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10051.
by api 8y ago
Laser fusion is not over-unity because lasers are horribly inefficient. If lasers were significantly better we could generate fusion power by repeatedly laser-imploding pellets of D-T fuel. We can already generate fusion this way but it tak
10052.
by api 8y ago
This makes a very nice letsencrypt proxy.
10053.
by api 8y ago
If laser efficiency were good enough for this we would have laser fusion.
10054.
by api 8y ago
I've long held a less charitable suspicion that at least applies to politics: rational thought seldom results in a position that unfairly favors one group over another. If you want your side to beat others, you want irrational ideas
10055.
by api 8y ago
Maybe we just need a doctrine where you own the copyright on your personal data.
10056.
by api 8y ago
It should be heavy per leaked datum fines like HIPAA. This would transform huge troves of personal data from assets to liabilities, which is what we need.
10057.
by api 8y ago
Given that this training data basically gets loaded into neural nets, etc., can it be said that in some indirect sense these data labelers are actually driving these cars? Are we still just building the mechanical turk? To be it shows how f
10058.
by api 8y ago
PoW has economies of scale that reward existing wealth too.
10059.
by api 8y ago
Collapse of food chains and loss of natural beauty are the two most obvious ways.
10060.
by api 8y ago
The center collapsed before deplatforming was a big thing. I think you have the arrow of causation backward. Deplatforming is driven by increasing polarization. The center collapsed because the establishment discredited itself in the 2000s:
10061.
by api 8y ago
Extinct is click bait, but it could definitely harm us. It also makes the world less interesting.
10062.
by api 8y ago
That's the best analogy to NIMBY housing policy I've ever read.
10063.
by api 8y ago
The instant someone signs a mortgage it becomes in their (cynical) economic best interest to try to keep others from being able to do the same. The only solution I see is state level zoning standardization around pro-density zoning and limi
10064.
by api 8y ago
Agreed. There is a real poverty of deep "meta" thinking today.
10065.
by api 8y ago
WiFi typically uses frequencies that resonate with water, which limits its range due to H2O vapor in the atmosphere. These frequencies are used because they're not licensed for other purposes and because this range limitation allows mo
10066.
by api 8y ago
It's no harder than having Debian for x86, x64, arm, arm64, etc.
10067.
by api 8y ago
A major difference is in sustained performance, not peak performance. Mobile CPUs often have cores these days that are comparable to desktop/server CPU cores but they lack the cooling to sustain peak performance for very long. They&#x2
10068.
by api 8y ago
$ echo 𓂺 𓂺 Yup. The singularity is near.
10069.
by api 8y ago
I'm closer to the middle position. An alien watching Earth would not be making value judgements. It would be observing geological change. Moralistic value judgements like "we are destroying the Earth" are anthropocentric, eve
10070.
by api 8y ago
The Commons Clause might be clunky, but its an attempt to address the changes that have happened in the world since the late 1990s. For those who don't know, the FOSS revolution came about in the late 1990s and as a popular movement wa
10071.
by api 8y ago
It's clear that this rate of growth is not sustainable. Everyone knows that, though not everyone acknowledges it. Population growth must top out somewhere. The most likely mechanism is the same one that's driven birth rate decline
10072.
by api 8y ago
War is one of the most environmentally destructive things we do, and it's usually followed by a period of expansion.
10073.
by api 8y ago
Interesting data point. I just don't trust our political process in the US enough to trust it not to slide down a slippery slope if one is potentially present. I'm 40 years old and have watched US political discourse get worse a
10074.
by api 8y ago
I have been such a conflicted fence-sitter on this issue. On one hand I agree that the stuff on Gab is dangerous-- as in inciting violence dangerous. I've visited the site a few times and it seems like it's almost entirely peopled
10075.
by api 8y ago
Who wants to be the judge who didn't rubber stamp that one warrant that if executed would have stopped the next 9/11? There is no bureaucratic incentive to do anything but approve everything.
10076.
by api 8y ago
Gambling us addictive and seems hard wired into our nature. Quite a bit of financial activity is basically gambling. Another huge category is flight capital from authoritarian countries. Finally there is a tie in with drugs here. A harm red
10077.
by api 8y ago
I'm starting to have this odd thought that its time for a softer harm reduction approach regarding undesirable forms of financial activity: dodgy investment schemes, gambling, even money laundering. Like drugs prohibition doesn't
10078.
by api 8y ago
I call that "schizophonia."
10079.
by api 8y ago
It would definitely work in Southern California.
10080.
by api 8y ago
Back in college days I got into clubs for free a few times by carrying a little mag-lite flashlight. Obviously you were with security, or the DJ, so they'd part ways and let you walk right in.

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