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by Retric 9mo ago
Forearms yes, percussion caps no. A large fraction of the harm from firearms comes from their ability to fire rapidly which didn’t exist when the constitution was written. As such it was making a very different balance of risk between the
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by Retric 9mo ago
Yes far worse, the superconducting supercollider produced science which has debatable value. There’s an argument we lost nothing by canceling the project. Wind farms produce electricity which pays for the investment when you finish but pays
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by Retric 9mo ago
Yep, don’t use any of the products in the first place. Leaving Microsoft’s ecosystem a few years ago has been a great productivity boost, saved quite a bit of cash, and dramatically reduced my frustration.
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by Retric 9mo ago
No, I’m saying solving obesity reduces the need for food. Did you not see the post directly below this one posted 6+ hours before your comment where I said: “For clarity, Ozempic etc have actually measurably decreased food consumption.” Tec
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by Retric 9mo ago
Economies of scale are huge here. You can store well below -40 when you're talking food for 100 million people, that just doesn’t work well when you’re talking one person. Of note I didn’t say a year or 2’s notice 10 years of food on h
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by Retric 9mo ago
For clarity, Ozempic etc have actually measurably decreased food consumption. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222437251412834 Obviously that impacts food demand.
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by Retric 9mo ago
A stockpile of 10 years of food isn’t the same thing as 10 years of the modern American diet. Don’t expect veal from a government warehouse. That said, we can preserve viable sperm for 50+ years. https://www.techexplorist.com&
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by Retric 9mo ago
We’re vastly better at food preservation, farming, and birth control today. Suggesting we’ll run into the same issues as people before the green revolution is ignoring the progress of technology.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Subsidies as a concept includes spending 1% as much on subsidies. Subsidies as they exist now however are a specific system that’s incredibly wasteful. Producing dramatically less food and ending obesity are linked. If the average Americ
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by Retric 9mo ago
You may be happy with the current status but it’s actually both risky and expensive. Risk management means managing risks, there’s plenty of things having more farmland doesn’t actually protect you from. On the other hand having a decade o
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by Retric 9mo ago
Recycling jewelry to make more jewelry is quite common, which kind of distorts how much the gold supply vs reserve is. If demand to manufacture jewelry ends then the supply of recycled jewelry also dries up. ~3,300 tons where mined in 2024
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by Retric 9mo ago
The luddites food requirements didn’t provide them with popular support. Similarly US agricultural output could be cut in half without serious negative consequences. Far more corn ends up as ethanol than our food and we export vast quantit
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by Retric 9mo ago
It’s an interesting question because the benefits of automation aren’t necessarily shared early on. If you can profitably sell a shirt for 10$ while everyone else needs to sell for 20$ there’s no reason to actually charge 10$ you might as
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by Retric 9mo ago
Criminality is an arbitrary benchmark here, cutting people off can be illegal due to the risks involved. However what’s more interesting is the deeper social contracts involved. Destroying other people’s stuff can be perfectly legal such a
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by Retric 9mo ago
Hence why I said at 1/10th the price we would use a lot more of it. There’s easily decades worth of industrial use in vaults so the instantaneous floor is quite low. However feedback occurs well before you hit the actual limits here.
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by Retric 9mo ago
A large fraction of gold mined every year is used for its material properties in industrial and electronic applications. That presents a very real floor on price. If good was suddenly worth 1/10th as much we would use it in far more
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by Retric 9mo ago
Companies target more than just people with the most money. Walmart and Rolex for example target different customers with different priorities. So even if you completely lost the top 5% or even 20% of incomes, what remains is plenty valuab
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by Retric 9mo ago
Just because Adam has a back door doesn’t mean Eve also has a back door.
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by Retric 9mo ago
As neutrally as possible, a gear up landing is suboptimal.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> It's mostly just replacing the names given to the opcodes in the datasheet back to the opcodes Under the assumption that the input data is properly formatted you can generate machine code. This is however an abstraction which can
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by Retric 9mo ago
Last 10 years has been about average. I’ve used a phone hotspot some but it’s often not an option. My prior company wanted a really locked down setup on their systems. WFH required a fixed IP address for some god forsaken reason.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> I can't think of any. Incorrect definition = incorrect interpretation. I edited this a few times but the separation is you can use an abstraction even if you maintain access to the implementation details. > assembler Assembly l
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by Retric 9mo ago
> How is it possible to abstract without encapsulation. Historically pure machine code with jumps etc lacked any from of encapsulation as any data can be accessed and updated by anything. However, you would still use abstractions. If you
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by Retric 9mo ago
We aren’t talking about the average human here. On average you include sleep deprived people, driving way over the speed limit, at night, in bad weather, while drunk, and talking to someone. FSD is very likely situationally useful. But yo
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by Retric 9mo ago
It’s not a single continuous stretch of one month, I’m probably significantly older than you, and I’ve lost access to critical services because data centers have had issues not just myself. Hell, on Tuesday I lost ~2 hours because Starlink
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by Retric 9mo ago
A significant fraction of his issues were both him and his wife using their phones as key’s. He obviously it should still work, but it’s something of an edge case.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Meanwhile I’ve lost roughly a month from internet issues. My guess is you’re experience was unusual enough you felt the need to component where most developers who where less lucky or just remember more issues didn’t.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> Am I misunderstanding the headline? Yes, what’s being blocked is “tumor resistance” to treatment. “potentially overcoming treatment resistance in one of the deadliest cancers.”
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by Retric 9mo ago
If they are eating into model X or S sales it obviously counts here. Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Genesis, and Cadillac are all competitive in different ways. Stat wise someone buying the electric G-Wagon is making a poor decision, b
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by Retric 9mo ago
Musk would love to be selling several billion dollars per year of model S/X sales, the issue is they aren’t that competitive with other cars in the luxury segment thus the falling sales numbers. Tesla’s doesn’t really have a complex st

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