NickM

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by NickM 4y ago
I don’t think most people advocate for indefinite growth of energy usage; when people talk about sustainability of growth they are typically referring to economic growth. This has often been correlated with energy usage in the past but ther
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Anxiety is generally correlated with systemic markers of inflammation though, so there could be some hidden variables there. Perhaps having an overly sensitive immune system predisposes one to both anxiety and long Covid, or perhaps the phy
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by NickM 4y ago
There is also evidence that they might only work better than a typical placebo because the side effects make them an "active placebo", triggering a stronger placebo response. i.e. if you take a pill that doesn't make you feel
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by NickM 4y ago
It’s worse than a zero sum game; unless the utility gained outweighs the value of all the energy spent on mining (which it clearly doesn’t) then it’s actually a negative sum game.
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by NickM 4y ago
Potassium deficiency is actually very common. It's extremely hard to get the recommended daily amount of potassium in your diet, as even high-potassium foods like bananas contain only ten or fifteen percent of the recommended daily int
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by NickM 4y ago
Just because the effect might not be caused by the one specific molecule discussed in the article doesn't mean it's necessarily psychological.
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Sure, but there's a purely subjective aspect of consciousness, which by nature of being subjective, cannot be objectively quantified or measured. This puts it squarely outside the realm of science, which is deliberately and solely focu
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Number of openings is very much not the same as the number of jobs that exist; the article conflates the two, but it's entirely possible that many devs just don't want to work for crypto companies, so crypto job openings stay unfi
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by NickM 5y ago
Does anyone know why the text content in the images is weirdly off from the prompts? I couldn’t tell if that’s just a known limitation of the model, or a result of the author giving the prompts in some other language or something.
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by NickM 5y ago
I mean, sure when you frame it like that it sounds insane, but most cars these days have GPS that can look up the speed limit, so it would be relatively easy for modern cars to limit cruise control to refuse to allow speeding. Do you think
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by NickM 5y ago
I don't think it's specific to "the prime-enthusiast community". Most people would look at you oddly if you claimed that 3 is a five-digit number.
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by NickM 5y ago
There are absolutely other solutions. The problem is they don’t allow existing participants to extract as much money out of newcomers as PoW, so the artificial hype being generated around alternatives is much lower.
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Even if gold were exclusively used as an investment, it would still be lower-carbon than Bitcoin. The energy spent per dollar of gold mined is much less than the energy spent per dollar of Bitcoin mined.
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I don't think that's an example of whataboutism, given that one of the stated goals of autopilot is literally to provide a safer alternative to the status quo of humans driving manually; pointing out the riskiness of driving in ge
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by NickM 5y ago
Ah good point, I was just thinking about the US, you’re right. They are still growing in EU and Asia though, and a lot of the popular EVs in China are serving a completely different price segment that Tesla isn’t even trying to compete in y
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by NickM 5y ago
But currently MSTR is valued less than the value of its BTC, which implies a negative value for their legacy business Or, alternatively it could also imply that the market thinks the future value of their BTC holdings will drop. It's
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by NickM 5y ago
their market cap is now roughly equal to all other car makers combined Well, they currently sell far more passenger electric vehicles than every other auto maker combined, and demand only seems to be increasing even as production continue
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by NickM 5y ago
In an environment where governments and central banks are strongly biased in favor of printing money, I see the possibility of deflation as extremely small. I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but keep in mind that the am
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Look at how hard vegetarians and vegans have worked for decades and decades to try to convince people to replace foods they like with other types of food that they already eat but just don't like as much . The amount of success they
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by NickM 5y ago
care to explain why I am wrong Because even in cases where cars have hit emergency vehicles, it's because the software didn't see the vehicles at all and just continued driving straight in its lane. Whatever flaws the Tesla visi
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by NickM 5y ago
With EAP or FSD, turning on the signal will trigger a lane change
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by NickM 5y ago
Agreed, though I'll add that on the very rare occasion that my Model 3 does lose the lane lines a bit, it tends to very quickly jerk back into the lane once it picks up the lines again. "it drifted slowly to the left, into my lane
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by NickM 5y ago
Yes. The over-simplification of dopamine as some sort of pleasure chemical is frustratingly common. Everyone seems to want to be able to explain every emotion and behavior as the byproduct of a neurotransmitter, e.g. "I'm addicted
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by NickM 5y ago
There are a lot of areas of crypto where I feel like I have a pretty good understanding, but I genuinely don't understand why anyone would "invest" in a stablecoin. What advantage does holding something like USDT offer over s
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by NickM 5y ago
All true, and good points. However the marriage bonus for single earners is much greater than the bonus for double earners, so if you look at it from a certain angle there is sort of a penalty for dual earners vs sole breadwinner marriages.
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by NickM 5y ago
Right, exactly. And besides the examples you mentioned, the differing income tax brackets on married couples is also a big example of this. If only one spouse is working, and the second spouse is deciding whether to get a job, then having a
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by NickM 5y ago
No, my comment said calculate total purchases for the year as (reported income minus reported money added to savings) which specifically does not require tracking any purchases, only income and contributions to bank/investment&#x
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I think you're making some incorrect political assumptions about my views. I have no idea what this "FairTax" thing is that you're referring to, but that sounds like something pretty different from what I'm talking
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Yes, this is correct. The technical term for this is an "in-kind" transfer, and while it might occasionally allow for things to slip through the cracks, it certainly hasn't stopped capital gain reporting requirements from bei
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by NickM 5y ago
Right, but the problem cited earlier up in the thread is that sales tax would prevent anonymous purchases; if you accept that income is not anonymous (which it already isn't), then you can still have a system with both sales tax and an

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