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by mrpopo 3y ago
"The Great Filter" is the only non-egotistical, and therefore IMO the only valid explanation. Even then, people still believe in egotistical great filters such as global thermonuclear war. We already have evidence of an extinction
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by mrpopo 3y ago
No, you don't have a choice, if you want to work on building rockets that actually ship (thanks to constant government backing and de facto monopoly, confirmed in recent years after the failure of Blue Origin and others to dethrone the
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by mrpopo 3y ago
It's simply their strategy, really. Turning Palestinians desperate so they turn to violence ("terrorism"), in order to justify turning their territory into even more of a shit hole, so Palestinians who can't take it anym
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by mrpopo 3y ago
This is also misleading. What's disappearing is a sustainable environment suitable for humans without advanced technology and globalized trade . Humans are living in climate-controlled environments in Phoenix, but they wouldn't
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by mrpopo 3y ago
So, all the data is in HTML format in the page and the browser has to generate an SVG for each frame?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
It's not a difficult problem as long as you have radar/lidar and not just computer vision as input. I understand computer vision could be used as primary input, but IMO it should be mandatory to have some kind of proximity sensor
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Context matters in roadkill statistics. If a human driver risks causing more accidents on the highway when distracted and tired, a driving assistant risks causing more accidents in the city streets where there are more opportunities for fai
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by mrpopo 3y ago
China doesn't take the world's plastic anymore, that comment is now 4 years outdated. Since then, some of it was shipped to south-east Asian countries but they started cutting back soon after. That being said, plastic is a problem
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by mrpopo 3y ago
> Countries that are still building out their infrastructure should be expected to expend more CO2 per capita to catch up. (Modern equipment is more effecient, but still). Well, the UAE is not exactly a "country that is still buildi
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by mrpopo 3y ago
It's better than doing nothing, but the UAE has more than enough homework regarding carbon emissions reduction. Its per capita footprint is 25t CO2, 75% more than the USA, which itself is 2.5x that of the EU. https://ourworl
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by mrpopo 3y ago
"Supporting" sustainability, but you don't accept having to plug your phone once-a-day like 90% of smartphone owners, you want to have the best phone camera in your social group, and you don't want screen protectors. I&#
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Non-substantiated cause-effect relation. Switzerland and Sweden are both ranked more innovative than the US, despite stronger legal restrictions (food-wise or otherwise). https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09&#x2F
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I didn't care much about it, but now that it's going to be banned, I feel like I should try it while I can. Where can I get some of this cultured meat in France?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Tesla was granted a temporary measure to deliver the licence plates until the lawsuit*
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by mrpopo 3y ago
They can't afford diverting a highway or making the necessary infrastructure changes for it, they are a small town of 300 people with low income. Furthermore, highways are usually the responsibility of county or state governments.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Drivers still have personal responsibility, I absolutely agree with that. Regardless, any infrastructure where drivers can transgress rules easily is bad infrastructure. This is the case here. The highway runs straight through, the protecti
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by mrpopo 3y ago
So, they found no evidence of corruption, and everybody was speeding through the town. Maybe the system should be fixed to avoid obvious conflicts of interest, but this rather looks like another case of failed US infrastructure. There shoul
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by mrpopo 3y ago
So, this begs the question: what cognitive functions can be diagnosed from an MRI?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
No. OP was suggesting we shouldn't denounce the bad things he's doing, because of the good things he's doing. My point is, should we wait for the bad to outweigh the good, and who will be the judge of that?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Elon Musk isn't just "denouncing woke twitter". He is actively, politically involved in Mexico border crossing debates, meeting with politicians and border patrols, etc.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
So, if at some point he starts funding military spaceships that can shoot illegal migrants from space, do we still take the good with the bad, or do we denounce his behaviour?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor#Vantablack_contro... It's a reaction to Anish Kapoor's exclusive licensing of Vantablack, regarded as abusive in the art world.
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by mrpopo 3y ago
That's a 17-y.o. blog post. Musk has very much changed since then. And where does the Cybertruck fall into that master plan?
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by mrpopo 3y ago
No, those aren't the facts, you just fell into the exact problem I was trying to explain. The facts are that a number of Hamas members have entered Israel territory and done a number of horrible things that some of us may have heard on
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I like that they are not forcing the word "terrorism". As much as Oct. 7 actions are despicable, "terrorism" is now just a loaded political term that no one cares to define. Are the Israeli settlers terrorists? The Russi
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I explicitly said that if you think it isn't the EPA's job, then it should be someone else's job, and not just ignored. How do you think this could be tackled? Also, if you have read the article, you could see that Ohio and P
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I was talking about dust storms in my comment, because it happened in the USA as well in the 1930s (dust bowl) and pushed the US government to create the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The point is that there needs to be a r
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by mrpopo 3y ago
> none of the EPA’s tools “work” against wildfire pollution so it makes sense to factor that out. Factor that out for part of the analysis on one hand, and include it and add some new tools to the EPA on the other. Wildfires are made wor
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Yes, let's keep believing that the increase in wildfires isn't in any way related to human activity at all (climate change and bad forestry practices don't exist). Dust storms in Asia spread further and further (because of de
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Can you or someone expand further on that? Which platforms are trying to use segmented addressing, and what benefits does it have?

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