ndsipa_pomu

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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Depends on the business and some will just put a "speak to the staff if you have an allergy" on the menu.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
That sounds like a bad idea if produce can be freely sold across state lines even when it doesn't meet the standards required in a particular state. It's the right conditions to promote a race to the bottom with the states that ha
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
China is also fascist by the usual four measures (cult-like worship, hyper-nationalism, a merciless surveillance apparatus and the glorification of military strength), but that has nothing to do with fascism in the USA.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Still in common use in Britain as far as I know. A more local (Bristolian) word would be "keener" used to describe someone who puts lots of effort into a task to win praise.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
English tends to just borrow/steal words from other languages if they're useful enough. It could also be something to do with the lack of consistency of english rules so it's not so easy to create new words.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "cleans up itself" as it doesn't just disappear. What is likely is that it gets distributed through various ecosystems and thus is no longer in the stratosphere. What concerns me is our lack
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I think the word you were looking for is "kakistocracy" - government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I've never heard of that and would welcome some sources. As I understand it, the Women's suffrage movement began mainly in Britain during the late 19th century. The USSR didn't exist until 1922, so I think you've been mi
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Yes, volcanoes are relevant data points, but that's also very different to proposed methods of seeding. It does raise the question of whether someone will decide to set off bombs in fault-lines to try and set off an eruption - I recall
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I think that encouraging corporations to destroy our environment (e.g. climate change) as fast as possible to maximise profits is a very good reason to call it a bad system. Yes, some goods and services become much more efficient, but now w
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
That shows the problem or trying to link an IP address to an individual.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Stratospheric aerosol injection hasn't been tested at any kind of scale, so we do not know whether it would be harmful (e.g. acid rain) or not. It would also be very expensive, so it's not really a practical solution at the moment
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Seems fairly obvious that the people deploying them know how flawed the idea is, but there's money on the table for them to ignore the obvious flaws.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
> It’s fallacious reasoning to say that, just because some distinctions for voting are illegitimate, therefore all distinctions are illegitimate I agree, but that's not really the argument here. My argument is that it is very easy t
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Rather than a fixed amount of net worth, I'd rather it was linked to something like the minimum wage (e.g. minimum wage x 10 million) or the net worth of the poorest 10%. There should be some mechanism to prevent runaway wealth hoarder
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
You seem to imply that allowing poor people to vote leads to a dysfunctional government, whereas it seems clear to me that allowing corporations to influence politics is far, far worse.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I don't think "crazy" is the best word, but maybe "malicious", "evil", "megalomaniac" or something similar would be more appropriate. However, I would describe the idea itself as being "craz
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Early democracies didn't allow everyone to vote - slaves typically had no voting rights (or any rights at all). However, we've progressed to understand that if you don't provide people with voting rights, they then have to re
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
To be fair, bike lanes and cycling are inclusive and a surprisingly effective way to empower underclasses. When the safety bicycle was invented, it greatly empowered women who previously were more or less house-bound to be able to travel di
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
> just for the crime of delaying them by a few seconds Often it's not an actual delay, but just a perception of a delay as the driver then arrives at the next queue a few seconds later which makes no difference to their total journe
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I'm surprised you need to put clothes on your dog
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
An Australian sniffer dog was very interested in my rucksack when I visited Australia a while back. Apparently it was due to previously having kept some bananas in there. They really don't mess about with finding and fining people impo
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
> Fans do you no good when the humidity is above a certain point. That would be related to the wet-bulb temperature. If the wet-bulb temperature is more than about 30°C, then I'd consider the area to be uninhabitable. (A wet bulb te
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
The problem with AC units is that they end up producing yet more heat, so whilst it may be "health-sensible" for the people inside, it's not so good for the people outside.
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The Strongest El Niño Ever(theclimatebrink.com)
291 points by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago|347 comments
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I prefer using "while true;" as that's easier to read. Arguably, it's less efficient due to calling the external "true". Strangely though, I much prefer using the builtin "printf" to replace "ech
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
My main issue with attempting to replace Bash with other shells is that they're often not installed by default on different Linux flavours and they don't/won't have the same longevity as Bash. Try running PowerShell on a
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
Whilst I agree that Bash makes it far too easy to do it wrong, it's not too tricky to write scripts that don't have those issues. Possibly the most important tip is to use ShellCheck ( https://www.shellcheck.net/ )
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I reckon there a few bodies in the Mar-a-Lago grounds.
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by ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
I think a good test of AGI is whether it can produce a better version of itself or provide the instructions for someone to improve it.

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