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by sgu999 3y ago
Abundance for who? Our entire specie could live comfortably with goodies the last roman emperor wouldn't even have dreamed of, just with our current means of production. Yet we still have people not able to feed their children, dying o
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by sgu999 3y ago
Thanks for that honest answer ;) It's indeed my experience from using it to learn Chinese, helpful but not transcending... I didn't look into it much so I was wondering if I was just doing it wrong.
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That communism always ended up in authoritarian regimes isn't relevant to what I'm referring to. We generally oppose communism to say capitalism or liberalism for organising the economy and authoritarianism to democracy for organi
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by sgu999 3y ago
> So you're blaming victims for being mugged -- or worse? Because they weren't "prudent" enough? Of course not, I am merely pointing the fact that the feeling of safety may not be actual safety. Changing the environme
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by sgu999 3y ago
Regarding crime and driving safety, it does seem like a suboptimal solution that may even trigger some Jevons paradox. Are drivers going faster because it's well lit? Will people be less prudent when walking through it alone? etc. On
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by sgu999 3y ago
Any links to share for using anki efficiently for learning languages? Do you make your own decks or do you download some existing ones, what do you put on it, etc.
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Where do you get that from? All the people I know who worked with and for Korean and Japanese entities have countless examples to show how alien the corporate culture is for westerners. South Korea in particular doesn't seem exactly li
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by sgu999 3y ago
China isn't a communist country, it's first and foremost authoritarian. They do have ruthless capitalism, and the ruthless competition in between individuals that comes with it. They inherit from confucianism, and a more collectiv
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> The “we have to do less” crowd are wrong and bad at math. Physics, not maths. You can sustain exponential growth as much as you want without physical limits. If that's where your confusion comes from, you can read some vintage Mea
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> We don't need any "radical changes," we only need to implement existing solutions at the right scale Scale is the problem. > Once we have enough solar panels, wind turbines and battery cells, a tipping point is reac
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Given the radical changes that a carbon neutral and eco-friendly modern civilisation would require, reducing that to technical problems in each field is really not helpful. By and large we know how a sustainable society could work, we are s
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Green house gases emissions and the collapse of biodiversity are two reasonably conservative examples
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Do you have any evidence to back this up? It seems like it was the SV's dream in the nineties, yet so far it failed. Economical and intellectual connections doesn't seem to prevent us from being divided and ultimately waging war..
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by sgu999 3y ago
Not really no, I am quite far from the startup scene on the contrary. In French we'd call an entrepreneur anyone who runs a business, aside from a small shop owner maybe. TeMPOraL nailed what I was trying to convey. What is your experi
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by sgu999 3y ago
> There's nothing more abhorrent to our societal myths of a just road for everyone to take than someone who worked years to reach some level of success in a field they want to excel in but only hit a point barely above mediocrity. I
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by sgu999 3y ago
> you’d have much of your individuality grinded out of you That doesn't seem too bad now that Adam Curtis ruined it for me. [0] [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
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by sgu999 3y ago
I remember having a great time in physics classes in HS doing mechanics. Maths was definitely quite abstract but not as bad as you seem to describe. Maybe it changed or maybe being in a "top school" in which a good portion of the
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by sgu999 3y ago
> My son once told me "dad, I do not know how people whose parents cannot explain this stuff manage to go though". This were the words of a top student of a top HS in France. You can imagine how it is elsewhere. I'm a bit
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by sgu999 3y ago
I'm not sure the car comparison is a good one, given that their inflated sizes prevented us from actually saving fuel... Most of our modern industrial complex is by and large wasteful on resources, computing is no different.
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> Hardening infrastructure against extremely rare disasters likely means less infrastructure, and probably fewer social programs. Or less dividends. This solar storm is a very extreme example, but we've all witnessed how greed got u
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by sgu999 3y ago
Is there enough margin in a laptop so that these don't end up like Fairphone, with many new generations instead of partial upgrades over the years?
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Yes but there are rational arguments in favour or against each of these issues, using values that (almost) everyone can agree on... Minimising suffering of sentient beings, or the continuation of our species for instance. The hard bottom I
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> my culture You should both tell us what it is so that others may give a different opinion
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sqlite has r-trees for instance [0]. Could it be good enough for most use cases? If it's to query a knowledge base for instance, a couple dimensions should be sufficient. With the added benefit of being able to query your data in other
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by sgu999 3y ago
Well, then I guess we should be happy inequalities prevent one more person from wasting a tremendous amount of rare materials and energy.
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My main motivation for having a Rust alternative is to allow stronger typing of the edges of the graph. Going through gstreamer typically means dealing with byte slices and string-typing the input and outputs of each node...
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I wish there was a good alternative to gstreamer for building a "zero copy" computational graph and media pipeline. Even though the bindings are very good, it's far from ideal.
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It's also quite simple to allow the term "milk" as a substitute for "dairy milk" but not for "soy milk". As it had been the case since plant-based milks have been around...
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> will assume that "soy milk" is like normal milk because it's called "soy milk" I may be elitist, but I'd put that in the "dumb" category. I'm also not a parent so didn't look into babie
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by sgu999 3y ago
Ha, thanks for this list. It's crazy to me how many people assume that things that are new in supermarkets are new, period.

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