ephbit

41 ms·

331.
by ephbit 5y ago
This is yet another one of these problems that repeatedly remind me of what I call continuous politics : Scenario: A painful (unpopular with citizens/businesses) political decision needs to be made that imposes a (often times financia
332.
by ephbit 5y ago
Climate scientists have long been calculating a remaining CO2 budget (that would prevent the worst from happening if humanity didn't go over). This gives rate of CO2 emissions as kg/s. Economists surely can come up with some numbe
333.
by ephbit 5y ago
Related, about latency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001407 links to: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ Title: Computer latency: 1977-2017
334.
by ephbit 5y ago
> While I agree with the article, that some elements are harder to spot as interactable, I would still say that they are way more coherent than programs from W2K era ... Maybe that's the thing. More coherence might be nicer , yes.
335.
by ephbit 5y ago
> If the new plant meets its daily production target of 650 tonnes of environmentally friendly ‘green’ hydrogen, it will become the world’s largest. 650,000 kg/d = 27,083 kg/h If one assumes 100 % of the contained energy of 39.
336.
by ephbit 5y ago
This approach reminds me of YACY even though it's only somewhat related. Instances of the engine indexing locally on the machine where a user is browsing the web. I'm regularly reminded of this concept of a distributed search inde
337.
by ephbit 5y ago
> There are diff tools, though, targeted at lawyers for legal work: "show me the differences between these two contracts" ... Do you have some examples from the top of your head? Comparing the content of PDF files would be awes
338.
by ephbit 5y ago
What's this about? Are the bots operated to manipulate the market, by buying up the whole supply to then sell at a higher price?
339.
by ephbit 5y ago
> From the big picture view, you can see Crypto is destroying our planet, ... Crypto is certainly not destroying our planet. Yes, "Crypto" does have negative impact on ecosphere through its use of energy and other ressources. B
340.
by ephbit 5y ago
It's obviously difficult to compare, but how's the RAM usage of this new setup compared to MATE on Archlinux?
341.
by ephbit 5y ago
Syncthing ... Do you use it in some way to sync browser stuff? This is the feature I'm desperately wanting from apps and desktop applications (like browser): let me sync between desktop and mobile by syncing small state/settings f
342.
by ephbit 5y ago
I completely agree. > Businesses of all sorts need to get their act together, or step out of the system entirely. Governments can enforce this. But whether they do, depends upon (in democratic countries) people/voters wanting them t
343.
by ephbit 5y ago
> The cause is trivial: Governments are given the 'infinite money' machine and they abuse it. They abuse it like if they were primary school kids, thinking printing money to pay for stuff is a valid solution, its unbelievable b
344.
by ephbit 5y ago
> The idea that you can take 3 trillion dollars in goods and services without producing anything in return without impact is ridiculous and frankly childish. It's as if these people lost touch with reality and forgot that it takes t
345.
by ephbit 5y ago
Nature is a complex dynamic system. Yes, it can adapt to new influences without becoming instable. But needlessly bombarding it with artificial chemicals surely has some kind of threshold over which adaptation mostly fails, equilibria get d
346.
by ephbit 5y ago
Specific species of bacteria have indeed been found that can catabolize specific types of plastics. In some niches they will definitely evolve to decompose plastics. Since all life forms on earth rely heavily on water as solvent (being pres
347.
by ephbit 5y ago
> I think complexity is definitely part of it but it is also mis-aligned incentives. The person running an assembly line has a vested interest in changing nothing. Is this really a case of mis-aligned incentives though? The person runnin
348.
by ephbit 5y ago
Yeah, we're in for a bumpy ride, that's for sure. At some point, there'll be the sufficiently direct negative feedback from nature to humanity which will slow and eventually halt the destruction ... but ... it'll probabl
349.
by ephbit 5y ago
Article subtitle: > Since 2007, Romania has lost between half and two-thirds of its virgin forest. The environmentalists and activists trying to protect it keep getting killed. --- Whatever the reason for this attrition of forest, it&#x2
350.
by ephbit 5y ago
Just picking a passage from the top of the article: > There's a vague plausibility to that kind of statement, which is why it's a debate I've often heard come up in casual conversation, where one person will point out some
351.
by ephbit 5y ago
As I understand it, lending and increasing debt is simply the en vogue way of governments to make sure they can finance their budgets. (And budgeting is one of the most important ways in which governments implement their election programmes
352.
by ephbit 5y ago
> I think if your model of the economy assumes it amounts to a zero sum game you have definitely missed something. What I wrote hardly supports your guess about my model of the economy. I merely claim that zero-sum-games appear more perv
353.
by ephbit 5y ago
> I think when people claim "its more complicated", they are trying to get around inconvenient truths and basic axioms. Absolutely. Many people appear to habitually deny the existence of zero-sum-games, when in reality they are
354.
by ephbit 5y ago
Also, it's quite a risky assumption as an individual that one's able to make a long-term profitable bet against an army of professional investors that dedicate lots of resources towards making profitable bets in the same market. A
355.
by ephbit 5y ago
> I suspect Germany (and other EU countries) approach to debt is gonna be based in tricks and stuff over the next few years. Now if that doesn't sound like the ideal starting point to ever more lying into ones own pocket about mone
356.
by ephbit 5y ago
> ... Fischer–Tropsch-powered diesel trucks. Fischer-Tropsch with which kind of carbon/hydrogen sources? Hydrogen from electrolysis? Fischer-Tropsch diesel would allow continued use of existing trucks until their EOL. > ... Maybe
357.
by ephbit 5y ago
> ... username and password for testing ... What kind of username/password? It's not like you sign up for Briar like when you create an account on HN.
358.
by ephbit 5y ago
What does this even mean? Username and password for what? Briar doesn't work like services like HN where you sign up with a username and password.
359.
by ephbit 5y ago
Doesn't the mere situation of crisis/chaos/war in Ukraine with sooo many things being coordinated by either side of the conflict impose a severe bandwith limitation ... such that the ressources (time/hands) have to be ca
360.
by ephbit 5y ago
It's always the diesel powered trucks. Will they be replaced by battery powered electric ones? I don't think so. What then? LNG-powered trucks? Methanol fuelcell powered?

More ›