the #hive #blockchain and beyond, work took over my life for the past two weeks, but I still made it for Leo Power Up Day #LPUD. Being part of and moving together with the #community, gives me a great good feeling!
Other academics are paying equally close attention to the issue. In a research paper published last week, Northwestern University PhD candidate Teke Wiggin explored Amazon's use of algorithms and digital devices at the company's BHM1 warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
"The black box and lack of accountability that comes with algorithmic management makes it harder for a worker or activist to decide if they're being retaliated against," Wiggin said in an interview. "Maybe their schedule changes a little bit, work feels harder than it used to, the employer can say that has nothing to do with us, that's just the algorithm. But we have no idea if the algorithm has changed."
*Aristotle in his Mechanics says that the mesoneoi (young rowers) sat in the “middle” and had the longest oars. One assumes he uses middle to mean the center line or farthest from the side of the ship.
In the crude drawings below I show how the rowers could have been positioned to satisfy all the historical statements. The rowers sat on benches angled to the back of the ship, with the thranites, zygites, and thalamites seated next to each other. The bench was stepped to allow the rowers to swing their oar without hitting the men sitting next to them.
Some Amazon employees see the situation differently. Storm Smith works at RDU1 as a process assistant, which involves monitoring worker productivity and safety. Amazon referred Smith to CNBC in the course of reporting this story.
Amazon's workplace controls, like rate and time off task, are "part of the job," Smith said. Staffers are "always welcome" to ask her what their rate is, she added.
The Roman plan was to sail south from Messana round Cape Pachyrus and head west to Cape Ecnomus where they would rendezvous with Roman land forces encamped there. Then the fleet would proceed on to Africa. If the Punic fleet was encountered, the Romans planned to drive it out of their way.
The Carthaginians through their spy network were able to follow the Roman advance and arrange the battle on their schedule. Moreover the Carthaginians had spied on Roman maneuvers where the attack formation was rehearsed.
"For my people, if I see your rate is not where it's supposed to be, I'll come up to you and say, 'Hey, this is your rate, are you feeling alright? Is there anything I could get you to get your rate up? Like a snack, a drink, whatever," Smith said.
Wiggin interviewed 42 BHM1 employees following the first election in 2021, and reviewed NLRB records of hearings. The facility employed more than 5,800 workers at the time of the union drive.
The Roman people were not seafaring by nature. The city was 16 miles from the coast and their focus had always been on agriculture rather than trade. Before the advent of the Punic Wars Rome did not possess navy or merchant marine because she did not need them. Her wars were fought on land and she relied on the Greek traders of Magna Graecia to carry her cargo. Carthage was the opposite -- a great seafaring nation of the western Mediterranean whose ships traveled the waters from England to Egypt. Not belligerent by nature, the Carthaginians maintained a substantial navy which was necessary to protect their trade interests in the Mediterranean and beyond.
One of the most direct ways Amazon is able to disseminate anti-union messages is through the AtoZ app, which is an essential tool in their daily work.
The app is used by warehouse workers to access pay stubs and tax forms, request schedule changes or vacation time, post on the "Voice of the Associate" message board, and communicate with human resources.
Jennifer Bates, a prominent union organizer at BHM1, learned Amazon fired her through AtoZ in 2023. She was later reinstated by Amazon "after a full review of her case," and provided backpay, Hards said.
At the Garner facility, the AtoZ app has been plastered with "anti-union propaganda" since the RDU1 election was announced last month, Medelius-Marsano said.
One AtoZ message suggested employees' benefits could be at risk if they voted in a union, while another described CAUSE as an "outside party" that's "claiming to be a union."
RDU1 site leader Kristen Tettemer said in another message that a group like CAUSE "can get in the way of how we work together," and that "once in, a union is very difficult to remove." Smith said Amazon's response to the union drive has been centered around "putting out the facts and telling you to do your research."
Following construction, the consul C. Cornelius Scipio took 20 ships on to Messana while his consular colleague C. Duilius followed behind.
Scipio immediately received a proposal to be handed the Carthaginian naval station at Lipara, but the information was also leaked to the enemy. While ashore there, he was surprised by a Punic attack force and captured with all of his ships, earning him the sobriquet Asina (ass) for his stupidity.
In the first years of the Second Punic War, the Romans fought Hannibal on three occasions: Trebbia in November 218, Lake Trasimene in June 217, and Cannae in August 216. All were disasters for Rome. In each case Hannibal used topography, the element of surprise, and speed to defeat his enemy. The Romans were unprepared to fight a superior tactician and in at least the first two cases vastly underestimated their adversary.
At Trebbia, Hannibal set up the battle so the Romans missed their breakfast and had to wade through ice cold water to get to him, exhausting themselves before they could engage. After Hannibal’s Numidian cavalry chased off the Roman horsemen, the maniples became vulnerable to attacks from the side as they moved forward. Then, with elephants trampling the wings of the Roman front, an ambush from behind was launched. Eventually the Romans were able to puncture the center of the Punic line, but the battle was lost everywhere else by that time. Roman casualties amounted to some 15,000.
I have a friend in China that recently bought an EV, his driver for buying an EV is because the uptake of EV's in China with the subsidies and low prices has brought about an interesting issue. Charging stations are everywhere, but Petrol Stations (Gasoline Service Stations) have been going broke and shutting down and the ones left are raising prices due to less competition. So owning a fuel based car is more of a hassel and inconvenience than owning an EV. So it appears there is a tipping point. Might make for an interesting conversation in your videos. Once there is more EVs than Fuel cars, the Fuel Stations start to dissappear making it harder/less convienient to own a Fuel based car.
The new division will be led by Marc Whitten, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, who Meta has hired as vice president of robotics, Bosworth noted in the memo. He also mentioned that John Koryl has been hired as vice president of retail. Koryl, previously CEO of The RealReal, will help expand Meta’s direct-to-consumer sales of products like the Quest mixed reality headsets and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which Meta makes with EssilorLuxottica.
Meta to compete with Tesla
Meta plans to develop its own humanoid robot hardware, initially focusing on household chores, while also aiming to create the AI, sensors, and software that can power robots made by various companies, Bloomberg reported. The tech giant has begun discussions with robotics firms like Unitree Robotics and Figure AI but does not plan to launch its own branded robot right away.
The team noted that any candidate molecule had to meet a complex set of requirements to work. These include dissolving well in the battery’s existing electrolyte and participating in reactions without damaging the battery.
It had to also be highly compatible with various active materials and electrolytes. To this end, the team used machine learning to identify potential candidates by digitizing molecular properties and utilizing extensive organic chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials engineering datasets.
The result, CF3SO2Li, emerged as an ideal solution for the problem. It is relatively cheap, easy to make, and compatible with most mainstream batteries today.
To develop this innovative memory storage technique, the team incorporated rare earth elements, also known as lanthanides, into a crystal. They specifically used praseodymium and an yttrium oxide crystal, though the process they developed can be applied to a variety of materials, utilizing the powerful and flexible optical properties of rare earth elements.
As França further explains, rare earth elements exhibit specific electronic transitions that allow for the selection of precise laser excitation wavelengths for optical control, ranging from UV to near-infrared regimes.
