mempko

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by mempko 3y ago
You aren't factoring in the fact that the rate of change is higher than anytime in the past for co2.
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by mempko 3y ago
And Sam said himself he is a preper.
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by mempko 3y ago
Great book. Everyone needs to read it.
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by mempko 3y ago
Humans have figured it out many times in history how to live sustainably but keep forgetting. When the Europeans came to the Americas, they found people living sustainably. They thought these people were primitive and have never experienced
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by mempko 3y ago
It's a market but not that great of a market. No transparent price discovery. Huge market manipulation by the big guys making deals with each other to suppress wages ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch&
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by mempko 3y ago
You are causally talking about collapse and all the misery it will cause. We need to get to a steady state (or controlled decline) or face extinction. Unlike bacteria or other animals, we have the potential to prevent 'natural things&#
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by mempko 3y ago
Available energy is a limiting factor in economic growth. More available energy allows for more economic growth. While a decline in economic growth for other reasons (financial crisis, pandemic) reduces demand for energy. So it's both
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by mempko 3y ago
Strange, and yet we keep using more energy every year. Fun fact, we burn as much wood for heating as we did 100 years ago. What ends up happening is we consume all available energy. Economic growth is limited by energy so the whole system i
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by mempko 3y ago
I think you bring up a good point. Our economic system isn't designed to reward low energy consumption. In fact, GDP and energy usage are very tightly linked. And because we are seeking growth in GDP at a system level, we are doomed to
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by mempko 3y ago
Remember though, the 2nd amendment was pushed by James Madison who represented a slave owning state. During that time, the south had 'well regulated militias' which served as slave patrols, capturing runaway slaves and stamping do
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by mempko 3y ago
Regarding hosting, have people forgotten about BitTorrent already?
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by mempko 3y ago
Ok, handguns are designed to kill people. Some rifles are designed for hunting. But generally most guns are designed to kill people. OP's idea that 'guns aren't dangerous' is just bad statistics. Here is why: About 3.3 m
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by mempko 3y ago
https://mempko.wordpress.com/
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by mempko 3y ago
Have you tried ballet? Has your wife tried programming? Seems this is all just speculation if I were a betting man. This mindset you have is called a fixed mindset. https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/growth-mindset-v
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by mempko 3y ago
My problem with Paul Graham's work is he keeps pushing on nature over nurture. Most work can actually be learned and you don't need a "natural aptitude" for it. This is especially true of knowledge work like programming,
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by mempko 3y ago
You laugh but Alex Stepanov, the creator of the STL wouldn't. He talked about the real science is about meticulous categorization. And this is what anthropology does. Even the hard sciences are about meticulous categorization, like the
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by mempko 3y ago
Scientific America has a good piece about this. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-anthropology-...
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by mempko 3y ago
Thank you! I was looking for this.
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by mempko 3y ago
I know. Kind of shows the deficiency on relying on centralized services for a decentralized version control system. There is no reason the pull requests, issues, and other workflow tools couldn't be decentralized too.
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by mempko 3y ago
That's the problem with innovators. Innovators are not good inventors. Inventors make new things, Innovators take inventions and squeeze money out of them.
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by mempko 3y ago
Musk is not an inventor. It's more apt to compare Musk to Edison instead of Tesla. Of someone who paid others to invent. Though not a fair comparison to Edison since even Edison invented things on his own. Remember, Musk has an educat
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by mempko 3y ago
Friends, Git was designed for just for this...
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by mempko 3y ago
I started coding in C++ back in the 90s. The secret is, if you wait long enough, things become popular again. Thanks to webassembly, I can code fast web apps in C++. And of course webassembly is just a hybrid of a java like runtime + Active
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by mempko 3y ago
The world, oceans and surface, have been warming because of us humans. Cycles like La Nina and El Nino bring variability to the weather around an ever warming planet. La Nina cools while El Nino warms. So it's likely that we will break
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by mempko 3y ago
Covid got him. Like so many others.
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by mempko 3y ago
Cowen is an economist while Graeber was a scientist. Graeber's book based off his article was well researched and has a lot of empirical data. While Cowen just makes stuff up in his criticism. So who do we listen to? Economists (a very
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by mempko 3y ago
JP during his talk "inflation has not reacted much to our existing rate hikes". This analysis from Lyn Alden is really good at explaining why https://www.lynalden.com/inflation-vs-interest-rates/ TLDR; The mo
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by mempko 3y ago
Didn't Napoleon also lose?
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by mempko 3y ago
Because Chomsky is trying to build a bird, and Norvig is trying to build an airplane. It's much easier to build an airplane to fly than a bird. Chomsky is trying to explain how humans create language. LLM are creating language, but not
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by mempko 3y ago
Huh? That's what the whole conversation was about. How other parties, Adobe, Google, etc could bypass them if they allowed a new rule that made facebook happy to be a native app. It's clear their concern was how other parties woul

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