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by quonn 4y ago
How about this alternative explanation: Unlike a real commodity such as fruit, people compete for houses and look carefully. This is because houses are in different locations, generally unique, limited and perhaps most importantly because t
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by quonn 4y ago
It‘s not like the structure rots or crumbles every year. It can last 100 years or more so it doesn‘t really affect the price that much. In any case the same house in a great location is valued far, far higher than in the middle of nowhere w
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by quonn 4y ago
Wait what happens when it collapses a bit. Less improvements will be done on existing properties, even less will be built. Sustainability requirements and quality of new housing goes up, as usual. Prices will rise again to reflect this. edi
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by quonn 4y ago
> That's irrelevant. Transformers are Turing complete. Whatever mathematical system underlies human cognition will thus have some expression as a transformer. That‘s irrelevant, too, because nothing indicates that the actual transfo
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by quonn 4y ago
As if there would be just one way to compensate this. - More renewables can be added - Storage can compensate for this - Power can be distributed across large areas - The amount needed at night is not fixed. It only appears fixed because we
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by quonn 4y ago
I‘m talking to them while I‘m having a drink on the beach. How about that?
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by quonn 4y ago
Teach yourself French in 10 days. It includes 3 audio books which make it really easy, too.
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by quonn 4y ago
No it can‘t, because nobody would vote for that.
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by quonn 4y ago
I find these stories strange. If it would be like that, wouldn‘t you learn from an expert friend just as fast? My experience is that for anything worth learning it takes a long time of thinking about it from various angles.
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by quonn 4y ago
This is a valid point. I‘m in a similar position and try to pay it off faster. However my point stands. We don‘t know. This kind of uncertainty is uncomfortable but it‘s best to ignore it. Forget about ChatGPT until you have seen the indust
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by quonn 4y ago
We need to admit that we don‘t know what‘s happening. Nobody can reasonably predict the future. For the next two years nothing is worthless. That‘s for sure. Probably for longer. Nobody knows.
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by quonn 4y ago
Not necessarily, so I wrote „wide“. By wide I mean wide in space and conceptually this also extends to wide in time. So there is are multiple positions in space at the current time and likewise there are multiple positions in the future and
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by quonn 4y ago
I have already accounted for that and that‘s why I said 95 and not 75. Take a look at the historical numbers and extrapolate. And that‘s without taking into account that most progress is preventing death at a young age.
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by quonn 4y ago
The reproduction of life can never be meaningful by itself, in part because a single life is already countless moments and the problem is the same. I think what you perhaps want to point at is the opposite: the fact that _a_ life is finite
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by quonn 4y ago
It‘s the Singularity talk from 2009 all over again … Why would they live to 150? They won‘t. They will die with 95, just like everyone else.
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by quonn 4y ago
Yeah these intelligence tests are not very good. I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%. Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most
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by quonn 4y ago
I have repeatedly argued against this notion of „just predicting the next word“. No. It‘s completing a conversation. It‘s true that it is doing this word by word, but it‘s kind of like saying a CNN is just predicting a label. Sure, but how?
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by quonn 4y ago
How are they at human performance? Almost everything GPT has read on the internet didn‘t even exist 200 years ago and was invented by humans. Heck, even most of the programming it does wasn‘t there 20 years ago. Not every programmer startin
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by quonn 4y ago
The decision was made [0] by the CDU (government Merkel II) in 2011 right after Fukushima, not by the Green Party. Reversing it would come at a great cost [1]. Of course the Green Party also doesn‘t want to, but that boat sailed long ago. A
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by quonn 4y ago
Source? The whole world will change to EVs. It might take a bit longer in some places but it will happen.
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by quonn 4y ago
I don't know what you want to say with this graphic. The only thing I can clearly see in this plot is the Invasion of Ukraine by Russia. No matter what you want to say, it makes no sense, since both the nuclear plants and the coal plan
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by quonn 4y ago
What you call an "opinion" is baselessly blaming Germany for the debt crisis of Greece. The topic is not coal, the topic is nuclear. You suddenly started talking about coal, claiming that Germany wants to reduce its own nuclear po
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by quonn 4y ago
Okay, so maybe this was an overreaction then? But also an investigation might be opened due to a slight slap and be also an overreaction. I find it difficult to blame the university for a suicide that happened before an investigation was ev
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by quonn 4y ago
> an institution that exists on German soil This is like saying the EU parliament conveniently is located in Belgium and therefore Belgium controls it. "The ECB is directly governed by European Union law. Its capital stock, worth €1
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by quonn 4y ago
1) Most were built in the 70s, the ones still running were all built in 1982. Since then the safety precautions have changed considerably and this cannot be retrofitted. This is also part of the reason why new plants are much more expensive
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by quonn 4y ago
What is this magical role that Germany supposedly has in the ECB? Name the struggling country that was supposedly put in a debt agreement. Is this Greece? Did Greece not _choose_ in a popular vote to remain in the Eurozone? Did they not ent
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by quonn 4y ago
No company wants to run the plants, they are very old, expensive and only ever provided 5% of the energy anyway. The population overwhelmingly rejects it (rightfully so) and nobody wants the fuel dumped in their backyard later. And the loca
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by quonn 4y ago
Can you explain what you mean by that?
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by quonn 4y ago
If the coffee is hot, I would argue it is worse than beating or slapping. So I'm not so surprised. On the other hand the consequences should in any case be limited since people can do some physical harm in a fit of rage.
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by quonn 4y ago
A micropayment system might lead to even more clickbait teasers etc. I would like an option to buy a complete issue in a simple way.

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