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by robnado 3y ago
Sounds like the classic trolley problem where your choice is to pull a lever and immediately kill half the world's population because 100 million kilometres away, the entirety of life on earth is comfortably resting on the train tracks
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by robnado 3y ago
Without modern fertilizers which heavily rely on fossil fuels to produce, roughly half of the world population cannot be fed. Further, agriculture becomes much more labor intensive and we pretty much revert to the past where the majority of
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by robnado 3y ago
We can slow down the use of fossil fuels, but as long as we are 8 billion people on the planet and we find no better way to produce ammonia, steel, concrete and plastics, we will keep needing huge amounts of fossil fuels. Personally, I feel
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by robnado 3y ago
The earth is getting warmer. To try to guilt people about it achieves nothing. The only action humanity can take at this point is to predict the effects of global warming and build infrastructure to slow it down, mitigate it or plan for the
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by robnado 3y ago
My kneejerk reaction to that is that we need that sort of dishonest behavior, where reviews are fake, or bought (without disclosing) to be policed in some fashion. Of course, I'm sure there's some second or third order effect I ha
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by robnado 3y ago
How is it anti competitive for Meta to exit the market? In fact, it’s opening up the market to anyone else who can make a valid business case and still pay the fees demanded by these news organizations, so i would say it’s more pro competit
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by robnado 3y ago
My goto is to speak a non-english language that most people where I live should know. If they don't understand, I hang up. It's a very simple heuristic that allows me to answer important calls while filtering out 99% of scammers.
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by robnado 3y ago
I don't know if I would want such a strong electromagnet passing through my neighborhood.
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by robnado 3y ago
Following my first infection with COVID, I developed mononucleosis as the infection reactivated the Epstein-Barr virus in my body, which gave me many of these symptoms. I have since found many scientific articles that discuss a link between
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by robnado 3y ago
How dangerous can a dictator with complete knowledge and super human speed actually be?
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by robnado 3y ago
There is already authoritarian control of the internet going on. I believe the solution is to make this control of the internet explicit, transparent and have the people be able to influence it. Of course, there is nothing wrong with starti
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by robnado 3y ago
We need a way to filter out the low utility or information sites that are only there for SEO, marketing or even misinformation. And we need to do so without censoring. This is a wicked problem[0] to solve, but one worth tackling explicitly
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by robnado 3y ago
I used to put two spaces after sentences because people told me it is the correct thing to do. Now I put one space after a sentence because different people told me it is the correct thing to do. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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by robnado 3y ago
Or you can teach the normal kids how to defend themselves and unite against the bully.
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by robnado 3y ago
At its core, Microsoft is a business software company: they live and die by big businesses being willing to pay for their software and services. Meanwhile, google lives and dies by advertising. They’ve attempted to diversify into other reve
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by robnado 3y ago
With the importance that tech company accounts have today, the bar for blocking access should be incredibly high.
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by robnado 3y ago
It happened to me previously to be surprised by a stopped vehicle on the road. All you need is a large SUV driving in front of you blocking your vision of anything ahead. Then the SUV changes lane suddenly to avoid the stopped vehicle. Goo
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by robnado 3y ago
Finally! We bought an AirTag to put on the dog, and it was disappointing that only one of us could see it. Hopefully, they also solve the issue with it beeping randomly to alert of tracking so that it doesn't beep when it's with a
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by robnado 3y ago
So if there is no minimum wage, housing will be free! /s
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by robnado 3y ago
Perhaps Microsoft would rather you pay for both ChatGPT and Copilot.
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by robnado 3y ago
It took at most a month to really start seeing benefits and about a year to start feeling like i was fit. If exercise is not helping you, perhaps you should see a doctor to see if you have any condition that needs to be treated.
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by robnado 3y ago
In my younger years, I rarely exercised and had low energy and needed constant rest to be able to accomplish anything. What the person said in this video would have made a lot of sense to me back then. It's only once I started to exerc
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by robnado 3y ago
Sure rest is important but for most people, a healthier lifestyle including high intensity workouts and better diet will accomplish much more. Source: am 40 year old man who does 3 hr of high intensity exercise a week and eats vegetables
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by robnado 3y ago
I believe it is the transfer of the knife into the space occupied by the torso and the intent to do so that is illegal. If the torso moves into the space occupied by the knife on its own, it’s an unfortunate accident. If the torso moves int
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by robnado 3y ago
The battery converts from chemical energy to electrical energy and the motor of the vehicle converts from electrical to mechanical energy.
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by robnado 4y ago
Veritasium has an entire team and releases 1-3 videos a month. Perhaps the lesson in this is that more should be invested in making education more engaging. Dr Varshavski can project charisma but i don’t know how well that translates in one
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by robnado 4y ago
That was probably Outlook Express.
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by robnado 4y ago
I'm totally fine with allowing gambling at the condition that it be completely off limits to minors and it be properly labelled and easy to filter out. But now, what we see is games specifically targeting children are rife with gamblin
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by robnado 4y ago
See it as an application of your skills: how can you use self-determination theory to convince an executive to hire you for that role? If you’ve mastered all those subjects, it should be easy.
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by robnado 4y ago
Yeah, it seems that the highly paid Silicon Valley developers have effectively convinced executives that their jobs can be done remotely.

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