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601.
by padjo 2y ago
It does seem like hubris to think we’re anywhere near being able to design a protein synthesis process that’s more efficient than a soy plant.
602.
by padjo 2y ago
Especially when people now think the ozone hole was a hoax and use that as justification for doing nothing about co2 emissions
603.
by padjo 2y ago
It’s truly insane that vaccine deniers are now voting for Trump, when he was the one to take credit for them in the first place (and perhaps with some small justification!)
604.
by padjo 2y ago
Yes if you don’t really pay attention to any of the details then the cases look similar.
605.
by padjo 2y ago
For me this speaks to the arrogance and disconnect from reality that some people in tech operate under. It seems they never considered it possible that someone would say no to them and would protect their IP against them, because who wouldn
606.
by padjo 2y ago
Yep nobody with the problem you’re offering to solve is going to solve it by googling and picking some random company they’ve never heard of with no track record.
607.
by padjo 2y ago
Military hegemony is basically the definition of hard power
608.
by padjo 2y ago
Climate change is analogous to a scenario we see all the time in nature i.e. a species finds massive success causing its population to spike, this population spike degrades the supporting environment and the species risks extinction. We dod
609.
by padjo 2y ago
Sea level rise from climate change is a fairly marginal issue in most places on the scale of a human lifetime. Famine from drought is a much bigger problem in the short term.
610.
by padjo 2y ago
Conspiracy theories are for people who need to believe there is order and purpose in the universe. They need to believe someone is in charge pulling the strings because the alternative, that it’s all just chaotic randomness, is too hard to
611.
by padjo 2y ago
And accept the consequent reduction in living standards from no longer being able to offshore all you social and environmental externalities.
612.
by padjo 2y ago
I’d love to know how it’s possible to supply peak demand in the UK on a still day in January purely from renewables and storage. Especially if you consider that demand is also going to have to increase massively to decarbonise heating, tran
613.
by padjo 2y ago
SBF got his start there right?
614.
by padjo 2y ago
Isn’t the action engine or whatever they’re calling it just a load of playwright scripts? Or was that some other hokey AI device?
615.
by padjo 3y ago
The price is also environmental destruction on a grand scale. All that cotton has to be grown somewhere.
616.
by padjo 3y ago
What about Primark?
617.
by padjo 3y ago
China is now capable of producing world class tech in any consumer industry. They even lead the world by a long way in some (eg camera drones)
618.
by padjo 3y ago
“A largely foreign born workforce” what right wing talking points claptrap is this?
619.
by padjo 3y ago
Will 2024 be the year that PHP users finally feel they no longer have to tell everyone else that PHP doesn’t suck?
620.
by padjo 3y ago
I’ll happily take the under on that
621.
by padjo 3y ago
Are you aware of any good studies that have done this and reached strong conclusions?
622.
by padjo 3y ago
Cramming billions of animals together in confined spaces is really going to come back to bite us some day.
623.
by padjo 3y ago
There’s so many things odd about this race that it’s not particularly surprising it doesn’t line up with controlled scientific evidence.
624.
by padjo 3y ago
I remember Steve Jobs being heavily mocked at the time of the iPad release. So this maybe isn’t as new as the author claims.
625.
by padjo 3y ago
Economics is more a branch of arts or humanities than a branch of science. Sadly many economists take that as a negative and over compensate with ever more elaborate nonsense.
626.
by padjo 3y ago
I just wish someone could genetically engineer something to make vegan casein.
627.
by padjo 3y ago
At the point where UNESCO are recognizing it it’s probably fair to say it’s not underground at all anymore
628.
by padjo 3y ago
Immediately invoked function expressions! Takes me back to a simpler time. Nice work.
629.
by padjo 3y ago
No shade on ember as a framework but LinkedIn’s decision to use Ember always baffled me. As far as I remember they switched to it long after it was clear react had “won”.
630.
by padjo 3y ago
VBA macros were my route from teenager in a warehouse to a 20+ year career in software development

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