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by danans 2y ago
> The more they smoke, the more the state gets. The state "gets" tobacco tax revenue to help pay for the burden of medical treatment for those with smoking related illnesses. Lung cancer isn't free to treat.
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by danans 2y ago
> Please explain to me, why individual sacrifice is not a solution to the problem Technological progress that leads to higher quality of life is a far better solution than individual sacrifice, not at the least because unlike individual
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by danans 2y ago
I also apologize for jumping to the conclusion that it wasn't a joke. Perhaps if we lived in a less edge-lord dominated tech media landscape, the comedy would be more easily discernible from reality!
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by danans 2y ago
Then the HN comment should have disclaimed it as such. I'm no Tesla FSD fan, but given the disregard Musk has demonstrated for safety, it's not cool to joke about things that could plausibly be true.
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by danans 2y ago
If it's a joke it's not funny, and speaks volumes about Tesla's attitude toward safety and accountability. If it's not a joke it seems like something that should be prevented by regulators. It would be no different than
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How Does Your (US) State Make Electricity?(nytimes.com)
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by danans 2y ago
> But "Google uses AI to..." is such a frustrating way to frame it! It's a product marketing article, not a technical article or research paper. The details of the type of models and optimizations they use is probably a t
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by danans 2y ago
A neighborhood in a major west coast city. Other places that come to mind include Ann Arbor MI, Burlington VT, Boulder CO. Like I said, none of these are cheap places to live relative to nearby areas.
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by danans 2y ago
> I know plenty of neighbors living in an urban area. I didn't say that urban areas are less neighbourly. I meant that the range of densities that are conducive to neighbourliness is a necessary, but insufficient condition. People o
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by danans 2y ago
> Cities used to be filled with tight knit communities in neighborhoods where everyone knew each other. Kids played outside and roamed around and no one cared There are many neighborhoods in cities and towns in the US where this is still
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by danans 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I wasn't discussing manufactured homes at all, but rather the benefits of simple building geometries.
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by danans 2y ago
> > and quite attractive these days. > [citation needed] "Attractive" is my opinion, not a fact to be cited, but by all means, please form your own: https://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-us/products&
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by danans 2y ago
> you aren't opting for the linoleum floors Linoleum floors are amazingly durable and water resistant (some were recovered intact from the Titanic), made from a renewable source (linseed oil), and quite attractive these days. Perhap
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by danans 2y ago
> Components like exterior walls and roofs were designed to have as simple shapes as possible (no complex hips or wall jogs), and This is a traditional and eminently sensible approach that has been lost in the "McMansion" era.
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by danans 2y ago
> I've always found this branding a bit weird, but I'm weird, as well, so there's that. Perhaps it's because it's using a culinary term for a non culinary use. The problem is that they can't use the term &q
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by danans 2y ago
> Do fuel cells deliver enough instantaneous power that batteries do, for the weight of all the associated equipment? I don't know about planes, but fuel cell cars have batteries, although smaller ones that EVs, which are actually u
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by danans 2y ago
> That also means you can't add a kernel driver for useful hardware, either. That limits the usefulness of ChromeOS devices for general purpose tasks. It's target market isn't niche hardware but rather the plethora of use
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by danans 2y ago
> ChromeOS is just Linux, isn't it? It's going to suffer from the same problem as NT re: a buggy kernel mode driver tanking the entire OS. ChromeOS is not just Linux. It uses the Linux kernel and several subsystems (while es
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by danans 2y ago
I agree that monoculture is an issue that makes events like this more probable, regardless of OS. That said, a third party being able to add/update a kernel driver ignores (even if out of business necessity) best practices for OS archi
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by danans 2y ago
> Swap Chromebooks for PCs and you still have the problem-- how do you handle centralized management of that "fleet"? Simplicity (and hence low cost) of fleet management, OS boot-verification, no third-party kernel updates, and
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by danans 2y ago
It's pretty random that an arbitrary number of reboots up to 15 times fixes the issue. That sounds like there is either: - some kind of upstream issue with deploying a fix (so most of the reboots are effectively no-ops relative to the
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by danans 2y ago
In any multi-process software (of which Chrome is on the more complex end of the spectrum), there are dozens if not hundreds of different IPC message types sent between different components of the software. To prompt the user for every typ
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by danans 2y ago
> Well, the underperforming schools also have worse teachers, and can be dangerous. I think that falls under my use of the phrase "social benefit".
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by danans 2y ago
They definitely have to attach to the grid in a different way than a regular house or business does. If you look nearby any DC fast charger you will usually see a number of heavy duty electrical cabinets containing the electrical equipment
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by danans 2y ago
Now imagine combining both video game streaming and generative AI to create generated video game streams. Given the relative simplicity of video game worlds, it should be far easier to generate those than than photorealistic video (i.e. De
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by danans 2y ago
The training of models seems less of an issue than what you do with them. IMO, the most problematic part is generating content in the style and voice of the original human creator of the copyrighted content. Unfortunately, this is also curr
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by danans 2y ago
> How many of the YouTube channels depend on fair use themselves? IANAL, but recording portions of copyrighted content or using excerpts thereof is covered under fair use. It is not yet known whether reproducing copyrighted content in su
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by danans 2y ago
Poetry is a dependency manager for python projects ( https://python-poetry.org/ ). A lockfile is a generic mechanism to serialize mutations to a resource, in this case, probably the file that stores the project's depend
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by danans 2y ago
> What about insulation? > I’m not even a layman, but shouldn’t the physics work the same? Or does the air flow from AC change the equation? Insulation works great in hot climates, but only when the building is also well air-sealed an
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by danans 2y ago
> What about parents? That would seem like a natural market for a product that could replace expensive private school tuition (or paying high property taxes in order to be in a good public school district) Quality of education is one fac

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