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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I think also you can’t really do reputational damage to an already well-known corrupt pariah state.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I think he did what is alleged ‘Think’ is the operative word here. Assange would not have had a jury trial if extradited without the plea deal, and for a jury trial, mere opinion isn’t enough to convict
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
When it comes to questioning another’s moral standing, it helps to have a leg to stand on
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Just googling around it seems Assange had support of the overwhelming majority of Australians (going by a 2023 poll conducted by a Sydney newspaper) > 79 per cent of people said the Biden administration should drop its pursuit of Assange
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Big fan of Hannah Ritchie's analyses, but I do feel like that PDF is a little over optimistic with both future and allegedly recent peaks for fossil fuel consumption. That said, I retrieved a bunch of a bunch of historical data from O
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Might you conjure some pertinent examples for this uninformed peasant what meaningful^ trade restrictions China have wrought on the US/Japan? ^ By meaningful, I mean, they can't just go to another supplier, and the particular rest
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I suppose I earned that downvote. But, facetiousness aside, is the reciprocal true? Does China or any other country hold back growth technologies from being sold from Other Country A to Other Country B? Or is it just the US?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Behavioral biology is still a nascent field. Finding concrete biomarkers is the holy grail if diagnosis, but behavioral observation is the best we’ve got, and it so happens that certain traits tend to cluster, so the DSM and the like have r
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
A free market for me, but not for thee
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Might be wrong, but it appears to be screen-space ambient occlusion glitching out. SSAO uses the normals in the output buffers to darken concave sections
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Yep, but it’s not in old analog hifis. A good reason is that tapes and CDs can’t instantly seek. By the time we got mp3 players, it was all about miniaturization, and eventually flat devices and screens. Slide pots for seeking never happene
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Nothing stopping the US government making big bets of its own. But perhaps it has in military tech. At any rate, the free market ideal has been proven as fallible as any ideal in practice
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It does poke a hole through the concept of markets that are free of government intervention lead to cheaper goods. I doubt these subsidies don’t further government revenue in some way, so is the Chinese government a better capital allocato
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> old school hifi at a thrift shop I don't think I've ever seen a physical seeking slider. Fast forward, rewind, sure. Maybe even variable fast forward and rewind, but nothing like this, not even on modern analog devices. Th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> 130% increase in tvs per person Is each person watching all these TVs at once Matrix style? Even if you've got your laptop, iPhone and iPad all unlocked and playing videos while watching your TV, it's not really adding 30% of
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> i agree about wealth being the primary driver of energy use That's not what I meant. I was referring to the development of populations. Populations that didn't have what the global north would call 'the basics', e
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> producer captures the whole consumer surplus only happens in the absence of competition Collusion is the norm. Especially with electricity suppliers where they jack up the rates because most people won't be bothered to check for
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> this measure, incidentally, doesn't count energy used for exports at all Literally, it does. It's consumption-based energy usage. It's trade adjusted > the usa starts out at 94, peaks at 104, dips down to 87, and th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Not so much cost of energy, but the price of energy charged to consumers. As ever, the cost + margin sets the minimum for the price, but the price maxes out at what the consumer is willing to bear. Though to be fair, in the last 5 or so y
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> cherry-picked group of countries is special pleading It's hard to disentangle the rise of wealth in the world from increased consumption caused by cheaper energy. Certainly in the west capacity has become larger and... > the
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> a fact Jevons Paradox is conjecture, not immutable law. Consumption based energy usage has been on the trend downwards in western countries for some time. Much of this is explained by efficiency gains (e.g., LED lighting, OLED screens,
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> but by the time it launched on the market in 2005, X86_64 was the new undisputed king of CPU performance PS3 Cell could do about 154 GFLOPs across it's 7 cores (6 SPUs and 1 PPU, excluding the GPU), while Xeons were in the low dou
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
That alternative sounds great, I just couldn't trust it without third-party audits. If Fairtrade International transitions to being plainly an auditing company rather than a facilitator, that's fine, as long as a standard is main
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
If I see the green and blue Fairtrade® logo, I know it's been independently audited, otherwise I just assume the worst. There's no way to get around independent audits and a reputable trademark that signifies the product has been
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Are you talking ‘ethical fair trade’? Because there’s definitely reputable and properly audited designations in this space (edit: namely the green and blue Fairtrade International and Rainforest Alliance, all the imitation marks are junk)
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
People would pay extra for ‘conflict-free’ avocados I bet
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Well if OP wants to share photos but also not have the distractions of social media, they’re back to muting notifications and relying on their own willpower to not open the apps. Most cameras have a dedicated app for image transfer and brow
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Sure, but if you’re only reason for taking the phone is for the camera, it’s not on the same par as a dedicated camera with a decent sized lens and sensor (esp. in low light), and compacts fit in most pockets. But if you really want a iPho
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Exactly. Research and it’s practical application is pretty common in computer graphics, and particularly cutting edge graphics engine development. There’s no need to dig around in academic papers unless you’re dealing with deep technical pr
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> benchmarksgame/ I suppose if you want to do some distributed mandelbrot in Erlang, you'd just use NIFs to use an actual systems language for compute. > maybe because of the myth of compiled languages requiring more effort

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