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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The thought of a note having a frequency of just a few Hertz reminded me of an old video I watched, which explained that all tones can be thought of as rhythms (and chords can be thought of as polyrhythms): https://www.youtube.co
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm guessing that these wristbands will be mandated for other workers eventually, and then the general population. Consider this report from the Economist last year[0] about efforts to put CCP "embedded party organisations"
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To be fair, the countries I was comparing Apple to are also only "aiming" to do something about their carbon emissions.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> For example, Apple is not a green company by any objective measure. To provide some additional context, Apple's aim[0] is to be carbon neutral (across its supply chain and products) by 2030. That puts it ahead of about 99% of reg
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I see what you're saying, and appreciate you sharing that perspective. We could say that before conception, everyone agrees there is no child, and at birth, everyone agrees there is a child, so there is maybe a "spectrum" bet
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the taste of blood people want in a burger. To be clear, (most) burgers do not have noticeable blood in. The red juice that comes out of them that makes them "bleed" is in fact myoglobin, a protein found in animals’ muscle t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It was true in the UK ten years ago (although this Guardian article[0] tried to downplay the success): > The amount of greenhouse gases linked to goods and services consumed by UK households, including emissions from the foreign manufact
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Wait, you think it's the anti -abortion people who are bestowing upon themselves the right to decide what the unborn want? If you want to be suspicious of a "coincidence", then maybe consider that mothers tend to be more wea
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> if we sustained a 1% annual population growth for another 13000 years And if we sustained a 0.03% annual population reduction rate (like South Korea recently experienced) there would be less than 100 people on Earth after just 600 year
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To give a recent estimate[0], here's what McKinsey (the big management consultancy) has to say: > Global fossil-fuels demand is projected to peak between 2023–2025, accounting for a dwindling share of energy use, with oil production
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> That screening is entirely voluntary–you have the right to say "no" The child doesn't, though, and, if you'll excuse my frankness, I think the abortion affects his/her future the most out of all the parties inv
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Oops, I guess I meant 30 years. Thanks for catching that. Anyway, 2027 is only 5 years away, but it's after 2025 which is when Microsoft ends security support for Windows 10 (and thus when countries will be able to claim with a straig
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I don't think the focus of the parent comment was about the name used, but about the thinking behind the policy, and its consequences. Perhaps a better article to link would have been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I thought we didn’t like eugenics anymore? Since when? Abortion of children with Down’s syndrome (up to the point of birth) has been legal in the UK since 1967. http://enablemagazine.co.uk/interview-downs-syndrome-and-
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> it presciently describes what has come to be since 1997 The only question now is when will the system he describes become fully operational? When will it be impossible to go online using a device that can't produce a "Secure
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> just asking for a "perma-emergency" to justify such an exception for a long time For context, I thought I'd look up the current UK "National Threat Level", and it is apparently "Substantial", which is
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'd be interested to know if the EU law that the ECJ relied on differs from or goes further than the case law from the European Court of Human Rights that the UK is still a member of. A ruling against mass data retention in the UK coul
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
What would you have done if you were in Carlsen's position and you suspected someone (not necessarily Niemann) had acted maliciously (but you didn't want to get sued for defamation or breach of contract)? It's easy to say &qu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> First of all I don't think Niemann has much of a team yet. Maybe he does, or maybe Carlsen thinks he does. > the prep leak idea makes no sense. The "malicious person on Carlsen's team" hypothesis I was putting fo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You might be right, but Carlsen hasn't accused anyone of cheating, or unsportsmanlike behaviour, or criminality. He's just chosen not to play against Hans, which he has every right to do.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Someone on Niemann's team could have been feeding him info which "coincidentally" happens to be very useful, without Niemann suspecting where the info came from. (A bug in Carlsen's hotel room?) Someone on Carlsen'
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thank you for that compact summary of the state of the world. I completely agree. Reading those 12 simple points was like doomscrolling, except I didn't even have to scroll, which feels so efficient!
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Maybe Carlsen doesn't know who to blame. He could suspect Niemann, or someone on Niemann's team, or someone in his own team, or a backdoor in Stockfish, or (depending on Carlsen's own mental health right now) space aliens. I
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Would you say it doesn't make sense to appreciate art because cameras exist? Actually, with the advent of image generating AIs, such questions become more relevant.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
No, it means that Wikipedia admins can't ban someone's account just because they disagree with that person's opinions. Wikipedia articles aren't supposed to contain (their user's) opinions anyway, so the admins sho
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Only if the baker makes 50 million active cakes per month.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I'm fairly sure that reds are not a minority in the US (since they managed to win the election 2017) The election in 2017 tells us almost nothing about whether reds are a minority in the US, since that year only saw the counting o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the number is based on the population as a whole. One way to look at this is to consider that the 2016 popular vote difference between Trump and Clinton was 2,868,686 which means if your platform can change the votes of 3 million peopl
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Good, and then we'll get the government to start banning dark patterns. Actually, I suspect that such a law would be on even shakier First Amendment grounds, but here's a test that might bring this regulation into the realms of co
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You're arguing against a strawman if you think the claim is "Every Trump supporter who turned up to the Capitol was part of an armed militia attempting to violently take over the government". The claim is merely that among t

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