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by graemep 2mo ago
> you need gates on your communities I think that is a cause: if you are gated off in a secure area, you care less about the safety of wider society. You will want to spend less on the police etc. > That your kids' school is goin
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by graemep 2mo ago
I think most rangefinder cameras are/were either fixed focal length or adjusted to the lens in use so there was only a tiny parallax error. This is going to be far, far worse.
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by graemep 2mo ago
Given how fragile unreliable those processes are, you probably can without doing much damage. Its not like replacing good quality software with something vibe coded.
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by graemep 2mo ago
You have created a new account just to repeat downvoted or dead comments made by your other account?
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by graemep 2mo ago
I think if you consider that single instance it is mistaking correlation for causation. However, it happens every time, with a lag. In different climates and environments. When humans expanded out of Africa, spread out over Eurasia, reached
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by graemep 2mo ago
I think they mean inertia, not "gravity"
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by graemep 3mo ago
Nothing there about wanting to bring about Armageddon. Neither the "Christian" nationalists nor The Guardian seem to know much about the actual history of the crusades. Its interesting how people with opposite ideological lenses u
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by graemep 3mo ago
I am wondering whether the reason he needed to say it was because he was arguing with those who did out their trust in the writings of the ancients.
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by graemep 3mo ago
> Same as Asimov's Detective Baley smoked a pipe and had a traditional 1950s marriage with a stay-at-home wife - just with robots.. How do you know that will not happen in the future? A hugely different society might look more like
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by graemep 3mo ago
Your links do not substantiate your claim. There are quotes of Peter Hesgeth apparently expressing some pretty whacky beliefs, but not that particular one.
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by graemep 3mo ago
We have called lots of things AI over the years. How many things have been called AI from at least as far back as Eliza in the 1960s?
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by graemep 3mo ago
> Interestingly, professional journalism organisations often have pretty strict codes of practice about images, and photoshop use. I seem to recall many instances of the use of incorrect photos, and the earliest I heard of was in the The
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by graemep 3mo ago
Even that goes beyond what I was saying, and its a matter of PoV - Americans would presumably prefer their government to have more power over other countries in at least some cases, and very likely with regard to Russia. I am not saying its
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by graemep 3mo ago
More south than east. It conquered part of the Arabian peninsula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksumite_Empire
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by graemep 3mo ago
> is there any civilization close to the achievements of the Aztecs and other Amerindians in Africa south of Egypt? Aksum for a start.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Beef should not the the main meat in some places. There is a particular problem in the Americas with cattle. Tariffs do sometimes reduce imports from places where cattle are not a great fit - i.e. the very places where forests are cleared
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by graemep 3mo ago
The myth of indigenous people's living in harmony with nature is just the current version of the myth of the "noble savage" and remains a disguise for racism, as it takes away the history and moral agency of such people, and
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by graemep 3mo ago
> Its believed that homo sapiens have been around for at least 300,000 years and yet we think almost all of that was entirely without civilization. Depends what you call civilization. If there was a civilization what happened to it and w
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by graemep 3mo ago
Downvotes but no counter arguments? DO people think I am wrong but cannot be bothered to explain why, or are people shooting the messenger, or have poor reading skills and interpret prediction as advocacy? Genuinely curious.
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by graemep 3mo ago
That is a bit silly. In any given country most who can leave choose to stay. Even in country with a very high per capita rate most people will stay. People will leave and return after a few years. Many people are better off in many ways sta
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by graemep 3mo ago
This is probably the future. Who is better able to verify an identity than a state? State run registrars regulate companies. States issue individuals ID documents. If you have trusted central parries issue encryption certificates it will gr
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by graemep 3mo ago
Pandoc is amazing. I have HTML and want a PDF? One command and it just works painlessly. That was just my last use of pandoc this weekend. I do not use it that often, but when I do its perfect.
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by graemep 3mo ago
I am more interested in why ?. Do you think its likely that people will want to use this code in proprietary software and you do not want the GPL to block this ? Do you feel as a matter of principle that people are free to do so regardless
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by graemep 3mo ago
I think there is a huge aspirational factor here too. A lot of people think "I will be rich one day". People also feel secure if they have wealth, even if its assets that are illiquid. If you sell your house you have to buy anothe
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by graemep 3mo ago
Given that New Zealand actually changed its laws to prevent unionisation in order to ensure The Hobbit was made there, I think unions are definitely a factor. I have no idea how strong the unions related to film are in the UK. It varies a l
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by graemep 3mo ago
There was a belief in "the end of history": that any economy that developed would inevitably become a liberal free market democracy. I think this has left its mark. A lot of people do not seem to be able understand that this is no
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by graemep 3mo ago
I think its both: how much people can afford, and the number of subscriptions available.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The hot/cold food idea seems very similar to that in South Asia, and is fundamental to Ayurvedic traditional medicine. Some vegetables may have been actually different because they have been bred heavily since, or different varieties h
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by graemep 3mo ago
I do not see anything like that. Just text with a few pictures. Turn off JS, end of problem.
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by graemep 3mo ago
many of them genuinely believe that it is progress to be above mere national interests. Certainly many people believe it to be a more progressive point of view.

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