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by slashdev 2y ago
True
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by slashdev 2y ago
Sometimes science isn’t doing completely novel things, but combining ideas across different disciplines or areas. AI has some potential here, because unlike a human, AI can be trained across all of it and has the opportunity to make connect
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No, that’s not what I’m saying. That seems of questionable value. Unless some crazy tail event happens that makes it valuable. The benefit to humanity is the technological advancement.
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by slashdev 2y ago
A Mars mission would benefit humanity, but less directly. The past lunar missions and space program benefited humanity in many ways. For pure return on investment, I agree with your take. Provided of course that any future threats to humani
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by slashdev 2y ago
Only because the coal power plant doesn’t have to pay for the negative externalities.
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by slashdev 2y ago
I can tell you don’t own a BEV. The range is a non issue 99% of the time when you’re driving around in your city. Charging at home is both cheap and super convenient. Maintenance is cheaper, the car lasts longer. I don’t know a single perso
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by slashdev 2y ago
Air transport is one of those things that would better offset with carbon capture - maybe even by making synthetic jet fuel, then it's carbon neutral - but very expensive. But really it doesn't matter. Air transport is 2.5% of glo
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by slashdev 2y ago
Those are big dramatic claims with nothing to back them up...
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by slashdev 2y ago
If you have a point to make, make it. Don’t just take vague jabs at me.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Among regimes toppled, prosecutors fired, presidents and vice presidents impeached, domestic and foreign elections interfered with, and literally a hundred other disgraces. Yes, it’s worth it.
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You can’t say anything, there are still rules. You want them to censor more people?
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by slashdev 2y ago
How is X worse?
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by slashdev 2y ago
The irony is he died of prostate cancer. He ignored his own advice and treated it. It did not change the outcome or buy him much time, if any.
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by slashdev 2y ago
My grandfather (a doctor) always used to say this. There’s also an aggressive fast growing kind of prostate cancer, but treatment basically does nothing for survival rates (or at least that was the case decades ago when he was practicing.)
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by slashdev 2y ago
In 2024, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) made up 25% of new car sales in China (to compare apples to apples.) That's a lot more than the US, but that's not the point. 8% is plenty large enough to be sizable market. EV credits goi
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The auto industry in general appears to be slowing world wide
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Fully-electric vehicles (BEVs) were 8.1% of all U.S. light vehicle sales in 2024. EV sales were up 15% year-over-year. The CEO is worried about how hostile the U.S. market might be for Chinese companies, not about low demand.
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Not sure where you get that info from. Demand is also relative to price and US EVs are very expensive.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Yeah, I think that's the critical observation here. Good job cutting through the noise and spotting it.
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That’s not universally true
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Drivers
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Uber definitely improved things. When traveling it’s also so much safer than taxis. My brother was robbed at gunpoint in a taxi. My wife had to jump from more than one moving taxi to escape. My ex girlfriend too. My Swiss friend had his cam
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by slashdev 2y ago
That’s just somebody at the treasury being a moron. You defined power as soft power and now you want to say actually it’s hard power. It’s not. They can’t give anyone orders and impose consequences for not following them. That’s what hard p
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by slashdev 2y ago
Fair enough. I think the point is that’s not power. Not hard power or real power anyway. It’s soft power, it’s influence. But not much more.
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You’re moving the goal posts of this conversation by redefining the word power. My point stands.
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That's not power. That's information access, and yes, they are getting that, and that's not unexpected either. How else would they do their job?
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by slashdev 2y ago
This is my understanding as well, but I'm interested to know about exceptions to this
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What power exactly does it have? Be specific.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Indeed, this is how rust handles it. A mutable String or Vec has all three fields, but the borrowed slice or str has just pointer and length. Go chooses to be simpler by not having those kinds of separations, which also makes it a little le
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In my experience you have to tell it what to fix. Sometimes how as well.

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