cogman10

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by cogman10 6mo ago
Roasted coffee loses flavor after roasting. Chocolate requires various ingredients to make that changes the characteristics of the chocolate. It also, famously, doesn't ship well. Copper ingots, however, weigh less than copper ore and
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by cogman10 6mo ago
That's actually a bit wild that Chile isn't refining or smelting copper. Is it because there's not the energy capacity to run smelters? I thought Chili had a pretty abundant energy grid (mostly hydro as I recall).
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> triggering an end to the flow of capital and markets. Capital will still flow, it will just be between the people that already own things who are willing to trade. If the government doesn't take a more active role in the economy,
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by cogman10 6mo ago
The question is how to handle it and what do we do with society. Right now, seems like we are heading directly towards "hoover towns" [1]. The US government has abandoned any notion of protecting or providing for the citizenry. W
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> a luddite I am not I have to bring this up every time someone brings up luddites. I'm a Luddite. The Luddite movement was not "people scared of new technology". That's propaganda that's stuck around for far t
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by cogman10 6mo ago
People really hate AI because it's marketed in the worst ways possible for the general public. CEOs love to get up and say "Hey, we are firing 1000 people because of this awesome AI" [1] For people that like computers, AI is
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I don't have a problem with surveillance really. I have a problem with unaccountable flock surveillance which is selling my information to who knows what without my consent. I don't like the idea that Walmart can use flock data
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HIV has only really been known for ~40 years. And for at least 10 to 15 of those years research into treatment was limited and stigmatized as it was considered a "gay disease". The modern treatment regime was developed around 2010
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HIV specifically targets the immune system. There's no way to just treat the symptoms. The treatments we have now also decrease the risk of spread significantly. It's a bit like the chickenpox. Once infected, you always have chi
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Yeah. HIV is a good example of this. Without treatment, it is deadly pretty much 100% of the time. However, it takes a long time after the shut down of the immune system before a systematic infection takes over and kills you. That allowe
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by cogman10 6mo ago
I think what a SIMD library does, above all else, is get the programmer to write code in a way that can be directly translated into SIMD instructions. A big issue that compilers have to contend with is that they aren't allowed (unless
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by cogman10 6mo ago
It has basically 0 pedestrian or bike infrastructure (at least where I was at, Irving, was that way). You have to drive everywhere otherwise you are literally in the middle of the got dang road. The speed limits are also all high. They ge
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by cogman10 6mo ago
Left libertarians, while they exist, are definitely a minority opinion. But I'd say that they also don't have a good solution to this problem as it requires more centralized enforcement to really make a difference. A tribal counc
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Again, that's no sweet off my brow. It's not as if working with a datacenter in canada, mexico, or Ireland is all that different from one in the US. Especially when you start talking about what these are being used for, LLMs. T
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by cogman10 6mo ago
The problem you'll have in a libertarian framework is who can bring a claim against who for CO2 emissions and for how much? Like, let's say I have a slam dunk case that my $1000 tree died due to climate change. I have the receipt
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The other option is to not offer the tax breaks and if the company wants to build a data center, they also need to pay the taxes for it. If a state is dumb enough to offer tax breaks that's on them. There's also not "competi
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> (Most) libertarians still support addressing externalities. Not really. They support it in terms of individual responsibility and not as a government role. > The standard libertarian solution for something unproven would be "i
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Not to my understanding. Libertarian protections are from my understanding all about the quantifiable damages that were done by any given action. They don't usually go beyond that. That's why most libertarians would be in favor
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I'm in Idaho, so not such resource exists. It would have to be a federal agency that does the enforcement because our cops/prosecutors/lawmakers won't ever make something like that happen.
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Yeah, I'd HAPPILY report every single truck rolling coal around me if there was a place to report that information. Hell, I've seen a truck roll coal around cop cars and, obviously, nothing happened. This is just gross privacy int
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by cogman10 6mo ago
I've actually experienced this, but I don't know if it's related. In my case, installing linux on a laptop and while everything was fine, there was an unexplained network delay. What ultimately fixed it (and I really don&#x2
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Really gross. I have a gen 1 charger and it's dumb as bricks. Basically just a giant relay. I guess I could see why you might want to restrict who can use your charger, but I really prefer the "dumb as bricks" version I cur
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I get the feeling, and shooting for idiomatic on a rewrite is definitely wrong. That being said, "idiomatic" is more just saying "clean and familiar". It's using the right language features in the right places. For
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> Most fields will not produce well if you don't consider what was grown on it last year and in turn what you want to produce next year. I've never worked at a megacorp farm, but my observation is that the majority of farmers a
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One of the wild things about farming is that crop storage works a lot better than what you can do at home. They have it down to an exact science, the temperature, humidity, etc of the crop in question and how long it can be stored for. On
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I don't think it's ramping up [1]. Production is pretty static. And the chart you linked appears that exports for non-china countries is basically static. Were I to guess what's going on, but we'll see when the 2026 dat
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I expect other nations are still consuming US soybeans. China stopped because it was particularly negatively targeted by US tariff policy. But make no mistake, it has caused problems for farmers. The report from my small hometown farmers i
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Oh for sure. A story that gets told at the micron factory is that for a long time they'd experience chip failures at increased rates. During the night it was pretty good, but during the day these random failures would creep up. After
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Arguably, the PS2/3/4/5 proved that as did the various Nintendo platforms.
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It does help, but I have to wonder how many people are still working at glofo currently who are researching node shrinks. They stopped their research into the 7nm process in 2018 and all the indications are that they aren't really con

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