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by qayxc 5y ago
Some figures to provide some perspective on the wild numbers thrown around in other comments. Recommended daily doses for adults for some vitamins are: • Vitamin A: 5,000 IU (upper limit of 10,000 IU) • Vitamin D: 600 IU • Vitamin E: 22.4 I
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> The entire concept of “need” and what is “helpful” is ideological How so? Is it objectively good to have a dozen children in an economical, political and ecological environment that would lead to most of them starving, getting ill, bec
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> I always suggest an author of such proposals to start by reducing themselves from the population. I always suggest to people who associate a "reduction in population growth " with genocide to check their own attitude towards
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What makes you think that? The population growth in Sahel area ranges from 130% to 230% in the next two decades [0]. This is an area that historically only supported a fraction of its current inhabitants. Continued exponential growth will
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Don't over-interpret. By "leave" I mean the literal "leaving", e.g. not staying in places that are unfit for human habitation. Why do we need to have unsustainable permanent settlements in the Arctic? Why are there
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Unlikely. The cost involved would still be substantially higher than fossil fuel. The required energy scales quadratically with speed. That's just basic physics and there's no way around it. The real question we should ask ourselv
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Even today's airline industry is unsustainable and can only continue to function because it's heavily subsidised. Fossil fuel for airplanes is tax-free and cheaper than petrol, e.g. $3.31/gal w/o taxes in California [0]
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Quasi-religious fixation on CO² is unhelpful. What about biodiversity? What about fresh water preservation, preserving topsoil and preventing mudslides, regional climate, local and global precipitation patterns, etc.? Forests aren't ju
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> We just need to let the land do its thing and literally do nothing to much of the world. We need to do a very simple thing to most of the world: leave . Regions that supported <10k people in the past are now populated by millions.
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A mature forest not only hosts diverse ecosystems, it also produces a beneficial local climate. It's also a gross oversimplification to look at CO² balance by absorption by trees only. Floodplain forests, forested swampland and broad-l
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> That doesn't seem high to me for surviving one of the deadliest diseases known to mankind which historically has been almost 100% fatal. Hm. I don't know about that. Rabipur is about $75 per dose in my country, so depending o
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The electricity costs are >90% taxes, though and Germany's industrial output is also significantly higher than France's. Per capita calculations are therefore flawed from the very start and not a useful metric. Looking at actua
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> That's not true. Modern nuclear power plants can move at 5% of full load per minute up and down. Capable of doesn't equal safe and economical, though, which is why France's reactors are capped at 2.3%. This still doesn&#
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It takes at least a decade to build a modern nuclear power plant from planning to regular operation. A modern reactor block has a net capacity of about 1.3 GW. Last year, 1.4 GW net have been installed in just wind power in Germany. Sure th
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by qayxc 5y ago
Greenland hardly counts as "Europe" - that's mostly an historical curiosity. And Svalbard - sure! - let's dump our garbage in one of the few remaining somewhat pristine Arctic islands. Brilliant! As for other places in n
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> Fortunately we didn't go the German route You're missing the fact that all German nuclear power plants are already beyond their initial lifespan and that there simply has been no renewal of operation licenses. No new reacto
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It's basically special rates for instances that can be shutdown by the provider at any time. Google charges about 1/3rd of the usual hourly rate for such instances and AWS has a "market place" where you can bid for such
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Interesting stuff. I understand the approach from a deployment perspective (makes it much easier to support multiple platforms), but I still hate the idea of basically having 300+ MiB of duplicated data on my drive. If only WinFS would&#x27
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> Maybe the dataset is too small ot something. Yeah, I think that might be the problem here. While there's plenty of material for real human faces, there's only so many high quality 3D cartoon characters.
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Unfortunately mainstream ML research is obsessed with end-to-end solutions, so a lot of interesting ideas fall by the wayside. A rule-based system combined with a Transformer and CV-based postprocessing to filter the most plausible and inte
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by qayxc 5y ago
1) That depends entirely on the model in question (size, complexity) and the amount of training material. Using a standard dataset like CelebA [1] and an "HQ" model (512x512) like StyleGAN2, training requires at least 1 GPU with 1
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A good indicator is that when I clicked on the "more..." button, I instantly recognised copied featured (eyes, face shape, nose, hair) from The Incredibles and Frozen in 3 out of the 4 samples just mashed together. This shouldn&
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Not sure I'm a fan of that. That's over 300 MiB down the drain for no apparent reason since even 7 years old systems (e.g. Windows 8.1) can just install the runtime system-wide without issue.
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Looks like a deployment issue to me: they basically deployed the entire .NET 5 framework with the app instead of relying on the system installed one.
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Is it always plastic, though? Might be cellophane instead, which is not plastic and especially suited for packaging food.
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The most reckless part is resurrecting highly intelligent social creatures. The problem becomes apparent if we look at African elephants - if the matriarch is killed before passing on her knowledge, the herd often dies or disbands. Now imag
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Sequenced yes, assembled, no. Since there's no complete DNA of an individual specimen available, it's impossible to recreate an actual mammoth. What they're hoping to do is basically isolate the genes that give certain traits
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That's a definite yes. I do NOT want to go back to the times when we had to write and ship individual drivers for each graphics card, sound card and peripheral we wanted to support in our software. Could you imagine having to select th
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> Let's make it untyped so you have to parse everything manually just to interpret it Isn't that exactly how traditional FS work anyway? Even using MIME types only gives you an optional, non-binding hint. In the end you need to
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> It'd be interesting to know why Microsoft abandoned this initiative. There were technical issues. They simply never managed to get the system performant enough to be use as a FS replacement. There also were tons of issues with the

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