SapphireSun

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by SapphireSun 9y ago
This is petty and shallow, but I'm annoyed with programmer culture in the sense that people always phrase this sort of question in terms of "what if the person that gave us so much kicked off" rather than "what if they w
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
This is a very strong claim, and based on what I've read I do not believe it is accurate to say nuclear winter research was so off the mark as to be "inaccurate". Please see my comments further up the thread. Please cite the
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I dug up the correspondence. Here's what Dr. Robock said. Again, I explicitly asked permission to quote him. Here's the relevant excerpt. Me: "I understand that you've conducted 100 Hiroshima simulations that describe a
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I agree with your criticism. We'll have to read the paper to find out what that means. ;)
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
There is a fourth option, though it's longer term. I think that's okay since we've been dealing with this problem for forever. Work together with other nations to raise their standards of living and labor. We do some of that
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I don't recall. I think I did add a sentence or two, but I don't think I changed it enough to change your read of tone.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Thank you for the links. I'll have to read your articles very closely later, but recent climate simulations by Alan Robock at Rutgers and analysis by Ira Helfand at IPPNW and others show that a nuclear autumn, created by 100 15-kT (Hir
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You're downvoting me, and that's natural. I assume the bulk of vocal HNers are ancap libertarians (possibly some of you aligning with the Dark Enlightenment). However, you should take what I said more seriously. It represents a po
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
"...with characteristic boom-bust cycles and scams." 2008 called, I told them you're available.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You've arrived at the unthinkable thought. Why indeed, in a very rich country, do any poor people at all exist? Why is this crime not remedied immediately? The only possible explanation in a democratic society, is that somehow the uppe
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
This argument doesn't apply if you are suddenly locked out of your account. Then your option to switch still incurs the tremendous costs of the loss of possibly years of work. The original provider must still be accountable.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
What if it actually was a high speed rail? Maybe more people would use it, or even expand towns around a highly available rapid transit resource.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think the point is that it hasn't happened... yet. In theory, writing for newspapers shouldn't be expensive either, yet somehow it is.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I think the bigger idea is that there should be a broader system of international mutual aid. We can't drag down our own labor standards because someone else's is terrible. We need to help raise them up. Only international coopera
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
It really depends. The problem is that once advertising become the primary drip of financial resources, the content begins to revolve around the needs, goals, and preferences of advertisers. Content that isn't seen as monetizable gets
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I'll be very disappointed when podcasting becomes fully metricised. The large scale introduction of advertising will be toxic and do to this beautiful indie space what has happened to the web.
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Nuked and Sinking: The Beautiful Marshall Islands Violated by the U.S. And World(medium.com)
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Finding the Mode of Four Numbers Without Counting(medium.com)
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Congrats, you just added one more nail in the coffin of capitalism.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
To be clear, I am totally on board with reimagining the economy. Sorry, that didn't come through in my post.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
If unions can see the budget sheet and negotiate accordingly, they wouldn't kill the company. They want to keep their jobs, this is nonsense.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I'm not against this, but it goes against the grain of a capitalist economy as it does not maximize overall profits. For this concept to work at scale, we might need to rejigger the whole economy.
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The Physics Package: How Does a Nuclear Weapon Work?(medium.com)
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I don't think it's either or. We should give sober advice while acknowledging that a better future is possible. One without the other alternatively doesn't keep the door to that better future open or isn't practical.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I place the burden of bare economic security on society rather than the individual. It's really reactionary to say that someone that aspires to a healthy lifestyle is asking for too much. In this incredibly wealthy country, we can affo
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
What about all the people that have no interest or ability to code? What happens when everyone does code? Wages collapse.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
It's only unremarkable in the sense that we know in the abstract that FB can look at our stuff. This makes it concrete. That's very important as it breaks the mental model users have of Facebook, that messanger is in some sense pr
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
FUCK. I thought that when we attained wealth, power, and appeared on the covers of magazines people would stop dunking our heads in toilets and finally pay us SOME RESPECT. This just shows that our society isn't a meritocracy. It doesn
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I regret the day I was born. :'(
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Nuked and Sinking: The Marshall Islands Were Violated by the U.S. And World(medium.com)
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