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by rvense 5y ago
> The definitions I've known have remained stable until very recently As stated, they were not. Race and ethnicity (and also words like breed and stock) were much more synonymous 100 years ago. If you aren't keenly aware of sem
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by rvense 5y ago
The connotations of the term race has changed. It was definitely common in the fairly recent past (WWI) for English people to speak of Germans as a different race, indeed using the term more like we would use ethnicity today. See also the E
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by rvense 5y ago
The entire concept of "a civilization" as a monolith is extremely weird. There are no monoliths, neither in time nor space.
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by rvense 5y ago
Also: Zabaan daani, jahaan daari. (If you know languages, you posses the world.)
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by rvense 5y ago
I also still use an X200 and only rarely feel the need to upgrade. There are some sites that load a little slow, probably some activities I can't do, but mostly I just get stubborn and paraphrase Office Space: "Why should I change
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by rvense 5y ago
Oh, I understand that. It's still a lot of robots, but maybe it means less lorries and, ultimately, a whole layer of small shops and maybe secondary warehouses that aren't needed. Maybe it does add up to less fuel and less steel.
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by rvense 5y ago
I don't actually know! But there are a lot of factors. One is the movement of the robots, another is their construction and the supporting structure, as well as all the electronics involved. Making electronics is very resource-intensiv
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by rvense 5y ago
Do the humans only exist to staff the warehouse?
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by rvense 5y ago
Oh, I'm sure it's cheaper to operate, otherwise they wouldn't do it. But I am of the opinion that energy and many natural resources are extremely underpriced when one factors in climate change and other externalities like the
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by rvense 5y ago
I do wonder what the environmental impact of doing it like this is. The embodied energy and materials used for all these structures and robots, as well as the energy to keep them running. My immediate guess is that it adds a significant ove
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by rvense 5y ago
I'm not surprised. I imagine all images on the internet are used to train image classifiers as well. It's a shitty future, but it's the one we have.
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A closer look at Acorn, an open source precision farming rover(community.twistedfields.com)
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by rvense 5y ago
I like to call this line of thinking "capitalist determinism". Basically, if there is money to be made, it must be made. Letting any other concern interfere with this extracting of value is silly, or unnatural - even immoral. Peop
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by rvense 5y ago
I can't give you one formula for that. It depends which kind of product, since most things are more than just investment objects. What is the value of money, viewed as a technology that facilitates the everyday exchanged of goods and s
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by rvense 5y ago
> Bitcoin's enegery:market-cap ratio - a proxy for energy vs. value to humans - is >300x better than an airline & 60x better than JP Morgan & 20x better than google's. Market cap is not, to me, any kind proxy for &qu
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by rvense 5y ago
I learned recently that you can make tea from roasted buckwheat. I googled it, and found a seven minute video of a man making tea with his daughters. And I don't mean an artful exposition or something, just full-on Youtube "yo wha
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by rvense 5y ago
But these people aren't even paying income tax on their normal salaries.
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by rvense 5y ago
A few years ago when I was looking at houses in the country there was definitely some requirement for buying more than 30 or 35 hectares of farmland. And while you might be able to get permission to convert some areas into forests, it is ex
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by rvense 5y ago
> Don’t they know they can come out to the country, buy 50 acres of woods and streams and meadows and wildlife, and not worry about how many cars are on the streets of Copenhagen? In Denmark? Hardly. If you buy 50 acres here, you'll
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by rvense 5y ago
I'm guessing most of their employees already have a wellness chamber that they refer to as 'home'. Amazon could make it so the pay and working hours they offer their employees allowed them to spend more undisturbed time there
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by rvense 5y ago
>>What is really the meaningful difference between this and an s-expression language? >Turing completeness. S-expressions in and of themselves are obviously not Turing complete. This language could easily have been encoded in S-exp
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by rvense 5y ago
I still don't see it: Money is trust in society remaining stable, condensed to (almost) physical form. That's how I can turn energy, resources and labour into money, because I can expect to turn it back into either of those things
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by rvense 5y ago
I'm also from Scandinavia and I just don't agree with you. What you're saying doesn't line up with my own experiences, nor with my understanding of the statistics. In general, it seems like you are attributing all academ
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by rvense 5y ago
I'm currently implementing Keycloak for my startup. It's not perfectly documented, but I really like all the things it can do for us and how extensible it is.
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by rvense 5y ago
Most Arduino code I've seen at the hackerspace I used to go to barely had anything defined as functions. Just setup and loop. There were people who coded for many years and did very cool stuff and they didn't know what a struct wa
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by rvense 5y ago
Aren't all Europeans?
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by rvense 5y ago
Deleted my account on the day of the Zoom purchase. It's a shame, I liked some of the features.
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by rvense 5y ago
And this is the problem. Blockchain represents a revolution against existing financial power structures. I am personally far from convinced that this will go well, since we know from history that revolutions intent on removing power structu
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by rvense 6y ago
If I knew how to make a framework for getting Javascript into containers, I'd make one and name it DiarrheaJS.
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by rvense 6y ago
Isn't creative class just people who make things without consuming raw materials? I think it includes consultants, "knowledge workers", etc. in its original formulation, not just artists.

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