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by Robotbeat 1y ago
All that’d require is making it legal to build, in most cases.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
The Housing Theory of Everything. Anyway, instead of the government building housing, we have the government stopping the building of housing as much as possible.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
It took a while to find this one. Absence of evidence is not exactly evidence of absence. That’s the point.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
That’s completely the opposite of Cosmism, which is about the unlimited creative power of humanity.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Maybe we will.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Yeah, Minnesota is awesome, particularly near the Twin Cities.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Seems plausible to me that beads could’ve reached the Americas before Columbus, although the dates seem AWFULLY close to Columbus. Error bars on measurements like this seem like they almost certainly overlap 1492. +/- 30 years (or more
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
It’s actually not. And I don’t get this whole idea of using imperialism or fascism or whatever as an attack against ideas you don’t like. Because it doesn’t undermine the idea as much as it rehabilitates imperialism and fascism. So stop doi
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Cosmism. I like it.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
The difference in efficiency between subsonic and supersonic is about 2, which is smaller than the difference between a high density seatIng arrangement and lie-flat density (a factor of 3, I think?). If you’re doing a lie-flat bed, you jus
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Yeah, in some ways, the genetic code and molecular biology around transcription, etc, more closely resembles the abstract Turing Machine than an actual computer does. Absolutely fascinating that the messy world of biology ends up being pret
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Okay, then I guess they’ll agree to paying more for those services since they’ll cost more to deal with someone’s boutique Amistics.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
I can see how someone arrives at this if they have a pretty hermetically sealed information environment, but if you actually talk to people who worked extensively with Musk, it’s clear how laughably false it is.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
They are not equally guilty. Prusa is fighting for their lives against subsidized Chinese printers, against a global scale industrial policy that they are only a tiny player in (Czechia is not exactly a heavy hitter globally). That they hav
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
I’m a huge Prusa fanboy as well, but Bambu does deserve credit. There’s clearly a before-Bambu and after-Bambu era for 3D printing. Prusa had to adapt (and did, IMO, pretty quickly), and now so have a lot of the other Chinese printer manufa
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
You’re an optimist. I kind of expect the Trump Administration to roll over when China goes to take Taiwan.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Yeah, natural or human caused, it’s toxic. Sometimes in modernity, we forget that Nature Herself is massively dangerous.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
It should be pointed out that some of the natural levels of heavy metals are somewhat toxic as well.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Are we talking regulatory limits or LD50 limits? Usually regulatory limits are much stricter than any tangibly toxic effect. (Which isn’t necessarily irrational, because it gives a safety margin to account for measurements being sparse.)
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
No. The problem is their development has been super slow and expensive (compared to Starlink) and also they picked fairly expensive launch providers compared to their main competitor (SpaceX). Space junk is not in the top 5 reasons, and wit
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
The whole accuracy vs precision thing.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
So?
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Believe it or not, plenty of left wingers have a bone to pick with the East Coast traditional media establishment as well, NY Times in particular. And the traditional media also seems to have a symbiotic relationship with Trump, whose chaos
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
That’s the problem with a lot of people, tho. They DO give deference to the checkmark.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
NYT journalists as a privileged class… With actions like this, Bluesky is not exactly beating the allegations.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Do you think the government should start owning shares? Seems problematic. Instead, we could tax realized gains and profits. I think in general this is all just a round about way of doing the taxation we already do, just more of it. Which I
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
There is a LOT more personnel churn in private sector than federal government.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
The solution is a straightforward but painful increasing of the retirement age to like at least 70.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
It’s paper wealth. If you forced a sell off, the value would plummet. Look at revenue.
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by Robotbeat 1y ago
Agreed entirely. The comments in this article read exactly like Reddit, the tone, the downvoting, etc. and I agree about your comments on X being a sort of rightwing mirror of that, too. Super disappointed in Hackernews.

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