In contrast to dosimeters, which are activated by X-rays or gamma rays, this storage device is triggered by a simple ultraviolet laser. The laser excites the lanthanides, causing them to release electrons. These electrons are captured by defects in the oxide crystal, such as gaps where a single oxygen atom is missing. The technique leverages these inherent defects, which are found in both natural and artificial crystals.
While crystal defects are commonly used in quantum research to create “qubits,” the UChicago PME team discovered a new application. They successfully controlled which defects were charged and which weren’t, designating charged gaps as “ones” and uncharged gaps as “zeros”, with the innovation transforming the crystal into a highly efficient memory storage device, surpassing previous limits in classical computing.
As mentioned in a previous post, Augustus was beside himself when told of the loss of three legions at Teutoburg and screamed “Quinctilius Varus, bring back my eagles!” Augustus was forever spooked by the massacre and commanded that his army retreat to the banks of the Rhine, avoiding all future designs on the German territory. He did not live to see the recovered eagles of the lost legions or get the revenge he must have wanted against Arminius. At the time of his death in 14 A.D, no plans had been made for dealing with the Germans.
Tiberius, however, once he was named Caesar, wasted no time moving north to control the German tribes and gain revenge against Arminius. Even though Augustus’ death occurred as late as August 19th, an army under Tiberius’ nephew Germanicus was ordered to attack the Germans before year end.
Completed in 2019, the massive arched steel and concrete structure was built to cover an older Soviet-era version that had significantly deteriorated. Standing 108 metres high (354 feet) and 162 metres long, it spans 257 metres and is designed to last at least 100 years, according to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. The project cost $1.6 billion and was funded by 45 donor countries and institutions.
Working on a metrics window and some other indicator optimizations for the Logical Trading Indicator PRO which I am trying to finish and post on Tradingview as an Invite Only script.
Font Awesome and Icomoon are both popular icon libraries that provide scalable vector icons which can be used on websites and applications. They offer a wide range of icons, including those commonly used for social media platforms.
Finally friends, the day of #lpud has arrived! A day to make us stronger and keep marching with the pack! Go #inleo! #crypto #cent #bbh #thread2earn
#leofinance
Excellent friend, betting big.
Thanks bro!
que bien
Muchas gracias Ña Sacrita! Un abrazo!
I had a cheeseburger that was beyond so good last night that I just had to share it with you all!
Happy #lpud! I powered up 1300 Leo this month, yay!🎉
First of all that burger looks great, perfect for this moment.
Great that you are still betting on inleo.
It was culinary gloriousness!
And #inleo is a community worth betting on😊
!BBH
Happy Sunday.
Happy Sunday😊
!BBH
Thanks.
Total LP is now 10,880. It's adding up.
Happy #lpud friends. Powered up 152 Leo Hope you have participated?#thread2earn #hodl
Ain't that coincidental
Shocking! not
my business partner and i finally set up a crypto reserve for our company. using Vultisig 2 of 3. no seed phrases to store or lose. simple multi-sig.
we will be heavily stacking RUNE & KUJI for now.
no leo? 🥹
maybe maybe.
I thought Rune was being replaced
no, KUJI is being converted to RUJI with the launch of the thorchain app layer later this year
lovely
I wish you success in your endeavours
InLeo traffic pumping according to Similar Web wow @khaleelkazi #inleo
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Thinking about friendship... 👊
seja bem vindo
tks
Seja bem vindo mano! Um abraço.
bem-vindo!
welcome!
We are moving quickly towards hyper-abundance. We are likely to be there within a decade.
John Hutchison Interview on the Elaine Smitha Show (2000): What's New in Free Energy?
#HutchisonEffect #ZeroPointEnergy #FreeEnergy #technology #science
In this video I have uploaded a very rare 2000 interview of John Hutchison on the Elaine Smith Show titled: What's New in Free Energy? The Next Generation is Here! John Hutchison demonstrates his hybrid free energy crystal converter which is a combination of thin crystal wavers and ground up exotic minerals, such as barium titanate. John also talks about how he had his guns and lab confiscated by the Canadian government, as well as Vancouver police raiding his apartment literally at gunpoint and handcuffs.
This interview is so rare that this may be the first instance of it being published online anywhere on the internet!
!summarize
Churchill once famously said '"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to Hell in such a way that they thank you for it'!
Haha, first Tim hearing this. It's so true
hello world, greetings From Nigeria
Awesome, nice to see different nationals here on inleo. A pleasure to meet you
Definitely, I feel overwhelmed too... Thanks buddy 😄👌
You're welcome buddy
Hey! Welcome 🦁
Thank you very much 😄🙌
😄🙌
Hello everyone, I am @bradleyarrow s fiancee :)
A warm welcome to INLEO @cathyarrow. I'm glad you're with us. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding with @bradleyarrow. May God bless and strengthen your union.
Thanks you so much :) !BBH
thank you so much!
Howdy Howdy welcome to the community!
thank you!
Really? What an awesome fracking sauce. It's a pleasure to meet you.
thank you!
You're welcome. Hope to see you around often.
You are specially welcome Mom 😊😊😊... Don't worry my Dad will soon introduce me to you officially as his soon on Chain. We are twin over here..
Welcome once more Mom 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰..
Thank you!
You are specially welcome
Welcome to Inleo! :)
thank you,!
Welcome to inleo mama arrow
Welcome Cathy 🎉🎉Aww. @bradleyarrow, you found love again. I am happy for you 🥰
Hey Sabrinaaaaahh, wow. Nice to read you again. It's been long. Hope you are good.
I'm so happy for grandpa @bradleyarrow.
Hey Luchyl. Happy belated Valentine's day ❤️
Yes, I am good.
Yeah, I am happy for grandpa too 😍🥰🥳
Belated Valentine wishes to you too.
That's beautiful. Welcome back.
He sure deserves to be loved again. Awwnnn, I'm blushing on his behalf.
Hi, @sabrinah,
This post has been voted on by @darkcloaks because you are an active member of the Darkcloaks gaming community.
Get started with Darkcloaks today, and follow us on Inleo for the latest updates.
thanks so much 🙏
You deserve to be loved and cared for again.
thanks so much. She is brand-new to blockchain but must love me enough to join Hive/In Leo :)
Aww. We are happy to meet her. And yes, we love her for you 🔥
Hi, @sabrinah,
This post has been voted on by @darkcloaks because you are an active member of the Darkcloaks gaming community.
Get started with Darkcloaks today, and follow us on Inleo for the latest updates.
thank you! happy to be here.
Daily #summarystats – February 14, 2025
Historical Data
It's great when you only buy 10 packs and get one epic artist! #musicforlife #play2earn #crypto #inleo #cent #bbh #hive #threads
#risingstargame
Sunset:
#natureonleo #photography #canada
I told you that I will be going to Aba for spendHBD program, and I see @luchyl
Everyone should listen to the space we did with the INLEO team last week.
If anyone doubts the power of Dash's collaborative approach, they should listen.
We're going places. And we're bringing everyone with us!
#dash #inleo #crypto
this is the way
Here's the space:
Keep it up.
Will do!
