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by L_226 7y ago
This is fake news [0]. [0] - https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/dangerous-...
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by L_226 7y ago
Sorry let me rephrase, a carbon tax would have done these things: - reduced Australia's carbon emissions (not a massive deal by itself) - built up a public repository of cash that could have been allocated to something useful, like fun
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by L_226 7y ago
Yes, but this was the 2008 Rudd (Labor) government. The current Liberal government has spent most of its time reversing all the previous Labor policies it didn't like (like the carbon tax we briefly had) - which is business as usual in
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by L_226 7y ago
tl;dr: "help us build the eye of Sauron"
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by L_226 7y ago
Neumann is successful because he was able to exploit a certain weakness of capitalism that had not been patched.
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by L_226 7y ago
Probably doesn't want to give anyone a dataset to generate deepfakes from.
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WWII-era pistols potentially made from scuttled Nazi battleship [video](youtube.com)
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by L_226 7y ago
That overly simplistic analogy breaks down when you realise that capability is not evenly distributed.
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by L_226 7y ago
I find this article to be unnecessarily critical of Facebook. Facebook has not introduced any hitherto unknown strategy for surveillance by refusing to introduce server level encryption "backdoors". On-device surveillance apps are
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by L_226 7y ago
> and that our government is asleep at the wheel No, they are deliberately misleading the public while attempting to shore up as much capital as possible for themselves, before the real crisis actually happens. It just so happens that mo
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by L_226 7y ago
Yeah, humanity is probably just the biological bootloader of a silicon general intelligence (pretty sure I'm paraphrasing Musk here).
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I agree, it looks like a stealth bomber fucked a Prius.
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by L_226 7y ago
Fair enough, I stand corrected.
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When I was in Naples a few weeks ago I was told that the Margherita variant was created by the wife of the chef who added a single basil leaf onto the completed pizza. This pizza was served to the royal couple, where the queen (Margherita)
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by L_226 7y ago
Do you think that the blanket itself might have some kind of influence on preventing biting insects? /sarcasm
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"The idea that rich can bully anyone with lawyers is seductive, but this is The Guardian, a newspaper with its own army of lawyers. Newspaper that published Snowden files and many other controversial things." Well, a pissed off Sc
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by L_226 7y ago
I would say this is also false, having driven in India (Maharashtra). It may appear that Indian traffic is anarchy, but there are definitely unwritten rules that most people follow, and native drivers are very aware of how to drive in Indi
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by L_226 7y ago
> The main difference between Waze and Google Maps is that Waze uses real time traffic data. Do you mean that Waze uses real time data provided by 3rd parties ? Because I have always had the understanding that Gmaps uses location and te
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Bernie Sanders endorses a targeted advertising tax to fund local journalism(theverge.com)
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This one is pretty good too, and doesn't eat all my RAM - http://stuffin.space/
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by L_226 7y ago
Looks like I was spot on with the signalling analysis.
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And yet, the Adani group has still commenced operations at the Carmichael mine in Australia [0] - the largest coal mine in Australia. It only exports low grade fuel to India too, and at a loss. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by L_226 7y ago
I personally want to be interred in a mushroom infused burial suit [0]. The idea of going back to the progenitor fungal network really comforts me actually. [0] - https://coeio.com/coeio-story/
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by L_226 7y ago
I enjoy beluga caviar - very expensive for what it is though. A much cheaper alternatve is (homemade) black olive tapenade - almost as good for similar usages, and far more sustainable. But I suspect the consumption of caviar is more about
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by L_226 7y ago
The bloke at the Youtube channel Veritasium has a good video [0] where he makes LN2 using a Helium stirling engine chiller [1]. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXkaQa53QQ [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by L_226 7y ago
> If government wants to seek their means of deanonymisation for money laundering, make sure that there's an easy way to do that without middlemen taking a cut. Ah, but that would mean their mates at the big 4 would not get their fa
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by L_226 7y ago
When going for a haircut, would you rather have your hair cut by a person with an immaculate haircut, or by a person who has noticeably not had their hair cut in a while?
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by L_226 7y ago
In my experience (granted; anecdotal, limited, etc.) people who enter a job that is mostly coding (job title notwithstanding) and who come from an academic background often tend to write seriously unmaintanable, borderline illegible code. I
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by L_226 7y ago
The key is to tell them that God(s) told you to tell them to do it.
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We're hiring for software at Stenon, we make a portable soil analysis device for real time agricultural nutrient analysis [0][1]. Based in Potsdam, Brandenburg (30 minutes on the train from Berlin), and yes, we use git :) [0] - https:

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