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931.
by rini17 4y ago
"No other country" is technically true, but EU has also crossed 300GW installed solar this year.
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by rini17 4y ago
I doubt it will be economical at all, as the efficiency losses multiply with every step: - electrolysis - synthesis of hydrocarbons - burning them
933.
by rini17 4y ago
Hydrogen as seasonal storage will have to compete with thermal storage, which does not suffer from electrolyzer losses and challenges from storage of vast amounts of volatile flammable gas. Consider NASA Artemis leaks.
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by rini17 4y ago
The bestest chocolate I had for a very long time was "Tesco finest Peruvian" impulse bought at a steep discount. There were only 2 packages available. I did not saw nor tasted anything close to that since. The Tesco finest chocola
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by rini17 4y ago
> Data stored is optimized for application access patterns, not the application designed to adhere to the database's preferred patterns. How do you make sure these "application access patterns" are mutually compatible with
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by rini17 4y ago
We don't need to know about Higgs boson to research better bateries. But that had to wait till 90s and now it's biting us hard. Space program has stagnated for many decades too. But it appears as if theoretical physicists don&#x27
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by rini17 4y ago
By that time Russia already invaded large chunks of Ukraine and their rhetoric "that country/nation should not exist at all" was pervasive. So any delusions of avoiding further escalation were just that, delusions. Germans ha
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by rini17 4y ago
The employees obviously are told the functions and APIs that they are implementing have a completely legit use case. That is not hard to believe at all and was the case in Cambridge Analytica scandal, for example.
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by rini17 4y ago
All numbers are fictitious :) Though, I think "games" built on surreal numbers are akin to these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Games An accessible intro: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
940.
by rini17 4y ago
> as bitcoin went up, holders of bitcoin sold it for tether on centralized exchanges on the way up. How does this work exactly? Who is the counterparty selling tether here, and how come it wasn't newly minted USDT?
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by rini17 4y ago
Manipulating or outright coercion of people in dire situation toward euthanasia is abuse, full stop. They could do something else and help them but now that the legal avenue opened, they do this instead. We must not criticize this? Regardle
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by rini17 4y ago
But it is nowhere proposing to outlaw euthanasia, do I miss something?
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by rini17 4y ago
That's incredibly poor takeaway from the article. I couldn't see how it would be written differently by someone supporting euthanasia - would you be okay with handwaving that despite all these cases of abuse listed, it's all
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by rini17 4y ago
Not living in the US, but I'm sure there are some. There are some reasons why the march took place no?
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by rini17 4y ago
So you believe "incorporate misdirection and trolling" is in the same ballpark as detecting NSFW pixels? Me not, the former is very hard even for humans. For that reason, having AI that is trained on it is incredibly dangerous - i
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by rini17 4y ago
Why lol? I do have some nonprofit experience not as consultant but as voluntary admin and I did consider google dependence a problem. But there was no other easy option, that's why I'm asking.
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by rini17 4y ago
With public influencing of the destructive kind, you have million tries and no competences are needed. Just keep pumping sewage via all communication channels for years till something catches on. In war you have one try and you must be comp
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by rini17 4y ago
Agreed! Now, how does one practically set these boundaries?
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by rini17 4y ago
Whereas currently your google account can be taken over without any social engineering at all.
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by rini17 4y ago
Good luck trying to convince an resource-strapped nonprofit to implement contingency plan for this. No government regulation means existence of these will for all practical purposes depend on Google's whim. I don't see any other v
951.
by rini17 4y ago
Self custody means having/being a custodian that does not make mistakes, ever. That is not sustainable either.
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by rini17 4y ago
I was thinking they write about psychological existential crisis and was disappointed. It is IMO more plausible that AI will force to redefine our humanity and throw us into existential depression well before any physical threat. If art or
953.
by rini17 4y ago
In stores we have selfservice weighting scales for fruits and veggies that print the barcode. There's an option "with one-use bag/without bag" and the one-use bag option subtracts 2 grams.
954.
by rini17 4y ago
Nobody does napkin math anymore? One use bag is about 2-10 grams of plastic. 100x that is 200 grams to 1kg.
955.
by rini17 4y ago
I don't understand, you say the reporting mechanism mitigates all the issues? Airtags are convenient, user friendly. So they are widely used even if there might be technically better alternatives. They would not work as well without ha
956.
by rini17 4y ago
If they exist but are very rare that has some reason. Perhaps because it's fine tuned crystal structure which requires very high purity reagents. Or very specific unnatural angles like the recent experiments with multilayer graphene.
957.
by rini17 4y ago
Sounds like Maxwell's demon, only with electrons and holes. Not saying it violates the thermodynamics, but there's surely some interesting loophole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
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by rini17 4y ago
Shows how switching everything to green tech while maintaining both current living standard and climate goals is a "pie in the sky" proposition. Wonder what must happen so that we collectively realize this.
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by rini17 4y ago
@nntaleb nails it, again
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by rini17 4y ago
I don't get this logic. If roofing will get crazy expensive, you will "think about the need" for a roof too? So called "passive houses" with good insulation that don't need heating do exist.. but that's ex

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