KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Countries don't suffer or experience pain, people (and other living things) do. The notion that individual suffering can be added up for some total of inhumanity is somewhat dubious, as are comparisons of individual deaths: is it the n
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To counteract fluctuating loads, you do not need a "stable base load". You need generation power that happily fluctuates at just about the same rate as the renewables do, but on command. That is not nuclear power, it is (currently
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The cost of doing something safely isn't distinct from "intrinsic costs". If you kill everyone in the county, maybe that's an acceptable risk and statistically, you are right. But you are also dead, and the reactor isn&#
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The availability of uranium really isn't the problem. And I know the tech community loves thinking of themselves as supremely rational scientists immune to the follies of emotions. But no actual physicist (or physician) thinks a fear o
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Wikidata extends dates to include a precision: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates#Precision It's not quite perfect, since I often run into situations where I do know the precise day and month but not the yea
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People use dozens of applications but only two or three devices, often from the same OS family. Just by the numbers, consistency across applications will better suit that pattern than consistency across platforms.
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News orgs reported claims by the US that Iraq had nuclear ambitions. No news org claimed to have “independently verified” it.
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Well this should disabuse you of that notion: — it’s a secret ballot — the members of the jury aren’t widely known, as far as I can tell — they care little for the reputation of the institution itself — those that care are more likely to ha
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Azores, not Azov, not Arctic. This place is closer to New York than the Russian Arctic. No sea ice. No drilling (which would be easy to detect).
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"The Molecular Biology of the Cell", an actual textbook. It's like the owners' manual for your cells.
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The next best replacement for shame is criminal law. Trust me when I say that's an instrument far less precise.
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That's really interesting, thank you. I'd always considered guilt and shame to be correlated, as two sides of the same medal. And believe the person above also conflated the two, since their "shamelessness" is really an
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That’s the kind of reasoning people want to be true, as in „I’m not lazy, it’s just my perfectionism…“ Can anyone tag some name onto these shameless and shameful tribes? Because I can’t come up with anything that I would want to be associat
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Yeah, that's wrong: the market is quite obviously limited by the ability to produce temptation, not consumer's finite ability to buy it. As in: before TikTok, there was lots of TikTop-Temptation to be sold. Demand didn't ch
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I’m having doubts a lack of capital is stopping Canada from producing vastly more foodstuffs. For one thing, agriculture is (literally) bread-and-butter business for banks. And there’s been sort of a capital glut. Meaning: a semi-solid busi
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You’re making the insinuations about how “convenient” it is and how you’re sure the war matters but it really doesn’t… but what are you actually trying to say? Is Putin trying to distract from his previous creation, COVID? No? Is somebody e
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I don’t understand… From all I can tell, there’s quite a bit of farming happening in Canada. Are you saying the land is farmed, but inefficiently? Or is there land that should be farmed but is forest/wilderness? „Regulation“ and „compl
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Too bad Russia didn’t think of a strategy to defend against these nefarious machinations, such as not invading Ukraine.
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I’m basically a Stalinist relative to the community here, but among those listed, only Uber and Facebook would fall into don’t-work-for-them-territory. The others are regularly criticised to varying degrees, but that doesn’t mean it’s impos
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No, this vaguely related technology has nothing to do with whatever you are associating with it. If Apple wants to surreptitiously spy on your porn collection, they will do so, and won’t need cover.
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You’re ignoring the Trolley Problem of it all: is it moral to knowingly let uninvolved person X die if it saves the lives of Y and Z? Fortunately, the policy choice at issue here isn’t one where there is definitive harm on the track, just r
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Diversity is usually about larger groups, i. e. women and Black people. There is no "rabid push" to get transgender people on every company board (of usually 9 or 12). The only "rabid push", with actual force, namely tha
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Their elections forecasts aren't stellar, but their errors are still far smaller than the magnitude needed to meaningfully change these results.
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Silencing critics is to free speech what not buying bad products is to free markets. Some people are right. Some are wrong. Some are in-between. Some are wrong, but in an interesting way. Some believe the marketplace of ideas needs a few mo
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Republicans complaining that the word treason is sometimes used in a sense different from the one in the constitution is rich... It sorta went mainstream with their last guy. And, arguably, this instance is far closer to the tradition meani
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The feature isn't (yet) available outside their larger western markets: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#visual-look-... It will presumably improve over time.
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They are not asking for users to correct or provide any information, so you really aren't helping. Plus, it isn't even obvious how tags on your sightseeing photos would be used to improve CSAM detection.
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Of note, Photos.app has long had some image recognition features, and they have worked quite well for me in the past. As one example, searching for „paper“ brings up dozens of hits in my library of thousands, including a fair number where i
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As apple states at the time, any action would require more than one match. For any hash value of a given size, it is trivially easy to calculate the probability of collisions and to adjust required thresholds for any arbitrary rate of false
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For as long as it lasts, yandex is my go-to reverse image search favorite, by a rather large margin. Try searching with a portrait… it is unlikely to find the person, unless there are images of that person in Russian social media. But it wi

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