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by thfuran 11mo ago
Locally, that’s a fait accompli. Car ownership has been ubiquitous in the US for decades. Traffic deaths per capita are increasing a bit in the US but are still below where they were in the 90s, and most developed countries have seen signif
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by thfuran 11mo ago
You’re never going to make a nontrivial statement in English that you couldn’t find two people who wouldn’t perfectly agree on its meaning. Or probably even a trivial one. Sure, at some point you can say “no, you’re clearly misinterpreting
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by thfuran 11mo ago
If the coconut industry had trillions of dollars behind advocating placing coconuts above everyone’s beds and chairs, I think more people would be complaining about that.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Hasn't it been heading in that direction for a while?
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Not a problem. Sell everything else.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>I can’t imagine spending more than a day on one. You mean starting after it has been properly tracked down? It can often take a whole lot of time to go from "this behavior is incorrect sometimes" to "and here's what
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by thfuran 11mo ago
They only get a couple hours better life even with a belt pack to fit more battery?
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Fusion is always years away because funding has been at or below the minimal "fusion never" levels since the '70s: https://fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_1976.pdf
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Ads delenda est
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>You can fit more into a larger terrarium, but that doesn't require a larger terrarium to contain more. Regardless of what is contained within the terrarium, it's heat production is limited by what it receives from the environm
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by thfuran 11mo ago
And propaganda.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
There's no guarantee hardware will ever improve to such an extent that running your own ChatGPT 5 is cheap.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>#units/person is not going to change Why not? It has been changing forever. It was on a pretty consistent upward trend in the US since there was a US, roughly doubling since 1790, but it has started to decrease in the last few year
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by thfuran 11mo ago
It's definitionally non-ideal, but not definitionally really, really stupid.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Yes, obviously it'd be the stuff in the terrarium rather than the space it occupies that produces heat, but the amount of stuff you can fit in it is determined by the occupiable space. And if that stuff is producing heat, such as by de
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Taxes and/or regulatory approval processes.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
We don't really seem to be shying away from government corruption.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
So the policy goal is to minimize revenue per employee?
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Good advice for the immortal. For everyone else, "do something else instead" is more practical.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
About Earth sized, I think. A bit bigger if the soil is low on hot isotopes.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Heat is transferred through the surface area and produced by the volume (assuming there's something going on in the system that's exothermic).
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by thfuran 11mo ago
We really should be at the point where those are former lawyers.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
But are the rules actually the same as those imposed 20 years ago for regulatory reasons, or are they now stricter without good reason? Are there really good regulatory reasons for restricting exterior paint color and other things that HOAs
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by thfuran 11mo ago
But owners are paying one way or another, and it's almost certainly going to be more efficient to have administration centralized rather than each subdivision's HOA separately managing a tiny section.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>Markov Chains will ONLY generate sequences that existed in the source. A markov chain of order N will only generate sequences of length N+1 that were in the training corpus, but it is likely to generate sequences of length N+2 that were
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by thfuran 11mo ago
You think a company worried that they have a legal issue should just ask the programmers and ui designers to sort it out? Or that programmers who think the company has a legal issue should take it upon themselves to come up with a feature t
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Any company that can hire teams of software developers can afford to hire a lawyer to tell them whether they need to irritate all their customers. And frankly, they'd be dumb not to hire a lawyer if they think they need some legal cove
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by thfuran 11mo ago
But 60% of the time, it works every time.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
The banner isn't required. They could just not do the things the banner would ask consent for.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
But you can just download a new car.

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