monkeydreams

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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Those costs seem very low per tonne of co2. Even if it were more expensive, however, it would be worth doing as the alternative is so, so much greater.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
....for people not suffering from ADHD.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
This smells like it was written by an A.I.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Sabine argues the data, in good(ish) faith, but she does carry a chip on her shoulder. Peterson does not argue data - he suggests analogies and then holds those analogies as iron-clad transitive relationships to argue his preconceived posit
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> It's not simplistic, it's simply practical. Either we search for life as we know it, or we don't search at all. So we are the drunk looking for his keys in the pool of light under the streetlamp, but not in the dark carp
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
The comment above yours states Trump pardoned friends and allies moreso than any other president. All his comparatively low overall numbers demonstrate is that if your pardoning did not help him, it wasn't going to happen.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> Let alone trusting someone else to harden it for you. At some point you have to trust others in order to take advantage of network effects, and network effects are exactly what these crooks were seeking to manage. The criminals in this
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
As a subscriber to this sub-reddit, the constant spamming of stories relating to people of particular ethnicities committing crimes was annoying. It became a constant drum to summon to action racist trolls and idiots.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> Which "free spaces" are running out where? Not OP but the college entrance scandal is a great example. With the super wealthy taking up all the philanthropic entrance positions the "just" wealthy set had to resort t
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
The most surprising thing, someone worked out how to tilemap all the Modern Interior walls properly.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> The problem is that with modern politics and all its tools, logical (proposed) solutions aren't needed. Éric Zemmour, multiple times found guilty of stoking racism on TV, got 2.5 million votes/7% of the presidential vote in F
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> This is the first time the US gets challenged on multiple fronts from multiple actors. China, Russia and non-alignment members are all challenging the status quo. Two blocs are emerging. One is largely unified around shared cultural in
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
Even in this rapidly changing world it would be unwise to bet against the nation that has the US's habit of reinventing itself.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
I disagree with the premise that building your own is a poor way to learn operational concepts. The experience of building a toy db created a schema onto which a lot of my on-the-job learning required.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
Via Kogan and Kogan affilliates. So good luck getting any support if there's an issue.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
I expect Australia will never see them, or at least not until they are technologically obselete. Im already scrounging my pennies for some flavour of Aya.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
Libertarions really are the house cats that think they are lions.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
So having a non-political organisation drawing electoral maps with near to identical numbers of people within these zones who vote preferentially sp that their least popular candidate loses is gerrymandering?
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
All voting systems are subject to gaming. Preferential systems are primarily subject to "Least Favourite Candidate Loses". The Labor party may have lost votes but they were preferred over the Coalition by a considerable margin. &g
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> The only reason PRC would invade Taiwan is if Washington started installing ICBM silos there. That would be too late, by definition, for China to invade. The US would likely be very wary of letting their missiles fall into enemy hands.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> Cancel culture is getting old. Cancel culture is what the powerful call the power the weak have over them. No one is forcing you to dislike songs by Michael Jackson, or to stop watching movies by Woody Allen or Roman Polanski. But enou
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
Yes but the "proof" of those ugly monkeys will remain on the internet forever, or at least until it remains economically viable to maintain the blockchain.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
I am not a physicist but I suspect that we are already moving at significant speed relative to other bodies. We have no special frame of reference that defines our "real" speed.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
This is what emerging economies do. The US did it to England. China is doing it to the US.
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> then whoever gets to decide what is and isn't bias will be very powerful over the next 50 years. Is the lack of bias a bias in and of itself? Adversarial systems can smudge data to remove the correlations between the training data
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> In a house I own in Melbourne, Australia Same, and we have just implemented 2 x 7.1kw units along with about 7kwh solar panels. Our heating costs have plummeted and we can survive on days like today (17th Jan) with minimal impact to ou
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
It's Occam's Razor. In order for it to be an interstellar rock, you require no other assumption because there is little evidence to suggest it isn't. If you believe it is a probe you must assume an alien civilisation. Occam&
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> no opportunity means they were following too closely. No. This is the difference between following a car that slows suddenly and stops versus a stationary object suddenly appears on the road in front of you. > if the car in front of
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
> Even though Walgreens is a national retailer, non-thieving locations should not be made to subsidize the thieving locations. This is all part and parcel of society, of corporations, of any multi-site organisation. Each node has its own
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by monkeydreams 4y ago
Wouldn't the star itself be the closed system? Any lifeforms within it are free to reduce their own entropy so long as they increase entropy within the system.

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