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by aylmao 5y ago
Inflation would say otherwise. Everyone had the same purchasing power before, and so could buy roughly the same things. Now, Jeffery has more purchasing power than anyone else, which means they can outbid and can keep the better things for
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by aylmao 5y ago
> The Earth is going to die one day. [...] If we wish to ensure the long-term survival of the only intelligent life in the universe that we know about (as well as the survival of all the other creatures on Earth, who don't have our
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by aylmao 5y ago
> Patents and trade secrets only go so far. You can't patent or keep secret the concepts that these trials prove out. I'd argue this is, if we're talking about practicality, is just crumbs though. For example, scratch-resi
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by aylmao 5y ago
The USA has also exported large amounts of its industry to other countries, hence it's important to look at global figures.
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by aylmao 5y ago
> Economic growth doesn't consume an exponential amount of resources Right now it does. GDP growth and resource use have been demonstrated to be pretty tightly coupled, so if economic growth is exponential so is resource use, afaik.
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by aylmao 5y ago
My issue with this idea is that that it doesn't take into account time. For example, theoretically there could be a way to harness the energy of the Sun with a Dyson Sphere, but there's a minimum amount of time that will take: - O
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by aylmao 5y ago
> For instance, we certainly passed peak oil production in the U.S. in the early 1970s, but thanks to innovations around tar, shale and deep sea extraction the U.S. surpassed this in 2018. We might've delayed it, but I think we can
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by aylmao 5y ago
I think this makes sense for, say, stock-price analysts, but if I were a scientist I doubt I'd be happy predicting this or being right.
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by aylmao 5y ago
> Economic decline that hurts standard of living is very far from a societal collapse, if the analysis is even accurate. This depends on the base standard we're talking about. If someone's standard goes from not having to think
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by aylmao 5y ago
> Given how large the universe is, I'd bet there's a good chance that scientists, engineers, and enterprising people will find ways to make all these dire predictions wrong. I want to be optimistic, but a couple of things are w
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by aylmao 5y ago
It's crazy that Fornite on PC took almost 100GB of disk space not long ago. The managed to cut that down to under a third [1]. I suspect a lot of this reduction was probably loading content on-demand. Wouldn't be surprised if all
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by aylmao 5y ago
Some middle-manager was tasked to do "something" about employee wellness, and discovered soon enough theres little they can do without will from very high up in the chain of command.
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by aylmao 5y ago
I agree that it's like a tax. The fact that, like taxes, there's no way to get around it is IMO the damaging part. You have to use their payment infrastructure: rolling out your own or using a competing one is out of the question.
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by aylmao 6y ago
A detail worth mentioning: Chūō Shinkansen is maglev line, which are more expensive than high-speed rail too.
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Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video](youtube.com)
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by aylmao 6y ago
Throwback to that AA battery charger Apple released in 2010 [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Battery_Charger
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by aylmao 6y ago
IMO it looks pretty iconic. An all-screen look would've been very very cool, but I don't think this looks bad. Also, I'd imagine with this design the motherboard, cooling and speakers don't overlap the screen. I wouldn&#
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by aylmao 6y ago
The data doesn't contain an IP address which technically this website could gather.
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by aylmao 6y ago
By using very low ISOs. You want to use the lowest ISO possible because the lower the ISO the less noise in the picture, and noise in the night sky can be very noticeable since you are photographing a ton of tiny dots against a black backgr
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by aylmao 6y ago
I usually have them disabled too, yeah. I think with modern cursor devices they become redundant— you don't need a UI element to move around the document with the mouse/trackpad, because the mouse/trackpad usually has built-i
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by aylmao 6y ago
There's some interesting threads here. I do understand the conversation around free speech and censorship has been top of mind lately, but IMO a lot of the comments here are getting carried away and missing a point that is crucial in t
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by aylmao 6y ago
Over the course of a few months I about halved my following count on Twitter. The application definitely makes it easier to follow people than to unfollow them, but also this mentality of thinking more about the possibly of interesting cont
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Doesn't that just leave you in an echo chamber of people who agree with you, and you don't learn anything new? This was an interesting question. I have two thoughts here: 1. On unfollowing content that I don't disagree
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by aylmao 6y ago
Yup, that's the one! He's also the author of http://madebyevan.com/ . I remember seeing that WebGL water experiment many years ago and being blown away. That FSM Designer came in handy for some classes where I had
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by aylmao 6y ago
> 1k lines per day sounds like the opposite of productive Having built a compiler before, this seems normal, especially since the parser is written manually (as opposed to generated). Parsers are always a lot of lines of code. Not all
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by aylmao 6y ago
To the scalability issues section I'd add the environmental aspect. It has already been reported that by some estimates Bitcoin today consumes more energy than Argentina, and that's with an estimated 1 million active wallets per d
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by aylmao 6y ago
This is the exact same keyboard I'm typing this on (I actually didn't know the model number, I had to check). It's a good one! The keys definitely have more travel than modern MacBook keyboard keys. I like its size, incline,
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Maybe, but solutions that go against human nature are doomed to fail in the first place. I disagree on two fundamental points. Firstly, current levels of meat consumption, I'd argue, are very much not "human nature". It&
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by aylmao 6y ago
Not OP, but as someone who is not vegetarian/vegan and is from a country with a cuisine that revolves heavily around meat (Mexican) I have to agree with OP. > If you want to get people to switch to meat alternatives, you have to kee
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by aylmao 6y ago
> I'm not sure why they didn't grow that to support server side rendering instead of starting a platform from scratch... I'd assume company politics. Steve Jobs described Apple like a "big startup" [1]— it had 0

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