CaptArmchair

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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
Twitter was conceived as a 'micro-blogging' platform. Each Tweet being an independent semantic entity on itself with a 140 - expanded to 280 - character limit. The entire point was to post succinct status updates. Naturally, peopl
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Finding an entirely new foundational problem and solving that by designing a generic, reusable solution is incredibly hard. Only very few people luck out and succeed in doing that. The vast majority of modern technology are mainly improveme
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The comparison is apt and, yes, both contexts are similar. But the observation still doesn't answer whether either a group of humans, a digital neural network or an ant colony actually is conscious. "conscious" is a languag
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
I saw 3 interesting diagrams on Wikipedia that basically tell a big part of the story. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coun
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
That's exact the conclusion of the article. The author opens with a description of (in)equality in very different contexts, in order to put a thesis in front of us: it's not possible to devise and apply an absolute definition of e
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
You're touching indirectly on a hugely fundamental thing here: the price of production and the price consumers pay for food. Why does agriculture produce an excess that doesn't get sold? Because the less is produced, the more proh
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
Is it a solved problem? Did you know that developed countries export thousands of tonnes of plastic waste to developing countries? https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2019/3/6/1570... > Th
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
Wait, that's comparing very different things here. That's a study on the Great Plastic Garbage Patch in the Pacific ocean specifically. The study I referred to is about the yearly emission of plastics through rivers globally.
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
His first assertion isn't based on any actual numbers or research either: > The first source of oceans plastic is fishing nets. Whereas the research shows: > We estimate that between 1.15 and 2.41 million tonnes of plastic waste
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
Thailand just banned disposable plastic bags... and the Thai seem to have totally embraced the decision: https://www.boredpanda.com/unusual-ways-people-dealing-plast... https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/p
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
No. That's incorrect. This study published in Nature (2017) by the Ocean Cleanup researcher contradicts your statement entirely: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15611 > Our model is calibrated against measurement
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It's a bad comparison, but for a different set of reasons. Wildfires aren't part of the fauna. This is true. But even without humans, there are wildfires. When wildfires happen, they create a new playing field for species to inhab
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by CaptArmchair 7y ago
Zuck is "not just making a prediction", he's not making any relevant statement about the future at all. All he does is telling what he plans to invest in. But given his privileged position, that's almost as irrelevant as
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What relevant measure would you use to support your claim that 'science is hold back'? And what arguments support your claim that scientists are by far the root cause to this? 'scientific progress' is a paradox. There is
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> It’s not always vital to the business to have a good code base. Many engineers may cringe at this... but this is true. Code is only as good as it is able to fulfill a business need: that is help the organization meet its strategic goal
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And yet, technology stacks aren't exempt from social and economic dynamics. Technology stacks are tools, means to a wide variety of ends. And as such, if they are freely available, people can and will use them for whatever purpose or n
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To expand on this, this is not just about verbatim memorizing discrete facts - algorithms, definitions, dates, events, vocabularies, grammar rules, musical notation,... - it's about learning when and how to use or apply them. Facts be