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by danans 6mo ago
> You don't get asphalt without bitumen and you don't get bitumen save as a byproduct of a massive amount of fossil fuels being pulled up There are alternatives to virgin bitumen for binding asphalt, like recycled asphalt [1],
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by danans 6mo ago
> solar asphalt is hard to imagine with subsidies Arguably asphalt is exactly the sort of application we should be using petroleum for - keeping it sequestered in earth instead of burning it.
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by danans 6mo ago
> American solar installer companies do seem to charge way more than European or British ones One of the reasons for this is that in many parts of the US, solar has sadly been market segmented as a luxury product, just like other high e
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by danans 6mo ago
> You boss is a living being too, and he is working for the company just like you are, even if his status is different Your boss is your coworker. The corporate entity is not
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by danans 6mo ago
> truly wild and untouched by man. In the US you can find truly wild places, but it is pretty hard to find places untouched by man. Humans have been here for at least 15000 years, and from the very beginning were having huge impacts on
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by danans 6mo ago
> Already in the 5th century BC, Herodotus reports about the ‘Hyperboreans’ (Folks from above the North Wind), and how they regularly visited the island of Delos Heh, some things never change.
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by danans 6mo ago
> Can you think of a mass labor displacement that resulted in an overall erosion of living standards? I cannot. The mass evictions of the Scottish Highlands [1] in which peasants were driven at the point of bayonets to the lowland city s
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by danans 6mo ago
> This is a fabulation, right. What kind of POS parent would instill self-worth on money and career into their kids? They are not POS, they're trapped in systems and perspectives that push them to do this. Often they are the same
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by danans 6mo ago
> their voters prioritize making people they don't like suffer over their own comfort. > That probably doesn't seem rational but remember loads of these people think the Bible is a true story. Those are the (sizeable) subset
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> Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it". Yeah because it makes perfect sense to them, just like it doesn't confuse us that the pronoun "them" in English can refer to either a singular non-gender-specified i
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by danans 6mo ago
> Doing this to a work computer seem a bit questionable from the ethical standpoint. "Ethical standpoint" seems like the wrong choice of words. I think you mean "equipment ownership standpoint.". Ethical implies a se
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by danans 6mo ago
> If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please? > We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion. German has a relativel
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by danans 6mo ago
You would associate it with punctuality if you had experienced the timeliness of long distance trains in the US.
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by danans 6mo ago
> One third of the voters sat the 2024 election out Not voting in an election doesn't mean you didn't participate in its outcome, especially if you normally vote but choose to sit out an election.
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by danans 6mo ago
> > The US threatened to obliterate a country and people > So the same thing Iran has been chating for decades That indicates that the US has become more like Iran than Iran has become like the US. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) t
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by danans 6mo ago
Stock markets move with storytelling, not facts.
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by danans 6mo ago
> How does anyone just open a strait that has mines in it in 2 weeks? The strait has been open for weeks for friendly countries' ships that pay Iran $2M per passage through their "toll booth", an unmined route through Iran
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by danans 6mo ago
> Now I'm 20% in agreement (they definitely still have interesting thoughts) and 80% absolutely disgusted (with both, but particularly Musk). > So I genuinely think they changed in this regard Everyone has changed. You, me, Musk,
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by danans 6mo ago
At a federal level the US is moving backwards. But at a local and personal level, for the first time in generation, a huge number are waking up to the direct consequences of their dependency on the global oil markets and it's impacts
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by danans 6mo ago
> The US should simply ban energy exporting Why would an oil company go through the trouble (and expense) of oil exploration and extraction if they don't have the right to sell it to the highest bidder anywhere in the world?
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by danans 7mo ago
> we are already mostly energy independent The US is the largest oil producer, but also still one of the largest oil importers, and oil prices are set by a global market, so the phrase "energy independent" is at best an account
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by danans 7mo ago
> In strong-bundle occupations… AI improves performance inside the job, but does not remove the human from the bundle," the authors argue. At least in software engineering, AI can't replace the accountability that only humans c
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by danans 7mo ago
> The best anyone can hope for is a free market, with everything properly priced. But for decades, the American market has not been free. It’s used purposefully added friction to exploit a time asymmetry between the business and you. A f
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by danans 7mo ago
> You don't think capitalists are able to generate profit off of these LLMs currently? Not sure where you are reading that. I said that they are able to be far more human-efficient because of LLMs, implying they are able to reduce
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by danans 7mo ago
I ran BeOS on both the dual PowerPC desktop and later on an x86 laptop. Thanks to its posix-ish environment, I was able to do all my upper division CS projects on it. Others who had windows or macs had to "telnet" into a remote U
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by danans 7mo ago
> So, how many years until we'll see results, then? -0.75 years. Software development output (features, bugs, products) - especially at smaller companies like startups - has already accelerated significantly, while software developm
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by danans 7mo ago
> Anyone who has been doing this professionally will tell you that the "last step" is what takes the majority of time and effort. That's true, but even the "last step" is being accelerated. The 10% that takes 90
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by danans 7mo ago
> Voted for what? More pollution, more expensive gas, more expensive electricity?? Yes, but the hope is that the downside happens to the people you don't like, and you somehow only get the upside.
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> Carmakers releasing test cars to markets and then destroying them was a common practice - GM did the same with their hydrogen cars, the famous turbine engine cars, and even large scale prototypes like the Aerovette. In many cases they
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by danans 7mo ago
> Your point about monopoly is off the mark, though – in every high-trust society it's the government that people need to trust, because it's the ultimate enforcer of trust in any other institutions. I'm not sure where the

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