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by simgt 1y ago
Lucky you! Taiwan is such a great place, I hope it will thrive in spite of its bullies.
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by simgt 1y ago
A bit of brainwashing through some media owned by billionaires and there we go for another round. My parents' generation is voting en masse for a party that was literally funded by a former Waffen-SS leader after WW2, while thinking &q
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by simgt 1y ago
Yeah. Electricity production that we also need for electrifying all of our transports and industry because of climate change. Good luck getting that cheaper. That said innovation on the model side is more likely to come from a 10B-funded
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by simgt 1y ago
What I find fascinating in the whole process is how the lefts in mainland are broadly supporting the FLNK, as if any ethnic minority could only be on the right side. Even when said group is advocating to rid "their" land of a popu
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by simgt 1y ago
I like that simple rule, I'll give it a go. Thanks for this shameless plug ;)
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by simgt 1y ago
I didn't think for a second you could be right, so I tried with Claude. L in smallville was correct, then it suggests it'd have gotten l in parallel wrong by answering 3 instead of 2 (buts gets it right in a new chat). Then it s
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by simgt 1y ago
Looks like we're in adjacent fields. How do you manage to keep the productivity higher than in an office? I've always worked for companies that do hardware and I find it more difficult remotely for fairly obvious reasons.
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by simgt 1y ago
Of course it can be wrong, and it is in many instances. It's a religion. The vast, vast majority of us would prefer to live in a stable climate with unpolluted water and some fish left in the oceans, yet "the market" is leadi
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by simgt 1y ago
It's naive but also ignores that automation is simply replacing human labor by capital. Capital captures more of the value, and workers get less overall. Unless we end up in some mild socialist utopia where basic needs are provided and
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by simgt 1y ago
Come on, your comments trail shows that you have a lot of experience. You know that being on a patent doesn't make one an inventor, just like being on a peer-reviewed paper doesn't make one a contributor. Yes Musk seems to be a de
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by simgt 1y ago
It's a selection bias, the ones you're thinking about wouldn't be ultra-rich if their greed had an end. And at this level of wealth, money buys you power, not things.
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by simgt 1y ago
In my experience, it's much easier as a freelancer. Usually what is meant to be a couple weeks gig turns out to be a couple months or year-long business relationship.
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by simgt 1y ago
I completely missed your point, I think. Do you mean that the current generation of young parents didn't experience enough things being games as kids themselves?
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by simgt 1y ago
It's my class that I'm blaming. > if you dont like situation change laws, thats the way for a change Which is done by protesting and advocating for it. Not being in a "that's the way things are" attitude. > Ev
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by simgt 1y ago
My shallow experience of Japan tells me that if there's one country that can regulate the shit of the airbnb problem, it's this one. We're so used in the west to see properties as an asset that only appreciates that we'v
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by simgt 1y ago
As much as a skilled potter making fancy coffee cups conquers IKEA. Most people don't care about craftsmanship, and our economy nudges everyone towards convenient slop.
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by simgt 1y ago
As in better or worse? The Taiwanese have been making most of our chips for quite a while. Americans are not naturally more gifted individuals, most manufacturing skills are transmitted from one worker to the next.
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by simgt 1y ago
Bureaucracy is always corrupt, incompetent and self-serving to varying degrees. There is no way around it, it's a necessary evil for communication and organisation. At least governments in democracies have some form of oversight on the
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by simgt 1y ago
For the sake of argument, none of the typical websites with the patterns described have a moat, and the cost of hosting them has plummeted a while ago. It's not inevitable but it's likely, and they will be darker if they are embed
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by simgt 1y ago
Ha, that was really not obvious in your initial comment, thanks for clarifying! > based on this I moved to a place where I think things are a bit less crazy with regards to that (well, famous last comments ...eheh) Mind telling us pessim
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by simgt 1y ago
Are you sure of that? One of the replies you got matches what I had found on Reddit before buying. Both could be right I guess, all the standard blank cards made from the same Yoto blank use the same 500MB storage chunk.
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by simgt 1y ago
I just bought a Yoto Mini for my one year old daughter, she loves it already. I prefer the format of cards over small figurines, and it seems doable to use standard NFC cards and associate them with content I own. I'd vastly prefer bei
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by simgt 1y ago
This edge case always comes up as counter argument to better public transports and cycling infrastructure. The few who can't combine walking or a bike with some form of public transport will simply rely on less efficient modes of trans
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by simgt 1y ago
> I see fare hoppers, people blasting loud music, shouting incoherently or doing drugs - and I probably see one of those every time I ride It has very little to do with public transports and everything to do with our declining western so
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by simgt 1y ago
> the fix is also not complicated (remove GHG from the air, remove endocrine disruptors from the food cycle, etc.) Are you abstracting away the technical complexity when stating that it's not complicated? GHG removal tech that would
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by simgt 1y ago
There is this one: https://gitlab.com/_Pegor/kepler_fw
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by simgt 1y ago
> if the primary concern is simply to reduce resource consumption to a minimum ..."required". That allows you to fit pretty much everything in that requirement. Which actually makes my initial point a bit weak, as some would pu
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by simgt 1y ago
Of course, but my point is that it's still a constraint we should have in mind at every level. Dupont poisoning public water with pfas does not make you less of an arsehole if you toss your old iPhone in a pond for the sake of convenie
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by simgt 1y ago
> the environmental impact of jackasses mining jackass coin, or jackasses training LLMs is not insignificant Whataboutism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism > You're just pushing the idea that all
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by simgt 1y ago
That's exactly it, but I fully expected whataboutism under my comment. If I had mentioned video streaming as a disclaimer, I'd probably have gotten crypto or Shein as counter "arguments". Everyone needs to be aware that

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