myrmidon

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by myrmidon 8mo ago
> it sounds like some legal jester dance done to entertain [...] copyright laws Clean room implementations are a jester dance around the judiciary. The whole point is to avoid legal ambiguity. You are not required to do this by law
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I can see that argument applying to wind, but for solar its the opposite because that is really easy to get closer to consumers than a conventional plant ever could be (i.e. on the rooftop). At this point, I don't believe in a nuclear
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I'm really curious how the tracking works in such a system, and how "bad" the beam spread is (my impression is that from the diffraction limit alone the beam has to be spread over at least a ~10m radius after travelling 36000
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
To be fair: grid buildout is quite expensive. A comparison: the giant Dogger Bank offshore wind farm project (multi-GW) cost somewhere in the $10bn range. On the other hand, Germany calculates with >$100bn for grid buildout within the ne
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I think Mark Pilgrim misrepresents the legal situation somewhat: The AI rewrite does not legally need to be a clean room implementation (whatever exactly that would even mean here). That is just the easiest way to disambiguate the legal s
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Because on-site powerplants owned by datacenter operators are not "just another supplier". The threat is: This "datacenter power" disincentives buildout of "free" powerplants (by eating up significant demand at
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Its not clear to me that this is generally worthwhile, even if it is very cheap per-shot; 6 targets at ~100m/s are already enough to overwhelm if the laser gets to engage those targets over 2km of their flight path (with a 4s dwell tim
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I'll give you the "party line" (i.e. best-effort understanding of HN-moderators perspective) for why articles like this are frequently flagged: 1) The entire discussion is a rehashing of the exact same points every time the
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I think it is really important from time to time to shed partisan tendencies and critically review policy initiatives and form a somewhat subjective overpromise/underdeliver judgement (also looking at where , why and how they succ
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I find it quite interesting how particular languages seem to disproportionally attract specific kinds of projects. From a first glance, this is the second somewhat opinionated, compact, minimal-dependency interpreter/shell/library
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
If you personally are willing to invest more, to dedicate attention and effort to every user/contributor/member of the opensource community you are maintaining, then that is great, and does not even conflict with the essay at all.
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I'd argue that we will get to that point this century almost certainly, and should start getting comfortable with that. But we're not there yet.
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
I do agree that politics is a big enemy here (with nations historically being most willing to spend big on energy when reducing interdependence, like the french Messmer plan, instead of the reverse). Honestly the "1m² around the world&
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
The AI completeley failed to address the actual reasons for being rejected, and instead turned to soapboxing and personal insults. Matplotlib is rejecting AI contributions for issues that are intended to onboard human contributors because t
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
The "square meter of aluminium" is an interesting take. Not sure how much power you'd get over that thing; extrapolating from existing HVDC systems (Inga-Shaba is 1GW over 2x520mm²), I'd expect around 1TW, so twice the U
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Hard disagree on this. Even if that state is just straight up burning all the tax income from single-use plastic bags, by taxing them you incentivize consumers and distributors towards untaxed, ideally more sustainable alternatives, like si
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Completely agree with the outlook ("fusion power irrelevant for climate change in every realistic scenario"). But where did you take those grid cost numbers from? Iter costs are <100bn AFAIC; and Germany alone (!!) projects mor
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Every industry ever is going to externalize all the costs you allow it to externalize. The individual responsibility is to vote for representatives that prevent such externalization through regulation, and to stand behind such regulation ev
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Makes sense! Misunderstood the point you were trying to make.
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by myrmidon 8mo ago
Most certainly not, but I don't see how that is relevant. The problem (from a victim/Dutch perspective) is that there is complete denial from the Russian side (despite heaps of evidence around the people involved, origin and trans
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I'd argue that the minimum education level rising in general is already strongly correlated itself, because it indicates that "uneducated" children are economically worthless (=> parents need to pay more to educate and c
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I'd argue that those higher standards/costs for raising children are the effect and not the cause. We (need to) invest more into their education because uneducated children/adults have little or even negative value as worke
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I have no doubt that this has positive effects on the national economy as a whole (you get workers, on demand, without really paying for raising, educating, training them), but it is not really sustainable because population growth is low&#
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I think the "cost of living" explanation for low birthrates is just wrong, and not even plausible (anecdote: my grandmother had 17 siblings, and they could not even afford proper sunday shoes for all of them, much less current liv
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
In a perfect world, when you realise that your company creates and fuels addiction in children, that company should be concerned about having resulting profits seized (fully!) and responsible decisionmakers criminally prosecuted. I would ar
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Curious how this is gonna turn out, but I'm not holding my breath. I'd argue that we basically incentivise companies to cause harm whenever it is unregulated and profitable because the profits are never sufficiently seized and a
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
I think that whole argument is very weak. You would need to apply the same standards to physical violence/general crime to avoid (justified) accusations of double standards, and I don't see Australia banning "Breaking Bad&quo
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
Your primary point is "the study harmed participants, and Gates is responsible" But your own report contradicts this, and finds the deaths unrelated. You also argue that Gates is suspect, because HPV vaccine trials were only done
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
What exact vaccine are you talking about, first? Gardasil is actually approved for use not only in India itself, but also the US (and Europe), FYI. Trials where also done both in the US, Europe and a bunch of other countries (see https:&
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by myrmidon 9mo ago
> clinical trials of unproven vaccines [...] that directly caused deaths and hospitalizations of many girls You have not shown this so far. The article that you believe supports this claim does not. There is a lot of reasons to do a vacc

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