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by deepdriver 4y ago
Corporate AI would never be racist. Just ask Microsoft Tay, or Meta's latest chatbot, or Google Photos, or GPT-3 prior to hard-coded tweaks...
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Which includes Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and probably Iran and Japan soon. Any one country could reach for the nukes first, or any small group could attempt a Sum of All Fears scenario.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>you work with a diverse group of people because different people bring different ideas to the table This is sometimes true, but quite often it is ownership-class propaganda to depress wages and prevent worker solidarity. For example: &g
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Real-life satire of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FUMdHU29c&t=332s
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by deepdriver 4y ago
In the hydrogen sulfide upwell scenario, the survival of humanity in any quantity seems unlikely. I'm just a layman, hopefully experts can tell me why this won't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Could you elaborate on the extinction-level problems? I hear this a lot, but it's almost always nonspecific and hand-wavy. Do you mean the potential mass release of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, or a runaway effect increasing C
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by deepdriver 4y ago
It's exciting to imagine various public and private ventures all booking rides on Starship to Mars, or more realistically in the short term, to the Moon.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>yet there has been no substantial development of Martian habitat technology. This is, in a word, wrong: https://www.space.com/26267-china-lunar-palace-space-researc... https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Suppor
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>Newer chemistries like LFP do not use rare earth metals and have far higher cycle times. Technically correct, as lithium isn't a rare earth. Lithium mining isn't free from controversy, however. The "Lithium Triangle"
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Thanks for sticking around and explaining despite my error. Had no idea this movement even existed. The Wikipedia article was quite interesting.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Yes, that's an accurate description of much of Milwaukee.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
As someone who used to keep a carton of bottled water in my car's trunk in case of breakdown, emergency, etc., what are some good alternatives for portable long-term storage of drinkable water? Suppose I could fill a bunch of steel or
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>At the end of the criminals will just use a flatbed tow truck to steal the vehicle if it is worth enough. Working-class teenagers in Milwaukee do not use flatbed tow trucks to steal cars. >The "immobilizers" you're ref
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by deepdriver 4y ago
You don't even need to be a wealthy country. Tram service is excellent in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, where they've had electrics trams for more than a century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Zagreb T
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Apparently some modern US Hyundai models don't have immobilizers: https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-thieves-are-stealing-hyund...
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The "Kia Boys" in Milwaukee stole almost 10,000 cars last year, mostly Kia and Hyundai models lacking immobilizers. That's 1 car theft per 58 city residents, in a single year. This gonzo documentary on the phenomenon's w
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>I confront nazis in the street. Not the internet. Most people I've met who say things like this are actually the violent, authoritarian, illiberal threat to democracy they claim to oppose. They tend to lie a lot, too. Your utter re
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by deepdriver 4y ago
In your original comment, you're explicitly lying about the Suckless team in a manner that is libelous and defamatory. I think you ought to reconsider doubling down. Furthermore, "Cultural Marxism" has been a political term o
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by deepdriver 4y ago
iPhones in general and the SE line in particular have excellent battery longevity, physical durability and long-term support e.g. security patches.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Ancient Greek study of the Moon predates the Surya Siddhanta by ~1000 years: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-greek-... 2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon refl
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Not a surprise. When I was at G, Cloud was the fastest-growing org by far. You can't grow an org that fast without an inevitable decline in hiring standards, as many discussed at the time. That's not to say the regular Google hiri
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by deepdriver 4y ago
> meaning everyone of those floating satellites needs to be brought back down and modified Don’t they have a fairly short operational lifetime, thanks to increased drag from being in LEO? IIRC it’s around 5 years. I believe that’s part o
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Yes, and? Conflating wokeness with all that’s good about a liberal arts education per se is what the comment I replied to did, that’s how it begged the question and why I pointed it out. Reading comprehension and understanding of the term “
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Came here to see if anyone'd mention Tiddlywiki. Had a coworker who swears by it, and I'm consider using it myself. The category of "personal wiki" software seems to overlap heavily with note-taking apps: https:/&#
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Unreal Engine Blueprints have been a game-changer for me personally, no pun intended. The rapid prototyping, API discoverability, and total immunity to 99% of dumb syntax errors which drag-and-drop visual programming provides has been a g
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Or in the case of [big tech company] interns, getting matched to a team purely for being Chinese. For a while there was a big Mandarin-only mailing list that coordinated this type of ingroup selection within [big tech company]. HR found out
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The ads are only in the launcher, but the addition of the launcher has caused major crashing and stability problems with the base game.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
While it may not have the shine and polish of Sid Meier’s Civilization 6, at least FreeCiv doesn’t force glitchy unwanted advertise-- er, launcher updates that break the game years after release: https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Thanks! That's quite the dire warning about PVC cement. Maybe I'll stick with silicone tubing for my first setup.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
You may enjoy reading about Lunar Palace 1, China's latest experiment with regenerative life support systems: https://www.space.com/40610-china-mock-moon-mission-lunar-pa... Or BIOS-3, the Soviet Union's experimen

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