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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Can you share where those numbers are from? I'd like to run a similar calculation on my own country. Also I'm curious if you know how geography fits into this (like sunlight hours and stuff).
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
There is a few, from web browser games that still simulate the physics [1] to serious ones that include ropes, navigation and crew management [2]. [1]: https://www.sailrhythm.com/ [2]: https://store.steampowered.
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Capitalism us a way to manage resources in a civilisation. A way that assigns enormous resources to Elon Musk the nazi climate denier and minimum resources to climate scientists.
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Nobody is getting charged for this in any way.
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
At this point I just consider anyone taking Russian nuclear threats seriously a Russian propagandist (knowing or otherwise).
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Ultimately China and US (and anyone else in the world for that matter) are doing the same thing - helping their domestic industry compete domestically and internationally, because they want prosperity for their country. They do it via diffe
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
This is true for fruit pickers or uber drivers or whatever but it is ridiculously out of place statement for software engineers.
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
I don't think it's desperate. I'm thinking companies are now paying for Red Hat license and support on Azure VMs and Microsoft wants that money. It's an easy thing for Microsoft sales guy to offer to your bosses' bo
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Does the true version have slave labor, reeducation camps for minorities, needing permission to travel, running protestors over with tanks, and gutter oil by any chance?
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by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
It would be naive to think HN is not immune to influence operations. The people singing praises to China are not necessarily people.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Not if you can't run you bank's app on it and without bank's app you can't have bank account. Or interact with government. Or talk to your friends because of network effects around social networks. I wish it were a real
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Oh it's easy! There's just two genders - male and political. Just two races - white and political. Just two beliefs - conservative and political.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
This is a common dilemma. Apple's phones and laptop are 100 % the best in the market, but Apple is a terrible evil company - the walled garden stuff, the "you don't really own your device" stuff, the normalization of ens
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump - not a one time phenomenon, more of a natural progression.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
China is working hard on getting their own fabs. Then the have no need to keep TSMC operational.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Exactly - that's why all the AI is trained to say "wow what a great idea, let me do it for you" to anything, no matter how stupid or evil thing it is. Because that is the executive experience.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
There's also known relationship between sport betting and domestic violence.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
I'm sure it would be much easier to solve with extra $10 trillion a year, which is pocket money compared to what goes into adtech, sloptech, attacking Iran and similar endeavors.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
That is possible, but unfortunately I think more realistic scenario is that instead of raising up and losing their chains, the masses will get brainwashed by algorithms and end up convinced it is the minorities fault or something. The futur
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
If humanity actually put resources into fusion, I'm sure we would have already have it. But humanity's resources are controlled by few, and they want more exploitation, enshitification and ads, not abundant energy.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Maybe peak human intelligence is like peak oil - it only goes down from here. Like renewables were on track to bring us peak oil, maybe AI will bring us peak human intelligence.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
> Apple literally removed encrypted file storage as a feature in the UK rather than comply with demands for access to encrypted customer data from the UK government. Does that mean that instead of UK government accessing the data (throug
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
> Horse carriage drivers -> Cars I think you're badly missing the point. It is true that car drivers replaced horse carriage drivers and car mechanics replaced the people who took care of horses and what not. But in the horse car
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
There will be no UBI.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
IIRC the original experiment that everyone keeps referring to where frogs jump when you put them into boiling water but don't if you heat up the water gradually was frogs with their brains removed . Which makes using it as a metaphor
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
> Humans tend toward doing things that are best for them. I don't think that assumption holds. People routinely vote for candidates that will worsen their lives, gamble, smoke, don't exercise, some people even don't brush
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Allegro is Polish, large and successful, no? But I only know of them because they bought some successful small companies in my country and shut them down to reduce competition, for which they are universally hated around here.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Well, the coming AMOC collapse will at least align the climates.
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by pepperoni_pizza 5mo ago
Also, if your boss tells you "we're AI company now, you will use AI or be fired" then of course you will use AI and claim it is productive.
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by pepperoni_pizza 6mo ago
I'm sure you've seen many empires come and go in your thousands of years as an immortal elf mage.

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