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by connorgutman 3y ago
Disclaimer: I am a die-hard Gentoo fan. The appeal of Gentoo is not compiling everything from source, it's having the freedom to install anything you want on nearly any hardware all with stellar documentation and minimal roadblocks. Wa
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by connorgutman 3y ago
You’re not alone! I run Gentoo on all my devices. GPD Win 4, Pixelbook with coreboot, my NAS, and a VPS. Why (IMO)? 1. Best documentation I have ever used. 2. Infinite amount of customization. Your system can be as minimalist or maximalist
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by connorgutman 3y ago
Honestly, this is a very privileged take based upon false assumptions. As someone who doesn't have disposable income ~90% of the books I pirate I would have never read otherwise. I'm not depriving the creators of income because I
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by connorgutman 3y ago
It's basically effortless to implement such changes and helps foster a more inclusive and educated online community. Why can't we aim to right all wrongs? Just because there's more pressing issues doesn't mean we can&#x2
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by connorgutman 3y ago
Up in Africa (Morocco).
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by connorgutman 3y ago
What would you rather have us measure a mass-extinction event in, "sad puppies per second?" This shit is life-and-death. I'm sorry that reality offends you.
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by connorgutman 3y ago
"If you believe that anthropogenic climate change is going to be a global disaster, you should probably reasonably assume that some country in the world is going to allocate serious resources to mitigating it." Not when mitigating
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by connorgutman 3y ago
Climate change is a result of overpopulation and overconsumption, though. It's right there in the name. The climate is changing as a result of anthropogenic activity. I fail to see how eco-fascism affects the outcome here, if we do n
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by connorgutman 3y ago
Must our entire species (and countless others) all die together because degrowth is unfair? Those are the only two scientific options at hand.
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by connorgutman 3y ago
Yes, but more specifically, all technological progress since the industrialized revolution. Prior to that, we at least had a reasonable credit limit in the form of a fixed Nitrogen cycle. Advancements in pre-industrial technology primarily
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by connorgutman 3y ago
This is an emotional response and not a scientific one. The Haber–Bosch process was the biological equivalent of a deferred-interest loan. It gave us enough food to scale from 2 billion to 8, but now the planet is coming to collect its dues
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Testing YakGPT right now, excellent work! I would recommend adding some screenshots to the GitHub README so that people can get an idea of how it looks before entering their API key.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
I'm trying to make the term AGC or "Artificial General Competence" stick. Perhaps this makes me a huge arrogant asshole, but I would argue that most humans are not even competent, let alone intelligent. GPT-4, in my mind, has
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by connorgutman 4y ago
5,300 (in my opinion) qualifies as painting the Earth. If even one fails we’re talking about centuries or millennial of damage control.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
My entire point was that we should strive for neither. We could half per-capita energy consumption in the US and still consume twice as much as Brazil. If everyone in rich countries stopped being greedy we could easily meet global demands w
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Call me chicken little but my beef with nuclear has always been about the people not the science. If we paint the Earth with reactors it’s a statistical likelihood that through corruption or incompetence someone will screw up. We can’t even
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Unfortunately, here in AR-15 land that's considered dirty communism.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
What privilege you must enjoy to have such fucking stupid "ethics" lmao. You wouldn't last a day in my shoes. Money only gets you so far in life, kindness and mutual aid goes a lot further.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
That is a wildly skewed outlook. The per-capita income in America is $35,000 ( https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255221 ). Household income, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, includes
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by connorgutman 4y ago
I am absolutely genuine, and I think you do not understand the average American. The rest of the world may dream about our wages but it's still putting lipstick on a pig. Most the people I know can't even feed their families right
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by connorgutman 4y ago
I appreciate your sentiment, and trust me I really do want to support people like your friend, but no I literally do not have any money for recreational activities (and if I did I would buy a videogame or boardgame because it would last lon
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by connorgutman 4y ago
IMO (having worked at a public library) the vast majority of inventory is donated second-hand books.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
It goes back to opportunity though. Most people who pirate books don't have the income or ability to purchase them new. The scale is irrelevant if the per-user profit opportunity is 0. The only thing that changes is more people read an
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by connorgutman 4y ago
That's a logical race to the bottom that makes me think you have never checked out a book from a US library. If you were to calculate how much an author makes from their book being in libraries it's miniscule. For starters most li
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by connorgutman 4y ago
It was purchased a single time, just like the original e-book that you pirate.
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by connorgutman 4y ago
It's very simple actually. You (and most of HN) live in a tech industry bubble. Living wages in the U.S are terrible and disposable income is non-existent. I work a 9-5 just like everyone else but when it comes down to it I don't
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Ah yes, the almighty Fed which knew exactly what to do in 2020, 2008, 2001, 1990, 1987...
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Posted this in response to another comment but: While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that peopl
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by connorgutman 4y ago
Amazing thread. Lost it at "YOUR CALENDAR IS BASED ON A RELIGIOUS LEADER THAT NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN?"
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by connorgutman 4y ago
While the Julian calendar was clearly more secular, The motivation for the adjustments in the Gregorian calendar was to re-align Easter to a historically accurate date and to ensure that people around the world were celebrating it at the sa

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