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by gbrown 5y ago
Let me be clear, I mean technological and software competition. A duopoly between Android and Apple isn't it. For comparison, see the dekstop/laptop market, where there are many totally usable open source software alternatives to
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by gbrown 5y ago
I really wish there was more competition in this space. Here's hoping someone like Canonical tries again now that the open-hardware world is starting to expand.
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by gbrown 5y ago
> Someday I will get my comeuppance. May they throw the CFAA at you, villain.
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by gbrown 5y ago
It would start further up the chain with commodity farmers providing the feed.
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by gbrown 5y ago
[citation needed] Also, it wouldn’t matter anyway: the climate impact of raising so many and feeding them carbon intensive grain is bonkers.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Sure… that’s it.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I mean, not being super familiar with this guy outside of what is presented in the article, there does seem to be a pretty important difference between someone like Milo and an actual academic giving an academic talk. I see why some would w
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by gbrown 5y ago
That’s hardly red-pilling though.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Having read the article, that seems like a nonsense take. Care to explain?
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by gbrown 5y ago
Electronic shifting is already a thing, and they make it work pretty well with servos.
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by gbrown 5y ago
That makes sense.
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by gbrown 5y ago
That would be an alternate explanation for the phenomena described by dark matter though, dark energy is about the accelerating expansion of the universe.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I like Julia a lot, but out of curiosity why are you writing a web server in it? I would 100% reach for Python for that use case.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I’ve been really enjoying it since 1.6 came out. A lot of the points you raise are perfectly valid, but the speed difference coming from R and python is real (so long as you’re writing computationally intensive programs and not scripts, for
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by gbrown 5y ago
Not to mention, if living your ideals is an important part of your own utility function, then yeah - it can be best for you even if it comes with other compromises.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Exactly
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by gbrown 5y ago
If Google reader had never existed, I feel like RSS could have become the foundation of the modern web.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I’ve had two lightning ports go flaky due to use. I expect that to accelerate now that they’ve infuriatingly removed the 3.5mm Jack.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Came here with the same question, but there’s a good answer elsewhere in the thread that it’s about wavelengths: reflect where the sun is bright, and among those materials find one that is the most absorbent/emissive in the IR.
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by gbrown 5y ago
That’s just not true on any reasonable timescale. Healthy forests absolutely build up organic matter in soil on various timescales, and while the carbon has various residency periods it’s a net sink. Things like forest fires can create cha
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by gbrown 5y ago
That’s the sales pitch, but I haven’t seen any evidence. Almost all the sound is projected behind you, where people can already see you (and where high-vis clothing would be more effective than sound anyway, but you don’t see many bikers we
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by gbrown 5y ago
> what is required to cause it to collapse is still not a solved problem From what I've read, the existence of "collapse" of the wave-function is not established, and not even widely accepted as more than a useful computa
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by gbrown 5y ago
> but they do not let me subscribe to journals, nor contribute to the library budget. Not defending the publishing system, but that’s what indirects are for.
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by gbrown 5y ago
It’s good enough to be submitted as a new Cards Against Humanity prompt.
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by gbrown 5y ago
That does sound interesting, though I get the impression that many such people simply don't want to bother making their ideas precise enough for publication. For, example Stephen Weinberg says a lot of things and claims to be oppressed
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by gbrown 5y ago
I'm not going to bother to read the article because it's pointless, but I must admit I love the title: "Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad"
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by gbrown 5y ago
X -> doubt Education is correlated with both low birth rates and liberal political views, and culture surrounding politics and reproduction changes a lot faster than population genetics.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I mean, based just on the abstract that's not entirely unlike what they're doing, except that they're using GP emulation.
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by gbrown 5y ago
It was long enough ago that I honestly don’t recall whether or not the teacher tried that. I may have just been stubborn lol.
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by gbrown 5y ago
In elementary school we had something like this - we had to read a book from a different genre every month in order to earn a food item for the end of year picnic. I was constantly reading just science fiction, and ended up with only pickl

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