Feijoada caseira com os amigos! E um novo user para hive
@ferrinho77
#hivebr #onboarding
Maravillosa 👊👊😋😋😋
Esta é a Tequila, nossa Gatinha mais velha...já tem 10 anos de vida...😻
This is Tequila, our oldest Kitten...she is already 10 years old...😻
essa eu conheço de longe.. parece que tem uma leve fobia social kkkk !lol
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Is it time for a #LPUD?
Well, here is my small contribution and as i mentioned 15 days ago, i just reach 1,000 Leo Power!
1000 LP? come on man rookie numbers
I am a poor guy haha
hahaha means you need to thread more
haha that is true
🫡
You did well. Congratulations.
Thank you!
Cool, I'm working hard to get there.
You will!
Thanks, much more with the #hivecuba team.
That's an awesome achievement, was it all organic?
I am over the moon excited that my fiancee @cathyarrow in on Hive. Lots to teach her. I just told her it must be true love, doing something like Hive that she knows nothing about. But she did her first thread, responded to a few comments and did some up votes. :)
Wow, that's really cool. That's what onboarding is all about, start from where you are and you just did that, congratulations 🎉 🎉 to you both boss. Am sure she is gonna enjoy her experience in here.
thanks so much 🙏!BBH
I am excited to be a part of our community! Can't wait to learn more! And I definitely can't wait to be your wife!
This is beautiful, I will follow you and also bring my girlfriend over here
And ooh I followed her too
It's time to make money as a couple on the block chain
News like this shows that the future of Bitcoin is bright
I consider this a wise investment
It is a smart move
I hope the language translator will work on mobile?
Mobile phone is the main deal for threading.
it does
I don't see it here.
it's the little globe icon on the top-right of your phone screen
Yeah, I found it.
In #splinterlands Season 151, I averaged nearly $10/day in $SPS.
Check out my report card to learn of the six ways I earned SPS last season. Hint: @sps.dao tournaments!
#play2earn #play2own #hive #gaming #tcg #web3 👇
#Hive Article Link 👇
https://peakd.com/hive-178250/@ducecrypto/splinterstats-season-138-report-card
Another run event in the books.
#movetoearn
Cool. Medal included.
🤘🏽 🥇
I see Valentine's groove in the picture.
🏃🏻♀️❤️ 🏃🏽
Sign up to inleo via Google. Where do iI Download or fet the Hive account keys? Signed up my fiancee
IIRC it will become an option after they have earned like $5-$10
I read somewhere that you can get the keys when you logged out and logged in back, you will be able to see the download keys button from the setting menu. Someone said it some time ago.
got it.
i just heard Bitcoin lightning network has a failure rate of 40%
chat is this real?
lol weak
Bones and skulls.
aye
Please pardon my ignorance , pirate edition of what ?
Data folder
Obviously, there are gaps in our knowledge of Roman construction techniques and tools because we lack either written or physical evidence of these. Non-permanent materials have eroded away over two millennia and their characteristics elude us. Great structures like Hadrian’s Wall survive because of the use of stone or concrete.
There is, however, one clear example of a non-permanent structure which we know a lot about – Caesar’s first bridge over the Rhine. We know the story because Caesar tells us in volume four of The Conquest of Gaul. But construction techniques are only part of the story. Caesar built this bridge to show the Germans they were never safe from him because he had the skills to cross the river and attack them.
!summarize #tesla #robots #humanoid #optimus
Agency, willfulness, and determination will likely be extremely valuable. Correctly deciding what to do and figuring out how to navigate an ever-changing world will have huge value; resilience and adaptability will be helpful skills to cultivate. AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less.
We expect the impact of AGI to be uneven. Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else.
The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically.
Downstream from Koblenz, there are two small towns named Andernach and Neuwied. Historical scholarship suggests Caesar planned to cross the Rhine in between these two locations. The distance between the shorelines in this area is 800 to 1000 feet. The average depth of the river is 16 feet.
Before we talk about the construction of the bridge, it will be useful to show a photograph of the model that sits in The Museo Della Civilta Romana in Rome.
Before starting construction, the Romans built a crane on a raft and floated it out into the river. You can see the framework of this apparatus on the left of the picture. The piers supporting the bridge were constructed of one and a half foot thick logs. These tigna bina were tied together in pairs with a two foot gap between them. They were then driven into the river bed at an oblique angle using a pile driver. This was apparently a large stone, attached to block and tackle on poles, that could be swung at the posts once they were tied into position. Once two sets of these posts were secure a large log (fibulae) was placed between them in the slot formed by the two foot gap. Angled supporting posts were tied to the tigna bina to provide additional support.
Caesar says the piles were positioned forty feet apart before they were driven into the riverbed.
Surprise playoff runs are no rarity in MLB, and someday there will be one more shocking than the 2024 Mets. What separates them from some of the others, however, is what they did to follow up their miracle finish. For comparison, look at the 2015 Mets, a team widely considered to be a fringe playoff contender entering the year who ultimately had a legitimate shot at a World Series ring. That group fell short, but the wide assumption in baseball was that they would be back and be led by their young pitching.
The winter of 2015 going into 2016, the Mets remained mostly quiet during the offseason. The team retained Yoenis Céspedes, which was their true major move. They also traded left-handed pitcher Jon Niese to the Pittsburgh Pirates for second baseman Neil Walker, and signed Asdrúbal Cabrera to play shortstop.
Across baseball, the Cleveland Guardians have failed to build off of multiple ALCS appearances as well as their 2016 AL Pennant, the Dodgers made the playoffs ten times in a row without winning a title during a full season before 2024, and teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers have failed to capitalize on consistent playoff appearances at different points. The common denominator between all of these examples is a lack of championship-level moves in the offseason, whether it be via free agency or trade.
The one exception? Last year’s Dodgers. The team went out and acquired Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Teoscar Hernández, all of whom played major roles in their championship season.
In total, the Mets have spent over $1 billion in total contract value this winter. Soto’s $765 million led the way by a significant margin, but the Mets did not shy away from spending afterwards either. The Mets had every excuse to ride the tail of their 2024 campaign, touting their success, fan interest, media attention and simple all-around fun they had. However, as teams have shown before, hoping those factors extend into a new season and are enough to help repeat and grow upon prior success rarely works.
20 years fits with Kurzweils prognosis of a singularity, but it’s conservative as it extrapolates past progress into the future, which was based on humans using technology to built better technology. In other words it’s an extrapolation that assumes static human intellect as driving force with the exponential being based on the feedback loop of tools being used to built better tools. Once AGI arrives and thus recursive self improved, it’s likely that the exponent gets a lot larger, as at least one additional order of exponential growing starts that interacts with the already existing one. It’s not just increases in absolute intelligence in AGI, and the use of surrogate models like alphafold to shift the heavy lifting of experimentation from physical to digital space.
It’s also that AGI (even only at human levels) is faster (e.g. a human mathematician equivalent in AGI thinking faster by 1000x should achieve 1000years of progress in just one year). Plus scalability, we have a couple of millions of scientists and engineers in the world, once AGI at that level is scalable, agentic and has perhaps also physical embodiment if needed, we could could have billions and trillions (again limited by the rate of recursive self improvement), all communicating and transferring gained knowledge at electronic speeds. Humans as the current drivers of progress are not subject to recusive self improvement outside of tool usage and specialization. Thus Kurzweils estimate for 2045 is likely far to conservative, also we might get AGI/ASI prior to his 2029 expectation (which he himself acknowledged recently).
