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by sgu999 2y ago
Nice analogy. Except CPU metrics at least tell you something about a physical flux.
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by sgu999 2y ago
Your savings don't need to be tied to the stock market, it's actually not the case for most people outside of the US afaik. Your retirement pension even more so. How we choose to redistribute the extra wealth generated by others i
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by sgu999 2y ago
What a nice quote. What were "millions of people" simultaneously obsessed with around 1841?
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by sgu999 2y ago
> If I had the time (and energy) I might put some effort into advocating to moving to something else, but it will be an uphill battle. What are the alternatives for local groups? I've recently seen an increase in the amount of Disco
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by sgu999 2y ago
How do you know?
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by sgu999 2y ago
Probably not as efficient in all aspects as giving a 10k€ fine to anyone caught littering.
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by sgu999 2y ago
They must have poached him from the consumer electronics industry... Thanks for sharing this ridiculous statement. I remember one of the execs of ArianeSpace or ESA just a couple years ago stating on radio with much confidence that SpaceX w
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by sgu999 2y ago
To others: how are these kind of arguments called? "We probably or may not need X" "Alright you go back to eating bananas in a tree then!" EDIT: Had forgotten for a second that we can know ask this kind of questions to a
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by sgu999 2y ago
> And are all animals conscious? Amoebas? Virions? Bacteria? I reject panpsychism as going against common sense; I think there probably are very simple (read: small) animals that aren't conscious. Probably worth mentioning Kristof K
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by sgu999 2y ago
I _think_ it's also the case for buddhism and taoism, so the shift may have happened somewhere in-between proto religions and abrahamic ones
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by sgu999 2y ago
> Why did you include both? I was making a non-exhaustive list of the ones that came through my mind. > As I'm sure you know, in France, social security is not administered by the government directly but by the social partners. W
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by sgu999 2y ago
How to not make great government websites: use random domain names instead of a single dedicated tld, different contractors and design for each, make sure there's enough overlap in functionality in-between each of them, and then regula
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by sgu999 2y ago
You'd be better off nuking the rich, they are the ones who are actually producing the bulk of the CO2. The debate on degrowth isn't whether a Somalian family should have access to a decent home, healthcare, clothing, enough food e
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by sgu999 2y ago
"less" doesn't mean "none", it's not hard to find plenty of evidence of better living standards without car dependency or smaller average houses compared to the US for instance. Active mobility is good for your
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by sgu999 2y ago
You can have a market without relying solely on it, that's what we do for many things already. Driving everything through a market is quite a recent development. So no, it's not "the only you can do".
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by sgu999 2y ago
> There are two ways to achieve this: 1) You make burning it more expensive (carbon tax). 2) You make alternatives to burning it cheaper. A market that relies solely on prices as an incentive is unlikely to be the right tool for what&#x2
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by sgu999 2y ago
> The only thing worth doing now is Even if we were to not use a single drop of oil tomorrow and start putting nuclear powered fans to capture CO2 everywhere, the biodiversity would still be collapsing. Climate change is only a portion t
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by sgu999 2y ago
What will humans do in that setup? I always fail to understand how replacing labor by capital in our current system helps for prosperity once a certain threshold of productivity is reached. Sure selling your physical labor isn't ideal,
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by sgu999 3y ago
In particular when more of that green energy is going to be used on bigger EVs, more aircon, more screens, etc. Western countries are unlikely to reduce their overall energy demand, in which we should account for the one necessary for produ
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by sgu999 3y ago
For those also wondering: https://pile.eleuther.ai > The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language modelling data set that consists of 22 smaller, high-quality datasets combined together. By what's the legal compli
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by sgu999 3y ago
Thanks a lot! I expected the samples to be hard to understand, but this is absolutely mind blowing. Any sighted around here who managed to improve their ability to understand fast speech?
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by sgu999 3y ago
As someone who doesn't know much about music, I found the samples interesting. Sadly for the actual competent musicians, I'm not an outlier... We won't notice the difference when videos, ads, movies and elevators are padded w
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by sgu999 3y ago
> Even an cheap choice like a RealSense is going to add another $250 to your costs fyi, Luxonis is selling some for $150, I'm still meant to try them but they look quite good
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by sgu999 3y ago
What would be the percentage of researchers left if they weren't trying this hard to create them? With a good theoretical background in CS, most of what you need for the industry can be learned more easily throughout your career. That
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by sgu999 3y ago
> this is the standard way to get really rich The standard way for a young 15yo to get rich, is to be passed on wealth by their parents. But starting a company can probably work, occasionally enough that we can use it as a smoke screen.
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by sgu999 3y ago
> much in the way that people don't buy a lorry if they just want to pick up their kid from school No, they buy multi-tons SUVs for that... and come up with all sorts of arguments to justify it. I'm sure we'll find many re
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by sgu999 3y ago
This is the plot of the Ministry for the Future [0]. Power failure during a prolonged wet bulb temperature above 35°C, millions of dead. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
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by sgu999 3y ago
> I have an entire spare computer dedicated to > my bank didn't have an app Exactly my reasoning last week when I read about one more dependency attack on GitHub. Do you have a mac? What's your setup? I need CoreML so VMs ar
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by sgu999 3y ago
And you might want to avoid reading comments too literally :)
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by sgu999 3y ago
I've learned to appreciate that if I showed this version to a 20 years younger me who had just gotten into Linux with Fedora, they'd probably find the UI extremely familiar. Meanwhile I have to relearn how to use my iPhone and Mac

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