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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Imagine being opposed to solar and wind.... Do people people really hate sun and clouds and stuff? Or are they against the physical capture of geographical processes? ... I've heard "muh birds" a few times. Ironically, it see
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I'm sure there's more to your story, but... It's quite amusing imagining somebody working in a cybersecurity firm wondering why he's being questioned by security for opening up Tor at work. heh. Surely your post effectiv
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If you look at idioms, human nature has never really changed. Most of our culture and outlook was defined by the Sumerians. "You reap what you sow".
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People struggle with claiming responsibility for their actions. They think a 6 digit salary is a god-given right, and that everybody else is to blame if their work results in negative externalities for the rest of society/the world. It
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>no gov >no corpo (aren't most ISPs corpos?) I'd like to plot 'quality of government' vs 'quality of ISPs' on the market. Do the most anarachist/libertarian nations have OP tier internet with 0 censo
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"Supporting their loved ones" is doing a lot of moral heavy lifting here, though. History's littered with people trotting out this line when they've valued luxury and status over morals. The more you interact with someth
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Would like to plot attitudes to AI against parental incomes or inheritance. If your value derives from having contacts and access to gatekept materials, rather than pure technical expertise, you've got a lot to lose as the walls come c
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There's a difference between the internet in the 90s and today, though. If those of us fortunate enough to have experienced the early-ish days of the internet grew up using 5 platforms, we probably wouldn't be so nostalgic. Beatin
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Isn't "getting greater" the more accurate representation, though? In 'critical' industries, the error rate is massively important, and if the quality of search is reaching an acceptable error rate, that's quite
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Would love to see an evolutionary tech tree of all these 'unique abilities'. I wonder whether 'useful abilities' hinder further development when you reach your sweet niche spot in an ecosystem. Wonder if it has parallels
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Incredible that the common people will be able to wrestle the right to rule of law away from the bloated legal caste, who have built themselves quite the moat. The inaccessibility of justice is a huge driver of inequality. Any tools which b
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People will passionately tell each other to vote for [$moralParty], then willingly prop up companies which go against everything they stand for the very next day. Curious indeed.
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10 years ago I thought all the cool cats would be hanging out on old skool communities on Tor via meshnet connections. Instead, in 10 years I'll probably have to log in with an iris scan to check the (ai-powered) time, and pay for the
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Students are struggling to get work after graduating because they're dropped into a competitive environment. Ideals aren't enough to get jobs in the current environment. Universities should be places which are at the bleeding edge
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There's different skills at play, and they're both as valuable as each other. They shouldn't be thrown into a big soup with shaky aims. We still - as a society - manage to have PE and driving as different subjects. The same c
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Is this all an elite educational institution with about $50bil in assets could muster, lol? This is completely and utterly unenforceable, and such, worthless. There really needs to be diversity in delivery styles for different modules of co
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
For those who don't use it already, the following is a great compilation of curated block lists you can put into your etc/hosts file to block traffic :) https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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Isn't it a natural pattern in empire? Everything grows, there's a huge administration class employed who manage to live in relative luxury from the profits, then as relative power and influence recedes, those jobs are the first to
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by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Thanks :) Love reading how the far far past influences what we see today. Trying to build a mental map of how endogenic systems of the planet create the field on which exogenic systems play on. Your link's led me to the Warren Bioregio
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Should just buy air.com at this point and market themselves as a one-stop shop for all expat/travel services. I guess their competition is approaching the likes of Revolut. I was involved in something similar to an 'expat hub&#x27
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What an incredibly frustrating article. I thought it was established that mountains follow a cycle of being born, then being eroded back into the ocean, and that life thrives through this 'release' of minerals extracted from the c
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I think the term 'social media' has outlived its purpose. It's too vague to be used in discussion. 'Social' seems a bit redundant, as isn't most media inherently social? It's quite a nice, flattering term
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It's a privilege for these tech companies to operate in these nations, not a right. If they can't demonstrate positive value, then countries are absolutely right to cut out a cancer. I'm hugely in favour of more regulation wi
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Provides many opportunities for cheaper and more scalable methods of terrorism. Don't need to actually get explosives on board, just a bluetooth device. Manage to get 10 planes at once, and you've got a nice bit of chaos on your h
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I'm guessing they'd argue that every "aspect" discussed would be worthy of a 50k 'fine'.
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"antisemitism" is such a weird buzzword. Is it being against speakers of the Semitic lanuage group? Against being against the "Semitic race"? Every quantifiable definition I've managed to find seems to effectively b
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I've got some 'shells' from the deserts near Siwa Oasis. Quite a cool feeling walking on top of what used to be the floor of the Tethys Ocean, especially when everything around you is just rock and sand without a drop of wate
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I guess the competition lost lots of time in focusing on image and video generation. While they're fun gimmicks, I still really haven't seen the value in AI-generated image/video, especially when considering the greater costs
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Hehe, I remember doing stuff like wearing 8 t-shirts back in the day to try and travel for £1 around Europe. Currently feel like I'm living on the edge by 1-bagging an Osprey Farpoint 40. My heart races every time I'm at the gate,
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Performative nonsense. Nike's shareholders have tens of trillions of dollars of assets and some of the brightest brains at their disposal. If they wanted 'fashion waste' solved, they have the tools at their disposal. If they

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