Instead of hoping to build off of their achievements last year, some of which can be left up to random chance, the Mets took steps to make sure that they will be a better team entering 2025 than they were entering 2024. This does not guarantee year-over-year growth or a deeper playoff run for the Mets, but the team enacted the correct process. Every now and again, an inspiring one-off will win a ring while on a Cinderella run. Far more often, however, teams that utilize strong practices, implement good processes and make the playoffs routinely win championships.
Since 2015, only three teams have made the playoffs at least eight times: the New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Dodgers. The Yankees are the only club among that group not to win a ring, let alone two, and only have one pennant to show for their work.
With the word "debanking," crypto execs and investors have found immediate allies among top Republicans in both houses of Congress and in the White House, who are ready and willing to investigate any potential malfeasance that occurred when Democrats were in charge.
President Donald Trump has coopted the agenda for political gain. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, he accused JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America of politically motivated debanking, claiming major financial institutions have shut out conservatives under pressure from regulators. The banks denied the claim and Trump hasn't provided any evidence to back it up.
!summarize #perplexity #deepresearch #agents #chatgpt
Once the support structure was in place, logs were laid across the piers and then boards were used to form the roadway.
I estimate that the piers were about twenty feet apart so a thousand foot river span would have required 50 piers. The bridge was built in ten days which meant workers would have placed five piers per day assuming the roadway was built as a parallel process over piers already completed.
The Romans had a variety of familiar tools at their disposal, including adzes, hammers, saws for cutting boards, and block and tackle. They used 9 inch nails to fasten boards together.
Once the bridge was complete, the army crossed over the Rhine. They spent 18 days in the land of the Sugambri, burning abandoned villages because the enemy had fled their homeland in fear of the Roman juggernaut. After treating with the Ubii, Caesar crossed back over the Rhine and destroyed the bridge behind him. Ten days in the making, Caesar’s Rhine bridge lived for eighteen days.
!summarize #billoreilly #ideology #npr #pbs
!summarize #doge #elonmusk #government
This diagram shows the principal landmarks. The camp was formed by intersecting roads, with gates at the end of each. The main building of the camp was the Principia, located at the intersection of the two main roads.
The walls of the camp were designed to neutralize an attack. The first step in building them was to dig a trench six feet deep. When the trench was complete its sides were graded into a “V” to prevent an attacker from jumping across. The soil from the trench hole was then piled into a rampart frame of logs, making the total thickness of the rampart 3-5 meters. The top of the rampart was covered with palisades to produce a fence. Each legionnaire carried two 6 foot palisades in his kit which were tied together when placed.
Crypto exchange Coinbase was one of the top corporate donors in the 2024 election cycle, giving more than $75 million to a group called Fairshake and its affiliate PACs, including a fresh pledge of $25 million to support the pro-crypto super PAC in the 2026 midterms. Ripple doled out around around $50 million.
Coinbase and Ripple were both involved in protracted legal battles with the SEC under former Chairman Gary Gensler.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 6, along with Fred Thiel, CEO of bitcoin miner MARA Holdings. In a hearing titled "Operation Choke Point 2.0: The Biden Administration's Efforts to Put Crypto in the Crosshairs," they described aggressive pressure from U.S. regulators to effectively push banks to cut ties with crypto firms.
"No one wants to see anyone denied basic banking services on the basis of their political views or whether they happen to work in an industry that might be out of favor with the current administration," Grewal told CNBC. "There are concerns across the political aisle and across the Congress that banking services have in the past been weaponized in order to run roughshod over those who may be out of favor."
As part of its probe, the House committee is investigating claims that bank executives and financial regulators secretly blacklisted crypto firms.
Thiel, in his testimony, said that the "discriminatory banking and financial policies threaten the digital asset ecosystem" and that "banks and payment processors are effectively deciding which industries can exist and grow within the U.S. economy."
!summarize #eu #ukraine #kajakallas
Camp gates were designed to prevent the rush of an attack force. Techniques to prevent this usually involved a ditch in front of the gate or an angling the wall at the gate formed into a curve. Roads in the camp were 18 meters wide which was also the distance from the rampart to the first tent line.
Camp structures were sized according to importance of the occupant. The commander occupied the Praetorium (part of the principia), while the tribunes had their own barracks. The legionnaires slept in leather (calf or goat) tents designed to be waterproof. Each tent was ten feet square and housed eight men. Each century had eight tents for eighty men since sixteen were always on guard duty. Centurions had their own larger tent.
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Silivergate attributed its insolvency to "increased supervisory pressure on Silvergate and other banks focused on servicing crypto-asset businesses."
Signature Bank was seized by regulators in March 2023. Former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, a Signature board member, claimed that the FDIC shut it down specifically "to send a very strong anti-crypto message." The FDIC arranged a sale of Signature's assets, excluding $4 billion in crypto-related deposits.
Mike Lempres, who was chairman of Silvergate and previously spent two years as Coinbase's legal chief, wrote in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this week that the "federal government is finally changing course after four years of vilifying cryptocurrencies and using legally dubious policies to force companies to bend to its will."
While the crypto industry at large is rallying around that message, many in Congress are focused on making the case that banks were targeting conservatives for their political views. Carter said lawmakers are trying to reach a wider audience because "most regular folks don't care about crypto."
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Formed in the 50s A.D, Sicarii was a fringe sect of Zionist fanatics known for carrying concealed daggers (Sicae) and using them against their enemies and Jews they considered enemy sympathizers. Their lives were dedicated to the expulsion of the Romans from the promised land by terror or whatever means they could employ. When the Roman general Titus captured Jerusalem in 70 A.D, the stage was set to retake Masada, destroy the Sicarii and return the fortress to Roman control. Flavius Silva was given command of the assault in 72 A.D. and immediately set to his task.
It is estimated that the fortress held approximately 1,000 people including women and children. Of these there were about 500 warriors.
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Silva’s approach, like all Roman generals, was methodical in the extreme. He knew Rome could not afford to have any of the Sicarii survive the attack so he put together a plan to deploy a series of forts and built a circumvallation around the rock.
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The focus of the assault was a 90 foot siege tower, built with a battering ram, ballastas and scorpiones. As the Roman soldiers pushed it along, it was protected by ballistas located on the sides of the spur. Once the tower reached the fortress wall the ram was put to work attacking the gate and blazing torches were sent over the wall. The next morning the Romans threw gangways from the tower to the top of the walls and entered the fortress. All inside were dead. The Jews had arranged a mass murder to avoid the taboo of suicide. Each Jew was assigned someone to kill in progression until only one was left and he committed suicide. Two women were found alive hiding in a basement and revealed what happened.
