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by oblio 6mo ago
True, but the radius affected by airliners is generally much smaller. Once they're higher than a few thousand meters, you can't really hear them any more. Cargo trains, I imagine it's similar. > Congestion is too severe fo
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by oblio 6mo ago
Nice philosophising, but it's vehicles. Primarily cars, but not only. By far the most common and the loudest source of noise, especially in cities, are vehicles, again, primarily cars. During the pandemic it became painfully obvious ho
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by oblio 6mo ago
> But that difference atm is the difference between it being OK on its own with a team of subagents given good enough feedback Do people actually build meaningful things like that? It's basically impossible to leave any AI agent uns
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by oblio 6mo ago
> Electricity is cheap in Georgia because Georgia is generally not a desirable state for business. Are you insulting the great state of Georgia??? Paraphrasing a quote about North Carolina from American Crime Story, season 1, episode 9:
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by oblio 6mo ago
> Plus straight old fashioned corruption in a state sponsored monopoly. Why don't they just nationalize it? At that point there wouldn't be a huge incentive to raise prices and increase profits and state control would demand lo
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by oblio 6mo ago
We can make synthetic oil and I think we can also make synthetic coal, too. Though it's close to useless because at that point they're too expensive to be worth it for anything else than very niche uses that absolutely require the
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by oblio 6mo ago
My point is that for legitimate payment uses Lightning (and all current cryptocurrencies) are useless. They were sold as the "democratization of finance" that will "help the world's poorest" and they either: 1. can&
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by oblio 7mo ago
This doesn't answer my main concern. How do most people use Lightning? Do they operate on their own or use a big hub?
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by oblio 7mo ago
Isn't it hard to use in practice? Liveness, inbound liquidity, moving funds between L1 and L2, don't all of those lead to massive use of hubs, this denying the entire premise of decentralization?
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by oblio 7mo ago
I figured that part out, I wonder why it's being doubled.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Why double sha256?
642.
by oblio 7mo ago
Or we could use all that "free solar energy" to benefit humanity through a million other more useful endeavors. Such as developing and deploying batteries. One thing we do not lack is demand for more energy.
643.
by oblio 7mo ago
Lightning has mostly done this by being a lot more centralized in practice and one could argue... What's the point of it all in this case? Why not just use regular currency?
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by oblio 7mo ago
Does MCP support authentication, SSO?
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by oblio 7mo ago
LOL American values? Manifest destiny? Trail of tears? Japanese internment camps? Madison Square Garden Nazi rallies in the 1930s? I'd argue that at least 30% of Americans throughout history have been white supremacists. Heck, the coun
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by oblio 7mo ago
Yeah, that "shock and awe" would probably destroy any remaining US alliances.
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by oblio 7mo ago
It's interesting that these days any treaty that the US hasn't signed is probably a decent one, especially if hundreds of other countries have signed it. It's usually the US and a bunch of garbage regimes on these lists, I gu
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by oblio 7mo ago
Indonesia?
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by oblio 7mo ago
In corporate circles there is an allergy to use "request" ("ask" is used as a noun) and "lesson" ("learning" has been invented for the same role). I guess now anything that sounds related to school wi
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by oblio 7mo ago
Also Chinese smartphones. Huawei was about 12-18 months from becoming the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world a few years ago. If it would have been allowed to sell its phones freely in the US I'm fairly sure Apple would have
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by oblio 7mo ago
Yes, but there weren't that many large grazing animals because most of the world was covered in woods, not pastures. Trees are the most successful large creatures and we've probably reduced their habitat by 50%. That's the ac
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by oblio 7mo ago
I'm fairly sure there weren't 1.5 billion cows in the world before humans.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Oooops :-D
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by oblio 7mo ago
Some of this is being slowly reverted: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/2de...
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by oblio 7mo ago
If you think Musk doesn't want central planning, you're sorely misunderstanding his point of view. Musk wants to be a founding father. And just as the OG founding fathers, his problem isn't necessarily with the centralization
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by oblio 7mo ago
We could probably reduced cultivated land by 50% if we would stop wanting to eat mid-sized or large animals (cows and pigs).
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by oblio 7mo ago
The amount of people that want truly rural environments is infinitesimal. Everyone wants a huge house with lots of land far from neighbors. But then they want the state of the art hospital to be close. They want to be able yo reach the clos
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by oblio 7mo ago
Don't worry, the Gemini website does the same, at least on Firefox mobile. You switch apps and you lose the response AND the prompt. Normally some software devs should be fired for that.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Isn't Anthropic basically a bunch of AI PhDs writing code? I'd imagine they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into actual software engineering.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Let's turn this into an affirmation, not a negation. What are you affirming?

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