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by gdubs 6y ago
I mean, aren’t we talking more about the Black Swan events that are worth investing in?
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by gdubs 6y ago
Ted Koppel wrote a book about this subject (of our grid’s vulnerability in general) called “Lights Out”. Because it’s Ted Koppel, he had access to some top level officials for interviews. He came away super concerned that no one had any gre
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m not an expert but my understanding of it is that our brains aren’t like computers. So, rather than storing precise memories, we probably have multiple memories sharing the same neural connections. Like, the memory of grandpa’s beard is
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by gdubs 6y ago
One of the hardest thing about being a parent today is the constant shame and confusion about the “right” way to do it. We don’t live in a hunter gatherer society anymore, we just don’t. There’s lots of wisdom in that way of life, and sure
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by gdubs 6y ago
FWIW it’s zippy as hell on my iPhone 11 Pro.
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by gdubs 6y ago
There’s a lot of absolutism in this thread, but there are so many incremental things we can change. First, we should put a price on carbon given the clear negative externalities. Animal agriculture — when you actually factor in everything
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by gdubs 6y ago
Rendering a complex 3D scene? Easy to imagine. But a 3D scene that the computer could generate with seemingly infinite variations? Given how manual the process of 3D animation was, that didn’t seem plausible*. After all — it’s only been in
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by gdubs 6y ago
This was an incredibly engaging video. I’ve said this before but if we are indeed at the bottom of the sigmoid curve, than the Star Trek holodeck seems more and more plausible [1]. Not the materialization part - that I’m aware of. But a mac
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by gdubs 6y ago
Daft Punk is one of the first band websites I remember — sitting in my college computer lab on a candy colored Mac. IIRC, it was a few “space men” on screen, and when you hovered over them it played sample loops.
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by gdubs 6y ago
That’s fortunate. But if we’re playing the anecdote game: I know two relatives who died from it this year, and a young, healthy, person who had a “mild” case and now has weird blood issues, clotting, etc.
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by gdubs 6y ago
And here I was thinking we were having an honest debate and not just hurling insults behind a throwaway account.
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by gdubs 6y ago
I read Pinker’s book — I’m familiar with the argument. I also think it looks at a data point (now) and compares it to the long tail of history, and says, “things are great!” I’m not sure if you look at the curve’s derivative since, say, 199
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by gdubs 6y ago
I read Stewart Brand's 'Whole Earth Discipline' about five years ago, and came away pretty convinced by his pro-nuclear arguments. The price situation has definitely changed dramatically in the last few years, with solar drop
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by gdubs 6y ago
I don’t know why — and forgive the potentially low value comment — but the headline alone made me recall the movie “Flatliners” from the 90s, which I saw way too young, and which thoroughly terrified me.
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m open minded to the lab leak hypothesis, but it’s still just that: a hypothesis. We know that industrial scale meat production results in increased disease risk.
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’ve always been a snob about cooking with gas only — but have recently been intrigued with induction for environmental reasons, and not needing to deal with gas refills. My stove is on a propane tank which I need to refill. It’s fine, but
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Professional Chef on Her Love of Cooking with Induction(cleantechnica.com)
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by gdubs 6y ago
One form of vertical farming that does save space is Agroforestry, in which traditional crops are grown in a system with trees. Plants have various solar requirements — some are shade tolerant. This means you can have crops, shrubs, trees
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by gdubs 6y ago
+1 to the NRCS route. We went through them for our oak woodland and upland prairie restoration projects, and they have been really great to work with. They care a lot about the environment and have a lot of knowledge.
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by gdubs 6y ago
So, NRCS is a division of the USDA focused heavily on conservation . I know this from experience because we have some of our land in a conservation program through NRCS, and they’re super knowledgeable about native ecosystems.
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by gdubs 6y ago
OK, total aside — this post is pretty conspiratorial and has been flagged anyway — but there’s a link buried within a link that’s fascinating: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impac... The World E
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by gdubs 6y ago
Something I’ve noticed time and again is that when you start working on marketing, you look at the product differently. In having to pitch it to an audience, you’re forced to confront things that seem obvious in retrospect but didn’t jump o
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s a shame that education has become so transactional. I was lucky enough to have a scholarship, but if I’m fortunate enough to pay full-ride for my kids when they’re old enough, and they’re at a place where they seem ready to get the mos
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by gdubs 6y ago
I was gifted a high end pair of Beats many years ago, and my reaction was that music sounded “fun”. They couldn’t replace my studio monitor headphones, which were way more accurate . But they hyped up music in a way that was pleasurable. I
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s early here and it’s been about 20 years since my logic course in College, but I’ll give it a shot. This is generally the domain of logic as a formal tool for argumentative analysis. In that context, one is trying to nail down whether a
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by gdubs 6y ago
One minute people are judicially applying the Slippery Slope fallacy, and before you know it we’re using it recklessly to dismiss very plausible outcomes. Kidding aside, the point of the Slippery Slope argument isn’t that a chain of events
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s pretty well documented that intelligence agencies new about the novel coronavirus very early on, and we know the vaccines were completed very rapidly after the genomic information was published — so this argument is sort of off. The US
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by gdubs 6y ago
A lot of cynical takes here, projecting the worst intentions of the government. To me this seems: A) remarkably hands-off, patient. “The market seems to be working.” B) A reminder to newbies that there ARE laws, so don’t be stupid as your i
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is a very incorrect take on forests. They’re incredibly intricate ecosystems in balance. They are anything but black and white, grow or die situations. Cancer in a forest would be the invasive tree that wipes out all of the native spec
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by gdubs 6y ago
If I understand correctly, this is essentially using neural nets to compress the information representing a 3D mesh [1], similar to how neural nets can do image upscaling on 2D images? Either way, the technology of Star Trek The Next Genera

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