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by defrost 4mo ago
The worst ones looked like brightly coloured children's toys. There's perhaps a metaphor or two lurking about bait and switch tactics.
782.
by defrost 4mo ago
People in the US stating that black lives matter get called racist. So, yes.
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by defrost 4mo ago
If you believed twenty years ago that free candy forever was real then you have my deepest slow shuffling away.
784.
by defrost 4mo ago
Some of us started coding and archiving data 40+ years ago, many of us were suspicious of cloud storage from the get go and have never relied on it as primary storage and still keep multiple location physical backups regional and under dire
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by defrost 4mo ago
Probably doesn't even bottom out with a therefore I am . Specifically this: Over half of everyone is more intelligent than that person. And half are less. maths like an AI .. and, like Carlin, doesn't consider if perhaps 1
786.
by defrost 4mo ago
Yeah, but, like, what's the worst that could actually happen by eliminating crop diversity? Potato monocultures fed literal millions for a good while, Shirley it can't hurt to see grain cropping go that way.
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by defrost 4mo ago
The comment I responded to seemed to imply that the US was hung between two paths and took no action. I'm pleased to hear a response was made and hope Eddy_Viscosity2 sees your comment.
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by defrost 4mo ago
Australia's a good example of a country that sells out its resources for a pittance NSR in exchange. We can talk about Indian coal companies (Thermal), global steel demand (Metallurgical), US natural gas extractors, etc. Still, at le
789.
by defrost 4mo ago
The Australian Commission wasn't the first effort in a known problem ongoing since first landing, it was the peak response in Australia after many decades of battle ... has there been a national effort of a similar scope in the US ?
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by defrost 4mo ago
Not so much Ukraine using drones that use starlink, more the sheer number of starlink sats up and planned, the numbers in the proposed other constellations going up and planned, and the ongoing propensity of Chinese rockets to fragment af
791.
by defrost 4mo ago
In the US, sure. In Australia we established a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, looked at all the schools and institutions regardless of creed (and, it turned out, the Christian Brothers were the clear wo
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by defrost 5mo ago
> Starlink would be budgeted for like an essential service As someone who has lived and worked remotely for the bulk of time since 1960 or so, it's not essential ipso facto ; myself and most of the people I know have somehow manage
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by defrost 5mo ago
Culturally many Australians have an ingrained and likely healthy aversion to feeling they are being "handled" or manipulated in some manner. Likely stems from a hundred and fifty odd years of the "always British" types s
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by defrost 5mo ago
> thereby making it very onerous and expensive for any non-Australian companies to bother. It's a good story .. but somewhat silly, Australia is riddled with outposts of offshore foreign companies here to exploit resources, and &#
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by defrost 5mo ago
> What you mean when you lie and say that it's banned is "we're not allowed to sneak it into the school library and make parents pay for it through their tax dollars even when they wouldn't let their kids read it&quot
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by defrost 5mo ago
What if 10% of all people are indistinguishably of average intelligence?
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by defrost 5mo ago
Keyhole dates back to 2001 and draws on several precursors, eg: ERMapper (Perth, Western Australia) which offered similar functionality in the 1990s - in addition to computational process pipelines for, say, warping and geomosaicing inputs,
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by defrost 5mo ago
* At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909942 * Conspiracy about missing/dead scientists from online forums to the White House https:&#x2
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'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today(theguardian.com)
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by defrost 5mo ago
Also good at bad analogies: When electricity arrived, nobody woke up and redesigned the plant. Why would they? The reason shearing sheds and cotton gins remained driven by by overhead shafts turning from a single large motor, be that
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by defrost 5mo ago
...you discover frackuccino with cat processed beans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqw09I-BTvE
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by defrost 5mo ago
They really did have constitutions back then. Substantial constitutions. With many many many documents over hundreds of years. A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that con
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by defrost 5mo ago
That's understood in the comment which explicitly indicates that there are many programming circles and that Bellard is known in a number of them (but not all). eg: I grew up in the Australian Kimberley region (kind of remote), spent
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by defrost 5mo ago
> Where there ever pensions in the tech business? Superannuation schemes in Australia, Singapore, etc. Mind you these kinds of schemes provide pensions for all workers across all industries and aren't limited to the tech business.
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by defrost 5mo ago
> Bibi and Israel set in motion a trap that the USA can't easily escape. More accurately, they've been pushing this trap for decades and US presidents have been sidestepping it for decades. From that PoV it's always been e
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by defrost 5mo ago
Upper middle class people in the UK live in traditional thatched cottages today - it's still a trade. African traditional cattle herders are still a thing and they're still living in thatched huts with weave walls. Elsewhere in Af
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by defrost 5mo ago
And this is why the US doesn't have fully automated parts in drive out EV factories?
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by defrost 5mo ago
Which they might very well look to neutralise in the future - humans globally need to get much much better at addressing the externalities of their consumption.
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by defrost 5mo ago
The "dark" EV plants making cars aren't using any labour, let alone cheap labour. There's also that thing that made China what it is today - the USofA using China for cheap labour and a place to outsource all the dirty
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by defrost 5mo ago
It's a "near monopoly" because a bunch of engineers made a plan, stuck to it, and now have vertical integration. There's nothing preventing others from also processing concentrates (the post physical mining product). The

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