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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I thought GPU stood for Graphics Processing Unit. Is this not the case?
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
More like all the most successful societies value personal freedoms. Personal freedoms are clearly good for society and a big one of those is recreational drug use of which tobacco use is quite common. Having a government which restricts pe
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I think recreational drug use is demonstrably good for society and part of all succesful civilizations. Take caffeine, sugar, alcohol and tobacco as the primary examples. All potent drugs and all taken habitually and en masse by all the mos
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Why would you talk over the content when you could just pause it? Ooooh right its broadcast television, I always forget the pause button is a recent invention. I tease in good faith, if you like the commercial breaks more power to you. I am
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Personally when I want to get up, chat with my viewing partners or reevaluate whether I want to be in front of a screen I just do those things. No ad break required. It is bizarre to me that having advertising brought into ones home could e
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Kind of shocked at the number of HN users in this thread who dont use adblock. I would assume this population to be much more likely to use adblock.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
" The pact had no mechanism for enforcement, and many historians and political scientists see it as mostly irrelevant and ineffective." Regardless of international law (which is for the most part, not particularly effective at cha
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Except that thats how progress is made. If people like Hooke, Newton and perhaps every other genius who made monumental contributions spent their life outside socializing with others and acting all spiritual we wouldnt have calculus or know
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes nuclear war is very scary. Yes it would be catastrophic to the ecosphere and human society. It is also incredibly unlikely that it would result in the extinction of humans. Also the idea that a post-collapse society would have some tabo
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I think it is important! It is an unspeakable unknowable dread hanging over the entire story. Its brought up later in the book and remains a very scary, very foreboding mystery. It implies either an unfathomably powerful and malicious force
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah this is the issue with metals and likely the largest barrier to a post collapse society. Likely ironworking would end up looking like pre-industrial japan where iron was very extremely valuable and of relatively low quality compare
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
As I have said elsewhere in this thread, I do believe there is a technological path requiring less fossil fuels and less easily accessible surface metals that would allow humans to achieve high technology and do the whole space colonization
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I was hoping someone would bring up the technological aspect of a collapse of modern society and then regrowth. There are two major issues with humans post-collapse being able to create a technological society and these are lack of fossil f
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I am totally unconvinced by this whole "technology is a great filter" argument. First of all I have my doubts that, even at the height of the cold war, nuclear war would've extinctic all of humanity and nowadays with much les
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
You can build a machine that can run 70b models at great TpS speeds for around 30-60k. That same machine could almost certainly run a 400b model with "useable" speeds. Obviously much slower than current ChatGPT speeds but still, t
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
The rain streaks look great to me as well! Its kind of like a pair of well worn leather shoes has creases and lines where the foot bends or how a well worn pair of jeans fades on the knees and wrinkles. Not that I am against a roof for this
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Its beautiful! I will never understand the hate for this type of building?
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ive never understood why this style of architecture is seen as "horrific" and "offensive". It looks nice. I like to see the materials a building is made of. I am so sick stucco and paneling trying to hide the material a
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Oh I do agree that often free markets are excellent at producing wealth. This is generally true but not absolutely. Liberal democracies are the most successful and richest countries partially because regulated free markets are the most effi
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Im just going to paste my comment from the other thread here in response since I dont want to rephrase everything ive said. Feel free to reply in either place Do you actually not know/want to discuss why that is or are you just pushing
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Do you actually not know/want to discuss why that is or are you just pushing your narrative which is that "the particular special brand of White People™ who happened to become dominant in the US were very good and very smart and s
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I think maybe youre missing your own point here? The US got rich from primarily three sources: First it was agriculture specifically tobacco and sugar both of which are cultivars I believe qualify as plunder. Next it was oil, which came fro
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Well, about that.... The US was certainly built on plunder, perhaps not of the shiny metals kind but plunder nonetheless.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Well, I dont think the Fed "pretends not to know what causes inflation"... Everyone knows what causes inflation, its right there in the name
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Thats a lot for sure but I really dont think the number of takes shows abuse or not. I dont have an opinion on any alleged abuse of Duvall either way, because it just doesnt matter enough for me to form an informed opinion. Regardless the n
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I just Xed out the "Looks like youre blocking ads" dialogue and was able to read the article fine.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Im unsurprised by the headline. Musk's penchant for ranting about conspiracy theories, racist dog whistles, and fearmongering about the latest boogeyman of the week must be a PR nightmare. Its a shame because SpaceX is really really aw
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes, like GP said the harvesting and shipping of huge amounts of rock seems iffy on actual sequestering any carbon net.
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by MeImCounting 3y ago
Well not really that modern and certainly the other side of the wholesome spectrum, Margaret Atwood is in the same sphere IMO as the other authors I mentioned. Also as I mentioned elsewhere I love Ian M Banks' Culture series. I would
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by MeImCounting 3y ago
Well really I think that technology and societal/economic structures are deeply related in ways that dont necessarily get enough consideration in many discussions on the topic. For instance our current most successful form of capitalis

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