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9451.
by api 7y ago
Isn't this trivially explained by the fact that it costs money (often a lot due to refrigeration, etc.) to ship food? If I could teleport any excess food to a place in the world where it's needed, I would.
9452.
by api 7y ago
Infrastructure is a huge one. Our transportation infrastructure is down-right third world and there is powerful opposition to doing anything about it. America is still run by a generation that worships the car and thinks any infrastructure
9453.
by api 7y ago
They've negotiated a lower rate?
9454.
by api 7y ago
This isn't true. Unless you live in an extraordinarily high crime area or are a cop or into crime yourself you probably don't know a victim of gun violence. Mass shootings of unrelated civilians whether random or ideologically mot
9455.
by api 7y ago
Fear, hate, and outrage release some powerful brain chemicals. I sometimes feel like people are almost literally doing hits of online drama. Tabloids, daytime TV, and radio shock jocks have always implicitly gotten this and delivered this f
9456.
by api 7y ago
What I've seen in tech is that a patent is a straw asset to make the bean counters feel more comfortable. The value of non-capital-intensive tech companies is almost entirely ephemeral. Even for capital intensive ones most of the value
9457.
by api 7y ago
Its smart bidirectional opium powered by mass scale machine learning and used to deliver ads and propaganda.
9458.
by api 7y ago
There is a benefit to UI uniformity for "boring" stuff like business sites and backends: less cognitive overhead or learning curve. When I see a standard issue wordpress bootstrap site I already know how to find stuff.
9459.
by api 7y ago
Meh. This is how networks work.
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by api 7y ago
It mirrors the new structure of the industry: developers are a totally separate market from users and generally get paid to work on software whose purpose is to exploit and "farm" users through surveillance capitalism and AI/
9461.
by api 7y ago
There was a site posted here a while back that scanned for wide open VNC and found a lot of things that looked disturbingly like industrial control consoles. Want to blow up an oil refinery?
9462.
by api 7y ago
Those are in Antarctica.
9463.
by api 7y ago
Meanwhile the majority of the plastic comes from certain countries that will remain unnamed and that will never do anything about it...
9464.
by api 7y ago
Makes me think of how amazing the X-Files would have been had they fully developed and then concluded the mytharc. They could have ended with full-on hard core sci-fi and exploring the political and social implications of alien disclosure,
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by api 7y ago
It's an intuition or speculation at this point. The only major evidence we have is that a logarithmic graph of information vs time in evolution seems to cut off abruptly at the age of the Earth, suggesting that the process started befo
9466.
by api 7y ago
There are two big things right now on my list of things I will never use: closed remotely operated home assistants with cameras or microphones that are not physically switched, and Facebook Libra.
9467.
by api 7y ago
I've wondered for years if maybe the idea of life originating on Earth might be the final geocentrism.
9468.
by api 7y ago
Getting to America in the 1500s and 1600s was very expensive and came with a high risk of death. I'm not sure how it would compare to a ride on SpaceX's upcoming Starship but it was definitely tough. People found all kinds of ways
9469.
by api 7y ago
There has never in all of history been totalitarianism like what is possible now. We are building the technical infrastructure for our own total enslavement. Of course it makes me wonder if this is just history repeating in some sense. Peop
9470.
by api 7y ago
Very poor. The collector surface is just free.
9471.
by api 7y ago
Is it real growth or just inflation showing up primarily in asset prices? At the street level it looks as if some recovery has occurred, but you certainly can't compare it to the "roaring 90s." The average person has not felt
9472.
by api 7y ago
As George Carlin famously quipped, it's not about saving the Earth. The Earth will be fine. We on the other hand may be fucked.
9473.
by api 7y ago
One peeve of mine is these sorts of folks complaining about the popularity of people like Jordan Peterson. Sure I agree that Peterson is confused, pseudo-profound, and misogynistic, but maybe if academics churned out more philosophy that sp
9474.
by api 7y ago
> Every single time you'd get 'trailblazers' who'd come into the field, do shitty rushed science, hype their results like crazy, and by the time people figured out that all the initial results were garbage, they'
9475.
by api 7y ago
I am fond of a saying that apparently comes from the intelligence world: "trust, but verify." It never hurts to check. If you are dealing with a big liar you can usually catch them quickly enough, sometimes by just verifying small
9476.
by api 7y ago
Most people are mostly honest and assume others are the same. They are not really expecting someone who is radically and baldly dishonest and so they get taken aback. I remember my first encounter with a group of really dishonest people. It
9477.
by api 7y ago
I write software that ports to numerous processors. It's a non-issue. Only issues I've ever seen are casts that break the C spec, and those are ugly anyway. Casts to unaligned boundaries can cause SIGBUS on ARM. Otherwise multiarc
9478.
by api 7y ago
It's important in terms of adoption. Fukushima destroyed the economics of Japanese nuclear power. One accident like that per 100 years and nuclear suddenly becomes very expensive.
9479.
by api 7y ago
For circumventing ISP data collection on user browsing habits.
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by api 7y ago
They are very dense compared to the usual rate.

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