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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'd think that marking off a square maybe 5-10 meters on a side and dumping pesticides onto it for a year, would answer the question. If they still form inside the square, it's probably not due to insects.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Nothing I posted is actually controversial to actual geologists and climate scientists. It's deluded leftist goons who've had too much of their own kool-aid who think so.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Let's see, here's a link from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (versus the zero links and puffed up posturing from you.) Even including a helpful grasp of sea levels over the past 25,000 years with various meltwater e
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Underscoring the incredible incompetence of government in assessing the reality of claims and charges made. This was an indirect form of "SWATting", but the idea is the same: government uses force as a result of mere accusation, b
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Quite a bit will be changed the day after this happens. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Look at the catalog of ComponentSource ( https://www.componentsource.com ), which is mostly ... tools. Are Jetbrains and Progress (to name two offhand) doing badly?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
No, it isn't "free" - and those who actually make the money to support the unlimited taxation that pay for the "free" stuff are actively leaving the tax farm that is California.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
New technology is making it easier and cheaper. There's also the fact that environmentalist suppression of nuclear power has made electricity much costlier, intermittent, and much less reliable. https://scitechdaily.com&#x2F
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Let's be real here. Ageism is perhaps the last widely accepted prejudice in the tech industry (and probably more broadly). People who'd shrink in horror at admitting to a skin color or gender based prejudice freely dismiss "o
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It's worth noting that partial privatisation isn't privatisation at all. Take a closer look at most so-called failures in this category and the half-assed situation generally becomes apparent. It'll be "private but one o
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by RagnarD 3y ago
The headline is disingenuous. Maybe nobody wants to buy second-tier EVs when they can buy a Tesla. I see Teslas all the time around here.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Meanwhile, prostitution is completely legal in the entirety of New Zealand, Germany (since WW2!), the Netherlands, and likely other countries. It isn't the proper role of government to interfere with consensual actions between adults.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Any lawyers think that there's a case against the publishers for these harassing, inappropriate notices?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Every square millimeter of this work needs to be digitized in high color resolution with 3D scans, ASAP.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Because U.S. environmentalists were, and are, happy with the NRC making it virtually impossible to build them with a sea of totally unnecessary red tape.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Sadly, force has certainly been used, but that's ultimately to the detriment of all involved. Voluntary trade for mutual benefit is what grows economies and resources.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
The premise is wrong. New York City is hardly a "village" and any given person knows a tiny, tiny fraction of anyone else there - but to the extent it's adhered to a capitalist model (ever decreasingly), it's been extrem
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It's worth noting Kaczynski was the subject of a brutal psychological experiment while a young student at Harvard. It's unfortunate in the present day that so many naive tech individuals don't understand that they've bee
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by RagnarD 3y ago
The lawyers are either idiots, totally dishonest, or both. OpenAI should make ChatGPT off-limits to lawyers in their TOS.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
There’s orders of magnitude more stars than grains of sand on earth. Mull that over before breezily dismissing evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Blithe assumptions that these have a terrestrial explanation need to explain exactly what would power such devices - because it certainly isn't hydrocarbons, and I'm not aware of any compact enough nuclear source that could drive
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by RagnarD 3y ago
You mean the way Snowden's revelations led to illegal databases being shut down? Oh wait, they weren't?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I've been saying this for awhile now. The real risk isn't Colossus. It's governments spending billions of dollars to create enormous datacenters running the largest LLMs (and beyond) and using them to process the databases th
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Few markets today are free markets. Politics drives the growth of very costly "renewables" which are unreliable and intermittent - not a free market. Politics has made nuclear absurdly more costly for no good reason, just enviro
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I do have to ask: what do you think the "HN" crowd is? And why would they ideally be highly mathematical? It might in fact be interesting to try to statistically characterize the composition of HN readers in terms of professions a
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by RagnarD 3y ago
There's virtually an infinitude of mathematics at all levels. One could post about any of it randomly, but perhaps it makes sense to have some focus and relevancy to at least - 1%? - of the HN audience. A post on a radically faster n
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Thanks.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Well, thank you for an informative response - the kind of reply I wanted.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Nice downvoting for asking a serious question about non-obvious relevancy. Evidently, asking about relevancy is verboten on Hacker News by those who think that a query can't just be to elicit information about utility rather than some
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I do like math, but what's the rationale for including this highly obscure mathematical article on HN? Does it relate to LLMs, for example?

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