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by slfnflctd 11y ago
Great read, it really does come down to ethical vs. unethical behavior at the end of it all. Someone smart doing something destructive is still behaving badly, and giving them undeserved respect (beyond their technical ability) simply for
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
There are several answers to this. The three that stand out to me are alternate power generation methods (inferior, but still helpful), designing systems with excess battery capacity, and, you know, using less energy at times when it'
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
My money's on this-- the explosion of people in Africa and poorer Asian countries who have both the means and the need for cheap solar (plus batteries to go with it) will quickly far outstrip any entity's ability to keep pace by b
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
They are, however, in the article itself. There are so many easy ways I could make gobs of money if I threw ethics out the window, and so few if I won't. In my view this guy is a total assclown, and the "scare quotes" (I see
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
Looks like there are really some nice features in this project, and development has been moving forward-- I haven't actually used it, only read about it, but I particularly like the sound of its robust ACID compliance (as described in
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> consumer battery tech Depends which consumers you're talking about. There are huge, untapped markets in Africa and Asia where people have no refrigeration or washing machines (partly due to having an insufficient electrical grid,
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
...meaning a diameter of almost half a kilometer, or over a quarter mile-- more than four times the longest part of the current ISS, which took over 12 years and 150 billion dollars (and is essentially flat when compared to the cylinder sha
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
That's a fantastic idea! Now, just tell me where I can park and sleep at night without being woken up by the cops, fined and told to move along. Unless you know someone willing to let you park on their private property, you can't
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> I'm not sure I could get there without drugs This is the biggest issue, to me. I've heard some fantastic claims about meditation, but it seems to require a lot of work (and even then doesn't 'work' for everyone
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> Build a better, self-sustaining world for all first I agree with this in principle. Still, people are going to work on what their unique histories and interests lead them to, and I think it's far more likely that some of those pe
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> Hitler The rise and fall of the Third Reich is a perfect example of the counterbalance effect within our species, which longevity has little bearing on-- for every psychopathic, misguided or downright evil person bent on causing suffer
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> You can't fulfill your potential in 75 years? I would argue that no one can, if that is your 'control' group and your experimental group gets 750 years. > We need [...] a better quality of life. Yup. Sure do. I cons
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I completely disagree with you. I would argue that the primary reasons people fail to better fulfill their potential are lack of time, poor health and grief or hopelessness in the face of death. I
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
It's a very short article describing this preliminary finding: "...people with lower fat-adjusted leptin levels, such as high-performance marathon runners, could potentially be more susceptible to the rewarding effects of running
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
There are sure to be several ways we could categorize different types of addictions and the people they affect. It does seem, however, that much of the underlying machinery is consistent. For me, there were signs of compulsive behavior ver
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
A good question, the kind that should always be raised with these sorts of studies. On the anecdotal side, I've played music with a lot of people over the years, and have long suspected there is some sort of inborn talent spectrum for
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> The "final language" Ugh, I've been holding out hope for this since I first learned there was more than BASIC when I was a kid. Instead, things got more fragmented. How many millions of hours have been wasted learning l
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
I remember when "Here and Now" first appeared on my local npr affiliate. I was taken aback at how out of step with their other content it was-- unintellectual, poorly informed host(s), focused on the latest 'hot' media
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> Curation means things like 'have someone knowledgeable pick out fifty underappreciated forgotten masterpieces' Ideally, this is how it should be, and can be. Tastemakers have been effective for a long time and will continue
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
> TERFs Despite knowing a couple trans people, I'd never seen this term that I recall. Some very interesting reading out there; hard to wrap one's mind around... but worth the effort. I also got to read about intersectionality
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
Travolta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travolta_(song) In all seriousness, though, this really strikes home: "The relationship between a writer and a reader is generally taken to be complementary but nonrecipro
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
The C64 busted open my horizons somewhere around age 11, when a relative bought me one because my parents couldn't/wouldn't. This relative "knew a guy" with a bunch of (what I soon learned were pirated/cracked
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by slfnflctd 11y ago
As I see it, the more people do this, the less discrimination will be acceptable. No, I wouldn't ever personally advise someone to behave this way if they were seeking to further their career. However, if I were to advise humanity in
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by slfnflctd 12y ago
That's the good stuff, right there. People seem to be hard wired to anthropomorphize anything remotely resembling animal behavior in 3D space. If you can develop trained or environment-reactive specific, repeatable actions (especially
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by slfnflctd 12y ago
> Or is it just people who think the stock market is important (itself questionable) but don't know anything about it? As a kid, for many years, the first and only exposure I had to the concept of the stock market was the clockwork
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by slfnflctd 12y ago
Yawn. I've been following this concept, and a wide array of very talented scientists working on it, for years now. Any of the below projects, should they ever see the light of day (you'd think out of this many, at least one will
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by slfnflctd 12y ago
What a bummer. CrunchBang succeeded more for me in the first install attempt on older, weirder hardware than any other distro I tried (including things like Puppy Linux, Damn Small Linux or even Debian with defaults). I have it set up as
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by slfnflctd 12y ago
> Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10... ...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of