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by lopmotr 6y ago
And you buy it because it's cheap.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I've heard that sentiment many decades ago too. I suspect it's because things cost the same price everywhere due to international trade but labor for repairing is cheaper in most other countries because they have lower incomes tha
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Unfortunately, most people are so completely brainwashed that they feel proud of themselves for putting their plastic in the (open topped) recycling bin where it blows out, goes down the drain and ends up in the sea. They imagine that putti
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I think you committed a bit of heresy there. When expressing ideas about political topics, you also have to give praise the correct Gods or people will think you're an enemy.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's kind of weird to see the people worried about over-population come crashing into the new worry about population stagnation or decline. Both problems are hard. The only fun stage is unconstrained growth unless we can somehow reach
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by lopmotr 6y ago
In pre-industrial times, the population was naturally limited by food shortages. People were chronically exceeding the carrying capacity and then being culled back. They've always been "addicted" to high population density. W
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Here's some good news for fish https://reefresilience.org/wp-content/uploads/graph02.jpg It shows rate of fishing has plateaued or declined but importantly, "effort" continues to climb so I imagine
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by lopmotr 6y ago
But did their parents consistently love them and have a stable relationship with each other? It's well known that lack of those factors causes lifelong psychological problems in children which manifests as criminal behavior, teen pregn
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What did you imagine the 1980's was like for this to be surprising? Hydraulic earthmoving equipment, statically-stable legged walking toys, and cheap computers were all in widespread use around the world by then. This is nothing like B
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Wow, I didn't realize how many of these x86 extensions are basically just SIMD with more and more registers, even going back to MMX in the 1990's. It somehow looks like they never planned ahead and just kept re-inventing a slightl
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's roughly in the same class when compared to Arduino/uC RISC-V boards that really are incomparable and suited to a completely different type of application.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's still true that only about 2% of people can vote in America today. That's because it's a right restricted to members of the privileged citizen class. You might say that foreigners shouldn't vote because it doesn&#x2
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I guess he means how reality looked displayed on the TV screen. I think we did go backwards in that regard, at least for a while because resolution went up in some sudden jumps leaving the level of detail in the scenes lagging behind. But w
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's easy to condemn beliefs which your culture judges as bad, but what about ones which fit your description but your culture endorses so strongly that it excludes anyone who questions them? Do you want to make sure "ignoramuses&
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by lopmotr 6y ago
MKL has PARDISO for sparse matrices which I guess has no equivalent in OpenBLAS. Though there seem to be faster open source sparse matrix solvers now.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I think a single human can envision an entire movie and all the other human labor is just low-creativity grunt work suited for AI.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That would only be a problem if the expansion didn't pay for itself. Maybe it won't pay for itself if it dilutes their brand. Businesses that aren't based on restricted supply are often expanding. That's how you make mor
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Do they actually anymore? Aren't many male and white dominated organizations actively trying to be biased the other way? When I studied engineering, my university had a "women in engineering" club which did a recruitment even
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yes. Do what Mincome did and randomly assign the incomes to people.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Lots of developed countries already have that. But it's not enough because it raises the threshold for being "poor". I live in a poor neighborhood where nobody lacks any of those things but they still go begging for cigarette
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Perhaps also state when the reply is coming in the initial tweet so if you don't meet your deadline, people can assume you decided to hide it.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
But we've established that it's not based on you personally believing the goal is noble. It's the belief of the person fighting for it that matters.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Sorry, I was going by the GP's mentioning light years. I see now that the article doesn't say that at the top, just "near the sun" which I agree is weird and confusing.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I'm pretty sure humans will always value human life - on their own team. The greater danger is dehumanizing enemy humans which is a common technique to motivate soldiers to kill each other.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I know I'm not supposed to detract from the main point, but something is a bit odd about this company: A) It's classified as a Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB). B) All its work seems to be for the government, and this is reinfor
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If this "average person" is going to get such a false impression from clear and correct information, then maybe there's no use them knowing it anyway? They're obviously not even trying. I know someone who thinks the Milk
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Really? Walking is free but driving isn't. More food costs more than less food. And lots of boring difficult healthy food (eg. veges) is cheaper than more pleasurable easy food (eg. fast food). Being unemployed provides more time to do
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It sounds like this fungus only produces energy, and doesn't fix carbon like photosynthesis does. Mold growing on concrete walls is actually living off the dust and other organic debris that accumulates on the surface if you don't
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If Guevara did everything the same but instead of Marxism, he was fighting to exterminate the blacks out of a genuine belief that it was a noble cause which would help people, would you still describe him in the same positive way? You alrea
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The other question is what does labor get when there are temporarily low or negative profits? I used to work at a company which gave 10% of its profits to the workers each month as a bonus. But I was only there during some money-losing mont

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