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by orbifold 7y ago
I agree, basically it should either not be allowed or strictly controlled how to advertise politics online. Targeted political advertisement should be banned completely. Then there is twitter, which also basically serves as a direct marketi
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by orbifold 7y ago
In Germany every political party gets a fixed number of slots for TV-Spots basically free of charge ahead of an election. There is no other political advertisement allowed (only the parties themselves are allowed to advertise). Unfortunatel
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by orbifold 7y ago
I think even a PhD is more about execution than good ideas. There is generally speaking no shortage of good ideas, but many turn out to be too labour intensive or have other subtle problems. In any case I’ve also gotten discouraged by this,
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by orbifold 7y ago
While Yang seems nice on the surface, his policy idea to finance 1000€ in cash per month for everyone by a VAT is a prime example of a regressive tax policy. If you spend ~2000€ a month at ~10% that is 200€ already gone. So you end up payin
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by orbifold 7y ago
The quantum circuit based simulation actually has much worse accuracy. A classical computer can simulate the class of circuits they are proposing with linear increasing runtime (as opposed to exponential as Google claims) and _much_ higher
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by orbifold 7y ago
As far as I'm aware there actually is no proof that there is no polynomial time factoring algorithm. Complexity theory contains a lot of cargo cult belief with little solid proofs unfortunately. One reason is of course that it is a ver
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by orbifold 7y ago
In case you didn’t know: there are several dedicated microwave links between Chicago and New York just for that reason.
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by orbifold 7y ago
That is not true: Verilator is an excellent tool that compiles a large subset of synthesizable System Verilog to C++. Companies like Tesla use it and report speed ups of up to 40 compared to commercial tools. Similarly for vhdl there exists
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by orbifold 7y ago
On the other hand this probably is a huge advantage that Amazon has.
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by orbifold 7y ago
It‘a kind of ironic, the French were so focused on screwing over the British, that they nearly bankrupted themselves and raised a generation of freedom fighting officers. Both eventually led to food shortages and revolution.
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by orbifold 7y ago
One world and one culture is a nightmare not a dream.
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by orbifold 7y ago
While I agree that 10^17 seems like a more accurate number, don’t forget that each neuron contains ~10^5 synapses which all process at timescales of 10s of microseconds. This gives you an additional factor of 10^9
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by orbifold 7y ago
Which is why both the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam war ended in no time.
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by orbifold 7y ago
To call these things computers is a stretch anyways. So far they are simply very regularly arranged controllable quantum widgets.
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by orbifold 7y ago
One technology is called “TREES”, actually scratch that a more advanced version is called “RAINFOREST” (that one sequesters far more CO2 per square meter than TREES alone). Unfortunately people have cut down a significant portion of both TR
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by orbifold 7y ago
That seems incredibly low. 1kg of Beef produces ~1ton CO2 equivalent emissions
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by orbifold 7y ago
Seems like a perfect place for people who like to pretend to work.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Well offline storage of digital information is much more complicated than keeping a book around. I had countless external harddrives cds and floppy disks fail on me.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Physical books last at least ~50 years. That is longer than any physical computer lasts and longer than any of the companies that offer cloud services (IBM doesn't offer e-Books yet) have existed. There is a good chance that some of th
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by orbifold 7y ago
Dealing with the consequences of messing with sovereign nation states might not be a great idea: Move fast and die of pollonium poisoning...
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by orbifold 7y ago
As a German citizen I'm really glad they are doing this. I would be horrified if they let our monetary sovereignty slip out of their hands.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Just require people to provide a valid ID to Facebook in order to use it. Shouldn't be too hard to enfore, at least in the EU your phone number is tied to your passport.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Nothing is unstoppable, nation states have militaries and intelligence services. Both can be very persuasive. Facebook is paying close to no taxes in the EU, so noone here has anything to lose from them simply disappearing.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Well the majority of the science was done by the middle aged men and woman you are now attacking in your comment. What does she have to add, that they have not been continuously stating for >40 years? The club of Rome report is almost 50
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by orbifold 7y ago
Why should anyone listen to her and not actual scientists? Do people really need to be guilt tripped to believe something that is overwhelmingly supported by facts and has been publicly debated for >20 years?
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by orbifold 7y ago
I wouldn't say I'm jealous, just highly annoyed to whom the public is paying attention to. It's the same environmental activism theatrics that Greenpeace and WWF have been doing for all of their existence. As a counterpoint t
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by orbifold 7y ago
I don’t care either way. I just hate that everything boils down to elaborate story telling. She had to travel by boat to the UN. All of this is highly theatrical. The facts have been known for a long time, just talking about it won’t change
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by orbifold 7y ago
It‘s funny whole parts of the establishment have spent so much time fighting against „mansplaining“, white men as authority figures, for cultural relativism, and critical post-something, that they must be really relieved to finally have fou
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by orbifold 7y ago
That’s clearly nonsense, you just happen to have no interesting skin conditions... Any doctor will treat common cases 90% of their time. The skill is in recognizing and treating uncommon cases.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Well the kind of obvious explanation for that is that success in life is probably strongly determined by intelligence. So when ~10% of the population went to college there was a high chance that those were also approximately the 10% smartes

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