konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
You're only allowed to write vague doomsday articles about things that people like to hate. It's pretty funny that you're downvoted for using exactly the same type of vague fear mongering that the article does but because you
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by konjin 6y ago
I've seen 50 of the last 0 hyper inflation events predicted.
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by konjin 6y ago
Why?
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by konjin 6y ago
> Every website has the ground changing under it whenever browsers update to a new version. Every app has the ground changing under it whenever the kernel updates to a new version. Yet somehow we can still run binaries from the 90s. The
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by konjin 6y ago
> A lot of users don't want updates. They just want their software to work and do whatever they're using it for. >As a practical matter, software that is network-accessible or deals with data from outside sources may well ne
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by konjin 6y ago
It's kind of astonishing to me that I can run software written 30 years ago in C without changing anything, yet I can't expect a node project written last week with the exact same functionality to work today without a huge test su
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by konjin 6y ago
>If it's any broader, then, just, no, not even close. Apart from Sanders name one Democratic president or major presidential candidate that wanted to re-nationalize anything since the 70s. That isn't some sort of radical social
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by konjin 6y ago
>Can't say I haven't thought the same about where we are as a civilization, and how eerily similar it really is in some regards to the "End Game Roman Empire". I guess we had a good run while it lasted? The Romans man
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by konjin 6y ago
>I think this is a jab at some or a group of politicians Yes, all of them. The last politician that matter who believed in government was Nixon. Everyone since then has done their best to weaken it, with the result being a country that i
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by konjin 6y ago
The moon is a body with enough stuff to sustain heavy industry, is easily accessible from the Earth in a few days all the time, and a gravity well weak enough that a space elevator, or even a rail gun, can be build with todays material scie
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by konjin 6y ago
Today's NASA is what happens when you give people who don't believe in government control of government. Unlike other areas of government, like say education, where failure is difficult to see a rocket that fails does so with a ha
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by konjin 6y ago
I'll believe it when I see it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program Every decade there's a plan to return to the moon by the next decade and it always gets cancelled half way through. I doubt t
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by konjin 6y ago
>These guys seem nice, and surprisingly already mentioned ethical implications early, so their corruption might take longer or develop along unexpected paths. It's hard to treat people below you worse when you know that he people ab
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by konjin 6y ago
They did, but because you have infinite computing power all the lower levels completed the simulation in the time it took to shut down.
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If history is any guide it involved an ice pick.
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by konjin 6y ago
You think your kids won't be white? My father wasn't white when he came here 30 years ago. Somehow magically I am. The same thing will happen to you too. I call it Schrodinger's whiteness. You are white enough to be blamed fo
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by konjin 6y ago
That theory makes as much sense as the theory that "chemical imbalances" (i.e. low-alcohol) cause social anxiety. Alcohols are produced in your brain naturally and adding more changes behavior. Clinical trials show that more alcoh
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by konjin 6y ago
>A sad sentiment of giving up, but I think it is premature to abandon your approach. I think it may be worth trying for that small-ish fraction (call it 10%?) of people who can be talked back from their anger. Those are good conversation
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by konjin 6y ago
I never got more hate mail then when I tried doing outreach for my physics group. It did include death threats (I think) it was hard to tell if I was being accused of being part of a modern inquisition that burned people at the stake or sho
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by konjin 6y ago
>The belief that the best way to get every American to have uninterrupted access to electricity is through public investment in infrastructure is belied by your admission that hasn’t happened. Which is a fact. We have though. From 1930 t
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by konjin 6y ago
They are welcome to pay facebook for the service it provides them
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by konjin 6y ago
>Surely you can see that this is a belief and not a “fact” The belief is that every American should have uninterrupted access to electricity. The fact is that we are woefully under investing to keep that state of affairs. You can have yo
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by konjin 6y ago
>In my opinion this is the result of a mentality that sees the government as the obvious solution to problems, so when you see problems existing in a place where people seem to have a different philosophy of government, its clearly the f
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by konjin 6y ago
I was unaware I could use the ballot to remove dumb twitter users. Can you point me where I can do that?
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by konjin 6y ago
No thats literally part of the constitution. The prime minister can get fired by the queen legally and its happened iniving memory.
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by konjin 6y ago
Nuclear power is only expensive to build. To run it's basically free, and unlike solar not limited to 6 hours in the middle of the day.
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by konjin 6y ago
Facebook is a private company and can do what it likes.
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by konjin 6y ago
I just looked at facebook for the first time in 6 months and I have to say it's a lot nicer than it was in any point in the last 10 years. A net win for the Australian people and a loss for News Corp and Facebook. I couldn't have
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by konjin 6y ago
>The evidence is stacked against centralized power production. Ok, show me.
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by konjin 6y ago
Do you know that if electricity generation doesn't produce CO2 then consuming it won't either?

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