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by jl6 4mo ago
“Social media” probably has good and bad subparts that could be allowed/banned independently, but I hope we don’t need to wait for signoff from a study before being cautious, when the harms are kinda frickin obvious.
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by jl6 5mo ago
Splattenuation
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by jl6 5mo ago
Another possibility is that the hype continues, growing and growing and sucking up more and more resources, and the piper has to wait yet another day to be paid, until someone figures out how to pivot to the next big thing and all the debt
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by jl6 5mo ago
> The names Sécurix and Bureautix are nods to the famous indomitable Gauls Astérix and Obélix Incoming retcon of Unix…
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by jl6 5mo ago
When I don’t put salt in my coffee, it’s not because I’m uncurious about what salt is, and nor does it mean I don’t appreciate salt in other contexts. But if a coffee shop only sells salted coffee, the burden is definitely on them to unders
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by jl6 5mo ago
Taking some parts and leaving others is exactly how intersectionalism should work: at an individual level. You throw your lot in with the orgs and movements you like, and leave or oppose the ones you don’t. The intersection is within you. U
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by jl6 5mo ago
There’s a lot to love about more mindful and resilient and ecological use of computing, but I wish they would build a consensus around that instead of bolting on extra politics. It’s a symptom of polarization… you can’t have independent c
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by jl6 5mo ago
Ethanol is quite a useful thing to have though, as a multi-season stable store of energy. We will need to synthesise it (or other synfuels and feedstocks), to fully transition away from fossil sources, and that 10x efficiency factor will be
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by jl6 5mo ago
Maybe age verification will encourage kids to be more social in person, because they’ll need to have at least two inside the trenchcoat.
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by jl6 6mo ago
It’s embarrassing for humanity that we cause an almighty ecological disaster and then one of the biggest factors in the recovery of local ecosystems is our absence.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Did they publish some rationale somewhere? It’s a useful feature.
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by jl6 6mo ago
It’s easier to let kids play around the neighborhood when you know who the neighbors are.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Everyone's saying progress is slow, but maybe this is just how long it takes to do massive decentralized global migrations affecting billions of people. What are we comparing against? Maybe the ICE-to-EV transition?
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by jl6 6mo ago
I think many Americans do not realize how much is spent on debt interest payments, which are a tidy source of income for rich people.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Geminispace is a very chill place. It’s definitely not a replacement for the web, but if you can handle the compromises, it feels like both the past and the future.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Remember it said rich-world respondents, not rich people. There are still poor people in rich-world countries that would find it painful to give up any part of what they have.
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by jl6 6mo ago
> the scheme will provide over seven million subscribers with unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire. Does this mean it’s not a universal entitlement as such, because you presumably first have to pay for
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by jl6 6mo ago
To our new generation of human shields willing to use software releases less than a month old, we salute your sacrifice.
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by jl6 6mo ago
I read the post. > Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. Their YouTube channel reports 2,759,491 views in total, since 2006. So while X may be a fraction of what it was, it's still a s
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by jl6 6mo ago
Seems like any activist org should have two audiences: 1) Supporters who may become donors 2) Neutrals/opponents who may become supporters. If you only ever communicate in forums where people already agree with you, you’ll probably hav
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by jl6 6mo ago
Nuclear power buys you not just electricity, but also resilience and diversity. Even if it’s much more expensive, it can still be worth it.
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by jl6 6mo ago
I just don’t find it plausible that there is a living human being who is capable of turning down a $70bn+ payday, hence Satoshi must be dead, hence it was probably Finney, and all the counter-evidence is easier to explain than a superhuman
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by jl6 6mo ago
Thank you for citing relevant passages. However, I find it all very unconvincing. The conclusion that these objects must have been dice is leaped to based on that very flexible morphological definition, and there is no consideration of alte
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by jl6 6mo ago
That’s not terribly definitive evidence, considering that a great many tools will produce random outcomes when flipped and will have just as much color differentiation as the objects on display here.
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by jl6 6mo ago
How do we know these were dice rather than some other type of tool? I can imagine all kinds of uses for carefully shaped hard bone fragments, and the picture in the article shows objects that seem like they might be almost anything.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Electricity prices in the UK are painful, and galling when set by the price of gas, but it’s worth remembering that this model and all this expense has bought a major asset that will only become more important and strategic. The next milest
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by jl6 6mo ago
Is this being attacked by people pushing their commercial sites into it, or are those ads?
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by jl6 6mo ago
Time to break out the Small Web protocols and start living within our means!
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by jl6 6mo ago
Not sure about the using less electricity part. With batching, it’s more efficient to serve multiple users simultaneously.
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by jl6 6mo ago
Imagine a future where proofs are discovered autonomously and proved rigorously by machines, and the work of the human mathematician becomes to articulate the most compelling motivations, the clearest explanations, and the most useful maps

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