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541.
by EA-3167 1y ago
The question is how they get a reasonable return on half a trillion economic activity when the main products are... well what they are. If the real cost of running this ship is actually passed on rather than heavily subsidized, who will bot
542.
by EA-3167 1y ago
It's very hard to worry about the long-term health outcomes of people like that. As always the rub is what happens to their children, and it's a lot harder to be glib about them.
543.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Cute dogs, interesting dynamics with chaotic elements, physics, and did I mention the cute dogs? > Raissa D’Souza, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Davis, praised the scientists’ clever use
544.
by EA-3167 1y ago
You... do understand that it isn't exported to be incinerated, it's exported in return for money, and then people and livestock in other countries eat that food . The fact that there's a transaction in the middle of the proc
545.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Food that people and livestock eat is less valuable than data centers used to chase the "AGI any day now" pipe dream? You're kidding right?
546.
by EA-3167 1y ago
> I'm not optimistic about BlueSky's profitability - the current free-at-point of use is a result of VC funding. You aren't wrong, there will be a turn at some point just like there was with Twitter, but then the same is t
547.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Of course it needs subsidies, it's competing with other forms of energy generation that are either heavily subsidized, freed from the cost of their externalities, or both.
548.
by EA-3167 1y ago
The way the narrative around the nuclear bombings of Japan has formed is really upsetting and frankly infuriating. A long article full of impressive and emotive pictures, and the entire acknowledgement that Japan had done anything that migh
549.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Watching a movie in a theater is... just casual entertainment. The internet is a "place" where billions of people communicate, do business, are entertained, and share confidential information. I don't think that's a very
550.
by EA-3167 1y ago
One of THE major selling points for the internet is the option of anonymity, is that true for your other examples? I'd add what exactly is the point in this context? For alcohol sales or tobacco sales you can see the rationale in pub
551.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Screens have been popular since the first time they were effectively used to display moving pictures with a projector, "I want this, but small and in my pocket" was reflected as long ago as the original Dick Tracy comics and the o
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Authoritarian Leisure: North Korea's Tourism Project in Comparative Perspective(38north.org)
3 points by EA-3167 1y ago|0 comments
553.
by EA-3167 1y ago
That tracks, it was a scandal-dogged publication that finally closed the year after this article was published, following the resignation of the editorial board.
554.
by EA-3167 1y ago
It must be said that as far as that goes, the UN is designed to be a place to talk about problems, to air grievances, and the idea of it as a universal problem-solver and half-assed world government isn't particularly a part of how it
555.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Given the normal distribution of intelligence, sanity, etc... an ~1/3 failure rate seems reasonable. Some people are disinterested in the topic, fairly stupid, poorly educated, but unaware of the (lack of) value in their views... and a
556.
by EA-3167 1y ago
As is also pointed out ad nauseam, the claims made about autopilot (Tesla) go far beyond the name, partly because they sold a lot of cars on lies about imminent "FSD" and partly because as always Elon Musk can't keep his mout
557.
by EA-3167 1y ago
"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt!" But seriously, it isn't on me to justify my skepticism of the extreme claim, "We are in a race to build machine super-intelligence" beca
558.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Hey, at least this one is willing to admit that they aren't building Machine Jesus. That's a start.
559.
by EA-3167 1y ago
I have no idea if the testing will go well, if the regulatory/political environment will accept it, but as far as the company, the tech and the promise of testing? That is real. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles&#
560.
by EA-3167 1y ago
From the man who recently tried to convince you, himself, and his shareholders that if you didn't buy in the crypto-driven VR world he never really created, you would be at a disadvantage. I can't wait to see the next hole he thro
561.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Right? It feels like Zuckerberg getting REALLY into something is the kiss of death at this point. It would be funny how little ended up happening with the Metaverse and crypto-driven VR lunacy, if we weren't seemingly damned to living
562.
by EA-3167 1y ago
When someone says "concentration camps" they're conjuring images of emaciated prisoners being worked to death, arbitrarily murdered, and in the worst cases systematically killed at an industrial scale. It's obviously not
563.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Putting that aside, the reality is that kids are bored, highly motivated, and networked with each other across the planet. Even more than porn, which is only going to appeal to a subset of kids, "all of Youtube" is definitely a bi
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SSRIs as Cancer Therapy(science.org)
13 points by EA-3167 1y ago|1 comments
565.
by EA-3167 1y ago
The US has more history to it than just the last 6 months, and some of us recall that while Trump puts on a big show with lots of heat and noise, there's rarely much light. If you look at actual deportations, he lags behind previous ad
566.
by EA-3167 1y ago
Speaking for myself, I also really enjoy the diversity we have in the US, and our ability to absorb immigration and integrate into a whole. Meanwhile the Scandi/Nordic states seem to struggle like the rest of Western Europe when it com
567.
by EA-3167 1y ago
It's definitely one to play when you're 100% up for it, and I'd argue it might even be best played with other people. It's genuinely rough, but impressive as hell, and it's a great example of people making their vis
568.
by EA-3167 1y ago
This is a classic example of University press releases, you learn to recognize the pattern. Someone who's skill set is PR gets a dumbed-down version of the science, and then converts that into a hype piece that ignores reality in favor
569.
by EA-3167 1y ago
I've played it, and without spoiling, there's no way to play it through and come to the conclusion that the rapist (and mass murderer) is an even halfway decent person. It's not titillating (not that the graphics or art style
570.
by EA-3167 1y ago
So do what 99.9999% of us already do: don't play these games. You deciding to make it a moral issue that you get to determine for everyone else is where you turn a personal opinion (really just an understandable sense of disgust) into

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