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by Qem 1y ago
Perhaps not a phase-out program, but a progressive shut-down program, as a trade off between peak performance and total lifespan, where the characteristic patterns of ageing is what allowed humans to live much longer than other animals arou
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by Qem 1y ago
Source?
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by Qem 1y ago
It was due to a contractor that sold his password for peanuts. Not much opacity here. They shoud stop relying on poorly paid outside contractors.
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Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?(paulkrugman.substack.com)
63 points by Qem 1y ago|114 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
They have lots of supporting staff, mostly younger than themselves, to do the heavy lifting. Some politicians developing dementia while holding office must practically be puppeteered through term by their staff. See https://thein
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by Qem 1y ago
> because it is the most efficient for technological innovation Probably more efficient for rentism. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking It destroys the very conditions for the next generation of scient
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Wild chimps struggle with tool use in old age(mpg.de)
3 points by Qem 1y ago|2 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Full paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/105411 This checks out with the common experience of elderly humans struggling to get proficient adopting new tech, like cellphones. It feels quite unfair, given at old ag
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How did Albert Luthuli, anti-apartheid hero, die in 1967?(aljazeera.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Wikipedia article on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Luthuli
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Anthony Scopatz on xonsh and shells in general (2015)(johndcook.com)
5 points by Qem 1y ago|0 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
Instead of a fork they could just financially support and contribute code to CachyOS.
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by Qem 1y ago
We still have CachyOS.
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by Qem 1y ago
Did it use US engineers for chinese military support as well?
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by Qem 1y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250719115357/https://scheerpos...
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by Qem 1y ago
Stallman is a real visionary warning us about those risks since de 80s.
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by Qem 1y ago
Probably this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420
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by Qem 1y ago
More likely to turn acute loneliness into chronic loneliness, similar to what excessive use of painkillers cause to pain.
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by Qem 1y ago
> It finds that developers spend only 5% of their time editing. It also finds they spend 14% of their time moving or resizing editor windows, so I don't know how clean their data is. APL and similar array languages allows a lot of i
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by Qem 1y ago
It appears milk took the crown of villain food that once belonged to eggs, and butter. Curious about what foodstuff will take this crown next once people get tired of maligning milk.
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by Qem 1y ago
Did any anteater dinosaurs exist before that?
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by Qem 1y ago
> No wheel, no bronze/iron and lots of child sacrifice… Regarding child sacrifice, we are not faring much better today: "UNICEF’s Executive Director Catherine Russell told ambassadors that an average of 28 children are killed i
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by Qem 1y ago
I use it very often. Avoids duplication of expensive operations in comprehensions.
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by Qem 1y ago
> Which languages have Perl influenced, really? Raku is a direct descendant.
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by Qem 1y ago
If we assume peak Perl was in the 00s, say 2005, an impressionable teenager of ~15 learning by then probably will keep using it for the rest of their life, even in absence of uptake by new people. Assuming a lifespan of 85, I estimate this
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by Qem 1y ago
US feared people from ravaged countries would embrace communism, and showered them with cheap cash for jobs and reconstruction. Unfortunately capitalism today faces no competition, and it's devolving into techno-feudalism. The super-ri
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by Qem 1y ago
We are promised flying cars since the 50s as well.
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by Qem 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
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by Qem 1y ago
Migrant source regions are mostly going subreplacement as well.
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by Qem 1y ago
> People have been having babies in all sorts of adversity for all of history. Anatomically modern humans exist for ~100,000-200,000 years. Reliable contraception widely available is something that didn't exist until ~60 years ago.

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