bronzeage

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by bronzeage 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but that agricultural impact happens for vegetarian food as well? And lab grown meat also requires the same agricultural costs, there doesn't exist some magic chemistry that creates food from raw materials
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by bronzeage 5y ago
Most estimates of greenhouse gas emissions are misleading. Cows might emit methane and co2, but that carbon came from their food, and that carbon in their food was captured from the air, so it's actually a cycle without net increase in
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by bronzeage 5y ago
It is open source. You can go ahead and download the human genome. You just can't run it because of a lack of efficient simulation, and unlike human-created code the code is both obfuscated and lacks clear separation of intents.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
There are no counterpoints because every turing complete simulation can't be made significantly more efficient. Any improvement would contradict the fact complexity classes classes strictly contain but aren't equal to each other.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
These kind of arguments forget that it would probably take more space and time to simulate a given space and time, simulations are less effective than the thing they simulate. So in order to simulate Earth we'd need much more space tha
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by bronzeage 6y ago
When science is weaponized by politicians and when the media is lying about everything intentionally, and being concentrated by very few conglomerates, it isn't anti-science as much as it is anti-media. Just because the media screams &
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Except you're wrong and all those things consume far less power than bitcoin. That's the entire point.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Stocks might fall in inflationary circumstances, depending on many things such as how much of the companies revenue can inflate - and most times, the answer is worse than inflation. Bonds might not give you a yield exceeding the inflation,
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I'm waiting patiently for the whole Tether printing scheme to fall and crush to finally purchase Bitcoin / Ether. However I'm not viewing them as inflation hedges so long as Bitfinex / etc. are allowed to continue with t
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Add to that the fact that weimar republic inflation of the 1920s was a factor behind the rise of nationalism, and every country is printing money right now at unprecedented rates.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I don't think it'll be known. I bet what you described already happens and yet it attracts far less attention than the end to end encryption shenanigans. I also think WhatsApp messages backup is literally a backdoor to bypass the
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Most operating systems already have a "front door" keys in the form of automatic updates certificates. Android, windows, ios, even apt get, all base their security around certificates which, if stolen, can by design lead to runnin
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Other democratic countries are looking at the US elections with confusion. Voting machines are by design undemocratic even if they act exactly as advertised. They allow centralization of vote counting, they are opaque mechanism and single p
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes presenting yourself as a "dark-traits" individual with no moral compass and no remorse is the correct action, even when you do have an internal moral compass that would stop you. In the fa
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by bronzeage 6y ago
We've already had the plague this year, bring on the intelligent monkeys... Where do I buy tickets to an Elon Musk rocket now?
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Sagemath with %display latex does practically the same thing, and it's much more powerful symbolic execution engine. Works with matrices too.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Which is exactly why feeding all your input into a trash input parsing function by default is a horrible idea. If dates handling was just 1 extra button you click, the problem wouldn't exist. Overzealous default behavior, the #1 sin of
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Honestly, Microsoft should fix Excel to stop corrupting data by default. This is 100% Microsoft's fault that an international organisation resorts to workaround renaming things because they needlessly parse and modify input in a defaul
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I think all gaming consoles are similar. It's actually because steam is something I use while consoles aren't that I didn't think about that.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I also argue that it's the heavy commissions which push nearly every App to an ad based model, or physical services Apps which don't charge anything. This in turn shifts more and more apps in the direction of invading our privacy
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by bronzeage 6y ago
The stock market is heavily regulated. Commodity markets are regulated. It's actually the slowness and corruption of the law makers that we're still without any regulations to virtual markets.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
App stores need heavy regulations. It's not only Apple but Google and even steam to a small extent. Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. This shouldn't have be
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by bronzeage 6y ago
This is reaching stupidity levels I never thought possible. This is coming from a code base where you can find the word fuck hundreds of times, as well as other curses. This is coming while Linus has probably directly personally attacked pe
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by bronzeage 6y ago
The brilliant engineers argument is pretty blind to the way these corporations might not make the most potential of some people. I know brilliant person which moved to work for Google because of the pay, and he was spending time there doing
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Only problem is that the whole software / tech company facade is what held the whole bubble going. You can't keep insane valuations when you're just a taxi company hiring cheap engineers to develop an app. There has been a gr
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by bronzeage 6y ago
They are paid between their value and what they are willing to work for. Where exactly in between depends on supply and demand. When demand is high, competition will drive the salary close to the value generated. When demand is low, cost cu
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Facebook aren't infallible. Nearly every social media went parabolic growth so far. It's inherent to social media. It growths while the network effect encourages people to talk about it and join it, it wanes when interest fades an
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Makes you wonder whether the smart thing to do is just make it convenient for the bots to get the info out so they won't ruin your data and waste your bandwidth. Can't fight them, join them. Can't really stop free information
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I bet that if they found out the opposite, that the current chirality is less prone to mutations from cosmic rays, we'll have an identical article which celebrates their finding, except that they would propose it's better to have
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Taking an educated guess here, that the miner of the block which moved that transaction must be related to the owner of that wallet. Nobody would otherwise accept such a low fee for a big transaction. Find the miner, you find the wallet own

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