AlecSchueler

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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
> "Colonialism" is a weird Western guilt fetish that some others successfully milk Colonialism is the historical basis of almost all of global society today. It's not at all weird to be concerned with it when it still driv
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
At this point I'll be happy if there are future generations with the capacity to look back and understand what happened.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
> Both Europe and US's emissions are significantly (18%-30%) below their peak Because they outsource their dirty work. To get a true picture of US/EU emissions you need to factor in the factories in Asia that are producing thei
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
And so will regulatory solutions so long as we have different states competing for resources.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
Maybe we don't build them at all and plant some trees instead. Ireland could definitely benefit more from that.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
Honestly kind of yes. The world is burning, and we can't keep growing like this. Tech optimism made some sense 20 years ago but a lot of us who have been here in that time are feeling pretty jaded.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
So "things."
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
Isn't that where Silicon Valley is located? I'm pretty sure Californians are building things.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
We're missing AI that doesn't still its hand held every step of the way.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
> The thing is, everyone's interpretation of "environmental impact" is different. I know, that's why we've developed all of these systems of representation to discuss and come to reasonable regulatory standards.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
The police are paid and trained to organise against crime. That's quite different than disconnected tourists beginning to organise, which was the idea I responded to.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
> if people simply DDOS DDOS attacks are only "simple" when you can easily coordinate all of the distributed peers. In this case one or two people doing it might be a small annoyance but they're going to have a hard time c
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
People can still "do stuff and build things" while having consideration for environmental impacts.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
This is my hope as well but I'm doubtful. I'd expect it's more likely that the generations growing up with this stuff will enjoy being able to annoy their elders with it and fully embrace the human-less aesthetic.
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by AlecSchueler 3mo ago
> So depressing to read the non-stop political comments here. Is it really "depressing?" I get that it could be " annoying"if you don't want to read about politics ever at all. But depressing is difficult to imag
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
In a "that's so recent" or a "that's so old" kind of way?
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
MySpace gave users a lot of freedom. That was great in certain scenarios but at it got bigger it meant there was just more noise and the general atmosphere was very messy for lack of a better word. Facebook was very clean by comparison and
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
There are three different supermarkets in my neighborhood but they all sell milk from the same two suppliers. It would actually be quite difficult for me to turn to a third brand.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
You're defining work as a function only of time, but effort should also be calculated in.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> Well "great" is rather subjective. But in terms of collective agreement we can conclusive say there really isn't anything like the art of the past made today. Yes, but you claimed there was no great art in the "clas
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> It's why there really isn't any "great art" anymore, at least in the classical sense This is a tautology, no? There's plenty of great art being made today by people feeling the same emotions as those in the pas
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
I really wanted to like Kobo but the no refunds policy really burned me. I bought a book listed as being in English, with an English title and English on the cover page, but the contents were entirely in French and they wouldn't refund
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> and markov chain don't work on token embedding that allows some encoding of meaning. Working on an "encoding of meaning" sure sounds a lot like reasoning.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
They can OCR them and run them for real.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> I've learned a lot from Niantic's strategy What's your monetisation plan and how can we be assured that the data collected won't be used for military purposes?
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> That’s… a tough one. But then we're getting a bit deeper into the issue. These are things that need to be considered if you want to mandate "integration" surely. We now want people to integrate but we also recognise that
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> Just, you know, leave women alone and don’t aim fireworks at ambulances. Where I'm from (Northern Ireland) harassing women and attacking emergency services have been part of the culture for as long as I remember. Would you suggest
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
TIL Belgians don't grope women.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> If the room has an IP camera in it, it is by definition not private. While right, there are multiple definitions of "private" and for others OP's point still stands.
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by AlecSchueler 4mo ago
> I think it is very reasonable to demand that people try to integrate when coming to a new country - learn the language, get into the culture. What kind of things might be involved in a mandate for people to "get into the culture?&

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