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by it_citizen 3y ago
The earth absorbs carbon through different mechanisms, although a lot of them are getting close to saturation.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
What makes you think he is an idiot?
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by it_citizen 3y ago
« We can’t really make models bigger than 220B parameters » Can someone explains why?
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I was often asked if I wasn't afraid of having kids because of the horrible things awaiting them. But when was the right time in the history of humanity to not be afraid to have kids if not in the western world today? Our civilisation
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Try virologist 3 years ago.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
The truth is that those 13 years with a stupid high salary will change your relation to money. You will live in a HCOL area, be around people with much more money, start thinking it is normal to spend 3M on a house, buy stupid things becaus
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Just personal experience. But I have seen that pattern multiple times.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
If money is by far your top priority, sure. But the shortest path to the title might be a miserable one filled with politics, stressful high visibility projects with ton of micro management and extra hours. In the meantime, I went from jun
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Aim to run one piece of the company well enough that nobody else need to worry about it. And don't let anyone forget about it. This will give you more satisfaction and better leverage than a title when it comes to negotiate a raise or
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I am going to lose some karma over that comment: As someone who has not watched star wars before being adult but is pretty fond of fantasy and sci-fi, I am wondering if the simplest explanation for the constant disappointments is that the u
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by it_citizen 3y ago
They announced a product that is a year away and dedicated almost an hour to it, stretching the entire conference to two hours. They are definitely not burying it.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Not sure, this is a fiction. But if I took a guess: more internalization of climate change by the general population, earlier investments into alternative sources of energies, maybe baking in carbon pricing early on before we all became com
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Whatever the real intentions of Sam Altman are, I think what he is doing might end up being a net positive. Imagine if fossil fuel companies had helped, early-on, to hammer into the public perception of oil how it might end up being disast
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by it_citizen 3y ago
> The fact that scaling continues to work has significant implications for the timelines of AGI development. The scaling hypothesis is the idea that we may have most of the pieces in place needed to build AGI and that most of the remaini
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Comparing the revenues of tech companies to the gdp of a country, even to give a sense of scale is comparing apples to oranges. Even if a bit unlikely, I would not be completely surprised if the service industry as a whole produced twice t
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I see a lot of flagged comments of people claiming that "degenerate books" were pushed on people. Is that really a thing? Is it more than isolated incidents? From my information bubble, those claims seem so foreign to me. Can some
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Maybe we should start with that to explain intersectionality in southern states. :)
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by it_citizen 3y ago
If the whole covid vaccine debate taught me one thing is that there are idiots in every jobs, even the most qualified.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Education quality, political polarisation, inequality, poverty index, happiness.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Yet I see carbon capture being a top pick in discussions about effective altruism and by the clean air task force. I believe their reasoning is that for the amount of money invested, it remains one of the most efficient investment to decarb
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I agree. But also I am secretly enjoying that for once, it is Europe getting a product first ;) Do Canada next!
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by it_citizen 3y ago
If they still have enough water that is. Spain might have some thoughts on that.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Good point. I think both? Nations are not single minded. Political parties, individuals, companies, diplomats, each might have their own particular interest. But I remember not long ago, "trade and free market will bring democratic ins
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I am glad Germany didn't stop trading with the US after they invaded Irak by producing fake witnesses, or the second time by fabricating proofs, or Afghanistan. Diplomacy is not black and white.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
This is very simplified. A lot of western countries, Germany first, believed that if we traded and opened up to those countries, they would naturally tend to adopt western values. It turned out to be incorrect. China being an even better ex
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by it_citizen 3y ago
What does "working as intended" means? Some sibling comments challenge that it doesn't help reduce the amount of private data stored. I would argue that GDPR is working as intended on the economic war front. The US weaponized
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by it_citizen 3y ago
After years of development, RSpec is what made me stop testing the code manually. Rspec is one of those things that made me a better developer.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Is that a risk? I don’t know much about warheads but is it realistic that nuclear warheads just detonate along the way? To the point where leaders might worry about it?
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by it_citizen 3y ago
Fun fact: it is said that Putin never uses the internet.
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by it_citizen 3y ago
I understand the dilemma, but should we forbid ourselves to discuss some topics? It kind of remember me how the possibility of covid lab leak got discredited early on in the Lancet without any proof and then backfired spectacularly, creatin

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