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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/zn6FI
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Knowing when you die != seeing your future self die There might be some value to some people in knowing how much lifespan they have left. But actually seeing your future self die seems like it would be horribly traumatic, as your pres
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Genes are now merely the "survival machine" for something else?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
I suspect that Ballard would have approved of this.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Its an almost 45 year-old short story that appeared in a print collection of other short stories. The submitted page kind of loses much of that context - and possibly feels dated or simplistic because of that?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
For context, Ballard wrote this in 1982.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
The increased infant mortality, and the other adverse outcomes, are a consequence of the sanctions imposed by the US government.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> And I’m fine with that. People, specifically children, are dying: "infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births; childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65 per cent; and essential medicines are available at
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
There is a strong argument that the Cuban government has treated many Cuban citizens very badly. But the assertion that this mistreatment is why the US is behaving aggressively towards Cuba is pretty naive. The people in power in the US at
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
There is a strong argument that the Cuban government has treated many Cuban citizens badly. But the assertion that this mistreatment is why the US is behaving aggressively towards Cuba is pretty naive. The people in power in the US at the m
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
What is your favourite fractal?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> Curiosity [...] has traveled nearly 37 kilometers, drilled into and sampled 42 different rocks, and as of publication has snapped nearly 763,000 photos. Without in any way minimising the amazing scientific and engineering achievements
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> I think it was a lot more common for 8bit systems to allow for 16 bit addressing though. The 6502 and Z80 could use 16 bit addressing to access up to 64kb of memory. The 6502 had various other addressing systems, including iirc 8 bits,
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI Take your pick: Anxiety over the possibility of redundancy and consequent financial precarity. Concern about our children's futures - their education and careers. Sorrow over the loss of the craft of
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> Can I trust any paper he creates in the future when I can tell this one has factual errors? What are the factual errors?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
The only advantage I can see is extraterritoriality and lack of effective legal oversight.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Devious. Its somehow more oppressive than the potential of constant surveillance. It says: we are watching you the rest of the time. See also: Learned Helplessness; Stockholm Syndrome.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Interesting that this submission has been flagged. I suspect that "Check-out my intensive pig meat yield optimisation saas" wouldn't have been. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/z2S0y
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
No, I'm saying that new military installations would be unlikely to be agreed due to domestic political sentiment. Pituffik was certainly agreed by both sides, but that was a long time ago. (I'm not Danish or Greenlandic, so this
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> Nothing is stopping the US from deploying those in Greenland That would require the (politically unlikely) agreement of the Danish government. See article 2 of the relevant treaty [1]: "...establishing and/or operating such
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
For those commenting that this decision may have a political element: Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Musk is a prominent Trump/MAGA supporter, and Trump has threatened to annex Greenland by force. SpaceX is part of Trum
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
So don't bother with higher education at all?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Someone close to me is about to embark on a maths PhD. I'm curious about what advice people here would have for people in that position.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
This is just how he writes. Busy-executive-bullet-point style. Its not AI.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
If we're talking PC games and for-all-time, then it would be Age of Empires. I played the hell out of the various isotopes of that game back in the 90s. Not played many games since then, though, because children and work.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> GitHub is not agent scale. Is the scaling issue with git or github?
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
I have a Motorola G70, so this is concerning. But its hard to believe that this is a deliberate action by Motorola. To me it seems more likely that an update was compromised. Still bad though.
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by andyjohnson0 5mo ago
> If we ignore climate externalities, it makes sense to build solar as fast as we can and also pump oil, preferably for export. I appreciate that "externalities" is a term from economics. But its also worth remembering that the
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by andyjohnson0 5mo ago
> Extremely well phrased for my minimalist brain. Yes, short and to the point. And the most important part of the message is in the first phrase: eat food - not edible stuff that isn't food.

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