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by dsign 5y ago
This is not a problem with a simple solution or only a few dimensions. "better designed regulation" is all that is needed in some cases, when it is possible at all. I also know of plenty of places where the only option people have
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by dsign 5y ago
Cheap science fiction book idea: imagine having to choose between living without your smartphone or living with every company and government agency willy-nilly spying on you. Oh, wait...
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by dsign 5y ago
99.9999% of natural resources in the universe are atoms of hydrogen in stars. We can't say that those atoms of hydrogen are a person, what we are really saying is that our probable intention to "exploit" those atoms of hydrog
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by dsign 5y ago
Totally out of topic, but what is the habitual class size in elementary school? Mine was somewhere between 30 and 40 kids, and teachers were not afraid to use punishment to get kids to behave. Some were better chalk-throwers than us the kid
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by dsign 5y ago
Fierce competition in this space is a good thing, we sorely need faster matrix multiplication for everything from graphics processing to the grammar checker in [insert name of your word-processing software]. So yes, more transistors please.
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by dsign 5y ago
If we are going to speculate, then the question is, why couldn't AI do it? What kind of fundamental limitation would it hit? Data? But we could get a ton of data from already existing software[^1]. It is slow, but I have the feeling it
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by dsign 5y ago
Not to counter your point, but natural proclivities and stereotypes are often fighting each other. If a man likes horse-riding, he may not pursue it because in their country that's seen as a girly thing (I'm looking at you, Sweden
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by dsign 5y ago
That's the plot of "Red Sky-Ceiling", where one person infiltrates a space-habitat with a lethal virus and everybody needs to go into self-isolation. Cool thing though, they could tint red their sky to signal bio-hazard. By t
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by dsign 5y ago
I have been doing a lot of flying over the deserts using flight simulators. There is so much space still on the planet! At the same time, we can't afford to use any more of it. Let's face it, we never were a benign species for the
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by dsign 5y ago
>> perhaps we can make liquid fuels out of H2 > You're describing hydrocarbons. This is technically correct, but at the right pressure, it becomes politically incorrect. Right now there is already a huge push against fossil fu
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by dsign 5y ago
I did the math for that one, though not exactly for an airplane, but for a boring land vehicle (think Ford Traffic). I assumed futuristic photovoltaics with 40% efficiency, a factor of 0.7 to account for angle-of-incidence inefficiencies, p
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by dsign 5y ago
Easy idea for anybody wanting to make a quick buck without having to endure any fan service: Step 1: find a way for these zillionaries to age slowly, or not at all. Step 2: spend a day at the office adding zeroes in the subscription price f
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by dsign 5y ago
This article left me wondering. What happens if you put a small group of modern people in relative isolation outside any legal jurisdiction, and ask them to create their own legality? Also you tell them to check their references and their b
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by dsign 5y ago
That, and the parent, spot on comments. Hollywood is a disease for romance. I do wonder for example, how general is something like "dating"? Did people everywhere always used to go to dates? Was that the mainstream "approved&
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by dsign 5y ago
Solar panels and CFCs in exoplanets? They are too confined to our current development stage here on Earth. Not that civilizations don't use them, ours does. But they are toys for the blink of an eye in cosmological time. The search mak
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by dsign 5y ago
I stopped reading here: > Their conclusion guaranteed him a lifelong income but left him bitter at the feeling he was underappreciated for the creative work that made D&D a reality. If any of my endeavors gets me a lifelong income, i
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by dsign 5y ago
That's awfully inaccurate. Some part of human culture has increased quality of life. If you think the opposite, I will provide a list of places and lifestyles that are free of said cultural bits for you to go and experience. With tha
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by dsign 5y ago
I think Jupiter is utterly useless[^1][^2]. Philosophical question: if somebody came up with a way to disassemble (not just mine) Jupiter for materials, would that be ethical? Can an argument be made that "it's such a virgin ecosy
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by dsign 5y ago
> Also in urban environments, making a lot of "inviting" public spaces for people to hang around and loiter is not always a great idea.. this also attracts a lot of crime, drugs etc That's just a problem of having crime an
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by dsign 5y ago
I hope these thieves-for-cryptomining are still around when we need to fight the cartels trying to create general AI.
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by dsign 5y ago
Can we coin the word spy-tech and go on with our day? I read a post here about when radioactive toys were popular, back in the early 1900s. Radioactivity fell so much out of grace, that these days we prefer to die of global warming than to
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by dsign 5y ago
With the right outlook, it was the single most profitable piece of luck one could have to balance all the other not so great things from communism.
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by dsign 5y ago
I often wonder how do people find those ideas that earn money with a year of man work or less. I'm seven years into my own company with a stable team of four developers, two business ops and an extremely competent board of directors. W
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by dsign 5y ago
I'm envious. I like the hardware a lot. But at the same time, I can't help but think "This has to be the most powerful computer ever built to run a browser and a terminal". I can't run PyTorch with acceleration, I c
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by dsign 5y ago
Oh man, I love this analysis.
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by dsign 5y ago
So God is only confusing notation we are better off without.
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by dsign 5y ago
This is good news! I wonder how much of the next few decades will be tech to bridge the gap between the way humans think and low-level bio-sciences. Just reading this article, I find a lot of lingo what while not too difficult to understand
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by dsign 5y ago
For a moment, my eyes switched two letters and the title I read was "Reflecting on Your Fears of Databricks". I've never used their services and my company needs some MLOps, but the contents of this thread made me fear it. S
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by dsign 5y ago
Competition is the way capitalism works :-) . And I've seeing absolute monopolies doing far worse. Examples: the Cuban communications monopoly[^1] and their national airlines. That said, airlines are between the sword and a hard place,
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by dsign 5y ago
Did they finally find the MH370?

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