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by danbruc 3y ago
Good question, but I would ad hoc say no. In the case of a lottery people willingly gamble with some money they earned. In case of management salaries they just take a share of the money for which all the thousands of workers on the factory
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by danbruc 3y ago
I did not say that they did not work for their salaries.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Yes, there are reasons for differing salaries and they have important functions. But at some point those justifications stop to make sense and it is really just about exploiting your position to grab as much as you can for yourself.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Yes. If you work for 10 years and then just consume stuff for the rest of your life without lifting a finger, stuff for which other people work all day long to produce it while at the same time probably not enjoying a quality of life anywhe
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by danbruc 3y ago
Consuming without working for it is immoral, flying privat jets and traveling more is bad for the environment. Those are not reasons in favor of higher salaries.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Imagine a tiny economy with two people. There is one guy that produces everything humans need and he can produce one day worth of supplies in four hours. But to keep his business running he depends on a piece of software that the other guy
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by danbruc 3y ago
If the market works as intended, someone will replicate your app and sell it cheaper, the price should eventually converge to the costs. And you might not agree, but I find it morally questionable [1] to run a business that pays good money
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by danbruc 3y ago
Also known as selling something at an inflated price and hoping that no one will undercut you.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Tangent. I understand the appeal of a four hour work week but how can people take that seriously? You will either have to have a pretty unappealing standard of living or you will have to exploit other people. If you only work four hours per
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by danbruc 3y ago
1.7 Wh is 1,000 W for 6 seconds, I really hope that this is enough to unlock a car.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I can imagine two ways. First, on the very bottom, if you place the mug into a puddle of coffee, then no coffee will wet the bottom of the mug. Second, around the side, when coffee runs down the side of the mug, a hydrophobic coating might
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by danbruc 3y ago
Then why not pour water down the mine shaft and pump it back out? That seems a lot less complicated than transporting any kind of solid material up and down. I can think of three possible reasons - material density, loses in pumps and pipes
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by danbruc 3y ago
I understand that but the statement 70 TWh is enough storage capacity to satisfy the world electricity demand makes no sense. Electricity demand is a power not an energy.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Also QUERTY vs QUERTZ keyboards, Y and Z are flipped so that A/Y makes no sense. That is a really common issue, for example also with programs that want to use the keyboard to play piano. Use scan codes instead of key codes. [1] [1] h
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by danbruc 3y ago
Which again is nonsense as stated. The average world energy consumption is about 3 TW and gravity storages produce exactly zero and can meet no demand at all. 70 TWh would be enough to store about one day of global electricity consumption,
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by danbruc 3y ago
The length of the input in tokens. For the simple case of tokens just being characters, a LLM does nothing but take a string of length n, the context length, and calculate for each character in the alphabet the probability that this charact
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by danbruc 3y ago
Same prices and same wage does not work, because your wage now only produces 80 % of the products compared to before. If someone is syphoning off 20 % of your labor for nothing, then I am all with you and this should be brought to an end, b
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by danbruc 3y ago
That is certainly a possibility but I have doubts. If you could gain 20+ % percent of productivity be making your employees work 20 % less, it would be stupid for any company to not do this. What seems more likely to me is that you can gain
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by danbruc 3y ago
I completely agree with you that we are living well beyond our means. And working less would be a way to lower our footprint, but that is probably not what most people have in mind when they consider a 4 day week. I also think it would not
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by danbruc 3y ago
What is the cost of raw materials? It is the labor that went into digging them out of the ground and refining them.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Let's look at this the other way, everyone gets a 20 % wage cut and we maintain current prices. On the one hand we would have additional demand for labor to do the 20 % of work, on the other hand we would have a 20 % drop in demand, so
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by danbruc 3y ago
Working 20 % less will cost you 20 % of your living standard, there is no way around that. There may be some jobs where people already effectively only work 4 days and sit around doing nothing for one more day, in those cases you could main
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by danbruc 3y ago
What about someone driving a bus, working on a production line, ... everything would become almost 20 % more expensive.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I think this completely misses the point. A paper presents one new idea and builds on top of many existing ideas and generally assumes that the reader is familiar with all the existing ideas. And that is completely reasonable, the purpose o
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by danbruc 3y ago
First question, where can we go from where we are? What do people desire that they can not have? I am not going to suggest that there is nothing left to be invented but I find it quite hard to come up with things that would have a significa
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by danbruc 3y ago
According to a quick search the average US household is closing in on 600 GB of traffic per month, that makes 42 PB per day the internet traffic of 2.1 million households. Incidentally the second picture in the article says 2.3M+ customers.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I choose ruler over straightedge because that is what people will have more commonly and you can always ignore the scale.
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by danbruc 3y ago
So what is the actual limit if any? I just had a quick look at ISO 32000-2:2020 [1] and think the answer is none or implementation depended if you want. In the file format a media box is a rectangle, a rectangle is an array of four numbers,
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by danbruc 3y ago
You can also try paper, pencil, ruler and compass.
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by danbruc 3y ago
In general there is no real reason why a software running on Windows 3.11 could not contain 100 years of development time. What seems less likely is that the majority of that code would be highly hardware or system specific and would requir

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