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UK laser weapon could be sent to Ukraine war zone(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by chimprich 2y ago|2 comments
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by chimprich 3y ago
It's not just a question of individual research groups deciding to use a different tool. Even if you're conscientious enough to handle this issue, the automatic conversion could come and cause you problems from anyone you share da
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by chimprich 3y ago
Once a page has "This page was intentionally left blank" printed on it, it is no longer blank.
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> We will just have to deal with the consequences while we try to innovative our way out of this mess. We've already innovated our way out of this mess. We have all the technology available now to decarbonise the economy (well, most
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by chimprich 3y ago
You might find it hard to believe, but it's significantly worse in the UK. We have significantly fewer doctors, nurses, hospital beds per capita, and pay less into healthcare. Long term sick unable to work numbers have increased by a t
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by chimprich 3y ago
I agree generally, though it's not simple to compare countries. It's easier to compare UK history. It seems clear that we're paying more tax for significantly worse services compared to a decade ago.
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by chimprich 3y ago
Most people in most countries don't see the value in tax - if you read any forum, people want to pay less tax and have better public services, which isn't really very achievable. Some people would prefer to follow a US kind of mod
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> So IMHO this restriction is an attempt at limiting the stock people have at home Correct. But this isn't a bad thing - it means people are less likely to have a large supply of dangerous pills at hand if they get a sudden urge to
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by chimprich 3y ago
> However what is seemingly _never_ studied is how to finance such an operation You haven't understood the concept of UBI. It doesn't have to be "financed". It's a different way of assigning tax and benefits. E.g
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by chimprich 3y ago
> So does Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, and Dreamhost. Those are all very different things. Only Facebook is somewhat similar in that it has an algorithm that surfaces emotionally engaging content. > I’m not going to
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by chimprich 3y ago
See also some rather startling graphs in this FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12...
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> I ditched emacs close to 20 years ago (for jEdit, later Sublime and finally IntelliJ) and have never regretted it in the slightest. In that time I've carried on using Emacs, and have regretted it several times ;) However, Emacs h
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> "taxing kerosine on international flights", "charge VAT for flights" This is problematic. The more you tax flying, the more you make it only a rich person's activity. Why only international flights? Domestic fl
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> To remove at most 2% of greenhouse gas emissions? The problem with this argument is that everything is a small percentage contribution if you break it down enough. At the moment some UK politicians are saying the UK shouldn't be c
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I'm not too impressed with these examples. I mean it's impressive that it can build code, but it's a very long way off building entire games that you'd want to play. The human still has to provide the creative input - th
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by chimprich 3y ago
> unsustainable I got the impression all the major streaming players made significant profits and grew substantially over the past decade. Does "unsustainable" just mean they weren't making as much cash as they wanted to?
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by chimprich 3y ago
That's because it is a SPOF. However, a password manager seems to me the best compromise along the security / convenience axes. I memorise good passwords for a handful of my most critical stuff (and have MFA). They don't go i
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by chimprich 3y ago
One feature I wish Google calendar had is "weekend" view; a condensed view of upcoming weekends, hiding weekdays. You can hide weekends, but in my personal account planning weekends is more important to me than planning weekdays.
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by chimprich 3y ago
> We have evolved to eat meat We evolved as opportunists and generalists. Humans are capable of taking nutrition from plants or animals. > and only evolved to eat plants to supplement some small things I believe this is backwards. The
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> What was the model of this shit? Oh it has NOTHING on the front because serial numbers are gauche. I'd really like some kind of standard for model IDs. Maybe something like a domain name and a model number. It would also be good i
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by chimprich 3y ago
> (I am not antivax, I am just too lazy to get it) Startup idea - vaccine delivery service. Pay a fee or subscription and someone comes to your house or workplace and jabs you with flu vaccine plus any travel shots required.
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Why would a human be taking the job of the general-purpose maintenance robot (which maintain each other, before you ask)?
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Would we still have landlords in a post-scarcity future? Surely if all wealth is being generated by AIs, it's the end of capitalism. Even if we introduced UBI today, this doesn't make much sense. It wouldn't mean everyone jus
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> a lot of important tasks (like maintaining the floor cleaning equipment in the robot-tractor tyre factory) just really isnt that interesting but still needs to be done In a heavily AI-oriented future, why wouldn't that be done by
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> You got the shot 5 times, still caught it, and you call it a vaccine... After almost 4 years of this virus, 3 years of covid vaccines, a presumably basic level of biological education, the baseline level of curiosity that I'd have
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> To combat this, they have increased taxation, either through freezing slabs or moving down tax slabs. This penalises people in high wage professions and it leads to loss of competitiveness. I'm a relatively well paid software eng
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No point. You're not going to read it.
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No, I don't want people to trust my anecdata. I want people to trust the considerable body of peer reviewed science that show the opposite to the drivel the parent poster was spouting.
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Please don't push this anti-scientific bullshit here based on your anecdata. Millions of people died from covid; the vast majority weren't all neglected in nursing homes. I personally knew someone in their 40s who died and two oth
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by chimprich 3y ago
Boycotts don't work and it's hopelessly idealistic to think they do. What happens if you boycott your closest petrol station, spend extra cash, time and CO2 to reach the next closest one? You've penalised yourself, and the en

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