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by ajuc 3y ago
SUVs should cost like 10 times more than regular cars to insure. They destroy the environment and kill people and the only benefit is slightly better status signaling.
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by ajuc 3y ago
First steam turbines were made in ancient Rome. Took us almost 2000 years to commercialize them :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
I use rust, and it does have static by default in many places (for example it's hard to do the traditional OOP virtual polymorphism or to keep objects of various types in one container) and it makes it pretty hard for me to write &quot
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by ajuc 3y ago
Static-everything is such a gimmick in my opinion. It sounds great until you try to do something useful with your code. It's almost never the case that people actually want to hard-code stuff in the source code. Almost always you read
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by ajuc 3y ago
That explains why he wasn't shunned by western society back then, it doesn't explain why putin rehabilitated him recently, and it certainly wouldn't explain promoting his books on hackernews (which was why I was initially con
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by ajuc 3y ago
Illyin was a russian fascist. Openly so.
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by ajuc 3y ago
I was very confused for a moment why HN promotes russian fascism :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Suburbs in Poland still have pedestrians tho.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Overpasses suck for pedestrians almost as much as underpasses. They create obstacles for older people, handicapped, bicycles, people with kids, etc. They split cities into separate "regions" that feel "far away" mentally
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yup, I live in Poland and walk A LOTb(about 8km a day for last 3 years). The only issue is when the roundabout is huge, and the alternative huge crossing would suck even more. Just make the roads smaller in general and pedestrians will be f
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by ajuc 3y ago
In the limit almost all people die in both extremes (if we stop all fossil fuel use today and if we don't limit fossil fuel use at all). There is middleground that saves most of people. We're not doing that because we value our co
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by ajuc 3y ago
> If everyone could "just" go bankrupt then why would anyone pay debts at all? Because you lose reputation and assets. It's completely fucked up that companies can bakrupt any time, but people can't. It helps nobody t
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by ajuc 3y ago
I don't think consciousness is well defined, nor that it's required for producing true statements nor for distinguishing them from false statements. I can write a program that will print out infinite number of no repeating true st
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by ajuc 3y ago
Consciousness is the woo you accuse people of. There's no reason to think it's real or required for distinguishing truth from falsehood.
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by ajuc 3y ago
https://ajuc.github.io/outdoorsBattlemapGenerator/ Generator of encounter maps for tabletop RPGs. You can export to .dd2vtt format which you can then import in Foundry VTT. There's also a new version with programm
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by ajuc 3y ago
I'm not sure about USA but in Poland whoever mispredicted production/consumption - pays for balancing the network back. So there's quite strong incentive for reliable predictions.
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Eastern Europeans are biased We were called biased for 30 years. We were right. Still biased tho :) If you are called biased when you're proven right by the people who were wrong - it's not you who is biased. > Trump and M
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by ajuc 3y ago
If you asked Russians about that 20 years ago nobody would say that :) The main russian propagandist - Solovyov - publicly argued that Russia cannot invade Crimea and should let Ukraine do whatever it likes like 15 years ago. Now he argues
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by ajuc 3y ago
> you are overestimating Russia and underestimating China 2 years ago Russia was called 2nd army of the world. China wasn't the first. > The problem of the West is that all of our leaders are weak. Weak leaders precipitate wars.
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by ajuc 3y ago
They don't need to be optimal, they just need to be better than others. I'm just not persuaded all the random things about cats are necessary and THAT's why they are preserved. Is the catnip reaction necessary for example? If
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by ajuc 3y ago
How do we know it's because they are perfect as opposed to less adaptable? Let's say there's a species with better error correction of their genes - they would retain their shape better even if they are suboptimal. Especially
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by ajuc 3y ago
Russia exports fuel which they take from the ground. China makes goods from things they import using western know-how and sell them back to the west. Everybody needs fuel. Rich countries need iphones. When you are isolated you can still pum
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by ajuc 3y ago
> China can buy energy from Russia and the Middle East They already do. But they won't have anywhere to sell their products. Most of their economy gone just like that. > China is coupled to the West in a way that makes the West a
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by ajuc 3y ago
China is using russian equipment (or equipment based on reverse-engineered russian equipment), russian tactics, and is training with Russia. Before 2022 it was generally agreed that in their joint exercises russian army looked better. China
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by ajuc 3y ago
Ukraine makes WW3 less likely. If it was conquered quickly - that would make WW3 more likely (because Russia and China would estimate their chances of further conquest higher and would probably start something in Taiwan or Baltic states). R
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by ajuc 3y ago
That is true, but it hits developing countries more. Compare USA, UK, France (which are past the demographic transition and are having pretty decent demographic structure) with China, Korea, Japan (which are at various stages of that transi
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by ajuc 3y ago
It's not. EE countries were under 30% of EU's PPP GDP per capita, and are over 60% now.
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by ajuc 3y ago
By population bomb do you mean population growth (which isn't happening) or population decrease (which is)?
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by ajuc 3y ago
Writing allowed organized religion, theocracy, burning heretics, etc. Printing press allowed reformation and 100 years of religious wars. Radio allowed totalitarianism. Social media allowed new-wave of populism. AI will probably disrupt the
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by ajuc 3y ago
For the first 3 years of WW2 USSR was an ally of nazis. But let's not try to make SS people innocent.

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