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by thmsths 1y ago
They basically want to be like the spacers in Asimov's robots novels: a handful of supremely wealthy people living in vast domains where every single one of their needs and wants are provided by machines. There is literally no lower (h
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by thmsths 1y ago
Applying for jobs has almost entirely moved online these days. And this is just one of many such things. Does whoever wrote that bill understands that? Or do they just naively think that "it's just time out for people who break th
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by thmsths 1y ago
And there is a precedent for that the Civilian Service Corp, which was created as part of the new deal. If you go to a national/state park there is a good chance they built some of that infrastructure.
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by thmsths 1y ago
And yet they still get paid as if they were...
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by thmsths 1y ago
I feel like you explained how we got there and our options to fix it perfectly. As you point out we have monopolies (or close to) at every single step. Whatever bandaid people and politician can come up with will quickly be neutralized by t
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by thmsths 1y ago
I mean if the goal is to prevent potential malicious apps from taking screenshots automatically; instead of saving a clueless user from themselves or worse getting in the way of legitimate users I believe that the proper solution is to disa
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by thmsths 1y ago
Isn't Harley Davidson dying too though?
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by thmsths 1y ago
Completely agree. If someone starts, says a whiskey tasting club, they can easily weed out minors by checking for a government issued ID at the door. It is free, scalable and provided by the government. If the government want hobbyists to d
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by thmsths 1y ago
So basically fallout style commonwealthes?
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by thmsths 1y ago
I agree to a degree. I don't see the current crop of AIs doing that. However, this might happen eventually (when is basically impossible to predict) and there is some benefit in pondering what to do if it happens, before it actually ha
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by thmsths 1y ago
Because in most cases it kind of is. It's not that the H2O molecules are forcefully disintegrated, but most data centers use evaporative cooling, meaning that whatever water is fed to the datacenter through the municipal water system e
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by thmsths 1y ago
Your second point made me chuckle ;)
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by thmsths 1y ago
This assumes that the AI growth stays exponential. This is not necessarily wrong but it is certainly not true either. If you had made that point in the 80s in regards to compilers, we would have expected software engineering jobs to have pr
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am sure you're probably right on the last part. And that would be in very poor taste considering that one of the aim of Guedelon is to act as a research project and validate hypotheses.
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am in now way a crypto expert, just someone who enjoys casually reading about it. But in my mind even a security for speed trade off can be worthwhile. Otherwise the alternative is often: no crypto at all because it won't run on that
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by thmsths 1y ago
The hypocrisy in these situations is what I find annoying. Try to apply that in a different context "I can't find a Ferrari for the price of Ford, we have a Ferrari shortage!" and people would think you're a lunatic. But
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by thmsths 1y ago
How effective do they expect a measure like this to be? Once a car and its insurance are paid for, the marginal cost of a single trip is quite low. I seriously wonder how many people woke up that day and thought "instead of driving I w
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by thmsths 1y ago
No, you will bring manufacturing capabilities with you. Decently sized warships carry a machine shop for a reason. A generation ship will have to be totally self sufficient, this will include not just food, air and water but also being able
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by thmsths 1y ago
Your washing machine probably used cheap nylon gears which self destructed. There are windmills older than 400 years old that still operate today despite using gears :)
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by thmsths 1y ago
Every time I see a single level parking lot, which is basically wasting half a city block by just covering it in asphalt and painting a few lines on it, in the middle of downtown, next to skyscrapers, I am painfully reminded of this fact.
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by thmsths 1y ago
Your 2nd option is what I would like to see. And I do agree that it is not perfect, but as you pointed out, it is the least bad option.
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by thmsths 1y ago
That is still not good, devices tend to follow the bathtub curve, so if it took only a few months for it to fail, they either got really unlucky OR the device is highly unreliable.
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by thmsths 1y ago
This is government 101. We tend to see governments as one big singular entity, this is rarely the case (and this especially true for a supra national organization like the EU with no real head of state). Instead you have different instituti
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by thmsths 1y ago
That does not explain everything. While you could make a reasonable case that doctors are overpaid in the US, the same budgetary crisis is happening all over Europe where salaries are much lower.
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am not surprised. Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. It's a difficult sell to increase budgets, so we have to resort to these "invisible" cost cutting measures to try and stay afloat.
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by thmsths 1y ago
We ran out of battery and fuel (I was on the backseat so I don't remember the exact sequence, I just remember the car basically losing power without much warning on the autobahn). The car was towed to a gas station were we proceeded to
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by thmsths 1y ago
I've ridden in one and this was basically a case of "you get the worst of both worlds". The engine was small and running at a constant RPM, leading to an annoying noise in the cabin. The range extension was not particularly h
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by thmsths 1y ago
Pretty much this. You are basically put in a situation where information is extremely limited/unreliable and have to use something akin to a greedy algorithm to make decisions. And of course things are setup so that complying is the be
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by thmsths 1y ago
I will bite. I have this exact setup. And indeed at the very beginning I would mostly use Linux, then I started playing more games on Windows. And that's when the convenience factor makes windows win. Having to reboot to use linux afte
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by thmsths 1y ago
I wonder if it's because they look at security more globally. Their actions probably keep lowering security for people who understand the risks and are willing to take the extra steps to protect themselves but on the other hand they pr

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