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by em500 5y ago
Non snarky: survival probability was a lot lower for most of human history.
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by em500 5y ago
Eyballing die shots, Firestorm is about 4 times the size of Icestorm, so if you have perfectly parallelizable workloads, you stand to gain if Firestorm is less than 4 times as fast per core. (This ignores L2 cache and maybe some other suppo
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by em500 5y ago
To make the economics clearer: the Netherlands has a national rent ceiling of €737 for social (rent-controlled) housing (and very long waiting lists in all the cities). In Amsterdam, the market rent for a 3 bedroom is probably around €1500
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by em500 5y ago
Oh please, the US government actively intervenes trying to prevent minors from seeing adults having sex, an activity that does not harm others (and even whether it harms minors who view it is questionable). But I've yet to hear an Ame
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by em500 5y ago
In particular, it's ludicrous to believe that all laws are personally approved by Xi Jinping himself. The sheer volume of legislation ensures that even if he spends all his waking hours reading them, Xi can be barely aware of only a ti
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by em500 5y ago
I have a feeling that there is a bit of subtle manipulation by the framing going on here. The current Reuters article title that I get is "Three hours a week: Play time's over for China's young video gamers", but the sub
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by em500 5y ago
Definitely not true, I've encountered plenty of SQL users at work who never heard of injection attacks or parameterized queries. Some of them even built some ad-hoc query builders to replace some of their own repetitive queries. (Note
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by em500 5y ago
That's apparently a popular misconception: https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia... In this case specifically, it's very unlikely that any group of shareholders could succesfully sue th
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by em500 5y ago
There is not much controversy about the seriousness of climate change in Europe, see [1] (poll from March/April 2021, before the bad summer), apart from maybe a few % of Lizardman Constant [2]. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/
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by em500 5y ago
Regarding point 2, an old joke comes to mind: "economists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions".
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by em500 5y ago
I hope you realize that most of the common databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) do implicit type conversion on insertion.
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by em500 5y ago
> I'm also horrified at the auto-conversions that I've just learned about from this link that I'm not protected from. Most of the common databases that I'm aware of (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) do implicit type con
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by em500 5y ago
SQLite's flexible datatype approach is mentioned in "Distinctive Features Of SQLite"[1], "Quirks, Caveats, and Gotchas In SQLite"[2] and detailed in "Datatypes In SQLite"[3]. I find it surprising that appa
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by em500 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_public_opinion_o... https://web.archive.org/web/20140203074515/http://www.aei.or... (p.58: "Do you approve or disapprove of the cur
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by em500 5y ago
The initial invasion in 2001 had 100% support Congress and IIRC 80%+ popular support. So yes, not invading was unthinkable.
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by em500 5y ago
You could try the images which include non-free firmware: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...
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by em500 5y ago
Please check your facts. Total USA emission is still almost double that of India. (Per capita it's almost 8 times higher.)
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by em500 5y ago
No need to trot out the China bogeyman, when "greenest president" Biden is issuing more drilling and fracking permits than Trump, and is pressuring OPEC to increase production, since golly gee gas is getting really expensive nowad
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Adumbrations of Aducanumab(astralcodexten.substack.com)
2 points by em500 5y ago|0 comments
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by em500 5y ago
I agree that many Youtube videos are tedious and needlessly dragged out, probably caused by focussing on time spent as KPI. Too many Youtube videos nowadays give a strong vibe of creators being made only for the money. For TikTok I feel it&
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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app(asia.nikkei.com)
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by em500 5y ago
I think you meant to write "reverse causation"? Correlation is by definition symmetric and directionless. If the researchers make no causation claims, they don't need to be concerned about the direction of causation. I haven&
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by em500 5y ago
Not everyone, but it's probably a good strategy to convince as many people as practically possible. Because all measures with material impact will involve large reductions in the quality and confort of life for most people, so will alm
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by em500 5y ago
Of course, many problems have fairly obvious physical solutions you ignore all costs of said "solutions". Containing a pandemic is also not rocket science. Just have everybody stay at home simulataneously for 2 or 3 months.
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by em500 5y ago
Blaming "big corporations" for our woes looks pretty unconstructive to me. Most big corporations got big by giving consumers what they want. Trying to reduce emissions through big corporations (AFAICT the focus will be largely on
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by em500 5y ago
Moreover, if they make it truly end-to-end encrypted, they wouldn't even need to scan on the server side (since they'd only be storing random bytes from their perspective).
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by em500 5y ago
Poultry and fish are often injected with water in the processing chain. You notice it when you want to fry your fish and it quickly turns into cooking/steaming instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumping
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by em500 5y ago
Thanks for taking the trouble. Small syntax nitpick: in ANSI SQL, double quotes are used for identifiers (such as table or column names), single quotes for string literals ('01234'). Most databases (including sqlite) are a bit mor
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by em500 5y ago
No need to imagine, it's already done in OneDrive which comes with Windows 10 by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
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by em500 5y ago
Right, the unique (for an RMDBS) properties of sqlite is that (1) individual values rather than columns are typed and that (2) "column types" are affinities that only affect the casting rules on insertion. But your initial examp

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