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by creato 5y ago
Conspicuously absent is a comparison with fossil fuel power, which is 15-30x more CO2 per kWh than nuclear ( https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 ).
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by creato 5y ago
I think affiliate links are positive for Amazon, because they crowdsource aggressive sales and marketing, but are negative for Google (and everyone else). I think if Google could somehow ban affiliate links, they would.
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by creato 5y ago
I probably do look like a terrorist somewhere. The problem isn't identifying that person and associating them with me, the problem is treating that information as significant, and that's on the FBI (in your hypothetical scenario).
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by creato 5y ago
I don't think that is true. Scraping Facebook and the like has already been litigated several times. I can't find the outcome of those cases, but jail is definitely not a possibility.
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by creato 5y ago
> We're pretty skeptical here I'd say more precisely that we're blindly cynical, and that makes us pretty vulnerable to a certain kind of misinformation. When I'm bored, I pay attention to the 'new' posts. T
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by creato 5y ago
A shallow depth of field isn't always what you want though. Sometimes a shallow depth of field is good, sometimes it isn't.
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by creato 5y ago
> It’s true whether or not acknowledging it makes you uncomfortable. I judge most people's competence long before I am aware of their cis or straight status, and often age as well.
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by creato 5y ago
The "hard requirement" is just multi-frame noise reduction, which has been around for a lot longer than the AI/ML hype wave, and has always had a risk of producing similar artifacts to this one.
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by creato 5y ago
If gas is used for both heating and electricity production, or share any other fuel source, the prices of electricity and heating will still be related.
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by creato 5y ago
Radio Free Asia/Liberty/etc. don't pretend to be someone else while they are broadcasting.
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by creato 5y ago
Sounds like the test measures proficiency in math then. A math proficiency test if you will.
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by creato 5y ago
The TI89 is a ridiculous outlier in terms of capability to compute resources though. Every other piece of software I can think of is a pathetic joke in comparison.
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by creato 5y ago
If it were any other country, he probably wouldn't have felt the need to lie about it in the first place.
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by creato 5y ago
There is too much noise in this data to conclude anything. When I google denmark covid cases and hospitalizations, the trend is increasing for both around the same time. However, the ratio between hospitalization trends and infection trends
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by creato 5y ago
I don't see why Tesla should do this when plenty of other safety critical software (cruise control, autopilot from actual planes, etc.) doesn't do this. I also think public review of this kind of code is likely to generate a whole
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by creato 5y ago
What do you think is lacking in the responses happening right now that suggests governments are being caught off guard? I might agree the response might seem lacking, but I don't really know what else should be done.
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by creato 5y ago
The Roosevelts on lynching: > Eleanor Roosevelt, however, lent the NAACP her open support and consulted regularly with Walter White about strategies in the Capital. She urged her husband and his White House advisers to back the cause, b
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by creato 5y ago
... after a tornado. In case you didn't want to click through and were wondering why.
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by creato 5y ago
Can you think of any virus that caused hospitals around the world to be overwhelmed with patients, compromising their ability to treat normal ailments?
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by creato 5y ago
There are more people now, and more people means pushing into more marginal areas. And, I'm sure people built roads that sank and eroded in the past too, they just aren't around any more. Personally, I care a lot more about hill
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by creato 5y ago
> Lots of drivers don't understand this. Not sure I believe this. Obviously it's a fuzzy statement but I don't think I've ever once in my life seen someone blatantly ignore oncoming traffic due to having an unprotecte
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by creato 5y ago
> Go back, pre-internet, and Bell Telephone surely had a sophisticated and expensive tech-support, customer-support department. They managed. Those services were a lot more expensive to their users as well. If everyone paid $xx/mo t
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by creato 5y ago
Plenty of pandemics have come and gone, this one will pass too, and global technology sharing or not will probably have a negligible impact on that timeline. How many times have we seen a region or country held up as a model for success for
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by creato 5y ago
I think in general, the gap between what regulations say and what people will do anyways will be small (as long as the regulations are more strict than "default" behavior). At the beginning of the pandemic, where I was, people mos
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by creato 5y ago
I agree he could have used some other spring, but I don't think he could have used a weight. The acceleration of springs/rubber is potentially much greater than a weight (at least one starting at rest).
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by creato 5y ago
> the CLR runtime looks frankly minor league when compared to the JVM. This is comically backwards from my experience. I often see near-native optimized performance on C#/CLR, where I see similar code (SIMD friendly loops) literally
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by creato 5y ago
I’m sure that’s why this person posted this snippet. wchar_t is also more than one byte, so the buffer is at most half as big as the code appears to expect.
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by creato 5y ago
In hindsight, I can see this quote is generating a lot of discussion about the content reporting, but I intended to focus the latter part of the sentence, which I thought really highlights the ridiculousness of social media.
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by creato 5y ago
I greatly enjoyed this sentence: > The one mystery we weren’t able to figure out is why any sane person working at Facebook would feel comfortable publishing a content report that admitted that the most viral publisher on its platform th
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by creato 5y ago
I agree that maybe allowing market downturns to occur is probably a good thing. That said, an equally reasonable interpretation of your observation is that maybe inequality is not itself a problem. More inequality doesn't necessarily m

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