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by marvin 4y ago
The "RPG" element of "obviously good, obviously evil" decision always felt contrived to me. Most people would never choose to be evil. Evil grows out of processes much more complicated and human than that. This seemed ob
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Too bad our microservice architecture lives across 50 repos that all touch the same business functionality.
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I did not abolish the freedom of speech. This sorts under «tolerate everything except intolerance». Russia will not extend the courtesy of freedom of speech if their propaganda operations succeed, so we must defend it before we get to that
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You can bet your ass that I'm afraid that an expanding, violent imperialist dictatorship will continue its historically proven tradition of undermining the political stability of my country and thereby make us much poorer and less free
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The phenomenon is well known to bondage affectionados who know what they’re doing. They will regularly get pinched nerves and lose sensation, which is an absolute no-go to just «power through». Communication is essential, and many learn to
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by marvin 4y ago
It’s pretty bad, dude. West Norway in November; sunrise at 08:40 and sunset at 16:10. 1.2 feet of rainfall on average. 20 days of rain on average, and 20 hours of sunlight. This is far south of the Arctic Circle! Sure, it’s not a market of
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by marvin 4y ago
2007 West Norway had an exceptional autumn, but that year I don’t remember seeing the sun between approximately September 15th and December 15th. It might have broken through at some point when I was inside, but it was raining every single
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by marvin 4y ago
Well, dystopian winter (October-March) in Scandinavia has many cities with no sunlight for weeks at a time due to latitude and weather, so some really good artificial lights would definitely be welcome.
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by marvin 4y ago
Ultimatly, what matters is how the light spectrum looks. CRI is just an attempt at reducing that to a single number. Even then, many «daylight» scenes have very different light spectra.
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by marvin 4y ago
The statement is worded critical of Tesla, but IIRC there's some truth to it. They engineered the Model S to be battery-swappable, and there was some advantage wrt. the regulatory credits to doing so. Can't find a link, but I reme
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by marvin 4y ago
Adding to this -- climates that have cold winters and a tradition for building well-insulated homes have detailed construction customs for how to deal with this. Today, it's generally solved by having an airtight sheet (plastic) betwee
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by marvin 4y ago
Gentrification and housing shortage is caused by bad policy. That's the root of the problem. Enforcement of existing zoning regulations, and also zoning regulations that dramatically under-provision the city for number of homes.
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If anything, shirts should get negative hedonic adjustments as the quality of the fabrics and craftmanship decrease. But I’m guessing negative hedonic adjustments isn’t a thing.
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So does the brain of all artists that have learned and been inspired by copyrighted works.
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Do you have a link to this interview? Would be interesting to hear more about what DeepMind is currently up to.
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Things will be shaken up, the way they were when the steam engine was invented. But there's no reason to believe we're headed for a dystopic future. The result of this development and the underlying trend is vastly increased wealt
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Well, it's "just expensive" because most developed countries happen to develop the same stupid incentives for making housing difficult. Even if you exclude everything that's health, safety and environment.
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by marvin 4y ago
https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/24-19.htm
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by marvin 4y ago
Median income in Norway is $55k/year before 32% tax and 25% sales tax on everything except the aforementioned EVs, plus various special-purpose taxes on e.g. transportation that brings car TCO for a typical family into the ~$10k/y
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by marvin 4y ago
Can you provide more details on what you're thinking here?
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Well, if we're talking about the median person on a global scale, no one can afford any car, so the subject is moot.
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by marvin 4y ago
Ah, that's a very fair napkin calculation, the 4000GW number is obviously wrong. But I don't think it ruins the core of my argument; it wasn't hinging on Germany having reduced their annual power production by 99%. If Germany
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by marvin 4y ago
This is a soundly middle-class Norwegian family. The one thing that distinguishes them from the rest of the world's middle class is the exemption of the 25% VAT for EVs.
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by marvin 4y ago
A close friend of mine recently compared all EV offerings available for a family lifestyle, when buying a new car. He concluded that all but one of them was inferior to the Model Y, either in price, range, space, features, service cost. One
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by marvin 4y ago
I'd hazard a guess that's part of the reason really successful entrepeneurship happens much less in Europe than it does in the USA.
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by marvin 4y ago
> with increasing rate the ‘burbs of Toronto are down 25% in the last two months Are you saying that real estate prices in Toronto suburbs have fallen by 25% in two months ? That's incredibly quick; generally real estate crashes
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Elon Musk doesn't have 300 billion dollars. He owns 17% of a company that, if all the stock got sold at its current price, would be worth 743 billion dollars (plus similar for SpaceX, so I think your estimate is too high). Similar situ
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by marvin 4y ago
Anti-competitive practices are the cornerstone of unregulated societies (via mafias), but it certainly would in the (theoretical) absence of that . It's a fundamental property of entities that try to achieve things, of which humans ar
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by marvin 4y ago
According to Reuters, I was off by a factor of two, if the number they quoted counts all the plants they decided to shut down. ~4000 GW shut down. That’s a decent wild-ass guess, IMHO. https://www.reuters.com/business/e
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by marvin 4y ago
Norwegian gas prices are currently ~$11.5 per gallon. Anyone in continental Europe got a more impressive number?

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