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by gipp 2y ago
Nix the language has issues for sure (error messages for starters), but "complexity" isn't really one of them IMO. It's quite a small and simple language. The complexity comes in with the ecosystem and nix-the-build-syst
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by gipp 2y ago
Says who? The quadrants would just be the combination of the two applicable types
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by gipp 2y ago
Those are the labels for each end of each axis, not for the quadrants. Believer/grifter is one axis, coaster/grinder is the other.
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by gipp 2y ago
The first half of the title is pretty well-covered, but it seems like at no point does the author even explain what they mean by the term "infrastructure of energy," right? I assume they're not talking about electrical subs
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by gipp 2y ago
Yeah, figuring out a remotely accurate figure for that is at least as hard as the work done here, and requires pretty different sets of expertise
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by gipp 2y ago
> I'm assuming solutions like this are uneconomic You kinda answered your own question already, I feel. The energy efficiency of cycling a battery (70-90% for grid scale) or pumped hydro (70-85%) is simply much, much higher than che
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by gipp 2y ago
Those are both explicitly arguments that the author made in the article, how is he missing the point? He didn't say the lack of carbon tax acts doesn't act as a subsidy. He agreed that it does. His point was failing to distinguish
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by gipp 2y ago
I've only seen the posters, an early trailer, and a few paragraphs about it here and there, but I've been surprised this comparison hasn't come up more often. Looking at the poster and the plot synopsis, it's all I can t
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by gipp 2y ago
And three just happen to accept such offers within a day of a major structural transition, but unrelated to it?
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by gipp 2y ago
> Do that many people even work on AI development? That's not the relevant figure. It's more about how much capital has been wagered by large tech cos and the major startups & VCs on a near-complete takeover of white-collar
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by gipp 2y ago
The whole discourse that has exploded around this phrase, and the amount of self-seriousness and dogma about it in this sites comment sections have been really baffling to me. One overconfident billionaire writes an essay about a phrase som
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by gipp 2y ago
> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. Distills the post to a sentence, and boy does this nail it.
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by gipp 2y ago
A mile down is, as already stated in the article, way below any water table. There is no groundwater there to contaminate.
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by gipp 2y ago
Seems obvious they wouldn't want to provide further visibility to it. In the interest of journalism.
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by gipp 2y ago
Google is the one who has spent years and presumably many millions trying to make it happen, and has only recently thrown in the towel
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by gipp 2y ago
I'd say it's more or less consistent with QFT -- it's saying essentially the same thing, just not in that exact language
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by gipp 2y ago
Tl;Dr: "Wave-particle duality" is not the notion that matter is "sometimes" a particle and "sometimes" a wave. It is, at all times, its own separate category of thing, for which "particle" and "w
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by gipp 2y ago
Let's put it this way. Opposable thumbs are such a massive fitness advantage, in so many ways that are obviously massively more impactful, that such a factor, if it even exists, would be utterly negligible. So the only conceivable re
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by gipp 2y ago
Yeah, it's not like the utility of opposable thumbs is exactly a mystery
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by gipp 2y ago
> I'm in agreement with the author: without more detail or pushback from the Google Cloud leaders, this is a really bad look for future customers. That's exactly the opposite of what he said: > [...] putting out a competing
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by gipp 2y ago
Income -- being funneled through the unifying medium of US dollars usually, and having some other counterparty to the transaction available to verify things -- is a lot simpler to account for than wealth, and look how complex that still i
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by gipp 2y ago
How are those "ridiculous scenarios?" Any attempt to base laws around the net worth of an individual is going to run into a hundred thousand such scenarios instantly. A person's "wealth" is simply not well defined.
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by gipp 2y ago
Cool, see you in a million years when that incredibly noisy effect converges
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by gipp 2y ago
Yes, sure, but it's also extremely common to just use "fired" colloquially for either case (in the US at least)
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by gipp 2y ago
? I'm not confused about anything, I'm explaining why it's a terrible decision. People aren't buying it (at least not now that it's actually out and reviewed, pre orders aside), not just because it's stand-al
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by gipp 2y ago
That's their reason to make it a stand-alone device. What is my reason to want it to be a stand-alone device?
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by gipp 2y ago
One of my higher-voted comments on Reddit was in response to some thread bemoaning the decline of the site towards lowest-common-denominator meme content and recycled jokes. My comment was pointing out that people had been saying that for y
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by gipp 2y ago
I mean... you pretty much just repeated what the article said, though. You agree with him.
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by gipp 2y ago
If nothing else, this post is kind of conflating 2 different things: (a) do search rankings display a bias, and (b) is a "revolving door" and close relationships leading tech companies to deliberately induce such bias. I think it&
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by gipp 2y ago
No it's more like saying it's all just different regions of a single function. Individual electrons are just regions of that function that have particular recurring kinds of structure to them

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