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by slashdev 3y ago
I don't think it's possible to do that, in general. Anyone can find an injustice if they look hard enough. I have some ancestors that fled religious persecution in France. Many died. The ones that fled gave up everything. Should I
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> Do you mean each successive generation of blacks were wealthier than the previous? What about a comparison to the average white person? No I mean the average African-American is easily over 10x wealthier, and has far better opportuniti
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Do reparations for slavery even make logical sense? Please cut me some slack here, by the nature of the world we live in, I have not uttered these thoughts to another human being, and they might have obvious flaws. It's tough when you
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> a lot of it is really driven by finding ways to use less natural or labour resources to achieve the same end, meaning more of that end can be achieved for the same cost Yes, and I think that's what's been cushioning the blow
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You must be fun at parties. Not sure where you're going with this though. Your point is things are going to hell, so a gradual decline in population, growth, and economic activity wouldn't be as good as a hard crash?
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It's been happening in Japan for a while now. I don't think misery is the right word for it. Adult diapers have been outselling baby diapers there for a while now. Maybe it hasn’t progressed far enough to judge yet. As long as it
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So this is very true, any exponential growth has to end at some point. If you just plot it out you’ll quickly exhaust the entire universe. So a society, economy, or civilization predicated on growth would have to adapt to a steady state, or
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Actually it's quite cheap, and Israel does it at scale, among other places. It's just still much more expensive that just pumping free fresh water from rivers, lakes, and ground water. So you'd only do it if water were actual
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Where's the part of the system where the energy from the sun comes into play? The sun isn't what causes pressure in the ocean...
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Given how incompetently utilities are run in South Africa, a gas leak in a municipal line would surprise me not at all.
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I’ve been using it for a full year now, that’s just not been my experience.
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I use it the other way around. I write the comments first and then I find it can often fill in the code. I find it especially helpful with SQL queries, and with boilerplate type code. It’s also very helpful when I’d need to lookup the usage
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I can’t believe you canceled copilot, at $10 a month it pays for itself every single day for me. I’m just baffled how it can be so useful for me and not useful for you.
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When you want to compare software or library X versus Y ChatGPT is excellent. Google is a morass of spam on those queries.
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Graying SWE here. ChatGPT is quite helpful, and so is Copilot. I mostly use ChatGPT for well defined functions that I need to implement that don’t rely on too much external context. I love it for writing unittests. It frequently makes mista
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This is so naive, I don’t know where to start. Fresh water is not that big of a deal, it’s plentiful and cheap in most places. Desalination works really well, look at Israel. Cars are required for most people to live their lives and make a
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Cats are predators, that’s very different from say deer or kangaroo populations, which tend to overboom and then starve after they strip the environment of the plants they eat.
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Scope three isn’t mining. Calling it mining is really playing fast and loose with words. Smelting and processing of raw materials is a big source of GHG. Most of scope 2 and 3 emissions go away if you decarbonize the electric grid though.
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Kangaroos don’t have many natural predators anymore. Even if you don’t harvest them for meat, you’d have to cull them to prevent them overpopulating and destroying their environment. The article mentions that the kangaroos harvested for mea
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by slashdev 3y ago
Like I said, both are necessary and complementary. Electric vehicles don’t suddenly make alternative transportation a bad idea. Also there’s budget electric cars, and even Uber drivers purchase them. While I agree that they’re not that affo
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No, because you don’t scrap it, you sell it. That reduces the demand for new cars.
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Exactly.
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You act like cars are a luxury good used for joy riding. Transportation is necessary. I’m all for mass transit, and making cities more walkable and friendly to cycling. That’s complementary. But cars are still necessary, and that’s not abou
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by slashdev 3y ago
Is this satire? With the username, I’m unsure. I don’t know why anyone would mention GPUs and AI in the same context as electric vehicles. Mining isn’t a huge source of greenhouse emissions. It’s not good for the local environment, but it’s
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What’s the crime? This is a really low brow drive by comment from an anonymous user.
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I’ve also found it insufficient. I’d much rather have a stronger type system.
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I think there will be a strong demand for truck drivers long after most people would expect. We’re far from self driving vehicles still, and trucks will be the last to be automated, and once they are, I expect they’ll require human supervis
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Uber’s driverless vehicle killed someone jaywalking at night in another state. So you can’t say they’ve never killed anyone. Plus Teslas have killed their own occupants plenty of times.
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Regardless of the cycles in the computer industry, I would never consider a dynamically typed language for large projects ever again. I’ve been there, done that, and worked most of my career in dynamic languages. There’s just better tools a
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You’re being downvoted, but you’re correct. Tesla is phasing out both rare earths from their motors and cobalt and nickel from their batteries. Other manufacturers are doing similar.

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