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by api 4mo ago
… and way further to the right than OANN or Breitbart. I’m always skeptical of media with an obvious institutional slant of any kind. Sometimes that’s true even if it’s a slant I kind of agree with. Kind of narrows the media pool though. Mo
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ZeroTier has "roots," which are nodes that relay packets and also tell you what your IP info is. Everyone in the world connects to a pool of these. Other than relaying and STUN-like IP info reflection, they're dumb and do ver
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by api 4mo ago
I've wondered for a while if the apparently higher cognitive performance and resulting societal wealth at higher latitudes might be some kind of second order side effect from long-term selection for lower sun exposure. We already know
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by api 4mo ago
We do P2P in our networking software and this is why we do it all in band instead of using STUN, TURN, or other common methods. Those get blocked and they’re also often insecure. STUN has mitigations now against being weaponized but it’s st
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by api 4mo ago
Same is true for most eco villages, back to the land farms, etc. It’s a mix of the lifestyle not being exactly what people thought plus them getting culty. In many cases it’s more the latter than the former.
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by api 4mo ago
Entry level is being automated away. Eventually I can see the solution as UBI plus abolishing minimum wage; allowing people to live on basic and take apprenticeships where they can just earn experience.
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by api 4mo ago
Meth induced superhero powers?
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by api 4mo ago
Reduce will never happen unless population falls. Not in a big way. It should be: reuse, recycle, renewable. First try to reuse and make things more reusable. Then try to recycle. Last, substitute renewable for non renewable sources for thi
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by api 4mo ago
The wealth comment is valid. The resource stuff is overblown. Look up the energy cost of AI vs ordering a burrito on DoorDash.
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by api 4mo ago
If model performance asymptotes and CPU/GPU and RAM keep growing, even slowly, then eventually we will have frontier models on desktop that are totally competitive with hosted. It’s only a matter of time. You already can if you’re will
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by api 4mo ago
As far as I know it’s the latter and that’s a big problem for physics. A lot of stuff like string theory, loop quantum gravity, etc. require energies that would take a particle accelerator the diameter of the solar system or something nuts
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by api 4mo ago
This is insane. Didn’t know how bad it got. I bought a mini PC a few years ago with 64 gigs in it for a home VM server for like $600 total. Looks like I’m keeping it a while. Usually these bottlenecks lead to a price crash later. Of course
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by api 4mo ago
That’s kind of an incredible point. We know what a bunch of these people did, or at least tolerated being done and looked the other way. It’s public information. Nothing happens. We even re-elect them. People don’t care.
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by api 4mo ago
It’s been kind of obvious to me that China did it by copying what America was doing from the post Civil War era until we abandoned the formula in the 1970s. China calls it “iron and salt” I think. The state makes very large investments in i
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by api 4mo ago
Old school Internet forums and sites were not designed to be addictive. The "time on site" KPI and its variants is the root of all evil.
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by api 4mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when grey goo and nanotechnology was the apocalyptic scenario du jour for a short time after some guy at MIT wrote a book, and because he was at MIT people took it seriously even though it was ridiculous. If
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by api 4mo ago
Have to point out one boring thing though: this will use a lot more electricity than newer things. So it'll work, but it'll run up your electric bill.
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by api 4mo ago
Something like your takeover scenario already happened, but not through AI. It happened through atomic weapons. Nations who have them are in a different class from nations who don’t. Nations who have a lot of them, delivery systems, and sys
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by api 4mo ago
It has no volition. Why would it do this unless someone told it to?
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It’s also true in every other realm. Governments, think tanks, political parties, and activist groups use propaganda because it works. I sometimes wonder how much of what I believe is bullshit I was fed through intentional propaganda. I do
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by api 4mo ago
I have always found this field, especially in the last 10-15 years, to be incredibly fad driven to the point that it reminds me of things like fashion more than an engineering field. It’s one of the things I don’t like about it. All humans
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by api 4mo ago
I think they may be talking about math algorithm heavy code, where C++'s looser almost-just-a-substitution generics system (really "templates" not even quite generics) can be used to create abstractions that compile everythin
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by api 4mo ago
If you have red flag symptoms you should get checked out. This type of cancer is often not caught until stage 3-4, at which point even if you do survive you may end up with a colostomy bag or other serious issues. You're also looking a
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by api 4mo ago
City land owners use their political power to block new construction to force real estate to appreciate in value. This can be overridden but it's hard. Most cities with good economies have unaffordable real estate.
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by api 4mo ago
I like to put it this way: The automobile, at least insofar as it impacts the urban landscape, is only incidentally about transportation. It's really about leverage in real estate markets. I think there's a tie-in between suburban
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by api 4mo ago
I kind of think today's air travel is in an uncanny valley. I'd prefer either: just as uncomfortable or even more so but very fast, like multiple mach numbers fast. I live in the Midwest and go to the West Coast often, and it usua
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by api 4mo ago
It’s basically saying that good engineers are better at using the tool. Because of course they are. This is true of every tool up to AI and it’s true for AI. If you know what you’re doing you’re going to do a better job of getting the AI to
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by api 4mo ago
It also refers to a wide range of different policies that need to be evaluated on their merits. These policies are not all the same. It’s become a thought stopping cliche. Modern discourse is absolutely loaded with thought stopping cliches
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The US committed massive IP theft in the 19th century when we industrialized.
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Does it allow newbies to install it and have something like the Apple “it just works” experience? If so then that’s your answer. Why isn’t this obvious? Giving someone a box of parts vs an assembled product is a huge difference. Yes there a

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