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by rwyinuse 1y ago
If "choosing America" means significantly higher Co2 emissions, then that's not a good strategy for maintaining food supply security. Extreme and more unpredictable weather makes farming difficult, especially without irrigati
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>> When my laptop gives me the first sign of trouble I just buy a new one. Well, some people enjoy fixing old things. Even though I work in tech I don't get to fix physical devices at work, which means fixing them at home doesn&
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I'm not sure people left without a job will endure, at least if they're unfortunate enough to live somewhere without social security. The key question is whether AI will somehow create enough new jobs for those let go (I doubt tha
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Over here in Finland I can't even remember the last time I saw actual policemen with radars monitoring traffic. It's all cameras these days, making detectors like this highly useless. They were a thing in the 90's or so.
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The problem with your rule of thumb is that there can be lots of external factors at play. Like, what if the person happens to be deeply gifted and/or interested in some school subjects, allowing hyperfocus on them? What if there is ma
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For vast majority of human history most people spent their days doing fairly simple physical work, which didn't require that much sustained focus compared to what an average knowledge worker needs today. Obviously they didn't have
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That depends very much on how technology progresses during coming decades. If we get something like AGI, then having less working age people may be a good thing, because there will be much, much less demand for white collar workers at least
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I'm not convinced the US will even have fair elections a couple of years from now. Do those amendments really matter, when those in power are doing everything they can to break down the rule of law, and turn the country into yet anothe
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Diet is most likely a big factor. Despite being less rich, Italy and Spain have decent healthcare systems, and traditionally Mediterranean diets tend to include more vegetables and less saturated fats than cuisines in those Northern countri
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I wonder how the stats would look, if CO2 emissions caused by Chinese exports to America were counted as US emissions, and vice versa? Probably very different. Anyway, at least China has a government that isn't denying climate change a
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Even these low-power CPU's are surprisingly capable. As an example of more fancy thing, one could slap in some external storage, install Jellyfin, and run their own local streaming service off such a machine. The CPU is modern enough f
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by rwyinuse 1y ago
For a bit more money, Optiplex Micro / Lenovo Tiny / HP Mini series with at least 8th gen i5 are a good option too. Can be found from Ebay for about 70 - 120 USD, much more powerful than Wyse 5070 while still quite power efficient
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Yea, I own Wyse 5070 extended, and measured around 5W from the wall when nothing attached to the PCIE slot.
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Not all change is good though. Stuff like attaching green energy and branches of natural science for ideological reasons only makes America weaker, its plain idiocy. Making Europe pay more for its own defense is one of the few smart things
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Hopefully China will invest even more into climate science to compensate for his madness. For a while I thought China might lose to America, but now it's clear we're living the age of Chinese golden age. They will win in all scien
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by rwyinuse 1y ago
Yes, I think it's definitely a factor. Recreational driving is a favorite past-time in the countryside, and due to the forest industry there are lots of dirt roads which are perfect for rally driving, many purpose-built race tracks aro
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It's pretty common for people to stay in their summer cottages for a week or more, several times a summer. Renting a car for all that time gets very expensive, and it will be just sitting idle most of the time. At that point you may as
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Yep. Something worth considering is also building long-term parking spaces to the outskirts of cities, accessible with public transport. I know lots of city-dwellers who pretty much never use a car for intra-city transport, but need to own
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by rwyinuse 1y ago
Yet most deadly months for traffic in Finland are summer months, when more people are driving, drinking alcohol and having a lot of free time. At least in the countryside a stereotypical summer month death is one where bunch of young men go
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I'm not sure about the enforcement part. In Finland we have one of the lowest amounts of policemen per capita, traffic police seriously lacks resources. Moderate speeding is pretty common due to that, despite the fines. Maybe it's
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by rwyinuse 1y ago
People spending all their time glued to their smartphone and social media is a problem, as it often replaces quality live socialization with lower quality pseudo-socialization. AI won't impact that much one way or another.
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I'm not convinced that most companies are going to choose shifting all those people to "higher value work", when the alternative is firing at least some of them them to improve short-term shareholder profits.
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Well, you could use AI to learn you more theoretical knowledge on things like farming, hunting and fishing. That knowledge could be handy after societal collapse that is likely to come within a few decades. Apart from that, I do think that
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Or you can pick a field where things change less fast, and enjoy life instead of doing "career maintenance" in your free time. Of course if all the career maintenance happens on paid company time, then I see no problem. But unfort
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Yeah, also over here in Finland the amount of money our public sector spends on stuff like Microsoft licenses is insane. Then there's lots of other craziness, like buying a very expensive and totally unsuitable American healthcare mana
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The strategy still seems pretty bad to me. Even if fossil fuel lobbies convince MAGA-types in America that there's no climate change, other countries may do their own geonengineering. Nothing prevents areas like China and EU from start
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I don't see a justification for high valuations of companies that aim to build an "AI Software engineer". If something like Devin really succeeds, then anyone can use their product to simply build their own competing AI engin
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That may apply to things like serious substance abuse, but what about things like smartphone, social media addiction? I seriously doubt everyone glued to their phone has a trauma. Some things are simply engineered to be addictive. I guess o
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by rwyinuse 1y ago
Yep, I believe that at this point in rich countries people who are addicted to their smartphone and social media far outnumber those who aren't, at least in all age groups that aren't small children or retired.
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Yep, and if Ottoman empire did evil things, Russian empire wasn't historically any better. At least Turks mostly stay inside their own borders these days, while Russians haven't changed one bit.

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