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by dbspin 2mo ago
1) Having met Stross, and briefly spoken to him way back when, he never actually believed in the singularity as a possible future. 2) Turns out it was the sci-fi author who was wrong all along! Fascinating to see someone confidently citing
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by dbspin 2mo ago
There are no purely capitalist states on earth. Not one. We all live in mixed economies, where some aspects of market are regulated or even entirely state controlled. e.g.: defense spending, road construction etc etc. Where exactly that mon
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Sure, let me explain it to you. The end result is not recreatable with digital assets. i.e.: It doesn't matter your budget, we cannot currently simulate the look of the original footage shot on 35 (let alone 70mm, forget about IMAX 80m
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Every film is colour corrected and graded digitally (in addition to all the special effects and compositing work), and this is in fact one of the cheapest parts of the process. So no, it's not remotely a consideration.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Some directors like the appearance of film... Given that the spectacle is a large part of the reason we go to the cinema, the colour fidelity and (and in the case of IMAX) unique scale and aspect ratio are the point... Not sure why practica
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Way too many people put themselves in the position of proposing reducing the liberty of others, while unconsciously assuming their own liberty won't be significantly curtailed. I live on an island, and it's literally only now, in
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Came here to say something similar. I'm someone who suffers from major reluctance to exercise. To be more specific - the first thirty minutes of exercise are hell, always. Doesn't matter how long I've been doing an activity.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
The phrase the global south elides the fact that those countries are far higher in inequality than the West. Wealthy elites being the only ones able to travel isn't a solution to climate change, it's a recipe for a degree of socia
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Insane take - this is just ensuring that the only people who get to enjoy travel are the rich. Nothing in our society is improved by taking a privilege that's widely enjoyed and restricting it to the wealthy or very wealthy.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
I wonder how far we are from being able to custom spec electronics to locally manufacture low volume dedicated hardware devices at the late 90s Sony level of quality. Is this something that's likely to be possible as 3D printers, cnc m
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by dbspin 3mo ago
They're not free to run, Kimi K3 needs to be run on the cloud, and the quantised versions aren't as capable. Unless you happen to have 3 - 5 TB of VRAM and an 8-node cluster of 8× NVIDIA H100s to run the full fat version. Plus th
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by dbspin 3mo ago
I'm not following the argument. The robots linked above wouldn't be capable of vacuuming either. My point stands - the world is made for humans, we might remake an aspect of it for new vehicles that provided some radical advantage
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Fair, I think the map is nonsense, but also the idea of 30K castles in Ireland is clearly untrue.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Seems like your map lists pre-historic ring forts, not castles? I'm not sure what the 'official' definition of a castle is, but I personally wouldn't consider a crannóg or something like Dún Aonghasa a castle. Nor would
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by dbspin 3mo ago
I think this perspective is now demonstrably false. It was basically the defacto position of most roboticists until a few months back. But we've already seen the cost of humanoid robots fall precipitously (even without the kind of mass
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by dbspin 3mo ago
That makes sense. Viewed as just a store, it isn't the worst. However - a store is no longer the competition. In terms of promoting independent music and giving the artists both control over distribution and profit, Bandcamp is almost
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by dbspin 3mo ago
So I've been a bandcamp user since close to the dawn of the service. The issues I commented on above don't relate to their curation emails but the poverty of the interface itself. Bandcamp has been widely and roundly, not to menti
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Agreed. Last FM is one of the great lost opportunities of web 2.0 (up there with the early location based social networks). The website still exists, and I still use it (despite painfully poor integration into iOS, requiring the third party
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by dbspin 3mo ago
To counter this - if you were around in the blog music era, being young had little to do with the network effect. Shitty pop music was in the ascendent culturally at the time, and the huge indie revival of the late 2000s and early 2010s hap
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by dbspin 3mo ago
It's literally an island, off the coast of continental Europe.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Moreover we've known for quite a while now that glial cells also participate in cognition and moderate learning (e.g.: [1]). When you take those connections into account the numbers get really staggering. 85 billion glial cells with tr
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Slashdot went the same way more than a decade ago. It could reflect more the microcosm of the aging, wealthy, silicon valley ycombinator community than a sea change in attitudes among tech people or US intelligencia in general.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
You're aware the UK isn't in the EU right, and hasn't been for quite some time? Also that AfD and National Rally aren't yet, and have never been in control of the German or French parliaments. So yes, it's in the US
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by dbspin 3mo ago
I think US based folks perhaps aren't aware of what Musk has been doing in Europe politically. Specifically promoting - appearing at conferences, applying political pressure as well as public statements etc - actual fascists. Not right
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by dbspin 3mo ago
I'm no expert on haplogroups either, but cursory googling seems to indicate they are far more numerous and nuanced than the late victorian, scientific-racism derived classifications used today - i.e.: black, white, asian etc. But we do
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Physiognomic appearance does not equate with genetically discrete populations, so while we can obviously visually identify that people have broadly asian, african, european, polynesian dissent etc; this doesn't equate with other factor
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by dbspin 3mo ago
That's a very blanket statement, lots of people are in fact prescribed low dose cannabis for anxiety.
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by dbspin 3mo ago
> That should be entirely down to the parents. When making decisions that will affect (in planned and unpredictable ways) the phenotype of a person over their entire life course - society / medical experts and researchers etc necess
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by dbspin 3mo ago
> Direct democracy is cool, but also impractical. I do not want to vote on every counties appropriations for road maintenance. So what's a level of direct democracy that's "good enough"? This particular question has a
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by dbspin 3mo ago
Grading on a curve is utterly irrational, unfair and cruel. I'm sorry you have to put up with such a system.

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