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by emsign 3y ago
nice. now send them to Ukraine so they can clear out Russian trenches
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by emsign 3y ago
Economic freedom can only be enforced with police, meaning the state protecting the assets of the rich. So no, it's not as simple as you say.
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by emsign 3y ago
> Venture capitalists are pouring millions of dollars into new psychedelic-based antidepressants that move beyond the classic SSRI model, but without a precise index of the neural processes at work, pharmaceutical patents are unlikely to
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by emsign 3y ago
Oh, it's the same guy who also made the cover to Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's! I didn't know this guy was also responsible for some iconic sci-fi and movie artwork. It seems he was obsessed with cool ve
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by emsign 3y ago
Might have been their only way of hardening the clay walls. We do it still to this day, except we burn the bricks before building the walls. Lacking modern building techniques like that and like mortar, burning the walls in situ was probabl
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by emsign 3y ago
Apple is leveling the playing field and this moves makes perfect sense for Apple and everyone else. Apple management (probably like the rest of the industry) under the assumption that the company that's selling repair friendly products
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by emsign 3y ago
Fine by me, turn them into homes if possible. Or would that lead to yet another devaluation now on the residential housing market as well? Do we need another bailout soon or what? It seems to me that one big reason why companies want their
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by emsign 3y ago
Prolly has something to do with us nearing the singularity. It's an alien superintelligent machine civilization and they are here to welcome their soon to be born new brothers. I think they might have nudged us for centuries to develop
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by emsign 3y ago
Digital payments are convenience. Cash is freedom. These people are right.
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by emsign 3y ago
Exactly. And being able to handle ambiguity as a human is one of our strong points. We must not cripple our mental capability to understand and use ambiguity in language, it would a loss.
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by emsign 3y ago
What problems? Why most? And why "our"? I find it silly to think that a more precise language is going to solve "most of our problems", it's a bold claim which I believe to be false. No, world problems do not vanish
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by emsign 3y ago
Why would you want to use a language that eliminates this ambiguity other than in legal or academic contexts? I think sentences like "Fruit flies like a banana." must exist, they are useful in that they are stimulating the recipie
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by emsign 4y ago
I don't know in what parallel reality you live, but France is having massive energy problems due to their reliance on nuclear right now. And it's only getting worse with rivers drying up more and more and power plants needing more
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by emsign 4y ago
The National Interest had a Russian spy write for it. Go figure.
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by emsign 4y ago
Anyone ever measured how much time it costs to create all those Anki cards? It seems it would considereably more time coming up with the questions than reading the new information. Prep time > learning?
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by emsign 4y ago
If you would have read the article to the end you would have noticed that is puts the blame on law enforcement and legislation.
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by emsign 4y ago
Can you temporarily disable keyboard scanning in the C64 to free up precious CPU time?
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by emsign 4y ago
I think there are multiple practical ways to mitigate this issue. Blue light filtering adhesive tape could be a viable solution in some cases . You can buy those UV filtering adhesive sheets for your window for protecting your precious lig
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by emsign 4y ago
I strongly advise against buying and using lanterns, they release a lot of toxic soot. Probably negating any health benefits you get from normalizing your melatonin levels by a large amount. Technology Connnections of YouTube made a series
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by emsign 4y ago
What does an "investor" consider comfortable? And more importantly, how much CO₂ does such an investor's lifestyle produce? My bet is that it's neither sustainable nor really necessary. It could well be an advertisement
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by emsign 4y ago
That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.
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by emsign 4y ago
Founder intuition is often just survivor's bias. We won't hear the stories of founders who have failed that often, considering that most fail.
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by emsign 4y ago
This is why you should want to block advertisers and trackers via DNS right at your DHCP server as a first line defense. Better safe than sorry.
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by emsign 4y ago
It's not unchecked, it's self regulatory. The main reason people have kids is lack of insurance for when they get old and unable to work. That's why need big families as a support network. Countries that care for their elderl
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by emsign 4y ago
A huge global recession would do much more to save the planet than offing humans willy nilly. Most of the stuff we produce has a useful life span of a few years or months even. And whole industries depend on the consumption and consumerism,
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by emsign 4y ago
Yeah, as ChatGPT is designed to output the most likely phrases word after word, this is essentially the recital of the most simple minded solution every second person you'd ask would come up with. Of course humans would most likely say
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by emsign 4y ago
Nah, the misery started with the extraction of coal. Burning fossil fuels is an accelerator to senseless consumption that is the root of this evil, it's a runaway economic process, that needs to either slow down or use renewable resour
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by emsign 4y ago
I find it alarming that there are digital payment terminals with tipping options. It might seem obligatory and you might think why not, but this is actually a huge deal. Because it's the business that has full control over tipping now.
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by emsign 4y ago
Wise comment.
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by emsign 4y ago
Dave Jones is also hitting the same note, accusing AI companies of theft: Scraping the web for training data and building models out of it without consent of the IP owners.

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