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by pasabagi 5y ago
> nuclear projects tend to be magnets for corruption, huge boondoggles, and don’t account for, much less pay, their full long term costs This is the point for me. Capital intensive projects with massive safety concerns and massive enviro
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, there has been a lot of 'skepticism' that amounts to cherry picking whatever facts allow people to believe what they please. I think the fact remains that COVID was and is extraordinarily dangerous, and that's evidenced
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well yeah, but you can obviously use signed distance functions to create a texture (that's what a shader is doing) that can be used at runtime. Imagine you want to make the normal map for a bubbly surface, for example, but you also wan
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by pasabagi 5y ago
If you want to generate textures which you then read at runtime, this kind of technique is very useful - for instance, imagine you want to create the normal map of a cloud, or create a height map to displace vertices with (for a procedural
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Dunno. I'm about average and I use 'di(' or 'di{' like all the time. Not rocket science. One nice thing about vim is you basically don't need to remember 'tricks'. They're structured, so you can
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by pasabagi 5y ago
To produce export goods?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Is per-capita water a relevant metric? I doubt human consumption is a significant portion of water demand - I mean, doesn't farming typically use the vast majority?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> E. Ethiopia is currently a divided country. But when it comes to the dam, its people are 100% on the same page. If I was an unpopular regime, I would see this, and feel pretty good about my chances of exploiting it. A war you can proba
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I just had a look at the list, and I feel that looking at 'dams' is pretty misleading. The point is to look at capacity, no? I mean, nobody in their right mind cares if somebody builds a dam that has a capacity of half a cubic kil
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Unless you're a sheep farmer or something (in which case, you still rely on the state for security) you need an enormous number of state services to run even a very simple business, but on a more basic level, property rights are define
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, a state is the entity that has sovereignty in a given country. So in principle, it always has access to all of the resources of that country, even though in practice it's bound by all sorts of laws and customs. Also in practice,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I just feel like when you have a problem like this, where the interests of business and state are aligned (data collection is useful for both), taking a principled stance allows people to marginalize you. Obviously, people don't like
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I generally think along your lines, but I think there is an actually a fundamental question here: do we care about privacy? My feeling is that surveillance states are more or less the norm, and it tends to become controversial as a sort of
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, my suggestion is kind of aiming to be as pragmatic and unambitious as possible, so the fact it doesn't have an effect against giants who spend a lot of money on security is part of the pragmatism - it means you split the oppositi
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think there's a simpler way to achieve this. Force companies who leak personal data to pay reasonable damages to all the individuals involved, on the scale of 10-100 dollars, depending on how much personal info has been leaked. That
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The typical picture you have of a political reading is somebody reads a poem by Basho about crickets chirping or something and then tells you that it's about the anxiety of Edo period japan about colonialism. In this case, I think you
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, no, I also think his use of the word ideology is nonsensical. You can understand what somebody is getting at while also thinking they are making a really weak argument. (To clarify, I think his argument is bad on a straight formal lev
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Yeah, sure - I just think it's profoundly cynical. He's doing this really typically academic thing of making out that people who have a different approach or tradition to a subject are actually not 'doing science', as it
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>Being vastly intelligent persons ... they do not think ideologically. Wait, what? Ideology isn't another word for nonsense. It's a system of ideas that supports a social order. You can't write about morality or mores with
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, a lot of people have come up with good reasons, but for me, it really comes down to the old repairman's adage: there are two kinds of people, those that piss in lifts, and those that do not. Now, pretty much any programmer can re
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It was the weirdest thing - I'm english, so I was watching the UK news, while also watching the graph of cases/deaths on a daily basis (my mum was in a high risk group). I was literally sending them emails of the statistical risk
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My feeling was more that it related to how independent the media was, and how powerful the opposition is. The UK is going through a sort of low point on both counts, so there wasn't really anybody to make a fuss (aside from the occasio
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, the UK also had about double the deaths per capita of similar nations (Germany, France).
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm a semi self-trained machinist, as in, I had a lot of experience making stuff with hand and power tools, but no experience with machining, so my two cents is: 1. You're not really going to be able to use a machine full stop unl
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess I worry sometimes because my shop is in an old industrial building, and nobody else works there, so I'm always thinking that if I was injured and unconscious, I could definitely die. But then, the problem with machining is it&#
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess from my somewhat small sample of acquaintances, the feeling that woodworkers tend to end up missing bits. Metalworkers tend to have bad hearing, bad eyes, but all of their appendages. Dangly stuff, obviously, is like waving a steak
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Are they really so dangerous? I've generally worked with the rule of thumb: glasses, no dangly bits, don't touch anything, don't use your hand as a machine vice, and so far, no injuries. My feeling was that since metalworking
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You're very fiery, but you're really ignorant about anarchism. The largest anarchist movement (historically) was the spanish one, with millions of members, and they were obsessed with procedure. Most anarchist movements are like t
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>What happens when someone brings the anarchy to you? is not how that word works in english. >And yes, anarchy is chaos, just intellectualized. is not what that word means in english.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Just on a basic level, the way you're using that word makes no grammatical sense. It works if you're using it as another word for 'chaos', but setting up a food bank is not exactly chaotic behaviour. Seems very sensible,

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