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by carapace 2y ago
Yes, and those are really cool and I want some. We might be able to somehow collect heat (with superconductors? I don't know) and beam it into space, but that still doesn't solve the problem. Please watch the Bartlett lecture, pl
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by carapace 2y ago
> you can have exponential growth in human energy consumption without exponentially heating the Earth by having the growth take place off-planet No. It doesn't matter, unless you postulate that the people left behind have zero popu
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by carapace 2y ago
Do you imagine we will box up our terrestrial waste heat and launch it into the sun? The portion people who leave the Earth do not matter, the fate of the portion who remain remains the same. See "Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sus
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by carapace 2y ago
I'm reminded of Pykrete: > Pykrete is a frozen ice composite, originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight). > Pykrete features unusual prope
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by carapace 2y ago
In re: this "NLP is pseudoscience" business, I've lost patience with it. First, I'm living proof of NLP's efficacy. Second, I don't go around suggesting homeopathy or astrology or pyramid power, okay? Like R
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by carapace 2y ago
> What is the real world benefit we will get in return? None. I've been using Python "in anger" for twenty years and the GIL has been a problem zero times. It seems to me that removing the GIL will only make for more dif
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by carapace 2y ago
(I keep mentioning this but no one seems to be picking up on it.) There is an algorithm that was developed in the late 80's in the context of therapy that could be used to align incentives and collectively agree on outcomes. The algor
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by carapace 2y ago
Open Source never made sense (to me. I'm a Free Software partisan.) > but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin. Open Source was a capitulation to capitalism.
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by carapace 2y ago
I don't want to write a whole big thing this morning but I feel it's important to point out that we already have all the solutions we need to integrate our economic systems with the global ecology. All the solutions were worked
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by carapace 2y ago
If Mother Nature wanted to roll us up as a failed experiment she could eliminate us overnight with one virus. Lighten up.
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by carapace 2y ago
"Of vices I am Gambling." ~Krishna, Gita
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by carapace 2y ago
Cheers! You're too kind. I thought I would get reamed for farting in church but it seems to have gone over well. See ya Space Cowboy
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by carapace 2y ago
"What is good?" or in other words "What are people for?" is a question that cannot be answered by intelligence no matter how great, because the complexity of the question is a function of the intelligence of the asking e
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The Mysterious Visit of Mr Babbage, by Bruce Sterling (2017)(bruces.medium.com)
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by carapace 2y ago
> A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc
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by carapace 2y ago
> programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say
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by carapace 2y ago
s/Direct/Directed/ (how embarrassing)
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by carapace 2y ago
> The spiritual/philosophical progress of humanity has stagnated. I can't agree. It doesn't make headlines or garner clicks but progress in spiritual/philosophical progress has accelerated greatly in the last five or
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by carapace 2y ago
There is a maintenance-free fusion generator in the sky so powerful that it can burn out your retinas from 150,000,000km away.
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by carapace 2y ago
> I wonder though what things look like with super high dimensions. Biology.
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by carapace 2y ago
I find it weird that a religious perspective on this issue totally ignores the existence of the Amish. As the rest of us die off from disinterest in raising children the Amish become the meek who inherit the Earth. > What will life be l
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by carapace 2y ago
What? You guys like war? Seriously though. Dynamite didn't do it, nuclear bombs didn't do it, but tiny precision bombs are going to work: just kill all the people who like to fight. QED
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by carapace 2y ago
> I can't help but wonder about its long-term consequences. War is over. The long-term consequences are that we use our words instead of exothermic reactions to reach livable compromises.
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by carapace 2y ago
That would explain the haircut.
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by carapace 2y ago
In English too. :) (The first "auto-" is self-moving as contrasted with the cart that needed an external motive (horse etc.), then the second "auto-" is self-directing with sensors and feedback systems forming a crude &
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by carapace 2y ago
Tell that to the folks living in the Amazon? They had their lives going for who knows how many thousands of years and then someone comes along and cuts down all the trees to make money. Science and capitalism have delivered technology and
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by carapace 2y ago
Even if Smil is a goober telling just-so stories for fun, it still makes sense to try to reduce pollution, and we can also spin up a new global industry to clean the sky.
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by carapace 2y ago
Thank you. :)
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by carapace 2y ago
That's great! It's probably why they haven't killed anybody yet.
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by carapace 2y ago
Like I said, I'm not a Forth person, but if there were any around to settle it I would bet you all those things have several implementations (I do know that many people have written OOP and OOP-like things in Forth.) > I mean the sa

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