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by azemetre 1y ago
I'm not understanding the logic. You want to add more population to the city? That doesn't seem fair but I'll concede I may not understand the point you're trying to make. Assuming that the population is the same in the
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by azemetre 1y ago
That's not the point, the question was whether an apartment building would use the same amount of water and clearly an apartment would consume substantially less water.
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by azemetre 1y ago
The government in The Dalles, Oregon were suing local newspapers that were questioning Google's water usage in the city: https://www.rcfp.org/dalles-google-oregonian-settlement/ Apparently Google uses nearly 30% o
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by azemetre 1y ago
Someone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663
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by azemetre 1y ago
ah not much at all, did too much selective reading on my end. Should have read the entire blog and not the quoted selection.
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by azemetre 1y ago
Definitely sounds very eerie. Luckily there are open source solutions that do just this with no AI integration: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
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by azemetre 1y ago
Thanks for this comment. You definitely crystalized the two thoughts well and succinctly. Definitely a skill I wish I had. :D
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by azemetre 1y ago
Gotcha. Definitely felt like I made that comment a little too rush, especially in the context of all the others as well.
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by azemetre 1y ago
What is your alternative to democracy then? I also don't buy that groups don't make better decisions than individuals. We know that diversity of thought and opinion is one way to make better decisions in groups compared to individ
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by azemetre 1y ago
I think I'm more confused. Was trying to convey the idea that wealth doesn't have to limited to the idea of money and value. Many intangible things can provide wealth too. I should probably read more books before commenting on thi
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by azemetre 1y ago
Why would this be worse than the current situation of private actors accountable to no one controlling this technology? It's not like I can convince Zuckerberg to change his ways. At least with a democratic government I have means to t
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by azemetre 1y ago
This isn't related to what I was commenting on where the other poster came across as not seeing government by the governed as having economic worth.
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by azemetre 1y ago
This doesn't pass the sniff test, governments generate wealth all the time. Public education, public healthcare, public research, public housing. These are all programs that generate an enormous amount of wealth and allow citizens to f
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by azemetre 1y ago
I don't disagree, but think of the pressures a judge has as an individual as well. Pressures from the legal community, the electorate, and being seen as impartial. There is a wisdom of the crowd, and that wisdom comes in believing that
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by azemetre 1y ago
I mean it totally depends what your views on democracy are. Juries are one of the few, likely only, practices taken from Ancient Athenian democracy which was truly led by the people. The fact that juries still work this way is a testament t
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by azemetre 1y ago
Sounds like a great system that benefits from having lots of money. IDK how such a thing can last in rural areas where there may be one single MRI machine to use in a 100 mile radius.
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by azemetre 1y ago
Which is easier to build resilient systems for: the one where you have a few dozen extra scalpels in a storage closet or the one that requirements offsite backups, separate generators, constant maintenance? The premise is absolutely not the
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by azemetre 1y ago
What was it before react? I do remember it being much faster.
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by azemetre 1y ago
May I ask how you feel about editors like vim/neovim or emacs or helix? I find that the best editing experience is one you can easily customize to support your needs, for me that is neovim but for you it could be something outside of V
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by azemetre 1y ago
It's a weird way to talk about the destruction people livelihood's as inevitable. Like none of this is preordained, we can stop it or impede it.
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by azemetre 1y ago
I took their comment to mean that we could have given school children free lunch or implement universal childcare. Like actual useful things that would unlock tremendous economic value, but instead I was given the lying machine and told to
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by azemetre 1y ago
You don't see an institution that established useful norms persisting for lifetimes as one worth preserving and emulating? I do. Medieval guilds are another equivalent but they could not deal with the industrial revolution or coloniali
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by azemetre 1y ago
The Philadelphia BAR Association was established in ~1800. I doubt the profession of law is going to disappear anytime soon, and lawyers have done a good job building their profession all things considered. Imagine if the only way you could
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by azemetre 1y ago
I do think this is a good approach for many open source projects. Always thought neovim should do something like this. How to recreate the base of neovim, or how to recreate popular plugins with minimal lua code. Got to wonder how more sust
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by azemetre 1y ago
Having a plan for several hundred years is possible and we've seen such things happen in other facets of life. We as humans are clearly capable of building robust durable social organizations, religion and civics both being testaments.
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by azemetre 1y ago
It's good, but this also assume that the people taking care of this product in the future (which may not even born right now) will hold the same attitudes. How do we plan to make sure the lessons we've learned during development n
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by azemetre 1y ago
Does SQLite talk about how they plan to exist beyond 2050 across multiple lifetimes? Not trying to be chide but it seems like with such a young industry we need better social tools to make sure this effort is preserved for future devs. Chur
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by azemetre 1y ago
No, the true intent is to curtail big tech. Let's not get lost in the weeds, the law specifically targets certain companies that have proven to be harmful toward society. Social media that is not harmful is still perfectly legal and al
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by azemetre 1y ago
It is when they're personalized ads, which is what gets banned under Australia's social media ban for teens.
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by azemetre 1y ago
Putting YouTube in the social media ban also removes personalized ads for teenagers. Personalized ad buys are very profitable for companies like Google and Meta. Hurting their ability to make money would only be a net positive for humanity.

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