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by marvin 4y ago
Don't understand why this was downvoted. The induction stoves I've used all had a touchpad controls, for some reason. They take one second to change the power output 10%, with hotkeys for 100% and 40%. It would be trivial to add a
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by marvin 4y ago
This article was a bit long-winded, but it makes a very fair point and I don't understand why it was flagged.
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by marvin 4y ago
Good points, thanks for providing the nuance.
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by marvin 4y ago
Musk was a hair's breadth away from taking the SEC "420 funding secured" case to court, and spending who knows how much political goodwill, attention and effort towards that for months or years, instead of building the world&
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by marvin 4y ago
It's an incredibly unpopular view on HN, but I don't think we can categorically conclude yet that WFH is always equally good as working in-person for all white-collar jobs that have good prerequisites for WFH. For me personally, t
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by marvin 4y ago
Of course, it's not really so easy to tell. A lot of people select a certain narrative beforehand, and then adapt their interpretation of the facts to match it in retrospect. Or maybe they just made an honest attempt at figuring out th
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by marvin 4y ago
Studio apartments of that size (sometimes even smaller) are bought by university students in Norway all the time, sometimes for as much as $200.000. They can be quite comfortable. Not sure how they’d be priced in SF, but to my intuition tha
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by marvin 4y ago
If you dig into the philosophy a bit, you'll see that there's a distinction between "what we've historically done" or "what we end up doing with a short term, egoistical focus", and "what we wish we w
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by marvin 4y ago
This is a bit of an aside, but I play a lot of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds with a regular team of friends. That game has a fiendish amount of keyboard commands, even related to regular movement. Many of them can be accessed through s
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by marvin 4y ago
Weird that there’s so much resistance to the importance of figuring out (philosophically, practically) how to align AI to human wishes. The problem is already playing out right in front of our eyes, and that’s with humans in the loop every
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by marvin 4y ago
Love the contrarian tech take; go with the 1800s technology since it’s still superior in most of the ways that really matter ;) I think this view has a lot going for it.
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by marvin 4y ago
This is my impression too. I’m not good at photography, but it does seem quite un-white.
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by marvin 4y ago
I’ve tried out LIFX, and they’re pretty decent. But I’m unhappy with the spectrum of their deep, low-intensity reds. They don’t go far enough into the long-wavelength. I use this at night, before sleep. Ditto with their pure whites; haven’t
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by marvin 4y ago
Very geography dependent, but e.g. in the Nordics waste heat is a resource. This is why we burn our combustible trash instead of putting it in landfills. Unfortunately, for most of the year the same wouldn’t we viable in California, and I g
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by marvin 4y ago
I imagine that if civilization reaches a developmental limit in access to natural fresh water, migration will happen to somewhat developed coastal areas rather than the Mojave Desert.
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by marvin 4y ago
This is a spooky narrative, but the rent seekers can't be the majority. My understanding is that many Californian real estate markets are kept artificially tight due to various forms of NIMBYism. If renters become the majority, it&#x27
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by marvin 4y ago
> Similarly, fresh water is a limited natural resource, and in the absence of water, human populations do not grow This isn't really true any longer. Desalinating seawater costs about $1 per 1000 liters. You need a relatively prospe
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by marvin 4y ago
> Can you inherit debt in Norway? You can, but it would be voluntary. Inheritors can choose all assets and all debts, or nothing. Unsure about the bankruptcy tourism idea. I'm pretty sure it would take many years. Moving countries f
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by marvin 4y ago
I'm familiar with the ideas you're summarizing here. There is no question that colonialism, explicit previously, implicit and less obvious recently, has made big contributions towards the wealth of Western countries. The question
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by marvin 4y ago
I was about to point out the obscene creditor friendliness of Norway when I saw you extolling the virtues of our credit system, so I'm glad you did it first. The part of fairly tracking poor payment history is good, the rest, not so mu
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by marvin 4y ago
Well, you've got a view that's in some ways refreshing since it's really far removed from what the mainstream narrative says. But we're either discussing subtly different topics, or I don't agree with your central p
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by marvin 4y ago
I don't know what part of the West you lived in during the Iraq war, but in my country, which is an enthusiastic NATO member, the newspapers hardly printed any opinion pieces that blatantly reflected the propaganda points of the US g
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by marvin 4y ago
You’re ascribing me a lot of views that I don’t have. An example. Personal opinion. The so-called criminal justice system of the USA has a lot in common with slavery, and relatively to the population size probably has more of a negative eff
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by marvin 4y ago
It’s an absolutely huge difference of degree. Attempting to censor blatant lies, with the occasional and accidental half-truth mixed in, is a completely different beast from denying historic events and censoring factual reports of things
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by marvin 4y ago
I still think we're missing some fundamental insights on how layered planning/forecasting/deducting/reasoning works, and that figuring this out will be necessary in order to create AI that we could say "reasons&quot
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by marvin 4y ago
You are trusting your life to this low-redundancy system working. Think about that. A failure can kill you and your passengers, or cause debilitating injury. The GPS satellites themselves are a single point of failure. E.g. in northern Norw
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by marvin 4y ago
> How does this happen again 15 years later? It's human nature to create and participate in systems that are untenable over time but are tempting for short-term speculation. Normally, in advanced economies, we try to use regulation
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by marvin 4y ago
Maybe you could create one, by failing to return the repair kit and forfeiting your $1200 deposit?
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You have a strange definition of national health crisis. Almost every modern economy faced a national health crisis in 2020.
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by marvin 4y ago
Don't know if you've owned e.g. a 1980s Toyota Corolla in an environment that's always-wet, always-salted for six months a year like Western Norway. The difference to modern cars is night and day: The Corolla rusts to death i

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