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by paganel 6mo ago
So, who decides what? What's worst? Dirtier air or a hotter climate? Who makes those decisions? On what considerations?
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by paganel 6mo ago
Something like: What we scientifically thought was going to improve things has made them worst.
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by paganel 6mo ago
And "you're a regular commenter on Hacker News", just to make sure.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries... It can also be clearly seen that the 2020 limit on the sulphur content in the fuel oil used on board ships [1] had quite the negative effects when it
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by paganel 6mo ago
First of all, the study is written by an economist, might as well have sent me an Oracle of Delphi pronouncement. And second, he mentions the Malthusian trap being a real thing in his very first sentence, so not sure what I should have gott
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by paganel 6mo ago
> NATO and got military help out of it That was token help (the Brits excluded), let's be serious here, we're all grown-up men.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> The general point is accurate, don’t take it so literally. It's not, because the Malthusian trap was all too real going into modernity, as in recurring famines were a thing, they were quite real, nothing "literal" about
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by paganel 6mo ago
> We generate a lot of wealth in those 36 hours, You don't, (Western) Europe is just a rentier-place at this point, living on other people's backs. For example look at Maersk, from the much-beloved and relaxed Denmark, their bu
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by paganel 7mo ago
> they just don't have time for that? They for sure have time for that. When I drive my car can't use that as an excuse.
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by paganel 7mo ago
Sure is helpful, because it goes like this: pedestrians first -> then cyclists -> then motorists. You may notice that in this worldview (one which I find very hard to argue against) cyclists should give priority to pedestrians, no que
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by paganel 7mo ago
Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them?
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by paganel 7mo ago
Was looking for this comment. How can people still read AI slop like this?
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by paganel 7mo ago
> contributed to the research, which was supported by funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. I guess when they're not busying bombing train infrastructure in Iran they have some money left to give to some propagan
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by paganel 7mo ago
> because virtually everyone's moved to something better. How is this better?
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by paganel 7mo ago
Yes, it's called the nuclear umbrella, Potsdam '45 and the fact that the Soviets are out of the equation. Even with the Soviets in place the Americans had no second thoughts about getting rid of Bretton Woods when it suited them.
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by paganel 7mo ago
They missed the Iranians employed into bombing OpenAI's datacenter in Abu Dhabi, at least going by Iran's latest press release. [1] I think that should count as AI-related work. [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/n
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by paganel 7mo ago
> girls who post and then remove selfies from their services in order to market to demographics who were likely experiencing depression and negative feelings about their body image. This is just pure evil, and I'm not using this as
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by paganel 7mo ago
At this point I'm personally lost, unless GP's comment wasn't some sort of satire (which would be valid, this being a topic about AI).
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by paganel 7mo ago
You have to be a normie to believe that a ground operation as currently envisaged by the US political leaders would be anything else but a suicide mission. This is not about “winning arguments on the internet” or some such, because in the e
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by paganel 7mo ago
> equipped with some truly obsolete technology aboard. So I guess the US won't have any issues replacing it at a cheaper cost (as far as I understood that one cost $500 million, give or take).
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by paganel 7mo ago
The non-war obsessed normies are something to behold, that's for sure. Most probably the GP has never looked at the FPV videos coming out of Ukraine, or maybe he somehow thinks that US soldiers are Terminator-like machines who would ha
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by paganel 7mo ago
> flattened How will the Americans do that? Nuclear bombs? Because it doesn't seem to me that they have the conventional arsenal to flatten a country like Cuba.
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by paganel 7mo ago
The linked tweet says this: > USAF B-52H refueling from a KC-135 tanker on its way to strike Iran. with emphasis on "on its way", so not "over" Iran. So not sure your link proves your original point (which, if I under
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by paganel 7mo ago
> People dont care (because we have also made a mockery of security as well) - They will start caring when a security bug on one of their phone's apps (or on the phone's software itself) empties their savings accounts. At that
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by paganel 7mo ago
There's not that much about art and craft but about knowing that less is more and that adding complexity to a thing (almost any thing) will only bring greater troubles down the road. We've had to learn this as an industry for how
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by paganel 7mo ago
They're a good way of verifying that they're not AI-slop, or not pro-AI slop, which I view as the same think, so I think that they should be embraced.
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by paganel 7mo ago
They (the Americans) should have also marked the schools on said military maps of theirs, and hence they could have made a value judgment of "is it worth killing some IRGC men in the middle of nowhere vs. the international backslash of
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by paganel 7mo ago
Bibi was hiding like a coward for the first part of the war he had started and so people were beginning to ask legit ate questions about his whereabouts. When an AI-enhanced video of him did eventuality showed up people continue posing some
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by paganel 7mo ago
> What value is left to provide for users? A spreadsheet editor with at most a couple of hundred MBs in size that can compete against Excel, for example. While also not eating from RAM resources. The same goes for a new browser and a ne
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by paganel 7mo ago
The author should have mentioned that this was partly an article to whitewash Netanyahu, but this coming from the BBC (and from the mainstream British media as a whole) that was to be expected.

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