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by slashdev 3y ago
It's not out of spite. That'd be childish. I'm aware of things I was ignorant of before, like how much crime is commited by people of color. Now I also have to consider if someone earned their position through merit or if it
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by slashdev 3y ago
There's no question there's injustice in the world, and discrimination is alive and well, but I don't think that framing all issues as being the result of discrimination is helpful. They empircaly are not, in the US, discrimi
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by slashdev 3y ago
> Now imagine how annoyed non-white people with them systematically having problems with joining certain professions. But do they? Adjusting for education and experience? I've yet to see proof of that. > That's a common crit
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, I know
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by slashdev 3y ago
Rant warning: I'm really sick of looking at everything through the lens or race or gender. Can we just go back to not seeing those things? I wasn't racist before, but I am a little now. I think all this focus on race and gender ma
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by slashdev 3y ago
> If you don't pump it, we'll end up pumping it up later anyway. Well just give up now then. Let's assume we can have enough sense to decide not to pump it and leave it that way. Then it's a win.
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by slashdev 3y ago
One of the richest countries is considering leaving oil, and by association, money in the ground. If only they could make a deal with Canada to swap these oil fields for leaving tar sands in the ground, that would be even better. Lots of co
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by slashdev 3y ago
The alternative is poluation grows unbounded until we destroy the biosphere and the wars, famines, and disease that follows finally limit the growth of the human population in a way we're unable and unwilling to do. Infinite growth is
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, some people are very alarmed that population growth, and thus economic growth might slow down. Elon Musk for example, is very alarmed about it. I think we have to find a sustainable future, or it will find us on terms we won't li
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by slashdev 3y ago
There's always one moron who wants to bring race into the discussion
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by slashdev 3y ago
It beats the alternatives. Their children will have to help, as is common in many parts of the world.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I'm not sure why this gets flagged, because it's very interesting and concerns all of us. I think it's great, in my mind, there's too many people on the planet already, and we're stressing the biospehere near the br
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by slashdev 3y ago
That's correct
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by slashdev 3y ago
CAP really should have been formulated as: When too many nodes fail or are unreachable, do you sacrifice consistency, or availability? And even then it's misleading, because you can still be consistent and partially sacrifice availabil
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s mostly in there to scare people into not doing it. AFAIK they’ve never taken action on that. Of course if you abuse it, you’re asking for trouble.
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by slashdev 3y ago
The quantity of carbon emitted here matters
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by slashdev 3y ago
LMDB is a strong counter-example to your argument. Based on its benchmarks, you're wrong. [1] Yes immutable in-memory data structures are slower than their mutable counterpoints, but we're not talking about either of those here. D
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by slashdev 3y ago
This study seems awfully limited (16 people!), so may not mean much. However, it's pretty well known that animal protein is higher quality than vegatable protein (by the amino acid profile.) You can't just compare grams of protein
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by slashdev 3y ago
What world do you live in that you don't see the burdensome regulation everywhere. Don't know anyone with a business? Never investigated how zoning works? Never filed taxes? Never used the healthcare system?
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by slashdev 3y ago
Batteries are not for riding out winter, they're for evening out the daily load. You have to overbuild renewables to handle seasonal variation, as well as make long-distance interconnects. Pumped hydro is also extremely interesting for
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by slashdev 3y ago
I hit a compiler bug in rust and downgraded it to an earlier stable version. That’s usually enough.
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by slashdev 3y ago
As a car company it makes no sense. As a tech company delivering on self driving, robots, etc. Maybe. If it wasn’t an Elon Musk company, I would say impossible. But his companies have a way of delivering the impossible. So maybe.
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by slashdev 3y ago
With elements though it really depends how much you need.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Maybe through their credit card payment provider? I’m guessing that’s the weak point, but I don’t know how that would work exactly.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s even simpler than that. Currently there are hydroelectric dams using the same water to generate electricity. All you have to do is not do that. The U.S. used a nuclear generator on a ship for that purpose back when they controlled the
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve been using X the last two months and it’s been quite stable. I don’t see that as a reason to avoid it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yes, unless you use unsafe code.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, that’s basically the case.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It's a tongue in cheek reply to a silly objection.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> Not sure how that's better. It's a lot better for me personally!

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