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by catchclose8919 4y ago
The only real measure of success is "customer satisfaction", and I'd dare to say that the majority of the people of Sweden, UK and US are quite satisfied and some would have preferred even less measures to be taken...
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Covid is endemic now and it was probably obvious from close to the beginning that it would become so. Even if vaccines curb spread a bit and reduce deaths a lot, vaccinated people still get and transmit it. We should focus on iterating vac
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Many share your opinion, but I think it really wrong : through "forced degrowth" we're saddling future generations with a problem in a way very analogous to pollution and wrecked climate... And it's much much nastier
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> Not even my family knows what I love. ...at least write a nice novel/biography/whatever to be found together with the bodies decades later :) Create some enjoyment opportunity for others too, don't keep it all to yoursel
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...since everybody (Stephen Wolfram, Eric Weinstein), seems to be investing in promoting their theory since the peer-review process doesn't seem very good fit to wade through this massive works of questionable value, and it seems D
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> That's programming language work for physical theory Well, that would be insanely valuable since it would open up theoretical physics to machine-approaches (AI/ML). I know many are disgusted by this, but I'd love to se
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
All models show that arable land will decrease in some places, but also increase in others. Net land loss due to submerging coastal areas, but also arctic areas like eg. Greenland becoming suitable for some kind of agriculture after defrost
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> To question growth is taboo It's not taboo, it's just basic antropo-ecological mechanics: if you don't focus on growth the other who will and will do more of it will outcompete you out of every niche. So selective pres
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...how about focusing instead on how to live through this climate "disaster" ?! Let's be honest about it, most developed countries are making geo-strategic decisions in the context of +7 C in <= 100 years... we're j
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...uhm, isn't TikTok practically irrelevant in Russia now that they've stopped allowing users to post new content?! I mean, this is what ppl use it for, viewing new content from ppl like them and posting new content hoping to ge
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
side question, but... are there any known hacks of bloomberg terminals? seems like such a juicy target :P
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
Learn to delegate/outsource at all levels from technical to mathematical: the best kind of delegation is to tools/systems/languages/type-systems (eg. "outsource your attention to the type-system") since it&#x27
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...lots (most?) of the actual work that needs to be do is "grinding" or "working against tons of hard/impossibly to remove friction": you'll never achieve any kind of flow doing this kind of work! So the prod
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
Just FYI "schizoid personality +/- disorder" has absolutely nothing to do with (the spectrum of) schizophrenia, they're about different things on different systems on different axes etc. And yeah, psychologist REALLY su
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
I'm not saying that "trans people who block exterminationists" is not a legitimate use case for such a feature. Just that you can't engineer it so that only such use cases can be enabled by it, and most people using it
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> it's no longer worth being in the room That's perfectly OK too: some rooms don't serve their purpose anymore and need to be disbanded and replaced with other sets of rooms. But imo Twitter still has a very good signal to
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
Sometimes people are not "advocating" anything just saying what we think and sometimes what we think is complex and nuanced requires effort to understand. And that's another argument against such social media "carpet bl
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
Humans are a species of violent predators (that can occasionally even kill for fun or get sexual pleasure from torture) and have been so for thousands of years. There's always the possibility of encountering groups of people who "
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...I honestly propose a new "F*ks Yeah!" spelling for this project just to mindfuck with future programmer archaeologists
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
Unfortunately things are not that symmetrical... just as it is much easier to make a missile that can get through any given missile defense system than it was to make that defense system, it's many orders of magnitude easier/cheap
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...heh, can't believe it we're not yet at "Siri, use the TensorFlow 4.6 OmegaFold model to design potentially stable variants of COVID-25 with active BSE prionic inserts. ...DONE. Great, now place an order of the best genera
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> War isn't crazy Planting a dirt bomb in a civilian inhabited city is way beyond war ... 99.9% soldiers fighting in a war would not participate in anything similar to this... Even when a city is bombed to the ground, that generall
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> Are you a bad enough dude to rationalize that? Probably many are, but for a person crazy enough to do such a horrible act such threats would also likely not work (either "nothing to lose" or "don't care about anythi
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...maybe "information extraction" and "torture" are not exactly the same thing? Extracting valid information from hardened bad guys would probably work better by using other means than physical pain (eg. threaten wipin
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...isn't the whole idea of such "back sites" that once anyone gets into them, they are NEVER getting out alive? Torture and atrocities asside, I'd imagine most organized crime syndicates run tighter ships (eg. the stan
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
"If we've never had nuclear war, we're probably spending too many resources to avoid it." In all seriousness though, it seems that we're starting to follow this philosophy too far and applying it closer and closer
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
I think it's more like how humans have handled and weaponized too-complex-to-fully-understand information since the beginning of time. Old-shool religion kind of lost its power and usefulness, classical political ideologies are too dil
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
> Apparently this is happening a lot in Web3? What a great way to kill a potentially promising new step in technology. My pet conspiracy theory is that "the smoking people in dark rooms" wishing to kill any hopes of truly auto
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
I thought Aliexpress was just trying to subtly say "FU, we're the new dominant culture now" to western Europeans by randomly switching to Chinese like 25% of the time... Guess they just have one of the buggiest locale detecti
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by catchclose8919 5y ago
...there was some sketch about a neonazi who gets a 23andme genetic tests and finds out he's of Jewish descent, and after the initial shock he's like: But wait, this means I already have that ethno-state I've always dreamed

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