mathlover2

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by mathlover2 5y ago
There are many ways to avoid encountering illegal pornographic content on Mastodon. Indeed the one you linked to does just that, by having a mod staff that can block offending accounts and suspend interactions with instances.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
I think VR will definitely take off as a gaming medium. I don't think it's going to take off as a Metaverse for social media. From what I can gather, most people don't want to work and live with an Oculus Rift headset on most
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by mathlover2 5y ago
I get that, but I'm not the one using Instagram. It's my older sister. I myself don't use Instagram, and I'm meaning to talk to her about it.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
> most of my social activity occurs on Discord. Same here.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
> and soon the metaverse That assumes Meta's plans for the metaverse ever pay off, and in my humble opinion, that's less than certain.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
I'm 29 and I only use my Facebook as a log-in tool for one or two sites. I left a message on my FB page saying that I'm no longer going to be active there. This was two years ago . My older sister has moved to Instagram. I myself
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by mathlover2 5y ago
I wouldn't know. Sorry :)
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by mathlover2 5y ago
> What a wonderful person. I agree with the sarcasm here, but I must elaborate on how terrible a person Mr. Hedges is. There's a whole saga behind how he went from being a noted journalist to whining on Substack, and I've been
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by mathlover2 5y ago
What are you talking about? I got here from the front page seconds ago where it was featured.
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The UK’s Online Safety Bill Would Be an Utter Disaster for an Open Internet(techdirt.com)
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by mathlover2 5y ago
So how likely is this bill to become law? I know that in the US, most bills don't end up being law, but is this the same in the UK?
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by mathlover2 5y ago
Can someone explain to me why "houselessness" is a term? Doesn't it refer to the same thing as "homelessness"?
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by mathlover2 5y ago
> I never suggested this at all. I am just saying that there are externalities that our work generates and we should be critical of that instead of pretending that it doesn't matter. I should have been more clear that this was a gen
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by mathlover2 5y ago
Let me give you a few more examples: * Ropes can be used for hanging, and even for racially motivated murders as they were in the south. Does that mean it's unethical to work for a rope-making company? * Paint thinner can be huffed rec
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by mathlover2 5y ago
Fair. It's just that I am a bit grumpy at all the people denying parts of science to fit their agendas. I've been dealing with a more classical denialist on Discord. Halfjoking, if you are reading this, I apologize for being so fo
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by mathlover2 5y ago
This is a site that has Guy McPherson as a contributor: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson Looking at the quoted article, it looks like the tired old "methane bubbles come all at once" argument which
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by mathlover2 5y ago
This sounds like my personal definition of hell.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
Have you ever read an article where you agree with most of the author's points, but the writing is terrible and the argumentation a little off? This is that article. EDIT: Let me elaborate on my reasons for not liking this article, des
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by mathlover2 5y ago
First, you blame scientists for this?! Because last I checked they weren't the ones spreading denialism and other lies. That has always been the province of politicians and businessmen. A person blaming scientists for being "too f
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by mathlover2 5y ago
True, but the possibility of increasing automation, particularly as a response to a future decline in the size of the working population, is one that hasn't been present in prior historical eras where the working population shrank.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
I'd argue that the shrinkage of working age populations is at most an indicator of decline rather than collapse, and given the rise of automation, there really isn't a good historical precedent to predict this from.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
This is why I listen to climate scientists and not science fiction writers. (Michael E. Mann and Climate Feedback are among my favorite sources.) Yes, global warming is very, very bad and it will cause death and destruction, and vastly more
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by mathlover2 5y ago
> If we start taking collapse as inevitable, it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. This. This is the biggest issue I have with r/collapse and similar crowds. If collapse isn't inevitable, then they aren't helping, and
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by mathlover2 6y ago
The amount of energy required to rescue a single princess does not increase exponentially over time. In fact it pretty much stays constant. Furthermore, gaming energy expenditures are probably minor compared to the amount spent on Bitcoin t
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by mathlover2 6y ago
Australia really should not have done this. This didn't work in Spain. It won't work in Australia.
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by mathlover2 6y ago
Interestingly, DuckDuckGo did not have this problem. I got multiple different sources all saying "cats can eat blueberries".
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by mathlover2 6y ago
First, the post is irksome, with the arguments for there not being a collapse in the near future being admittedly very hand-wavy for reasons other commentators here have described. Second, while the post is irksome, Turchin's methodolo
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by mathlover2 6y ago
What the hell did I just read? I've heard of this study, but Molyneux is quite simply wrong if he thinks mouse behavior can be not only extrapolated to human behavior without further evidence, but used to justify his own particular ide
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by mathlover2 6y ago
Not sure. I'm very new here as well.
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by mathlover2 6y ago
From what I can tell, the model is simplistic and contradicts the predictions of more complicated ones like those used by the IPCC. There is at least one article in The Independent on this: https://www.independent.co.uk/envi

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