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by simbolit 3y ago
Peterson et Al (2008) The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Consensus Abstract: There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the
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From my conversations with climate scientists my understanding is that around 2005-2015 (rough estimate) the opposite was the case: A few people said "we are going straight to hell", and the majority publicly called them "ala
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Naomi Klein has a 2014 book called "this changes everything", and she makes the following argument. (1) if we don't act, everything will change (via climate catastrophe) (2) if we do act, everything will change (via our actio
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I get "We’re sorry, the page you requested is currently unavailable." Tried three times. Edit: Works if I proxy it: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wbur.org%2Fcognos...
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I don't know about your German skills, but reading the Reddit threat may be eye-opening (even if your company is different). I generally agree with your "gonna be an asshole because you had a negative experience yourself" com
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Already found that. Spent the last 15 minutes stalking you. :-) thanks again.
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I agree with everything you wrote. Yet, as my parent comment suggested an AI indefinitely continuing the conversation, which gives me no closure either, I still massively prefer ghosting.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
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If hackernews had a "follow" function, i'd follow you. Thanks for your thoughts.
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Massively prefer ghosting. At least it isn't wasting my time.
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LOL, there has been an article on German news[1] yesterday about HR people complaining about job applicants increasingly "ghosting" them. The Reddit thread about it[2] was basically all "got a taste of your own medicine"
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"The ubiquity of dating apps, social media and messaging platforms have enabled people to vanish at the touch of a button." I find that such odd phrasing, like putting the cart before the horse. Isn't the 'enabler'
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Once you understand the subtlety, it is no longer "the sham of mastodon": ActivityPub, the protocol, is the freedom you describe. But individual servers, using the mastodon software and activitypub protocol, they may or may not, d
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they do have some, but if you are Saudi Arabia photovoltaics are much more expensive than oil
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There has been a research gap on LSD (and many other 'drugs') of nearly 50 years. Only in the last decade or so are we actively researching 'uses' again. I think this is most interesting and potentially promising: https
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Please be aware that while this might (!) work in the US, in many other jurisdictions not canceling a subscription makes you still liable to pay, even if your card is gone; welcome to the wonderful world of debt collection. IANAL
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So you are using FM not as an emergency tool, but generally? Does that mean in your family everyone (potentially) always knows where everyone else is? Is there a rule for when/if it's appropriate to turn FM off? Please don't
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Most people have no idea how much power current large scale desalination methods consume: "It is estimated by 2030, 50% of Saudi Arabia’s local oil and gas will solely be used to meet the rapidly growing demand for water." -- sour
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Except big business does it all the time. Your parent comment mentioned OpenAI, who does it.
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I don't want to start a discussion, I wanted to know if I misread your original comment, and whether you meant something different from what I thought you meant. From your answer, tho very indirect, I now suspect that I did misundersta
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by simbolit 3y ago
So, if I understand you correctly, it was less a question "does it do x?" and more an indirect form of "hey OP, would be cool if it did X" ?
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With this tool: no. With a next-gen tool: if you do some pre-processing on the images, quite possibly.
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I suppose you being here means that you are already fluent in some programming languages. If so, I would start here: Conway & Miles - Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started Once you read and underst
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Not OP, but the answer is "no". What exactly made you suspect such abilities?
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What is the value of your comment?
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How is that surprising, even a little? If there is an org with lotsa money, the money must have come from person with lotsa money.
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Start with doing a better analysis of the problem than what you have done. Write a short article about it. Post it on Hackernews.
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But a person who knows what "infrastructure" is likely thinks of roads and power lines and sewage pipes. A "data center", which is what "infrastructure" roughly means in this case, isn't exactly the protot
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I am sorry, but your last sentence is basically "humans learn". And, in case you missed it, no one here is asking what IAC is, most everyone in this forum knows, we are saying it's not super-transparent for a random visitor t
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You funny. Edit: I don't want to sound dismissive, so let me explain the difference. Anyone coming to the website will be using a computer of some kind, and even if they for some weird reason don't, the verb "compute" do

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