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by Nbox9 5y ago
I’m unsure, unless the author is of especially high renown. If there was two dozen “What life will be like in 100 years” articles published per year in decently sized newspapers we will have 240 such articles to choose from this decade. Su
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I’m really unsure about this. In 1822 canning food was new technology. 1822 didn’t have electrical generators but 1922 had radios, and the TV was clearly on the horizon. 1922 has the Model-T and airplanes.
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I imagine if you wanted to buy $1B of cocaine it might be best to start earlier in the production cycle.
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This is really more of a political question than a technical one. To me it’s hard to separate modern cryptocurrency from the historical context of it’s launch in 2009.
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If you’re trying to ‘do the math’ one thing you might consider is that any excess heat from the rig can be recycled in the house.
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> The whole thing literally works on competing on consuming more energy. I know this is pedantic, but the competition is about computational power. Energy is a significant input. Let’s not ignore the benefit that the more computational
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> Since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels,[4] making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications, as brand-new stee
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by Nbox9 5y ago
It’s not just that online polls do not provide valid data, it’s that they provide misleading data.
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> I'd rather deal with the waste then be mining forever or burning oil. How does Nuclear Power stop mining? I see how it would reduce the need for coal, but it won’t change our appetite for metals, rocks, or gemstones.
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I do not feel convinced that there is a strong relationship between people’s interests and their level of social awkwardness or their position on the ASD. I understand that your attitude is that people interested in computers are more like
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by Nbox9 5y ago
I’m the US. Your comment seems to imply that non-asd folks entering tech are just in it for the money. Between the general popularity with Video Games, the changing Hollywood image of hackers (Neo, FSociety, Pied Pipper), the hero worship o
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If you go to any server farm, somewhere that network speed and stability actually matters, and you’ll see wired network connections. That doesn’t mean Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G isn’t good enough for the 99% of devices. There’s a lot of devices (A
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Can we stop comparing low wage workers with slavery? Slavery is much worse, at least how it was practiced in North America. It was more than low wages and and economically exploitative relationship, it was a different set of laws & ri
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Isn’t the most sensitive information here that they applied for public housing?
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I had to break this to you, but you can definitely find an affordable USB Floppy drive in Tokyo.
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> environmental factors Actually being depressed can worsen environmental factors. Depression can make it hard (or impossible) to maintain work, relationships, hygiene, sleep, diet, and exercise. Losing the things can make the depressi
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When designing a dogfooding process try not to have 50 engineers do the same thing 12 or 120 times a year. For example, having engineers in kitchens fulfilling orders, having engineers perform store management tasks, and having engineers r
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> If the financial instrument that underlies the project were to stop going up in value XX% per month, would you still be interested in the project? I use this yard stick when reviewing all of my tech investments. Providing real value w
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Actually, the SIM card use to be a “personality chip” in the 1990s. It stored your phone number and your contacts. There’s a scene in The Wire where a drug dealer confuses the police by changing the sim card of his phone when talking abou
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> Having a physical object the embodies your phone's identity A SIM is not a embodiment of an iPhone’s identity. Maybe it was in the 90s, but today it’s so much more. The SIM is more like your iPhone’s credentials for accessing on
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by Nbox9 5y ago
The global imprisoned population is less than 10Million, or a rounding error when discussing the global population. Seniors? Well that’s a large portion of the population, but they are more concentrated in developed nations that have had
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Having access to banking, electricity, and the internet are inherently good things. I hope 100% of people have access to these things and use them as freely as they would like to. When people have limited access to resources they are most
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The “A plot” was closer to the book than the “B plot”, but the A plot was weakened too. The digital/virtual torture scene has the single most glaring omission. However, thematically the Hollywood version of Quellism is the single big
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Different mushroom species have different quantities of active ingredients. Describing the dry weight of a mushroom is really only a secondary measurement of the active ingredients. Elsewhere on the website they compare 2.4g of mushrooms t
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From my perspective TikTok is worse because it’s algorithm is better at holding human addition, and it’s headquarters is located in an authoritative country. I don’t have any evidence to defend these statements, and it’s quite possible pro
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Root comment states that language skills are required for teaching all subjects, and math is also fundamental to all subjects. Root comment is of the “unpopular opinion” (their words, I consider this phrase to be an emotional appeal when u
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“ART provides tools that enable developers and researchers to defend and evaluate their ML models and applications against a number of adversarial threats, such as evasion, poisoning, extraction, and inference.” The first two attacks, evasi
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Safety culture has scored some huge wins in the last 100 years. Decreased auto fatality rates, safer home materials (lead paint & asbestosis), expiration dates on food, reduced second hand smoke rates, hand washing in hospitals. Let’s
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I would 10x rather see Apple helping than see Apple say they are helping.
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How much land devoted to agriculture/mining/manufacturing/power/landfill is required outside of the city to support New York City? Sure, it wouldn’t move the needle on condo rent but land scarcity effects everyone.

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