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by nosianu 11mo ago
Man made stuff does not self-repair and self-replicate. So, no. You are not thinking far enough, only the next step. But it is a complex vast network, and every single thing in it except the humans has that man-made item deficiency of dec
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by nosianu 11mo ago
In support of the other reply, here is a look at the supply chain of a very simple product - a can of Coke. https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/what-coke-contains-221d4499... ( https://archive.md/PPYez ) Th
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> I have never not thought in words. You don't notice it, but that inner voice is only on the surface. It is generated from what's going on deeper. You may not notice it is very good at occupying your attention . Your "
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Then how do you work with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 I did that job, just after university, but that is not my comment. I bookmarked it though because that person said it so well. You will write b
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by nosianu 11mo ago
(I'm a PP-ASEL, earned in and around SF Bay Area air spaces almost three decades ago) First, people are more likely to crash during takeoffs and landings, not in the middle of a flight. Second, it's also not just about the damage
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by nosianu 11mo ago
And the magnificent movie "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes) Released 1965 > Set in 1910, the film follows a fictitious air race from London to Paris ht
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> Arthur Conon Doyle hating his character But Holmes is not "unsympathetic" in any of the stories, so I don't see your theory matching the facts. > He accumulated character flaws along the way, as if Doyle wanted t
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by nosianu 11mo ago
I only see one. "Outside the US" was the starting proposition, then they only added "experienced".
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by nosianu 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983440
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by nosianu 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983440
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> there's still a skill element evolved. Uhm... yes??? Obviously even a baby has "skills". The point is the comparison between the levels of tech. Your accountant is constant, the tools they use is variable. Interpreting
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> Has this been true for any technology, ever? Yes? Try abacus, slide rules or mechanical calculating machines vs electronic calculators. Or ancient vs modern computers and software. They didn't even have "end-users" lik
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by nosianu 11mo ago
I think that in general the plain linear format is bad for debate. You always end up with one or two - often barely on topic! - threads dominating, and everything else below gets barely any attention. For submissions with lots of comments t
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> To me, it’s insane to even consider banning rent increases altogether. I am surprised this was seriously discussed. * For one: People who vote for this may very well agree with you, but as always, even when you see that something wou
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by nosianu 11mo ago
No the cappuccino tasted fine, good even. I hated the effect on my heart that came later. Also, the food was very very good, I still dream of it occasionally. Just some sandwiches, but perfection. Some cooked root whose name I forgot as the
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by nosianu 11mo ago
Maybe? As an espresso drinker with a good machine and grinder, and lots of variety with mostly Italian beans, it depends, as the OP already indicated. I only buy low or at most middle caffein content beans to begin with, but you can get hig
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> You seem to be suggesting As soon as you start a response like that you should just stop. After all, this is written communication, and what I wrote is plain to see right there. When you need to start a response that way you should b
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by nosianu 11mo ago
I think your comparison with Taylor Swift is not good, a distraction even. Billionaires optimize for very different goals than most other people. You don't become one by accident, while you are actually focused solely on your work. Tha
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by nosianu 11mo ago
> I used to make the comment, pre-LLM, that we needed to get to mouse/squirrel level intelligence rather than trying to get to human level abstract AI. But we got abstract AI first. That surprised me. "AI" is not based o
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by nosianu 1y ago
Except I would have been allowed to install it on that laptop, I just didn't have the original media with me, and I also did not care. I also, again already having paid for the original license years before, got a cracked Warcraft III
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by nosianu 1y ago
Maybe you are wrong about what is the cause, what is the effect? You describe how we fund most research, so of course this is what we get.
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by nosianu 1y ago
Many years ago I spent two months in Odessa, Ukraine. I lived in a rented apartment not far from the pretty famous half open-air book (and CD/DVD) market ( https://wanderlog.com/place/details/10511015/book
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by nosianu 1y ago
> The article was about Australia, not China. And??? The parent commenter wrote about the manufacturer of said solar panels, going outside the frame of that article to something related but still relevant, given that that article surel
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by nosianu 1y ago
I see barely any Israel discussions on this site, so if it is not symmetrical the main reason for that has to be that the submissions favoring one side or the other are very uneven, which is nobody's fault and not a problem. Especially
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by nosianu 1y ago
> The problem is having decedents pay for our retirement. But that is unavoidable! > Instead, end that system and start saving for your own retirement. If you are not talking from an individual's PoV but economically, or even
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by nosianu 1y ago
> This company might remember their history. For the record: Apparently they helped the original Nazis. One link of many: https://time.com/archive/6931688/ibm-haunted-by-nazi-era-act... > IBM, according t
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by nosianu 1y ago
For me it is like a different "space" for mental vs real images. It is not the same neurons, I would guess. The real images are (and feel) outside of myself (obviously, you may say). The mental image feels very close and kind of &
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by nosianu 1y ago
How is that fair when a lot of industrial production was shifted to one region of the globe specifically? It would be impossible without a lot of guessing and estimations, producing questionable data, but you would have to include CO2 attri
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by nosianu 1y ago
Misrepresenting??? The costs DID increase. I did not try to make a political statement, what happened here, anyway??? I have no idea what there is to defend - even if you assume they will all get high-paying jobs some ay, for the first few
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by nosianu 1y ago
So what about this? It is a question, not meant as a counter. Although I have to say the rosy picture some paint here about the high incomes is counter to anything I ever heard - and saw, although I left the US in the early 2000s, after hav

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