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by fasterik 3y ago
The next generation has to deal with the decisions we make today. We should consider the ethical and environmental impacts of what we eat. https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
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I think good journalism still exists, you just need to pay for it. I don't see the Economist getting basic facts wrong, even in topics I'm familiar with. The main problem is that there is far more money in ad-driven content than h
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Some of them are getting pretty close, to the point that people choose them over real meat in blind taste tests. Even if we never get to a perfect simulation of meat, the ethical and environmental reasons for avoiding factory farming far ou
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This ignores the reality that many people are attached to eating meat and all of the familiar things that come along with it. For many, the realistic simulations of meat are the first step toward adopting plant-based alternatives. It's
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So the article is wrong in multiple ways. Not only is "no-water hydropower" a contradiction in terms, but when you look into it, it is in fact using water. This is the status quo for science journalism, unfortunately.
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by fasterik 3y ago
Yes, I think the general consensus is that consciousness is a spectrum. But even when something is a spectrum, it can still make sense to define a binary in terms of a threshold, like how we define bits in terms of high and low voltages. Ob
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It seems like you're confusing sentience with intelligence or some other related concept. Sentience is the mental state of subjectively experiencing sensations. The only time humans aren't sentient is during some stages of sleep,
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There are some superficial similarities between the two figures, but I don't think we should take the similarities too seriously. Benjamin Franklin helped found the United States, became ambassador to France, and made original scientif
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I've never really understood this. I might go 10 or 20 tabs deep in a browsing session if I'm researching something, but if I want to save something for later I will either bookmark it or paste links into a text file. Having hundr
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by fasterik 3y ago
"Crappy addictive content" shouldn't be illegal just like junk food shouldn't be illegal. People can make their own choices about what they consume without the government making decisions for them.
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The fact that so many Americans are in favor of this is alarming. The government shouldn't be dictating what people can view on the internet, or what software they can install on their devices. This seems like common sense to me. What
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The problem with most so-called personality archetypes is they aren't based on any rigorous empirical research. They're just arbitrary categories someone came up with. The Big Five personality traits (openness to experience, consc
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Excitement and curiosity about science is a good thing, but hyping up dubious claims and low quality research is not. I don't know who to blame in this case; I'm not sure whether it's the researchers, science journalism, soci
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I wish I was better at thinking in handwritten notes. I've been using computers my whole life, so typing feels very natural to me, while handwriting feels slow and cumbersome. I've become pretty proficient at thinking in code and
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Anyone who thinks they don't have gaping holes in their knowledge, and criticizes others for it, is probably suffering from a severe case of Dunning-Kruger.
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Exactly whose speech is being controlled? You can express basically whatever opinion you want in the United States, as long as it's not inciting violence. The flip side is that everyone else has a right to ignore you or criticize you i
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by fasterik 3y ago
This is backwards and why I think mandatory code review is a waste of everyone's time. Nobody should be writing code with the goal of passing a code review. They should be writing code that solves a problem and adds value to the end pr
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https://rsf.org/en/who-are-we >when was the last time someone using controversial anti -government free speech in the US made a difference? I think it's the wrong question. The question of free speech isn&#x2
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>US is no better than Russia. Whatever you think of the Snowden case, the US is far better than Russia on freedom of the press and tolerating political dissidents. Look at the World Press Freedom Index. The US is ranked 45th in the wor
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That Snowden quote is a good piece of rhetoric and it's the first thing I think of when I hear the "nothing to hide" argument. I'm not sure if it's actually true, though. It's possible that privacy and free spe
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Yeah, chess engines are a good call. They're often relatively small and self-contained, and feature a lot of good programming tricks and optimizations. I have read some of the Stockfish code, but if were going for something more "
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The compiler won't stop you storing a pointer to a local variable and dereferencing it later, either. That's just the nature of programming without managed memory. Calling a coroutine is essentially the same as temporarily "r
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Indeed, Inigo Quilez is "the guy" for this kind of stuff. He co-created ShaderToy and has worked on effects and modeling for multiple Pixar films. My favorite video of his is Painting a Landscape with Maths. https://www
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This is nonsense. Spacetime is a concept intrinsic to both quantum field theory and general relativity, our best physical theories. Quantum fields are defined as a value for every point in spacetime. General relativity defines gravity as th
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Very cool. Unfortunately it's probably not very relevant to current programming practice, but it definitely fits the bill for historical impact.
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Yes, I think so. Being written by one person isn't a hard requirement, it's just that I feel like you get a better sense of programming style and someone's approach to problem solving when you read code that hasn't been
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Just like you read the classics in literature, I think it would be interesting to read some of the classic codebases. They should fit the following criteria: - The project was highly successful or influential - Freely available source code
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I have no doubt you're more immersed in these debates than I am. I'm just a casual bystander who (admittedly, maybe too credulously) accepts the mainstream view on the topic. However, given that you're primarily citing Twitte
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It's not circumstantial evidence in the case of the market, there is direct evidence. You're ignoring the fact that contact tracing of early cases pointed to employees of the market and people who visited the market, and that SARS
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The problem is that nobody can verify the truth of every statement for themselves. Reality is too complex and no individual person has the time or the resources. For the vast majority of our beliefs, we have to rely on the consensus of expe

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