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1. 9181.▲
   by api 7y ago

   China is the world's #1 carbon emitter, the top emitter per GDP, and has over 200gw of new coal still planned. (For scale, California consumes about 50gw on a hot day.) So they are not even unrelated problems. China is also the top so
2. 9182.▲
   by api 7y ago

   He minimized it. What he intended to do doesn't matter. That's not my point. What matters is that his words could be interpreted that way and that he was affiliated with MIT.
3. 9183.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I question a fundamental assumption here: that Stallman was let go or pushed to resign because of "SJWs." I don't see much evidence of that. "SJWs" have had problems with him for years and nothing happened... unti
4. 9184.▲
   by api 7y ago

   > The method to walk must be encoded in the horse's DNA. A bodily and neurological structure capable of walking must emerge in the horse's phenotype as a result of development in the horse's environment guided by its genes
5. 9185.▲
   by api 7y ago

   > If you believe in evolution, you have to believe in the genetic determinism of genes. The determinism part doesn't follow. Evolution works on probabilities, so you have to believe that genes influence the outcome. Influence. Tha
6. 9186.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Point taken, but my main point is about people harping on activities that account for only a few percent while not even mentioning activities that account for large double digit percentages of emissions. To lead with air travel while not ev
7. 9187.▲
   by api 7y ago

   You are only looking at US emissions, not world emissions. The US is not the only country on Earth and its use of coal has been falling for some time now.
8. 9188.▲
   by api 7y ago

   If it is, I wonder if we could use it as a gravity slingshot to "fire" interstellar probes at incredible velocities? Imagine the Oberth effect kick you'd get from that! They'd never be able to slow down but they could do
9. 9189.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Or phasing out coal. See my other reply. Coal is such a huge contributor to the problem that you can almost say that climate change is a coal problem. Not quite, but you're not wrong. I am deeply puzzled by anyone discussing climate
10. 9190.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > AND reduce traveling AND stop eating so much meat, AND stop fishing so much, AND stop creating to much waste OR eliminate coal as a source of energy. Coal is the #1 source of manmade CO2 by far. Just switching from coal to natural gas
11. 9191.▲
    by api 7y ago

    The fact that they are capable of that is an OS flaw. Signing and all the rest is repairing a leaky dam with chewing gum. Our OSes all date back to a time when security simply was not such a concern. All binaries almost have root. A modern
12. 9192.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I see music festival and rave applications for this.
13. 9193.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It offers developers less opportunity to show off how smart they are vs shipping stuff that works. Go is outstanding for the latter.
14. 9194.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > Exact same story in both cases: 0 tech background + MBA. As I have said many times: the MBA is the Western equivalent of the Soviet apparatchik. Elon should not be quite so remarkable. He seems superhuman only against a field of appara
15. 9195.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Earth might be right at this threshold of small enough for space flight to be practical (still hard, but practical) but big enough to hang onto water and atmosphere.
16. 9196.▲
    by api 7y ago

    The trope is backwards. If a business doesn't charge they have no choice but to make the user the product. If the user pays they have the option.
17. 9197.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This is a possible Fermi paradox answer, or at least factor. Maybe the vast majority of habitable worlds are larger than Earth. The inhabitants of those worlds might find space flight too hard or even impossible. They also might have less i
18. 9198.▲
    by api 7y ago

    So the tactic worked.
19. 9199.▲
    by api 7y ago

    QC is really only a risk to RSA, DH, and elliptic curve, and maybe to small hashes and key sizes. I'd say if your symmetric stuff is bigger than 128 bit you only have to worry about asymmetric crypto.
20. 9200.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Somewhat of a tangent but: a big driver for QC investment is breaking encryption for military purposes. We already have encryption that is not believed to be vulnerable to QC, and there is a ton of crypto R&D to make it faster and more
21. 9201.▲
    by api 7y ago

    So basically quantum supremacy helps convince us that it might be worth trying to achieve the latter because it might actually be possible. Its like e.g. sending a sounding rocket into space and back down. It doesn't reach orbit or car
22. 9202.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I don't know for certain but I'm fairly sure that the idea is that you don't activate the reactor until it's in space. Before a reactor is turned on the fuels are less radioactive. It's once you turn it on that ra
23. 9203.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > is an awful lot of cognitive load. I disagree. It's a lot of text, but cognitively it's trivial to understand. A more terse language construct that moves logic around requires more thought to comprehend even if it takes up le
24. 9204.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I'm not NRx but I'll answer your question as best I can. The main thing I think is that we are in an era of profound disillusionment with current systems, some of which is justified. For this reason many people have gone into thin
25. 9205.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > You have to be pretty damn sure you can build a better new world before you burn down the old one. Isn't that just a social version of the precautionary principle? You can never be damn sure you can build a better world without tr
26. 9206.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That's for our SaaS hosting, and that pricing is going to change soon anyway. You can also host your own network controllers. There are no intrinsic limits.
27. 9207.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Thanks, might adjust the fonts then. We (ZeroTier) all have high contrast big monitors and all the people who mess with the web generally use Macs that render the text quite nicely.
28. 9208.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > The anti-intellectual attitude of the designers sucks. "Screw anything discovered by PL research in the last 30 years, we just want everything like in the good old days with C but with GC and concurrency" is just silly. The &
29. 9209.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I agree, but it's also disgusting to troll, harass, and personally attack children who are thrown (or throw themselves, she's a teen) into the political cesspool. Everyone involved should be ashamed. I must point out that the larg
30. 9210.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Just put a Pi Hole on your virtual network. :)