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by carapace 2y ago
From the abstract of the paper: > Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-b
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, the environmentalists are the problem here. /s Anyway, the simple obvious solution (after reduce, reuse, recycle) is molten salt oxidation. > Molten salt oxidation is a non-flame, thermal process that destroys all organic ma
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by carapace 2y ago
I don't trust people who don't know the difference between a flywheel and a positive feedback loop.
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by carapace 2y ago
> > There is no good reason to introduce confusing and intrinsically incorrect models. > Well, teaching is the usual reason, Introducing confusing and intrinsically incorrect models is the opposite of teaching. > "useful, p
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by carapace 2y ago
Gravity is one of the fundamental forces, there's no recursion in it's definition, indeed we don't "define" it we describe it. The actual description of gravity isn't hard to understand, it's just really
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by carapace 2y ago
"episode"? You're casually dismissing the Cultural Revolution to argue for non-interference. I don't think you're making the point you hope to make. Absolutely somebody should have intervened if possible to ha
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by carapace 2y ago
> Why though? It bothers me too, why? because it's circular reasoning: acceleration can't explain acceleration. > Would it help if the sheet were in a centrifuge? No, for the same reason. (You're imagining a tube-shape
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by carapace 2y ago
It's an ancient and likely irrevocable error, like "font" instead of "typeface" (no really, go look it up, we have all been saying "font" when the thing we're talking about is (well, was) "typefa
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by carapace 2y ago
Recommendation is a form of moderation?
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by carapace 2y ago
Measure your productivity by integrating over a longer period than one day. Conserve your health. Take "off days" seriously as a message that you need some TLC, and that will help prevent serious health issues.
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by carapace 2y ago
Moderation doesn't scale, it's NP-complete or worse. Massive social networks sans moderation cannot work and cannot be made to work. Social networks require that the moderation system is a super-set of the communication system
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by carapace 2y ago
This is completely wrong. Compilers are complex programs fraught with bugs. Modern microprocessors are hideously complex devices fraught with bugs. But at least we understand them in principle and practice. LLMs are nonsense generators,
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by carapace 2y ago
s/to/too/ damnit
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by carapace 2y ago
> No one knows which one is actually correct or used by the customers in practice. Automating BS is bad. > Thus, you could say there is no correct answer. I object to such fatalism. Kind of the whole point of computers is to find and
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by carapace 2y ago
> it exhibits the same resistance to radical novelty that it condemns You're talking about bio-mimetic systems that wouldn't arise for a generation, he was talking about "the discrete world of computing". There'
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by carapace 2y ago
Essentially what you're arguing for is the desirability of untrustworthy software. Typically people have insisted that it's too expensive to prove software correct, but as the machines and techniques improve proven-correct softwar
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by carapace 2y ago
I thought so to at first but no, this person is not wrong. The situation is FUBAR.
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by carapace 2y ago
In rural and suburban contexts handling manure and converting it to fertilizer is a solved problem: Eisenia foetida (& co.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicomposting and Vermicomposting Flush Toilets: > A
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by carapace 2y ago
It feels like we're (IT, hackers, et. al.) finally growing up.
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by carapace 2y ago
Inertia is not a concept, it's a name for the reason cars have seat belts, for why your blood goes into your fingers when you spin around with your arms outstretched. We don't really know what/why it is, but there's not
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by carapace 2y ago
My hope is that we (as a global society) re-learn to value honor and honesty. > The process of politicians debating and getting elected is going to have to be much more local. I'm no expert on government but that seems like it would
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by carapace 2y ago
> I wonder how politics can be transacted in such an environment. Codes and seals predate computers (by quite a bit.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_(cryptography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by carapace 2y ago
Ayuh, it's English, it doesn't have to make sense as long as it makes sense.
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by carapace 2y ago
You cared enough to write that shitty comment, eh? Once when I was a child I was at the zoo watching the chimpanzees and one of them reached behind itself, crapped right in it's own hand, and flung it at my head. It exploded on the gl
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by carapace 2y ago
Fewer than ten thousand new cases a day (for the USA). > "I think if we can get well below 10,000, I think that would be a level that I think would be acceptable to us to get back to a degree of normality," Fauci said. "Bu
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by carapace 2y ago
It sounds like you and your friends run a very nice online neighborhood, that's terrific and I don't mean to detract from that. I'm pointing out the enormous difference in bandwidth between online and in-person interaction.
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by carapace 2y ago
First of all the COVID pandemic is still going on, the idea that it's over is just wishful thinking backed by irresponsible media and governments. Even without the very real risk of contracting a dangerous disease that can cause long-t
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by carapace 2y ago
Not to fan the flames, but I feel it's important to point out that "someone who doesn't hold a quasi-religious reverence for natural ecosystems" is a reasonable scientific working definition of "evil". I'l
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by carapace 2y ago
Yes, but only by fools.
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by carapace 2y ago
Come for the hexagonal spreadsheet, stay for the Jankó keyboard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w

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