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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Yep. Not sure why this is downvoted, but as an outsider to DefCon, I'm not sure what's going on here just looking at the tweet.
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It would involve a transitory step of a direct human computer interface. But tbf, there’s no continuity of perception when you go to sleep and wake up. We have no idea how consciousness works, or whether there really is something as multipl
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I'll assume you mean niche in the desktop space. So there's a catch 22 here. ARM was niche on desktop because no-one made the first move. That is, until Apple launched the M1, which is exactly the failure of imagination of Mic
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> This has made me great at coming up with iterative steps where each step brings value: even if I stop at any one point, I have done something useful. This is really just getting caught up on semantics, and what you've described is
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Heat death aside, with ‘infinite time’ and probably long before we arrive to affordable interplanetary travel of our squishy forms, we will have found a way to upload ourselves to silicon (or whatever substrate computes the best), where we
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> (assuming healthy) Moments ago, I, too, used to think this way, but then I glanced around at the comments here, and I realize that even if immortal, we'd still have to suffer each other, and that simply just can't go on forev
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I think this shows that in species where the male does not die promptly after mating, there is good reason to live longer Yep. Parenthood. And for humans (and other social species like elephants, other primates, etc.) to be grandpare
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I guess pug's whitespace sensitivity permits a way to quickly tell if a tag is closed. I'm a fan of higher expressiveness/minimalism, so perhaps I'm just biased in my preference, but I also appreciate how it removes the
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
All I want is a phone I can put in my front pocket that doesn’t force me to change my gait. Height and thickness matters more to me, and 3mm extra width seems a negligible trade off
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Overall, it's much less noisy than pug, just by removing the parentheses and commas. But if the objective of this kind of markup is trying to minimize visual noise, removing redundant closing tags (which have inconsistent rules) would
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
A plant doesn't have to be expressly a 'peaking' plant to drop it's capacity or increase it. All coal plants have this capability. Certainly it takes longer for coal plants to do this vs a dedicated gas peaker plant. A
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I can point to the data. Do you have anything to back yourself? Reputable sources? What are your convictions based on? > literally no one uses coal as peaker ever While these plants might be strained by having to adjust their output, th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
That is a point of difference, but I'd also wager CO2 and GHG overall emissions correlate.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> False. As I've explained in another comment, adding power stations and capacity doesn't mean running 100% all year. China is using coal as peakers much like other countries use gas for this purpose. Given that China is also
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Not when you adjust for trade: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Who is 'they' here? Certainly there was a one-child policy. I don't think it could be said that the consequence of female abortion and infanticide was the intention (or even an expected consequence) of the policy. It seems
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Not sure who you're replying to, but when you factor in trade, China is still a touch behind the EU and seems to be trending away. I see 2022 on the chart (you might have to make sure you have JS enabled) https://ourworldin
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> But I also read that they're the biggest producers of coal (confusingly both the biggest importers and exporters, and consumers). Yep. And their coal plants are less and less needed. They are essentially becoming peakers (in the
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> in real terms I’m not sure how better to dice up emissions then by consumption per person, and by that measure the US is clearly emitting the most https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit... Co
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China’s population has reached a plateau https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demograp...
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Of all the countries China is doing the most to curb its emissions. Not sure what else you expect them to do > Global annual renewable capacity additions increased by almost 50% to nearly 510 gigawatts (GW) in 2023, the fastest growth ra
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> We can play semantic games with per-capita consumption, but the fact of the matter remains that even if the entirety of the planet, except China and India, went 100% carbon neutral overnight, it would still be impossible to avoid hitti
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Emissions embedded in trade https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-co2-embedded-in-tra... Trade adjusted emissions per capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It’s a nice dream, but enough people have to be willing to pay for things in preference to tolerating ads to not pay. Streaming services and some online news services provide this option, so it’s available. But asking for everything to be f
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I agree that TV stations and websites don't have to be purely vessels for advertising, but in today's climate of slim margins – due to an expectation that everything is 'free' – and sliding ethics, advertising lends mo
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
That’s the same incredulity that was and still is applied to solar’s stratospheric growth, yet the curve has remained true for decades now. There’s a Cambrian explosion of storage technologies ATM^ and it’s driven by profit incentive. Many
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Exponential growth is exponential growth. And pumped hydro isn’t what’s driving that growth. If the curve continues in the same fashion as renewables consumption has and still is today, we’ll have one day’s worth global capacity by the midd
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Grid storage additions 2017-2022: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/annual-grid-s... It’s exponential growth, very similar to the growth curve of solar and wind. What’s different is the curve is even
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Building new nuclear night have been a worthwhile proposition 10-15 years ago, but if you build one now, the exponential growth of grid storage will render it useless by all measures once it is finally in operation. Definitely decommission
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> It is naive to paint the leaders as well intentioned in this. TFA didn’t do this. They posit a kind of passive malevolence, where things that hurt the bottom line are forbidden, but everything else is fine

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