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by adriand 2y ago
> complex highly intelligent life capable of space flight is extraordinarily rare in space and time That feels right to me especially given the timescales we are dealing with when we consider things even just in a galactic context. Heck,
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I read it as a teenager and remember enjoying it. It popped up on Libby a few weeks ago and I checked it out and absolutely hated it. Found it nigh unreadable. Hackneyed prose and all the bits about the robotic animals just seemed clumsy an
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Cobalt, however, which is used in common lithium battery chemistries, is mostly sourced from the DRC (Congo), much of it under terrible conditions: forced labour, child labour, and rampant environmental degradation. The book Cobalt Red: How
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by adriand 3y ago
If people want cheaper food, they should eat less meat or no meat at all. It blows my mind how cheap it is to eat a vegetarian diet. Dried black beans are $1/pound. That is a lot of food for very little money! Rice is super cheap. Pota
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by adriand 3y ago
But it’s not like our standard of living has remained static while we need to work more. A lot has changed. In 1960 the average single family home was 1300 square feet, now it’s more than double that, and it’s packed with amazing amenities
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An under-appreciated benefit of inflation is that it reduces the value of debts. All things being equal (and of course they aren’t), inflation is good for debtors and bad for debt-holders. If you owe $500k on your mortgage, inflation at 5%
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by adriand 3y ago
I agree, the middle one is pretty good. I also love the part of the video where the singer's head appears to be on fire...she's literally smoking! https://youtu.be/mfFV3Cm_Kow?si=R2gU1U4qfkzW04cX&t=48
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I’ve thought a fair bit about what the future of music looks like in the age of AI and I’m not convinced that much will change. The ease of making music on computers already set the skill bar super low. In 2021 Spotify reported that 60k tra
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> the fibers are not coming out and will continue rolling cancer dice while they're in there This is rather alarmist. The truth is more nuanced. This resource [1] lists a variety of biological mechanisms that work to remove asbestos
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I was perplexed when a friend of mine decided to take up hunting for birds. I was dismayed when I discovered this "sporting activity" involved paying to have birds that are bred in captivity stashed in various locations around a w
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by adriand 3y ago
I agree with this. Also, the period of time where children are very tiring is relatively short, perhaps 2-3 years per child. Yes, this adds up when you have 2 or 3 children, but there is also a lot of joy to leaven the fatigue. Then you hav
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by adriand 3y ago
I was in Jamaica a couple of months ago and they use habanero peppers a lot and I was astonished by how much I loved the flavour. I never buy them because I always assumed they were too spicy but you don’t need much for great flavour. I als
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by adriand 3y ago
My house is in the path! It goes right over my hometown. I have plans. ;)
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It's been the #1 headline story on the NYT for a couple of hours at least now. They had the live feed on the homepage too.
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So our local school board is closing schools for the day - but check out how they communicated it: ---- On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over southern Ontario. The City of Hamilton is expected to e
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To put it simply, no one is able to say, “wherever you get your videos”.
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Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass [pdf](microsoft.com)
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It sounds to me like you were driven more by other emotions — perhaps feelings of care, concern or worry. That doesn't prove that anger is useless, simply that in that situation, it wasn't the primary emotion you were experiencing
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by adriand 3y ago
Anger is not at all useless, it is a powerful and extremely useful emotion. When we witness injustice, when our loved ones are threatened or harmed, when someone treats us with contempt or disrespect, anger is our signal that we must take a
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Don’t forget that these international laws and treaties were born out of a desire to prevent the horrors of WWII from occurring again. Lots of actors in that war including the Allies did terrible things that are prohibited by those laws. Th
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by adriand 3y ago
I forget who said this or exactly what they said, but someone has pointed out that the more research humans conduct the more we find that animals and even plants are more complex, more intelligent and more sophisticated than we thought. It
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by adriand 3y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I am talking about! It's all feels very random. And it's all such a series of missed opportunities because they still have so much credibility in the hobbyist, underground and "urban" music
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Their platform is just so badly designed once you do pay them as a musician. I signed up for an electronic project I was working on and I found the entire thing incredibly confusing. The design, the naming of things, the way some things con
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by adriand 3y ago
Although I agree that Kraft cheese slices deserve quotation marks around “cheese”, I would argue that they are still the best option for one sandwich and one sandwich only, namely, a fried egg on a lightly toasted English muffin. An Egg McM
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by adriand 3y ago
It’s neat to think of time capsules as time travel. We know of at least two possible methods of time travel into the future for human beings, namely cryogenics and rocket travel at some appreciable percentage of the speed of light. Time cap
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I think it’s important to understand the context you’re operating in. Universities are highly bureaucratic organizations. This is not an entirely bad thing; we don’t actually want them to operate like startups (for instance we expect them t
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by adriand 3y ago
To be somewhat contrarian, I'm not sure I see the problem here. From the platform perspective, this is just a faster way to generate the same crap that's been on these sites for years, with less risk of copyright claims and associ
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You’re not convinced by “our technology will make data analysts 10X faster and give business users the tools”?
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Sure. Some memoirs state this in the foreword. There are also memoirs that are "fictionalized", like James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces." Originally published as a memoir in 2003, it was later revealed that
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An interesting perspective on this I’ve heard discussed is whether hallucinations ought to be solved at all, or whether they are core to the way human intelligence works as well, in the sense that that is what is needed to produce narrative

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