Comevius

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by Comevius 5y ago
The marshmallow experiment is too simplistic, but for millions of years we usually were better off eating both marshmallows. Now we have supermarkets with products full of sugar. You can consume an unhealthy amount of sugar eating a few fi
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What you are experiencing is called nostalgia. Computers still coalesce around a set of standards, the hardware is still a black box, the software is more reliable than it used to be. The beauty of it is that the you can build things withou
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Flutter is already the most popular cross-platform framework. React Native has more jobs at the moment, it has been around longer and JavaScript is popular. However the reason Flutter is successful is because in a multi-platform world it le
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I don't know where Rust or Kotlin are heading, but C/WASM and Dart are already there today. I use Zig for the C/WASM part, it does cross compilation out of box. It's also a C compiler. It has built-in libc for Windows, m
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Flutter is nothing like Electron, you can build a pixel perfect native experience with Flutter, either by implementing it as a widget or you can use a native widget. Flutter can take advantage of any features, it can call Java, Kotlin, Swif
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The hippie problem. South Park described it accurately. Man 2: Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other. Man 1: Yeah, we'll h
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I could not vouch for the computer and it's USB stack, so no, but in practice I would use a sandboxed runtime for the program, a virtual machine for example. I would also air gap the computer.
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This kind of shift in perspective will never happen, people can no longer look into the eye of this massive crisis. We live in frozen calm of the normalcy bias and it will be our collective downfall.
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"it's not something we can't handle" The climate models are improving, but they all paint the same picture. Between your non-speculative forecasting of "it's all going to be better" and our imprecise, albe
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Amazon is making a switch to low-carbon products and services because it makes sense economically. However the problem is that these solutions are often only low-carbon on paper. Reforestation and carbon capture are not feasible solutions e
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by Comevius 5y ago
Also known as the Friedman doctrine. Look how far it got us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine The focus on short-term shareholder value is contraproductive. It's bad for the company, it's bad f
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I don't find it hard to understand either, as I said behavioral science 101. I just find it disappointing.
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Strange to live in a world that failed to incentivise it's own survival. You would think that trillion dollar companies like Amazon would care about not being able to operate at all in a few decades. I get it from behavioral science wh
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by Comevius 5y ago
There are tens of thousands of papers published each year about climate change, there is a 100% scientific agreement. The peanut gallery in the comment section knows better, but can't be bothered to contribute to the discussion. https
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"It's not projected data, it's actual data. It's not measured, it's observed." It's certainly elegant proof. If those climate change deniers could read they would be very upset.
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by Comevius 5y ago
You can find her publication here. https://advisory.kpmg.us/articles/2021/limits-to-growth.html She is not a hardliner, she has multiple scenarios and although they all indicate a decline starting around 2030 base
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I think what makes Columbo good is how out he is of his element. The perpetrators are always from a higher social class and he always takes advantage of their hubris, lulling them into a false sense of security, agitating them until they g
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth Even with a constant entropy production rate there would be nowhere to run eventually. The Universe is a closed system. So you would always want to be thermodynamically
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It's the ecological footprint of each person that's a concern. You can feed 10 billion people, but people don't want to just not starve. We already overshoot the resources Earth can regenerate in a given year in July, and tha
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It's important to be realistic. We are not an interstellar species, we build infrastructure for cars and we can't even afford the maintenance bill on it. Even in space we could not afford an exponential growth. You would want to p
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by Comevius 5y ago
How about secure data outsourcing? We have cloud databases, but they are fundamentally insecure. They don't let clients verify the integrity and completeness of query results (correctness), they don't support the data to be querie
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by Comevius 5y ago
A good heuristics is that physics is usually not interesting for a non-physicist, if it is it's because of speculation. Progress in physics should be more and more uninteresting, because it involves things we no longer have mental mode
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I always thought that plant behavior and invertebrate sentience are vastly understudied fields. You would think that they would provide key insights faster than studying rats or humans do.
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The question is 16 years later whether we can be saved from banana production given how unsustainable it is.
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Happened before, but at least it was for Joe Montana's son. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220218 Not sure who Garrison Bellack and Zachary Kaplan are, but supporting their venture makes YC either stupid or evi
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This is an incredible achievement, exactly what many of us dreamt the internet will be one day useful for.
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I don't work there and I'm shocked after reading all the 29 pages, not to mention your company's response to the allegations. https://aboutblaw.com/YJw https://www.ign.com/articles/activi
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For sure, there are a lot of misguided attempts at equality out there, like what Hollywood does these days with setting up female characters as infallible and white male characters as inept. This is not how representation should work, and y
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Feminism is not only for women, it's about addressing unequal power. Data scientists happen to be political actors due to their social impact. https://towardsdatascience.com/data-scientists-and-the-ethic... https:&#x2
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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat... "The estimate of global warming from 1850 to 2018 revised upwards, from 0.91 to 1.07 °C." The consensus on anthropogenic global warmin

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