We know that the final assault took place in May of 73 A.D, but the rest of the timetable is obscure. If Silva took command at the end of 72, he would have put his plans together before beginning construction, perhaps in early 73 A.D. This was not a classic siege where the goal is starving out the enemy. The Sicarii were small in number and had an adequate food supply. The timetable for victory was determined by the availability of the siege tower and its ramp. Once the tower had been pushed to the walls of Masada, Roman forces were able to enter the fortress and the assault came to an end.
Trump Media reports $400 million in 2024 losses
Trump Media & Technology Group is worth almost $7 billion, but the company generated less than $4 million in revenue in 2024, according to a new filing.
Trump Media & Technology Group shares were down about 1% in extended trading on Friday after the operator of Truth Social released its 2024 results.
Here's how the company performed:
Earnings: Loss of $2.36 per share
Revenue: $3.6 million
The company's revenue declined 12% year over year, according to its annual report. The company saw its net loss widen to $400.9 million from $58.2 million in 2023.
In 2024, Trump Media incurred merger-related legal fees because of obstruction from former President Biden's Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a statement. A change to a revenue-sharing agreement with an advertising partner resulted in lower sales. "Additionally, revenue has varied as we selectively test a nascent advertising initiative on our Truth Social platform," the company said in the annual report.
"We will continue to explore opportunities to partner, merge with, and acquire other entities that are able to function effectively if TMTG evolves into a holding company with subsidiaries spanning several industries," Chairman and CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican Congressman was quoted as saying in the statement.
Amazon 'anti-union propaganda,' employee surveillance loom over labor vote at North Carolina warehouse
Amazon workers at a facility near Raleigh, North Carolina, are wrapping up a vote this weekend over whether to unionize.
Italo Medelius-Marsano was a law student at North Carolina Central University in 2022, when he took a job at an Amazon warehouse near the city of Raleigh to earn some extra cash.
The past month has been unlike any other during his three-year tenure at the company. Now, when he shows up for his shift at the shipping dock, Medelius-Marsano says he's met with flyers and mounted TVs urging him to "vote no," as well as QR codes on workstations that lead to an anti-union website. During meetings, managers discourage unionization.
Workers at RDU1 and other facilities told CNBC that Amazon is increasingly using digital tools to deter employees from unionizing. That includes messaging through the company's app and workstation computers. There's also automated software and handheld package scanners used to track employee performance inside the warehouse, so the company knows when staffers are working or doing something else.
Amazon said it doesn't require employees to meet specific productivity speeds or targets.
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Amazon, the nation's second-largest private employer, has long sought to keep unions out of its ranks. The strategy succeeded in the U.S. until 2022, when workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to join the Amazon Labor Union. Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
In December, Amazon delivery and warehouse workers at nine facilities went on strike, organized by the Teamsters, during the height of the holiday shopping season to push the company to the bargaining table. The strike ended on Christmas Eve. Amazon said it had no impact on the company's operations.
!summarize #party #politics #democrats #trump #republicans
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The hugest driving force behind the tragedy of the commons phenomenon, in my opinion, isn't necessarily the greed of humans. While that obvious does play a factor, I would suggest that it's actually the fear of other's greed. The niggling thought that "Everyone else is going to be selfish and take as much as they possible can, so I'd better do it too so I don't get left behind." Whether it's true or not that the rest of the community will actually do this, we each of us believe it is true, driving us to found our own fears. Which is why when regulation is proposed, and introduced, all but the greediest people will gladly work to make it happen... because then we know we're not going to lose our share to everyone else.
"We believe that both decisions should be equally protected which is why we talk openly, candidly and respectfully about these topics, actively sharing facts with employees so they can use that information to make an informed decision," Hards said in a statement.
Hards said the company doesn't retaliate against employees for union activities, and called claims that its employee monitoring discourages them from unionizing "odd." She also disputed Medelius-Marsano's claim that the company tracks employees by scanning their badges.
The trireme was developed during the early fifth century B.C. in Greece probably from designs the Phoenicians were using. The “tri” in trireme refers to the three types of oarsmen in the ship - thalamites, zygites, and thranites. Why these types existed and how they functioned is a mystery.
There are four principle ways to configure oarsmen in a trireme: in a single line on each side of the boat; vertically, one group above another; assigning multiple rowers per oar; or placing rowers next to each other on a common bench. The following discussion will attempt to determine which of these options was in use.
Greek triremes had a length of approximately 120 feet, as verified from available dry-dock ruins. One hundred twenty feet is also the engineering maximum because, even with internal support cabling, it can be shown that wave action will break a longer wooden ship in half. Because of the limit on the number of oarsmen who could be placed on each side of the ship, designers had to come up with other ways to arrange them.
John Logan, a professor and director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University, told CNBC in an email that Amazon has "perfected the weaponization" of technology, workplace surveillance and algorithmic management during anti-union campaigns "more than any other company."
While Amazon may be more sophisticated than others, "the use of data analytics is becoming far more common in anti-union campaigns across the country," Logan said. He added that it's "extremely common" for companies to try to improve working conditions or sweeten employee perks during a union drive.
The absence of historical writing on the configuration of the rowers leaves us in the dark – but we have other sources. The poets, philosophers, and playwrights of Athens have come to the rescue with tidbits of information.
From the standpoint of pictorial evidence (pottery and the like), we come up empty. The most widely analyzed artifact showing a trireme is called the Lenomant of the Acropolis believed to have been carved in 400 B.C.
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*In Aeschylus’ Agamemmon the statement is made that the thalamites sit below the zygites.
*Polybius describing a collision during the battle if Chios in 201 B.C. states that one ship penetrated the middle of the hull of the other under the thranites thole (fulcrum pin).
*Polyaenus notes that in a storm additional thranite oars were put out to aid in steering indicating that the thranites sat in the rear of the ship. Some historians believe that the Thranites were in the aft position, the zygites in the center, and the thalamites in the bow. This suggests a bow to stern division of rowers as opposed to a vertical division which doesn’t make sense given the need to layer the rowers and equip them with different length oars.
*A trireme oar inventory has been uncovered which lists 62 thranite oars, 54 zygite oars, and 54 thalamite oars.
*There is an Athenian dockyard record that indicates that thranite oars no longer serviceable could be made into zygite oars, i.e. be shortened by cutting off the worn parts.
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A demonstration of this configuration was made using oar lengths of 10,12 and 13.5 feet and showed good results.
During the Golden Age of Athens, the trireme was the warship of choice. A dockyard record from 325 B.C, however, lists 360 triremes, 50 quadriremes, and 7 quinqueremes indicating an evolution in craft types.
By the First Punic War the Romans were using mainly quinqueremes as discussed in the previous article. With incomplete knowledge of how triremes were manned, we must throw up our hands as we contemplate how a quinquereme could be rowed using five groups of rowers. Most likely there was a group who moved their oars from a standing position, but this is a guess.
A few more relevant points are interesting. The trireme was said to be capable of 8 knots, which is good compared to sailing ships of the time. Pliny cites some Roman sailing records the fastest of which is a run from Ostia to Africa of 270 nautical miles at an average speed of 6 knots. How long the rowers could maintain their speed is unknown. One would imagine exhaustion setting in after 10-20 minutes, but we don’t know whether all rowers were pulling in order to make an 8 knot speed.
