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The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the posthuman era (1993)(archive.nytimes.com)
4 points by kdamica 3y ago|2 comments
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by kdamica 3y ago
Not sure about this particular text, but much of the earliest writing we have is record-keeping for taxes. You could definitely imagine this kind of math being important for tax collectors to learn, since they would typically travel around
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Magic the Gathering Patent (1995)(patents.google.com)
2 points by kdamica 3y ago|1 comments
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by kdamica 3y ago
This seems like a good law that encourages companies to explore for natural resources. The author of the article seems to think that companies should get environmental review before they even prospect for resources. I disagree and think tha
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by kdamica 3y ago
From the article, it seems like ‘big tech’ companies are pretty much on board with Right to Repair.
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by kdamica 3y ago
I'll posit Every Day the Same Dream, more for the music than the visuals: https://www.molleindustria.org/flash/index.html?file=/swf/ed... Back in the day I would keep this game open so the music would ke
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by kdamica 3y ago
My monitor is a 2011 Apple Cinema Display. I use an adapter to convert the output to USB-C. The webcam is very bad so I have an external one mounted on top. Otherwise it works amazingly for a 12 year old monitor!
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by kdamica 3y ago
Keeping junk like this out of their ads seems like a good choice for Amazon.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Simple, remote control outlets are great. We have them in most rooms in our home. Another great use for them is to get the ones that look just like light switches, and hang them low enough for small children to use.
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by kdamica 3y ago
The allegations here are very serious, but it can be simultaneously true that a company is doing important work, and that they need to fix deep problems in their workplace culture.
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by kdamica 3y ago
It is good to award subsidies to manufacturers when what they create is aligned with our country’s environmental or industrial policy goals.
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by kdamica 3y ago
I totally agree here. The bill is great in spirit but this could be onerous for small companies.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Of course there are still costs; the point is that we would be able to generate more and more energy without increasing carbon emissions.
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by kdamica 3y ago
No but it might buy us time until commercialized fusion lets us create all the energy we want.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Definitely could be foul play, but I’ve also known a few older Russians who were very proud of their mushroom foraging skills.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Pro tip for managers: Whenever someone on your team does something good, keep a record of it in a doc. This will make your performance reviews a breeze to write
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by kdamica 3y ago
OpenStore is doing something similar for small e-commerce businesses: https://open.store/
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by kdamica 3y ago
When you focus immigration policy on highly skilled migrants, which this policy is doing, you end up bringing more high paying jobs, so wages will increase. If the number of jobs were fixed, then yes, wages would decline, but second order a
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by kdamica 3y ago
I’ve lived in NY and have visited Montreal a bunch of times, including one unfortunate trip in January. The average high in January in NYC is almost 40 degrees, and it’s 25 degrees in Montreal. It is objectively much colder! I think you are
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by kdamica 3y ago
There’s no doubt that climate change will negatively affect most countries in some way, but the question is: do you think Canada will fare better or worse relative to other countries? I would wager that if future Montreal, for example, had
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by kdamica 3y ago
Canada will be a major beneficiary of climate change as the continent’s northern reaches warm. If they combine that with smart policy-making like this (i.e. increasing population while attracting industry), I think Canada could be a world s
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by kdamica 3y ago
You might be interested in Hunter, Gather, Parent.
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Sea Peoples(en.wikipedia.org)
33 points by kdamica 3y ago|3 comments
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by kdamica 3y ago
I’m a huge Star Wars fan, but i have always considered it fantasy rather than scifi.
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by kdamica 3y ago
Around a quarter of US electricity is now generated via renewables, and it’s growing fast. It seems clear to me that we will decarbonize the world’s energy within my lifetime. This still leaves us with a lot of carbon in the atmosphere that
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by kdamica 3y ago
I can’t abide another text-to-SQL pitch
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by kdamica 3y ago
In other words, if 780 million people were to cut their emissions to the levels of some of the world’s most advanced and densely populated economies…
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by kdamica 3y ago
A ridiculous and uninformed article. This is a great example of the type of magical thinking we often see when it comes to issues like this. The reality is that changing the behavior of superemitters is not nearly enough to make a differenc
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by kdamica 3y ago
I would bet that this is not going to happen unless someone finds an industrial use for all that carbon. I’m not an expert but it seems like it would be much more efficient to invest in low carbon energy and manufacturing tech than to build
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by kdamica 3y ago
IMO there should be strict controls on who can access this data and for what, and how long data can be retained, but given those limits, this is exactly the type of thing we should be doing to catch criminals.

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