landryraccoon

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by landryraccoon 2y ago
> What is needed is not new recycling processes, but a government that is not beholden to plastics industry lobbying. I honestly don’t understand what this statement even means. Are you saying that recycling technology is so cheap, effic
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
It's possible you're underestimating the open source community. If there's a competing platform that hobbyists can tinker with, the ecosystem can improve quite rapidly, especially when the competing platform is completely clo
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Making the OP feel threatened/emotionally attached/both enough to call the language model a rival / companion / peer instead of a tool.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
If they are still building a ton of coal they’re making a colossally foolish mistake. Solar is already far cheaper than coal for new installations, and the price is still falling.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I'm kind of surprised by your response. If everyone who was soliciting was like Doctors without Borders, there wouldn't be a problem. That's a worthy cause. The problem is the scammers, not DWB. The fact that you think it&#x2
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
The fact that cold calling was expensive was a signal that the caller was legitimate. In the era where calling someone on the phone is cheap and highly optimized, getting a phone call is not a signal for quality. But back in the 1980s that
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
"Use it till you die" seems like less and less of a penalty the older you get.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I'm curious, do you advertise your services to the public? I have a relative who's been victimized by a cryptocurrency scam. Would you mind if I contacted you about it?
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
They’re making the wrong strategic play. They will fail if they go after the highest margin customers. Nvidia has every advantage and every motivation to keep those customers. They would need a trillion dollars in capital to have a chance i
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Is there Steam in the non corporeal world? I could finally catch up on all these unplayed games in my library.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I think it would unethical if the participants in the study were asked not to take any other antivirals. In that case, someone at high risk for HIV infection could be prevented from getting treatment because of the study protocol. The ethic
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I'm curious, if someone isn't willing or able to get tested in advance, is your judgement that they deserve to die of HIV? South Africa has a double digit prevalence rate of HIV. Quite possibly many women get it the very first tim
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Emotions aside, isn’t it just sensible security policy to delete all permissions and invalidate all credentials of a terminated employee as soon as possible? Any other approach would be exceptional.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Proteins can be synthesized from sugar as a carbon source. We know this because there are bacteria that can survive and reproduce with no nutrients in their environment other than glucose. In fact you don’t even need sugar. Carbon dioxide a
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
This assumes that the fundamental nature of human beings can't be changed, which is the presupposition that genetic engineering denies. The entire point of genetic engineering is to try to engineer people at the cellular level. A fanci
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
The scenario you described is just suicide. An AI that is acting on behalf of a controller and has no ability to make autonomous decisions is just a tool. To me that's no different conceptually than a race destroying itself with nuclea
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I don’t get how AI can be a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. If an AI is intelligent enough and capable enough to displace a biological species, then the paradox remains. The question just becomes, why hasn’t the galaxy already been
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
I think they are saying that even with much better MRIs the limiting factor is finding a radiologist to interpret the image, and the costs of treatment.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Does Apple ever have to give you a reason why you're rejected, or tell the truth even if they give you a reason? That's probably the biggest reason I think that Society (with a capital S) should rein in Apple a bit. They have a lo
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
> And it is even worse when that encourages people to fail to organize, vote, protest, push for better work and better working conditions for everybody who are not founders of unicorns. You've lost me here. How does working at a sta
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
The fundamental disagreement I have with the post is the idea that you're foolish for doing something because it probably won't pan out. So what? Why be so terrified of failure? I think it's better if kids learn to be brave,
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
I can’t disagree more. I’ve founded failed startups. I don’t regret a single one of them. I’ve worked at failed startups and big companies and I learned more and had more fun at the startups than I ever did at a big company. The point is, i
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
What does that mean? Everyday objects don't work like that. Saying ice cubes are cold is roughly equivalent to saying that they radiate less heat than the objects around them. If they radiated at "high intensity" then they wo
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Why would Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google want Nvidia to remain dominant in hardware? Are you treating “big tech” like they all have one hive mind?
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
I’m not sure your risk analysis is correct, if the driver is going to do those activities anyway , without the aid of self driving tech. People already do things like grab food from the backseat, fiddle with the music, read their texts etc
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if there were an advanced civilization on a planet with gravity that was much higher than earth that couldn’t build chemical rockets and was therefore forced to build nuclear rockets? What if that actually made th
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Instagram and WhatsApp are still popular with consumers though. Meta didn’t kill them, if anything they’ve grown significantly.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Facebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp and they were both home runs. Zuckerberg knows how to buy companies.
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Interesting. You’d need about a billion files to store all possible 6 character file names assuming you limited yourself to latin alphanumeric characters. How big are these USB drives?
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by landryraccoon 3y ago
Wait a second. Even if your story is right, how are you so confident that selling out is the right play? OpenAI is an early mover in a hot field with no real competition yet. If they want to take a shot at a trillion dollar market cap and b

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