And one more thing. Rowers were not slaves as portrayed in popular culture – at least the Greek oarsmen weren’t. There are pay slips extant showing that the thalamite rowers were paid less because their oars were shorter.
The NLRB last November ordered a third union vote to be held at BHM1 after finding Amazon improperly interfered in two previous elections. The company has denied wrongdoing.
Amazon staffers told Wiggin that during the union campaign, the company tweaked some performance expectations to "improve working conditions" and dissuade them from unionizing. One employee said these changes were partly why he voted against the union, according to the study.
Lawmakers zeroed in on how surveillance can impact organizing efforts in recent years. In 2022, the former NLRB general counsel issued a memo calling for the group to address corporate use of "omnipresent surveillance and other algorithmic-management tools" to disrupt organizing efforts. The following year, the Biden Administration put out a request for information on automated worker surveillance and management, noting that the systems can pose risks to employees, including "their rights to form or join a labor union."
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!summarize #zelenskyy #trump #ukraine
For its fourth quarter results, Meta said sales were $48.39 billion, up 21% from the prior year. Microsoft said its fiscal second-quarter search and news advertising revenue soared 21% year over year, although it doesn't provide specific sales numbers. Amazon said its online advertising business grew 18% year-over-year to $17.29 billion in the fourth-quarter, and for its fourth-quarter results, Alphabet said its Google advertising sales grew 11% year over year to $72.46 billion while YouTube's ad revenue rose 14% to $10.47 billion.
"Advertisers feel like consumers are sus
The First Punic War began over a silly dispute. The Mamertines, Italian mercenaries from Campania, attacked and took control of Messana (Messina) Sicily. They were soon defeated by Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, and afterward appealed to Rome and Carthage for aid. The Carthaginian’s “helped” by placing a garrison there, which was not what the Mamertines were expecting. Angered by this offense, they requested a treaty with Rome. The Senate knew a treaty would mean war with Carthage so they debated long and hard before deciding to move forward.
After the first land skirmishes of the war, Rome realized that Carthage would not be a pushover and defeating them would depend on their ability to fight at sea. With that in mind, the Romans proceeded to build 100 fivers (quinqueremes) and 20 triremes during the winter of 261/0 B.C.
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"Advertisers feel like consumers are susceptible to advertising and are investing in that," Luria said.
Luria noted that while Google is the dominant online advertising business, it's losing some market share as its core search engine is increasingly challenged by other companies investing in artificial intelligence and related services like ChatGPT.
"They are the biggest digital advertising platform by quite a bit of margin, but a lot of that is based on search, and their search franchise is continuously being eroded," Luria said. "It's being eroded by Amazon, being eroded by Meta, being eroded by the AI players."
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After the fall of Scipio, Duilius was put in overall command. He set out for the north coast of Sicily to intercept the armada of Hannibal (not the general) which had attacked the port of Mylae. As the Romans approached, the Punic navy put to sea. Overconfident, the Carthaginian commander allowed his battle formation to fall apart, making himself vulnerable to the Roman corvus. The thirty leading Punic ships were boarded and taken, while Hannibal escaped via longboat. In all 50 Carthaginian ships were captured in Rome’s first great naval victory.
Duilius did not pursue Hannibal because he had to rescue Segesta from a Carthaginian siege by deploying his marines from the Gulf of Termini. He returned to Rome for a triumph in 259 B.C. carrying with him the beaks of the captured Punic ships which went on display in the Forum. Oddly, he was never given another commission.
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In a previous post (June 6th, 2011) I wrote about the fall of the Roman Republic. The key milestones of the collapse were described with commentary describing the impact of each of them. The fall of the Republic can be seen as a connected string of events that snowballed into an unstable political system with no center of power. Once anarchy became the rule, the strongest man with the will to defy tradition was destined to take power.
The fall of the Republic began with the plight of the ex-soldier landowner whose loss of property produced a permanent underclass of poor in the city.
This is similar to the period of the turn of the twentieth century in the United States when poor immigrants flooded our cities and could not obtain work. And today we have a thinning out of the middle class as some move up the social-economic ladder and a greater number move down. America is currently experiencing a chronic state of high unemployment which may have broad social implications – dependency, crime, etc.
The deaths of the Gracchi drove a permanent wedge between the Senate and the people causing two political factions to appear: Optimates, who were the champions of the patrician class and Populares, who were the champions of the plebs. These factions were more divided than the political parties in America today because in Rome it was a case of human survival -- wealth versus poverty rather than a battle over ideology.
The other fallout of the deaths of the Gracchi was the public perception of the destruction of the rule of law. For any political system to be legitimate, it must be willing to stand behind a legal system that will protect those without power. By stooping to assassination, the Senate had proved themselves illegitimate – no better than the barbarians they felt superior to.
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When the Jurguthine War broke out in 110 B.C. the Senate’s appointed commanders were repeatedly defeated to the embarrassment of the Roman people. Finally the people, through the assembly, picked their own commander, Marius, to win the war. Marius solved Rome’s recruitment problem in an eyelash by removing the property qualification for military service and at the same time shifted the soldier’s loyalty from Senate to commander. From that point on the supreme commander was the “emperor maker” of Rome.
How is this similar to what we see in America today? There is no question that the power dynamics in the United States are different than they were in the time of the late Roman Republic. Fortunately for us the military has always been more loyal to the president than its commanders. Loyalty is so ingrained in our soldiers DNA that it would be hard to image any deviation from that course. Commanders have occasionally defied presidents, most notably in the case of Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, but these were the rarest of events in our country’s history.
Ensuring that the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed is critical. The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care about (health outcomes, economic prosperity, etc.) get better on average and over the long-term, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and getting this right may require new ideas.
In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention. We are open to strange-sounding ideas like giving some “compute budget” to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI, but we can also see a lot of ways where just relentlessly driving the cost of intelligence as low as possible has the desired effect.
The danger to the American political system rests in the accumulation of power in the central government and the consequent loss of freedom that accompanies it. Rather than leveling the classes, this trend will divide them further. It’s up to the people to push for a balance between government and liberty. If we take the middle road, our republic can survive.
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"Imperium – power, and essentially the power to command the people under arms – was the real basis of the Roman state. However it had come into conflict with the developing rights and liberties of the Roman people, and had accordingly been divided among two senior and four junior magistrates; and certain restrictions had been placed on their use of it, by custom and statute. Imperium, especially consular Imperium, was also the object of the legitimate ambition of the ruling class, which was unwilling to share it among a larger group of magistrates, and also unwilling to allow the same individual to hold it more than once or twice in a lifetime with the result that someone else, who as a member of the aristocracy had a prescriptive right to it, was excluded.
Furthermore, in order to prevent the working of the constitution from being hamstrung, the consuls had to be prevented from neutralizing each other’s effectiveness and also from poaching on the reserves of their juniors, the praetors.”
The phalanx at the Punic center had been manned by expendable Gauls who were not the tactical focal point of the battle but instead were used as a drawing card for the Roman legions.
It’s hard to believe that Hannibal had only arrived in Italy a couple of weeks earlier after his tortuous journey over the Alps where he lost as many as 20,000 men. To plan and engage in a major battle in that short time is a testimony to his leadership.
