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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
After reading a little more, I've just seen another angle. Russia's going to have a million veterans roaming around, with lots of untreated PTSD. A struggling economy could create the perfect storm for revolution. Sending people e
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
It's continental shelf. Like 50m deep? Think the width is like 70km. It's hardly impossible. I mean, if the Faroe Islands can build undersea tunnels for fun... Think I've seen a £100bil pricetag for a full infratructure revam
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
I'm guessing any plan would just be rail, maybe with drive in trains like the Channel Tunnel. Unlocking rail freight routes between China and the USA surely would be huge. It'd probably massively speed up resource extraction in th
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
I've come across lots of novel uses, though. I've seen non-technical people in law, education, hr, all spin up interesting projects/workflows which have helped their jobs/lives. The most interesting was a teacher who&#x2
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Being able to program isn't the end game of critical thinking. Programming languages are just a way of representing the processes. The thinking underneath was always more important, and there's now technically more time freed up t
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Massively bugs me. I have to wear green sunglasses, change the language to Japanese, and turn my monitor sideways to get any real work done nowadays.
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Anthropic one-shotting a Linux distro would be quite the ad... Perplexity are devleoping Comet as an AI-powered browser. I wonder if anybody will take the OS leap.
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
The numbers: >According to an external report from Alma Economics, for every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return. An external report found that the pilot program cost €72 million ($84 million) but g
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Moscow Hints at Potential US-Russia Tunnel Deal(kyivpost.com)
6 points by gaiagraphia 4mo ago|16 comments
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
It's an idea which has been touted for a while; tunnelling between Alaska and Chukotka via the Diomede islands. Apparently Khruschev and Kennedy spoke about a 'Peace Bridge' connecting the 2 powers. According to the article,
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Maybe the artform will be lost, but surely humanity will inherently be more 'logical' and systems driven afterwards? Maybe using writing as an analogy is flawed, but most of humanity having 'writing' as a core skill did
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Isn't that a net positive though? (not sure about the cost human and tech cost). I'm guessing that without using Mythos, those conversations would never have been had, and confidence in the compliance of the product would've
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Seriously? Wow, can you show me how to cash in? I did wonder why my cpu usage was lower than firefox.
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
I have ublock origin on Brave, though? Firefox doesn't have any Edge over Brave on the extension scene. In fact, there's probably more useful extensions on the old Chrome ecosystem. I remember actually biting the bullet and switch
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
There's a certain irony in masters of automation lamenting that their roles are being automated. I wonder whether the jobs their efforts eroded in the past ever got the same thoughts... Programming, logic, etc are skills and toolkits.
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
If exemmptions need to be made, the tax isn't taxing the essence purely. With the 'no VAT on bread' example, we need to work out why. How can we quantify why bread shouldn't be taxed? I'm guessing eventually we&#x27
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
The article argues that consumption taxes are necessary for this model, but there's no mention of why VAT is the best tool for the job. I'm not sure why VAT is sacrosanct. I've read that it costs small companies around 2% of
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Thanks for this. Absolutely incredible read. I'm really hoping these new tools will empower a new generation of people. It's sad that there even needs to be a term 'citizen scientist'.
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
Why does scale absolve you of crime? If you or me hacked 20,000 people and potentially fucked over their lives, what'd be the consequences? Who's going to attach their name to this negligent act and do time?
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by gaiagraphia 4mo ago
I wonder how many times the UK and USA had to 'be stupid' to achieve some of their best achievements? When curiosity gets replaced by bureaucracy and regs, you know a civ is dead..
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
It's really scary how society is being 'nudged' into using 'authorised devices' to participate in society (which we have to pay for, lol). I wonder if some ideology which believes in tech freedom will become the com
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
I love projects like this. A shame the west has handed over the baton to the Chinese and Saudis when it comes to actually being daring with megaprojects. Some over stuff whhich are cool to read about: Redirecting Siberian rivers into Centra
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
The Saudis were fucking around with the idea of solar domes at one point. Haven't heard anything about it for a while though (probably due to maths, lol). A shame, I've always been fascinated by Egypt and the empty expanses of not
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Always wondered why the coast of the Red Sea isn't littered with channels which get flooded with seawater, which then evpporate into glassed ceilings; creating freshwater, and leaving behind salts for mining. Sand -> Glass -> hea
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Bakeries are solved tech and work pretty well. The lazy even have a legion of delivery drivers to deliver it fresh now, too!
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
There's a different between 'promotion' and 'bait and switch'. There's also the matter of the externalities of the products you're promoting. If Hicks marketed his shows as life-changing experiences which&
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
It's horrifying to see the state of bread in some nations. I really don't get why/how one of the simplest processes known to civilization needs a stock ticker and a Hogwarts-worth of chemicals thrown into it. It's really
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
All this shit should be subject to massive negative externality taxes. The cost of awful diets on society is absolutely huge. Big corpos are absolutely taking the piss. Extract, extract, extract.
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Your dollar is always your vote. What society spends its labour on is the society it creates, far more so than a random tick in a box.
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Surely households using more wind and solar frees up capacity for 'dense energy' though?

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