DemocracyFTW

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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
If you have to travel by chemically-propelled rocket your only chance of escaping Earth's gravity well without falling back is to obtain an escape velocity of 11km/s (~40,000km/h) within a short time span before the fuels bur
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
"a bit disingenuous" is what you get from a lot of folks here and elsewhere who are ready to just believe in mankind's ability to control the environment by technology. The list is endless but let me just make a few points: *
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
As the One Source of Truth puts it: This guy is "an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein ). For one thing this matches more or less one
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> At its core, the Data Fabric is about eliminating humans from the process as much as possible.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
You folks would then surely take great comfort, or so I've heard, when I assure you, by Jove, that I did find ample evidence to support my position, yet it is too voluminous to be drawn out here at length within the narrow confines of
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Complementary material: "Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century" by Adam Something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I don't think the "Make it Right" part should or can reasonably be left out of the equation, otherwise I could just compute something if all you care about is speed. That said, I have used a performance-first approach sever
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
"I for one welcome our new uncanny overlords" > What would you build on top of it? I'd go for something big and heavy...
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The thing they do mention in the video is that the site and especially some of the spots being excavated is quite close (1m) from a constantly eroding cliff. Under such circumstances, rising sea levels are probably a minor (or at least only
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Gotta say his audience is way smarter than you'd think: Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH Nov 5 a way you can use NFTs to improve hiring is you ask the candidate if they own any NFTs and if they say yes you don't hire them
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
And the Mare [ma:rə], round crater lakes (near Bonn), and a few lakes called Meer like Steinhuder Meer (which looks like Steinhude Sea but really means Steinhude Lake), das Kaspische Meer, das Tote Meer. Then you have das Eismeer, die Weltm
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The web3 enabled internet will give you quests, adventures and courses to prove your worth You'll learn and earn on-chain credentials You’ll use your credentials to prove who you are, what your skills are and what people say about
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Someone who can afford to invest one point five billion US dollars into a single student's dorm is under little pressure to be efficient, one would think.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
No idea why this got downvoted but this is exactly it. Also what's the point of getting a teeny sliver of money for "free" (read: by waiving your right to an opinion) when the entire project is demonstrably rather expensive t
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
survivor bias; also cf Leibnitz' "best of possible worlds"
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Docker has a considerable barrier to entry if you've never used it before. Flatpack has horrible download sizes and result in non-standard invocation command lines.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
mailing list, IRC, and CVS, that is...
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Having them separate is not necessarily a good thing. Svelte for one collects all the HTML, JS and CSS that you need for a given component into a single file (that uses the original syntax for each language). You can still draw in code fr
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
If you want to contribute to genetic diversity, stop killing species. Right now what humans do is impoverishing the global biodiversity by burning and cutting down forests, building houses, streets and plants, polluting the seas, and being
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Actually judging from a swift perusal of this single page this looks like one of those websites / media that makes any well-meaning person look like a derp for intermingling with all those hate-based trolls. "I know a lot of websi
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The so-called "Norway Problem" of YAML is really the No-Way Problem of YAML. /s
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
you forgot to end your post with /s
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Sure no Natural Intelligence nor an algorithm could've possibly guessed what you meant with 'date in Cambodia'. Reminds me of the time Blanche Deveraux remarked on the obvious nature of a book titled "Females to Fondle&q
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
You mean the one Adam Something was so enthusiastic about? /s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething/videos
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> pulling the strings of friendly politicians You are no doubt referring to the Brandenburg state premier who entered into totally democratic secret negotiations with Tesla and then presented the imminent construction of the factory as
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Musk: "complex planning requirements [are] at odds with the urgency needed to fight climate change"—IOW "get out of my way already, I'm important". If we want to fight climate change and reduce emissions, we'd
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This is like attaching great significance to the digits of measuring the Great Pyramid's base line in meters or inches.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> However, it's disingenuous to say that writing is a lot harder. You quoted me wrong, and frankly 'disingenuous' sounds like an objectively incorrect vocab choice. Apart from that I confess that I speak from experience ga
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I find the concept of their 'jars' and the classification into u/ru/i-verbs and na/no-nouns and so on novel, interesting, and also at least not wrong on the intuitive level.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
You need proper stroke order to write Kanji with a pen. You want to write Japanese with a pen a lot if you want to learn to read written Japanese because it builds 'muscle memory', i.e. an intimate, up-close-and-personal knowledge

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