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by marvin 4y ago
This discussion, in all forums everywhere, is dominated by people who fail to understand that ambiguity and plausible deniability is a cornerstone of high-stakes negotiations. Lavrov won't literally say "if the USA sends one more
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by marvin 4y ago
I have no idea who you are quoting. But bowing down to nuclear threats increases the chance of nuclear war. This is because it will cause more nuclear threats in the future, and also strongly incentivize most non-nuclear countries to ac
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by marvin 4y ago
Europe has offered to fix the alleged "problems" multiple times, bringing their own spare parts and rolling out the red carpet on the off chance that missing parts & personnel due to sanctions are in fact the culprit. But to n
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by marvin 4y ago
Look on the bright side. At least Europe has made it clear that they won't bow down to force. It should ideally have made the obvious policy choices eight years ago at the latest. But doing the short-term irrational thing and joining t
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by marvin 4y ago
Russian propaganda says that Nord Stream 1 is closed due to repairs. It obviously is not. It is closed because Russia wages economic warfare against Europe. You won't find a peer-reviewed double-blind study saying this, signed by forei
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by marvin 4y ago
But the truly comical part, of course, was that Covid was not acknowledged to be widely airborne until a year and a half later. At the same time that cloth masks were widely dismissed as ineffective.
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by marvin 4y ago
Oh, the intense discussions just pointing out the Norwegian health authorities’ rationale for abandoning the AstraZeneca vaccine. The loud and certain statements that it was all based on selection bias. It was a very interesting time to p
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by marvin 4y ago
2x-5x? Color me skeptical. Depending on what's behind that statement, it could actually be a bit insulting. I've been to US tech conferences; US developers aren't doing anything differently than the Northern European ones. M
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by marvin 4y ago
It's very weird that I've heard Americans complain about cursive for 20 years, but I have never heard a Norwegian complain about loop writing. There must be additional context we're not discussing. I can't imagine being
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by marvin 4y ago
I wrote a comment of my own and scrolled through 700 comments before I found this response. The whole debate has seemed incomprehensible to me, for the 20 years that I've been aware of it.
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by marvin 4y ago
Northern European here. I don't understand this at all and need an explanation. Maybe someone can provide the context I'm missing. I've heard Americans complain online about having to learn "cursive", for at least 2
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by marvin 4y ago
Air quality can be an issue for asthmatics in valleys when there is atmospheric inversion (common in winter). Indoors, smoke rarely enters the home if you're using a modern stove and lighting in correctly. Modern wood stoves are dramat
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by marvin 4y ago
Scandinavians know a thing or two about burning wood efficiently. Can't speak for Sweden or Finland, but new wood stove installations in Norway are mandated to generally have complete combustion and be efficient in combustion and heat
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by marvin 4y ago
I wonder what kind of collusion Europe is up to, with salaries at 50%-20% of those available in the US.
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by marvin 4y ago
And then promptly got fined for it, but no word about the race being thrown.
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by marvin 4y ago
I guess it's too much to hope for that this debt can be discharged during personal bankruptcy? And is it politically incorrect to say that this is essentially a form of slavery?
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by marvin 4y ago
Doesn't the US pride itself on having abolished debtor's prison due to the immorality of incarcerating people for unpaid debts? That the converse is happening; forcing people to rack up huge debts for being incarcerated seems unbe
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by marvin 4y ago
This is a great reference tool. Something like this must have existed already, but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Something as simple as wanting to play simple guitar pieces based on chords, but struggling to figure out simple
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by marvin 4y ago
These threads make it very obvious how different the compulsory contributions towards the state & social safety nets are among the high earners in Europe and the USA. You’d cap out around this in Norway too; in fact you’d probably break
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by marvin 4y ago
This thread treats the question as if it has a single correct answer, but there's a pretty big probability it will vary between sectors, companies, employees and countries.
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by marvin 4y ago
Yup. Been for a few years now. Hired through normal application, full time developer on a team of 6-ish. Worked there for a few years before negotiating down to 90%; a day off every other week. Then a year after that negotiated down to 80%.
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by marvin 4y ago
They will inevitably reach the point of a world-ending threat, but I'm very confident Carmack is right that this won't happen so quickly we can't see the signs of danger. There's a lot of policy we can do to slow things
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by marvin 4y ago
Obviously. No company would practically have been able to do it, due to the investment required, but there would be no laws stopping it.
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by marvin 4y ago
This is a whole field of philosophy. You can read this to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment Tl;dr: It's hard to define what humans would actually want a powerful genie to do in the first plac
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by marvin 4y ago
In the absence of a global police state or a permanent halt to semiconductor development, this is happening. Even in the absence of all other arguments, it's better that we figure it out early, as the potential to just blast it into or
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by marvin 4y ago
I am once again super confused. During my whole primary education, highly poly-unsaturated fats were considered beneficial with regards to cardiovascular health. Saturated fats and trans fats were considered the culprit. What changed, and
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by marvin 4y ago
I've been wondering why Tesla doesn't just do this. IIRC from the public Model 3 and Y teardowns, the cars already have the hardware to do this, so it's just a question of a software update and policy. Would love to know why
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by marvin 4y ago
Excellent. Now repeat that feat 2500 times to destroy all existing Starlink satellites, and keep doing it 1300 times each year to destroy all the new Starlink satellites that are being launched. Assuming of course that SpaceX will not incre
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by marvin 4y ago
> all of those different intelligences correlate, so it is not very useful to categorise them individually Maybe it's not useful for the sake of discussion to list them individually, but it's definitely useful to measure them
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by marvin 4y ago
I think indie game devs of Pope's talent, motivation and ability are exceedingly rare. We're seeing only those who survive a filter that removes 99%. But the results are absolutely formidable.

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