Anyone in 2035 should be able to marshall the intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025; everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine. There is a great deal of talent right now without the resources to fully express itself, and if we change that, the resulting creative output of the world will lead to tremendous benefits for us all.
For years, Meta has been funding research into ’embodied AI’, aiming to create AI assistants that can see, hear, and navigate the 3D physical world. The company’s top AI scientist, Yann LeCun, has also emphasized the limitations of language models and is working to develop new models that can better understand physical space.
Furthermore, Meta plans to build “more direct expertise in the space” by developing retail locations similar to the Meta Lab store it opened in Los Angeles in November, although retail partners will remain the primary drivers of hardware sales volume.
Before moving on to Lake Trasimene, we need to discuss the politics and structure of the Roman Army as it impacted military operations during this period. At the time of the second Punic War no consul was allowed to have more than two legions under his command, severely limiting the size of his army. Moreover, on those occasions where the consuls represented rival factions in the Senate, they refused to cooperate in a combined command structure and, instead, operated separately. The only option to overcoming this limitation was to invoke a dictatorship, but the Senate had not yet lost confidence in its commanders in the period after Trebbia.
Flaminius and Germinus were elected consuls for 217 B.C. and each took command of his army in the spring. Flaminius was positioned to pursue Hannibal if he chose the center route through Italy while Germinus’ army was located to the west. Once Flaminius became aware of Hannibal’s moves in his direction he made the unwise decision to go after him without waiting for Germinus to reinforce him. Aware of Flaminius by reconnaissance, Hannibal’s movements took him near Lake Trasimene which he immediately recognized as the perfect location for an ambush.
The paper, published in the journal Nature, explained that a lithium-ion battery consists of a cathode, anode, and active lithium ions in between. The study noted that a typical battery is retired when it loses too many ions.
“Our approach is to retain the cathode and anode, which are still functional while addressing the problematic part. We aimed to develop a transformative functional material that provides precise lithium-ion replenishment to significantly extend a battery’s life span,” noted Gao.
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Essa gata é nervosa, não aceita carinho de qualquer um! Faz jus ao nome de "Tequila" rsrsrs
Whether you are a new soul or an old dog on the Hive blockchain, you have probably heard of Moonkarts by now. This retro-style arcade kart racing game developed by Arcade Colony is getting quite the hype lately not only within but beyond the Hive chain.
#outreach #threadstorm
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Unlike most other play-to-earn games that we play these days, which only rely on card-based strategies with a simple 2D UI and without much visual appeal or thrill, Moonkarts is changing the scenario as it brings the actual thrill of playing an arcade-style 3D racing game.
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🧵/1 I'll never forget the day a natural disaster turned my life upside down. My property was destroyed, and I was left with nothing. The experience was devastating, and it nearly took a toll on my mental health.
#outreach #threadstorm #NaturalDisasters
🧵/2 It happened during my final year in school. I had just rented a new apartment, and I was excited to start a new chapter. But little did I know, the apartment was located in a flood-prone area. The landlord had renovated the apartment, making it look brand new.
🧵/3 He assured me that the area was safe, but it was all a lie. But the flood came unexpectedly, and I lost everything. I was lucky to have friends who helped me with accommodation and clothes. But the experience left me traumatized. Read more about this post by clicking the link below.
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Hey everyone, we have a wedding coming soon on Inleo 💃💃
Congratulations, grandpa @bradleyarrow
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Oh, wow! This is awesome. I'm happy he found a life partner 🧡😍. A big congratulations to you @bradleyarrow. May God bless your union and make the wedding a successful one. I hope to see more of her around.
I was thrilled when I stumbled on her threads. He sure deserves love again. I'm already feeling the butterflies from here 😂.
Happy Sunday, dear.
Thanks and I am sure you will :)
Wow, this is beautiful, I love to see stuff like this.
Yes, it's so wonderful
thanks 🙏!BBH
You're welcome, grandpa
The #Spanish community will be very happy with this new multilingual feature!
Just a couple of missing translations that might also be in other languages.
I am really hoping for phase 2! All Hive needs a way to read any post or thread without a language barrier.
#feedback #crypto #hive #inleo
Personally, I have been asking for it. I love to be able to read what people write in other languages apart from English.
We all need that!
This is great, and presents this platform as a universal platform.
On #InLeo, the #anything #app on the #hive #blockchain and beyond, work took over my life for the past two weeks, but I still made it for Leo Power Up Day #LPUD. Being part of and moving together with the #community, gives me a great good feeling!
https://inleo.io/@behiver/inleo-work-took-over-my-life-for-the-past-two-weeks-but-i-still-made-it-for-leo-power-up-day-2go
Morning fren.
Data container 101
!summarize #verizon #debt #telecommunications
Other academics are paying equally close attention to the issue. In a research paper published last week, Northwestern University PhD candidate Teke Wiggin explored Amazon's use of algorithms and digital devices at the company's BHM1 warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
"The black box and lack of accountability that comes with algorithmic management makes it harder for a worker or activist to decide if they're being retaliated against," Wiggin said in an interview. "Maybe their schedule changes a little bit, work feels harder than it used to, the employer can say that has nothing to do with us, that's just the algorithm. But we have no idea if the algorithm has changed."
*Aristotle in his Mechanics says that the mesoneoi (young rowers) sat in the “middle” and had the longest oars. One assumes he uses middle to mean the center line or farthest from the side of the ship.
In the crude drawings below I show how the rowers could have been positioned to satisfy all the historical statements. The rowers sat on benches angled to the back of the ship, with the thranites, zygites, and thalamites seated next to each other. The bench was stepped to allow the rowers to swing their oar without hitting the men sitting next to them.
Some Amazon employees see the situation differently. Storm Smith works at RDU1 as a process assistant, which involves monitoring worker productivity and safety. Amazon referred Smith to CNBC in the course of reporting this story.
Amazon's workplace controls, like rate and time off task, are "part of the job," Smith said. Staffers are "always welcome" to ask her what their rate is, she added.
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The Roman plan was to sail south from Messana round Cape Pachyrus and head west to Cape Ecnomus where they would rendezvous with Roman land forces encamped there. Then the fleet would proceed on to Africa. If the Punic fleet was encountered, the Romans planned to drive it out of their way.
The Carthaginians through their spy network were able to follow the Roman advance and arrange the battle on their schedule. Moreover the Carthaginians had spied on Roman maneuvers where the attack formation was rehearsed.
"For my people, if I see your rate is not where it's supposed to be, I'll come up to you and say, 'Hey, this is your rate, are you feeling alright? Is there anything I could get you to get your rate up? Like a snack, a drink, whatever," Smith said.
Wiggin interviewed 42 BHM1 employees following the first election in 2021, and reviewed NLRB records of hearings. The facility employed more than 5,800 workers at the time of the union drive.
The Roman people were not seafaring by nature. The city was 16 miles from the coast and their focus had always been on agriculture rather than trade. Before the advent of the Punic Wars Rome did not possess navy or merchant marine because she did not need them. Her wars were fought on land and she relied on the Greek traders of Magna Graecia to carry her cargo. Carthage was the opposite -- a great seafaring nation of the western Mediterranean whose ships traveled the waters from England to Egypt. Not belligerent by nature, the Carthaginians maintained a substantial navy which was necessary to protect their trade interests in the Mediterranean and beyond.
