alexey-salmin

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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Exactly, like growing potatoes made economic sense to my parents' generation. Economic sense is largely defined by the economic policy set by the government. No one puts balcony solar in France, somehow their economic sense is differen
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I do see it as the result of policy applied from the top, the policy that resulted in 2x household electricity prices compared to the US (which amounts to 3x difference if you adjust for median household income). I replied in another thread
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
People are forced to do it by high household electricity prices which are the direct result of the government policy failure. In my childhood everyone (like your parents, your neighbors, all the ordinary people) were growing potatoes. Highl
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
It's like the backyard furnaces during the Great Leap Forward. Production of electricity like production of steel makes most economical sense at scale. When the economic policy fails so hard it has to resort to backyard anything you kn
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Ah the First Impact
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Normally in supermarkets they sell prepaid cards which are distinct from both credit and debit ones. Visa and Mastercard support all three types.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
A brief history goes like this: In the past embossed credit and debit cards were both accepted on planes. That's why they were embossed in the first place: for offline processing which in even more distant path was the only option. Lat
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
I don't really see an issue with it either, though it depends on what exactly you mean by a dogmatist. Literally everyone operates within some framework of unprovable dogmas to be able to tell good from evil and to decide how to act. A
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Do you agree with the Pascal's wager then? I don't and if mine is an inversion, I don't see a problem with it. It's not scary to make a mistake if any decision you make is temporary anyhow. Knowing that I die no matter w
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
It's a bit far, but I think countries and societies will be split around this question if or when such a technology comes. You'll definitely find a place to opt out, I would stick/move to a country where immortality is illega
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Correct
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Absolutely. Progress is a delicate balance of accepting change and being conservative. Not all change is worth accepting, but if I'm wrong about this one my death will eventually put an end to me being wrong.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
It's not that old people are not open to change, they just very reasonably disregard all the bullshit that contradicts their experience. To achieve plasticity of beliefs people will have to forget stuff. Which closes the circle, nature
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> In fact maybe we should euthanize all scientists at age 50 - or earlier. Right? I understand you're trying to perform reductio ad absurdum but I would like to point out that the proposition is less absurd than you make out. E.g. i
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
It's quite the opposite. Since the end of monarchies we actually don't observe stable autocracies anymore. They used to last for millennia, now they don't even get to a century. An autocracy is an idea but an autocrat is a hu
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Many people here have kids, it changes the way you see life and death quite a bit.
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> I am unaware of any barrier, or any reason to infer there is one, for dextrous robots. I don't think there's a fundamental barrier to building a humanoid robot but the cost will be an extremely high barrier to adoption. A hum
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
> IMHO EU should just drop everything and do China level or even beyond transition to Solar and similar. If this is not happening without government's help then it's not profitable. Which means a forced transition to solar requ
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
It's A2, and yes I think it's a very good return on the time and effort I invested: around 50 hours, no homework, no memorization of words or grammar rules. Realistically in my situation it's either this or nothing. I work 55
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Duolingo is surely flawed, but realistically I don't see any other way how I could have progressed in French by spending exactly 3 minutes per day with near-zero mental effort. I do it on auto pilot before going to bed, usually being d
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
How low was your dose? 75-125mg?
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Asimov was such a visionary he managed to predict the year 2025 in France.
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From experience it seems that the best way to avoid conflict is to quickly ban anyone who demands a CoC
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Not really, margins on coffee are extremely high and a library-like environment can attract paying customers if you play it right.
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> If America had intervened during the revolution Well they did intervene during the 1952 revolution. The secular democratic government wasn't very convenient so they basically undid the revolution and reinstalled the Shah in power
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by alexey-salmin 1y ago
Proving the equilibrium requires calculus but simply writing it down doesn't? It's not different from these "water flows into and out of the pool" exercises.
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Wouldn't be possible with yaml
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Magnetic media is not optimal for long-term storage: its strength is mutability not durability. Something like Project Silica is much more promising.
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Absolutely, it's just there's no commercial pressure on Salesforce company structure to evolve towards valuing the feelings of small clients.
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Right, but they weren't making money on that either, only $5k/yr. This wouldn't happen to a "top arr client" or whatever is the tiering their account managers follow. Here it likely was the exact opposite: the long

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