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by state_less 8y ago
I'm not so sure. If I were a typical small (startup) company, I'd run on top of Kubernetes with a Postgres backend, some business logic layer in a container and serve some html/js to the browser. It's fast, inexpensive
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by state_less 8y ago
> Mob rule plays out time and time again without representative democracy Mob rule plays out with representative democracy too. Disinformation can get a mob boss elected and that mob can trample on minority groups freedoms. It's th
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by state_less 8y ago
It would be fun to estimate depth maps from single images. And for the next act, estimate scene graphs from a single image where the understanding of what is being looked at and the position is estimated. For example, a fingernail connecte
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by state_less 8y ago
They haven't developed yet seems possible. Someone will be first, however unlikely it seems to them. As scary as the great filter and dyeing out is, life is pretty durable. Even if we kill ourselves, some organism will probably slith
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by state_less 8y ago
> Or they exist but because the universe is huge and sparse we’ll never encounter each other. That's a good hunch. As we've learned more, the universe has appeared to be larger over the years. This could keep destructive cont
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by state_less 8y ago
The possibilities that come to mind are: 1. We happen to be first. 2. They are on their way. 3. They are within reach and are not malevolent, nor allow the spread of malevolence, given the 'typical' billions years gestation period
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by state_less 8y ago
> How much people are willing to pay for a service is connected to the value labour generates. It's how much the market will bear. Business owners (shareholders) play a game of arbitrage between what people will pay for the service
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by state_less 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not so sure about a food shortage. The midwest has a ton of grain stored away hoping for a good price someday. South America and the rest of the world has taken note of our high yield practices and are crowding the market
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by state_less 8y ago
Japan’s wealth has varied over time. Same for the other countries you listed. It seems that a good work ethic that includes working to educate yourself, and a stable environment for your good works to compound on themselves is the main dri
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by state_less 8y ago
A Utopia doesn’t change that you’re human with ups and downs.
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by state_less 8y ago
Yes, solar seems like it will continue to drop in price and you'd probably want to leverage that savings too. A mass produced portable compressor unit could also be neat. Something for around the home. A 1kw to 3kw unit could be nice
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by state_less 8y ago
You could put compressors next to windmills so that on days there is too much wind, you could start up the compressors and make dry ice, liquid nitrogen or some liquid air feed stock. Cheap energy seems like the key ingredient. The compres
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by state_less 8y ago
We should charge oil companies an extra environmental tax and use it to pay for the cleanup. It should increase the price of oil, something more inline with the actual cost. The earth is our only home we cannot afford to f—k it up.
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by state_less 8y ago
I always thought it was beautiful that Haskell turned type construction into just another function on a different domain. What do people call this abstraction?
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by state_less 8y ago
I received a similar error using Chrome, then tried in Firefox and am now getting search results.
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by state_less 8y ago
It's amazing isn't it, a golfball sized material to power your life. Unfortunately, we again bump up against the problem of a single actor having too much power (literally). Sadly, someone will try to use their golfball to blow
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by state_less 8y ago
Distributed generation seems like it would make sense (with current tech). Italy and Spain could help here. Maybe you could go from Tunisia to Europe, but supplying African countries seems more attainable. It'd be nice if you could tu
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by state_less 8y ago
I agree getting up over the weather would be a good thing. And as long as we're dreaming, may as well dream big. Maybe we can do something like they did with jato bottles on the c-130 at takeoff. Attach some batteries with wings to t
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by state_less 8y ago
Could we rethink short haul flights somewhat? What if instead of a 400 mph aircraft, we had a 200 mph aircraft with high aspect ratio wings? In other words try to make a more efficient aircraft to compensate for the lack of energy aboard.
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by state_less 8y ago
It's fascinating, I remember during the runnup to the housing collapse where folks kept bidding up the housing like it could go up forever. Maybe folks think they'll be able to get out before the collapse, or some new tech will sa
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by state_less 8y ago
You don't have to be shot to feel the bitter sting of being an outcast. Try getting a job with a foreign or black name, your chances of getting a callback are significantly diminished [1] Being shot by a police officer is a symptom of
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by state_less 8y ago
Do we have a terrific reservoir of computational ability though? The number are important because they seem to be about a million times too inefficient. A human brain might take 36.8e15 computations per second [1] and does all this using a
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by state_less 8y ago
The tree climbers may well build a rocket and land on the moon anyhow. I think it’s a good idea not to add unwarranted mystery to the subject. We have good reason to believe our computers are underpowered for the task. This is a challenge
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by state_less 8y ago
kinetic energy of 20,000 kg at 600 mph = 1/2 (20,000 kg) * 268 m/s ^ 2 = 718,240,000 joules 11,000 gallons of gas in a tanker truck = 33 kwh * 11,000 gallons = 1,306,800,000,000 joules FWIW, I'd be up for reviewing the system
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I've used the definition that persuasion is when you try to change a person's mind whatever the reason, even lying to get a change of mind. Justification is when you change a persons mind by giving a reason for why they ought to b
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by state_less 8y ago
Consider an arm that has 'fallen asleep' or placed under local anesthetic. It feels foreign, but you take care of it still as if it were your own. One has to simply extend their idea of themselves outside of what their neurons a
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by state_less 8y ago
If we make it for another hundred or few thousand years more without killing ourselves, I'd imagine we might be able to shoot self replicating ships out at near C, then beam copies of ourselves to each ship, expanding out everywhere at
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by state_less 8y ago
Might not be looping through the same events but rather through every variation. Which could explain how we finally get here. It feels like we are way out in the countryside of what's possible in the universe. And it's hard to s
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by state_less 8y ago
I think consciousness is something of an accident, like so many things in the world. It seems to be useful, perhaps something like how it’s useful for a crow to be able to bend a metal wire, put it in the glass bottle and hook the food tha
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by state_less 8y ago
I live in the middle of a farm field outside a city of ~250k people (Madison, WI). It's a nice mix of countryside and city. I have deer and other unusual (to me) animals walking around my back yard often. I can try to grow my own fo

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