One of the most direct ways Amazon is able to disseminate anti-union messages is through the AtoZ app, which is an essential tool in their daily work.
The app is used by warehouse workers to access pay stubs and tax forms, request schedule changes or vacation time, post on the "Voice of the Associate" message board, and communicate with human resources.
Jennifer Bates, a prominent union organizer at BHM1, learned Amazon fired her through AtoZ in 2023. She was later reinstated by Amazon "after a full review of her case," and provided backpay, Hards said.
At the Garner facility, the AtoZ app has been plastered with "anti-union propaganda" since the RDU1 election was announced last month, Medelius-Marsano said.
One AtoZ message suggested employees' benefits could be at risk if they voted in a union, while another described CAUSE as an "outside party" that's "claiming to be a union."
RDU1 site leader Kristen Tettemer said in another message that a group like CAUSE "can get in the way of how we work together," and that "once in, a union is very difficult to remove." Smith said Amazon's response to the union drive has been centered around "putting out the facts and telling you to do your research."
Following construction, the consul C. Cornelius Scipio took 20 ships on to Messana while his consular colleague C. Duilius followed behind.
Scipio immediately received a proposal to be handed the Carthaginian naval station at Lipara, but the information was also leaked to the enemy. While ashore there, he was surprised by a Punic attack force and captured with all of his ships, earning him the sobriquet Asina (ass) for his stupidity.
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In the first years of the Second Punic War, the Romans fought Hannibal on three occasions: Trebbia in November 218, Lake Trasimene in June 217, and Cannae in August 216. All were disasters for Rome. In each case Hannibal used topography, the element of surprise, and speed to defeat his enemy. The Romans were unprepared to fight a superior tactician and in at least the first two cases vastly underestimated their adversary.
At Trebbia, Hannibal set up the battle so the Romans missed their breakfast and had to wade through ice cold water to get to him, exhausting themselves before they could engage. After Hannibal’s Numidian cavalry chased off the Roman horsemen, the maniples became vulnerable to attacks from the side as they moved forward. Then, with elephants trampling the wings of the Roman front, an ambush from behind was launched. Eventually the Romans were able to puncture the center of the Punic line, but the battle was lost everywhere else by that time. Roman casualties amounted to some 15,000.
I have a friend in China that recently bought an EV, his driver for buying an EV is because the uptake of EV's in China with the subsidies and low prices has brought about an interesting issue. Charging stations are everywhere, but Petrol Stations (Gasoline Service Stations) have been going broke and shutting down and the ones left are raising prices due to less competition. So owning a fuel based car is more of a hassel and inconvenience than owning an EV. So it appears there is a tipping point. Might make for an interesting conversation in your videos. Once there is more EVs than Fuel cars, the Fuel Stations start to dissappear making it harder/less convienient to own a Fuel based car.
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The new division will be led by Marc Whitten, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, who Meta has hired as vice president of robotics, Bosworth noted in the memo. He also mentioned that John Koryl has been hired as vice president of retail. Koryl, previously CEO of The RealReal, will help expand Meta’s direct-to-consumer sales of products like the Quest mixed reality headsets and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which Meta makes with EssilorLuxottica.
Meta to compete with Tesla
Meta plans to develop its own humanoid robot hardware, initially focusing on household chores, while also aiming to create the AI, sensors, and software that can power robots made by various companies, Bloomberg reported. The tech giant has begun discussions with robotics firms like Unitree Robotics and Figure AI but does not plan to launch its own branded robot right away.
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The team noted that any candidate molecule had to meet a complex set of requirements to work. These include dissolving well in the battery’s existing electrolyte and participating in reactions without damaging the battery.
It had to also be highly compatible with various active materials and electrolytes. To this end, the team used machine learning to identify potential candidates by digitizing molecular properties and utilizing extensive organic chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials engineering datasets.
The result, CF3SO2Li, emerged as an ideal solution for the problem. It is relatively cheap, easy to make, and compatible with most mainstream batteries today.
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To develop this innovative memory storage technique, the team incorporated rare earth elements, also known as lanthanides, into a crystal. They specifically used praseodymium and an yttrium oxide crystal, though the process they developed can be applied to a variety of materials, utilizing the powerful and flexible optical properties of rare earth elements.
As França further explains, rare earth elements exhibit specific electronic transitions that allow for the selection of precise laser excitation wavelengths for optical control, ranging from UV to near-infrared regimes.
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In contrast to dosimeters, which are activated by X-rays or gamma rays, this storage device is triggered by a simple ultraviolet laser. The laser excites the lanthanides, causing them to release electrons. These electrons are captured by defects in the oxide crystal, such as gaps where a single oxygen atom is missing. The technique leverages these inherent defects, which are found in both natural and artificial crystals.
While crystal defects are commonly used in quantum research to create “qubits,” the UChicago PME team discovered a new application. They successfully controlled which defects were charged and which weren’t, designating charged gaps as “ones” and uncharged gaps as “zeros”, with the innovation transforming the crystal into a highly efficient memory storage device, surpassing previous limits in classical computing.
As mentioned in a previous post, Augustus was beside himself when told of the loss of three legions at Teutoburg and screamed “Quinctilius Varus, bring back my eagles!” Augustus was forever spooked by the massacre and commanded that his army retreat to the banks of the Rhine, avoiding all future designs on the German territory. He did not live to see the recovered eagles of the lost legions or get the revenge he must have wanted against Arminius. At the time of his death in 14 A.D, no plans had been made for dealing with the Germans.
Tiberius, however, once he was named Caesar, wasted no time moving north to control the German tribes and gain revenge against Arminius. Even though Augustus’ death occurred as late as August 19th, an army under Tiberius’ nephew Germanicus was ordered to attack the Germans before year end.
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Completed in 2019, the massive arched steel and concrete structure was built to cover an older Soviet-era version that had significantly deteriorated. Standing 108 metres high (354 feet) and 162 metres long, it spans 257 metres and is designed to last at least 100 years, according to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. The project cost $1.6 billion and was funded by 45 donor countries and institutions.
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Today smile, even if the situation doesn't change, your attitude does.
#Threadcast #smile
Where are we, What do you think?
I'd say between Hope and Optimism. Also, I think the ride from Belief to Euphoria will be really fast and will caught many off-guard
i m more of the same thinking.
Good day guys,
It's weekend and no plan to go out, cause we have some guests and feels like a tiny party, well for kids lol.
How's your weekend going?
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Working on a metrics window and some other indicator optimizations for the Logical Trading Indicator PRO which I am trying to finish and post on Tradingview as an Invite Only script.
Time to get back to my trading grind.
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I wish you success concerning this
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'Thank you, it was great'
Welcome!
Please go engage man! #cent #dash #pepe https://inleo.io/threads/view/khaleelkazi/re-leothreads-2jyduxksu
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I finally saw the language change button, I was searching for it the n the drop down menu.
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💰 BTC network activity hits 12-month low📉, transactions down 55% from peak.
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