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by alfor 4y ago
The "company" at the time was not interested in mass production, it was mostly a prototype for fun. Without Musk it would have gone nowhere. Many people built prototypes and did conversion in small scale, no one was foolish enough
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by alfor 4y ago
Wait to see what will happen in the next few years. With cellphones, videogames and the pandemic kids have almost zero free play outside with other kids. I don’t know how to change this, even if I become strict with my kids, there is no kid
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by alfor 4y ago
Python is the modern perl. It connect useful and fast things build in C in a more easier more expressive but way slower package. That’s his quality but also the biggest problem. When you have something that cross the boundary python/c
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by alfor 4y ago
He saved thousands of suicide and depression. I think that is way more helpfull than most people. He is hypersensitive to the suffering of others and see the misery we are getting ourselves into. That took a toll on him. Like many others, I
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by alfor 4y ago
from what I understand it’s trained to give the good anwser but can be misguided (like people) I seem it lack the capability to say it’s level of confidence in the anwers. I gave me very good result when I give him lots of context. You can
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by alfor 4y ago
The planet will be fine, co2 is plant food, they are literaly starving for it. If anything, we will not have enought humans around with our birth rate. Technology is getting cleaner and cleaner each year: ev, solar panels, etc. Look into To
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by alfor 4y ago
Start listening/reading Jordan Peterson Get religious. We are meant to have a story we fit into, this had been religion for every culture as far as we know. The modern atheist man is lost, nihilist, doomed in most cases. Depression is
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by alfor 4y ago
Bingo. I think the focus should be on effective ways to help poor contries, reduce policical risks, improve market flow, make everyone richer, without being stupid about it. Cut out coal plants as soon as we can, research into geoengineerin
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by alfor 4y ago
Fusion bombs (H-bombs) were functional in 1952
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by alfor 4y ago
Make sense. We could be like architect of a 1000 programmer company. Specify what you need, see the result, improve the requirements, get a new version, etc.
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by alfor 4y ago
I think it’s the end of all the jobs. The job of most programers is to understand a problem and to create a few kb of text per day. On this front GPT is already a million time more productive. Maybe it doesn’t understand all the subtleties,
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by alfor 4y ago
No one have all the answers, that’s why we have to ask question, reflect and not fall into dogma and binary thinking. I know a bit on renewable (big fan) and I can say they are doing a fantastic job, will replace everything soon (search Ton
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by alfor 4y ago
Climate change is an arm of the modern leftist religion. I would like to see more a analysis of all the problems we have, how they rank in urgency and rank solutions with how effective they are. From what I see we will rapidly transition
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by alfor 4y ago
So much hate here about Musk. I am very hopeful about the future of Twitter since Musk bought it. I can’t wait to see the evidence of corruption of Twitter, but it was already visible to all conservatives. I think that in a few months it wi
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by alfor 4y ago
Make sense. It’s hard to share something like this and be taken seriously. The link is a doctor explaining how this work. People make the judgement in a split second.
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by alfor 4y ago
It's really frustrating to get downvoted for this. I know it sound new age and all, but it’s tested, there is research papers on it. It’s also very easy to test: two cages of mices one with infrared, the other without. Take blood sampl
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by alfor 4y ago
Bible as an atheist (with Jordan Peterson biblical lecture on youtube as an introduction) We live a story and to make society work that story has to be shared. The goal of life would be to be in self-sacrifice in service of truth and love,
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by alfor 4y ago
Please, please, if you have IBS, Crohn or other immune disease try infrared light or better the sun. Especially if you spend a lot of time indoor (engineer) if you live in the north or if your condition get worse in the winter. I know someo
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by alfor 4y ago
I didn’t know Gore-TEX was ptfe. Damn, those things last forever (like BPC). Think plastic is a problem? PTFE is way worse. Those are the microplastic we are going to find in breastmilk forever.
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by alfor 4y ago
I feel that I am on path of some sort, was raised Catholic (but we didn’t really believe: Québec, one on the most catholic place that become one of the most atheist in a very short time) I was mostly scientific atheist nihilist, searching f
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by alfor 4y ago
Good mostly as you define it yourself. That’s why they say don’t judge others, that people will be judge by "God" There is also norms anchored in long tradition, like the commandments. But yes, there is also a tendency to try to e
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by alfor 4y ago
Everything is a cult to some extent. That how humans works. We need meaning and a group of people to share it with. Be it progressivism, maga, HN, Catholic, etc. If it’s a good one it’s not completely detached from reality and doesn’t shunt
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by alfor 4y ago
A was an atheist most of my life but now see it differently. See it as a kind of philosophy embedded in a story (mythology) People go to church once a week to try to align themselves with the most good they can. They take a hard look at the
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by alfor 4y ago
Yes, but I heard that they appear similar to the closer one, in opposition to what was expected.
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by alfor 4y ago
I heard that by looking farther away we should see older less formed galaxy but that it isn’t the case. Do someone know something about it?
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by alfor 4y ago
It’s part of it. What get promoted, what get shut down. It’s clear for most people moderately conservative. We can agree to disagree. For my part I think we will see massive changes for the better, time will tell either way.
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by alfor 4y ago
A lot of people are interested in working for him. Tesla and SpaceX fight for #1 and #2 spot for place to work. Is changing the auto industry, he is overpassing Nasa with a fraction of the budget. How much proof do you need?
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by alfor 4y ago
"What part would be changing the world?" - Break up the cartel that is mass media + tech giants + democrats - The control on the narrative determine what people think, how they votes, where the world goes. - Making this open and t
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by alfor 4y ago
If you want money, work life balance, comfortable pace it’s not the place. If you want to change the world, are ready to push yourself, work with the most dedicated people, it is. It’s a place for very few. I would really like to work in on
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by alfor 4y ago
I expect the opposite, massive growth and improvement in the next 12 months. There will be some hiccups, attacks and slanders pieces in the news. It will become the place where corruption get exposed if the government don’t manage to close

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