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What about the nuclear power stuff though? That was a Biden initiative and a huge reversal of the past 40 years of Democratic Party policy. Just seems like things are moving in energy policy.
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Ok guys, this climate change stuff is temporarily off the menu until we win the great power AI war with China. Same goes for nuclear power. Send the memo out that we love nuclear power now after 40 years of hating it.[1] [1] https:/
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What's interesting about them is that if you microwave your food, you get fewer of them[1]. That's because they are primarily produced by the mallard reaction which is caused by food, such as bread, getting toasted[2]. The worst
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It sold 65 million copies? You've got to be kidding me. Someone made 9 figures off of Oregon trail? Bwahahaha.
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Oh gawd I remember Mac "At Ease." That was the dumbed down lockdown software they used to make the computers at the school labs fun proof.
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Seems like Steve Jobs made the vision of a computer that absolutely anyone could use a reality with the IPhone. It would be interesting to see the design process of the IPhone and Bob side by side. What were the differences in methodology
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One of the fun things about reading Young Stalin, which is a biography of Stalin from birth to the Russian revolution, is nobody liked him in Georgia where he grew up, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union, so it was easy for the bi
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Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows. Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says
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Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be
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Just go into developer mode and just break on a line like so: r.sps && r.purchased && this.addStimulation(r.sps \* n, r.id) and run this.addStimulation(10000000000,r.id) and resume.
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I imagine with advanced robotics, you'll just get the AI to output a synthesis and put it through your at home chem lab with precise pipetting and all that. It will also help clean up and handle any nasty reagents.
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I make enough trading to live off of. Sure, I lost small amounts of money for about 15 years to get good enough at it to do well the last 4 years, but now I spend a lot of time looking at the market because it's basically my job. If
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Yes, these jobs are horrible. However, I do know from accidently encountering bad stuff on the internet that you want to be as far away from a modern battlefield as possible. It's just kind of ridiculous how people think war is like C
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Net Zero 2050 involves so much economic depravation that is neither good for business interests, or good for the public's economic well being, such that the only way it could ever happen would be in some sort of authoritarianism. The
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Jevons Paradox will take care of it[1]. The more efficiently a resource is used, the more demand there is for it. The grave implication of Jevons paradox is that the fundamental conflict between sustainability and economic progress is not r
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They want to protect their political control, so they break any way for the opposition to effectively organize. Things like unlimited immigration, Net Zero 2050, and dekulakization of the agricultural sector are widely unpopular, so they j
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Why did this article not include any dates? When was this released?
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Being the rare American Android person, I use it, Signal and Telegram to communicate with Iphone people since IMessage SMS integration is badly crippled.
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Reasoning by analogy is more predictable because it is by definition more derivative of existing ideas. Reasoning from first principles though can create whole new intellectual worlds by replacing the underpinnings of ideas such that they
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Worth remaining a little skeptical. Could be Project Blue Beam, the plan for a fake alien invasion, that's been talked about for literally decades in conspiracy circles.
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Paul Romer of the New York Stern School of Business has talked about the crisis of identifiability[1] which makes most macroeconomics non-falsifiable and completely isolates economists from ever being wrong in their theories. He's like
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You're looking at the world as a poor person. If you had Elon's brilliance you'd probably quit after you made $5 million dollars or so and definitely after you sold Zip2 back in the 1990s and spent the rest of your life on t
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Grusch was given access specifically by an act of the U.S Congress to investigate UAPs. Watch the CSPAN link of the congressional hearing I provided for the full details. Read the link to "The Crowded Galaxy" theory for what'
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There used to be no evidence at all, but now you have David Grusch who was given explicit authorization to talk to people in unacknowledged special access programs about UAPs and he said under oath before congress that yes, there are crashe
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For those who want to know the most consistent UFOlogy angle that wasn't invented last week: Over on 4chan there was an alleged leaker and follow ups back in 2023 who says that there's an underwater ET mothership off the east coa
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Is there a name for an ideology that says all social and economic problems can be solved through mass psychology? You could call it psychohistory perhaps, but there's got to be a newer term. Seems like it's the dominant ideology
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Most of the murders are just in a few zip codes[1]. In some cities they are literally concentrated in a few city blocks. So if you move to the U.S don't live in obvious high crime areas and you'll be fine. The best way to tell i
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The never-ending cycle of Javascript libraries continues. It's an HN cliche at this point : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32914452 In fact, it reminds me of Joseph Tainter's theories in Collapse of Complex
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This will probably become less funny when everyone has a home robot that can cook for them. A robot that can handle a knife with sufficient dexterity can be a trained assassin if the owner doesn't pay the extortion demand of the malwar
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What's with him getting involved in low value street crime after the career ended? Did he really blow all his money?
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