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10000x at least. Whole staffed departments at rivals can't bring to market what he did repeatedly.
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Any change of state in a system with inertia should have hysteresis! In this case, a minimum duration before restarting would have done the trick.
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>Of course you have to take responsibility for the things you've done to the world. The living didn't do it and the dead can't do anything about it anymore.
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How are the current generation Americans bound by what their ancestors did ? They can't do anything about it. Aren't they entitled to a good living standard as much as any other person ?
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> Americans are by far the biggest polluters and consumers on the planet How do you figure ? By what metric ?
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>This seems like a worst case scenario, and it still seems like an overblown issue. These are not overblown to people like military and civilian planners, who's jobs are setting up things during the good times so their country gets
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You were joking but I really wished you weren't and this service existed!
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Exactly, so again, if that's the reason, why build that tunnel at all in the islands with low population rather than in a big city where there are a lot more lives to be saved ?
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> consider a car accident; the ambulances have to get there in a hurry. Minutes might save lives here. If that's the reason, why not build that tunnel in a big city, where there are a lot more accidents and lives to be saved ?
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I appreciate this tremendous 3.5B subsidy that Google brought to basic ML research and R&D. There is barely any multinational that has the freedom Google had of planning to spend 3.5B with no ROI. Their shareholders would sue and vote t
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>Steve Jobs wanted all iphone "apps" to just be websites I wouldn't weigh that too much, as it seems it was PR deflection until the native app SDK was ready. Basically Steve's world class reality distortion field at w
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> Americans make hourly investments in their daily commute, just to get started, and don't typically have the kind of street-life infrastructure of your average European industrial region. The average commute in the US (52 min round
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Is every comparative comparison whataboutism ?
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You can see the webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TKJN61aflI It has much better quality for the graphs, allowing one to read the label values.
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The huge ones are also private, FWIW.
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It cares very much about the difference, because it lets you set both separately.
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> not just things the left and right disagree on. Yes, but the objectively false statements that the left and right don't disagree on are not politics . Politics is pretty much what's left that we disagree on, that can't
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> should be aiming to centre around objective truth What is objective truth in politics ? It's the most non-objective aspect of society there is, arguably even more non-objective than art.
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AFAIK, humans are still part of the animal kingdom, just one with an overdeveloped sense of the self and self-importance.
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The plants were not able to have their equivalent of our current debate "Is is all right for our descendants to populate the planet even if it alters the global environment and climate" ? It's ironic that we are able to and t
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Most probably the US riposte will be in the air (and there's not recall capability) before the US can be sure that the target is the sea 10km from the major city and not the major city.
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Why do you make than inflammatory analogy ? Even Philip IV didn't kill all templars, only the senior leadership. The rank and file templars joined other orders.
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Because M1 has virtualization and emulation support, unlike the A12Z (not M1) ARM processor on which the docker issue was opened. This is explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073010 And Docker has the moti
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>latest version of Mac OS broke docker That's wrong, Docker will run fine on M1/Big Sur after an ARM release and probably some patching. Not too different what you'd expect on any major OS release.
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I don't know if ESTA is still involved, he explicitly said his ESTA applications were denied in 2017 and that's why he applied for a "tourist visa" and I don't think ESTA applies to that in any way. But he's a
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A tourism visa does not allow work in the US. He really shouldn't head to an all hands meeting on a tourist visa. The CBP officer will ask his purpose of travel and he'll have to lie about it, after putting it in public writing. T
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> why it isn't talked about more Because reducing energy use reduces quality of life at constant dollar income (at least medium term), and reduces economic growth (energy's an input in all economic activities), with all the soc
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This is a restatement of the "we shouldn't do anything in Space until we solve (all/most/the most important) problems on Earth" argument. If our ancestors would have used this they'd never would have, say, colo
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For anyone not familiar with Philip Greenspun (he of Greenspun's Tenth Law fame) this is a good example of this writing and humor: > e.g., (set! ten-factorial (factorial 10)) (set! checking-account-balance (+ 25 34 86)) (print "
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The biggest EU defence needs are two: securing oil ingress from the Middle East and securing resource ingress from Africa. Without the US 5th fleet, Iran or any other regional power could shut down oil ingress, pitching the EU into a sizabl
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