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by thrance 1mo ago
Do you want me to expand on part of it?
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by thrance 2mo ago
They'll immediately fall for the next such guy. Republican voters aren't actually reconsidering their views. Corporations and oligarchs have known no major blowbacks in decades and keep winning on every front, further eroding the
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by thrance 2mo ago
> I’m not sure: when I was in high school / university it was well understood that places like Florida would be under water and unlivable by now. Nobody was claiming that Florida would be under water by 2026. You just made up an hyp
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by thrance 2mo ago
I brought up Germany because it is the example that comes to mind. The greens never held any power anywhere. Anti-nuclear laws have all been passed by right-wing (or ""center"") parties, pushed by fossil fuel lobbies.
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by thrance 2mo ago
Do you seriously think "the greens" have more power than fossil fuel companies?
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by thrance 2mo ago
Forget the farmers, they are concerning signs of large famines potentially coming in early 2027.
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by thrance 2mo ago
We're not Kardashev II. We're not even Kardashev I. And nuclear and solar are meaningless if we don't reduce fossil fuel use, which we currently aren't doing (quite the opposite, actually). And carbon removal is a red he
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by thrance 2mo ago
The Christian-Democrats signed the end of nuclear power in Germany, not the Greens. Please stop this mindless scapegoating. And electricity is only 30% of our global carbon emissions.
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by thrance 2mo ago
"Binary" applied to a relation just means it links pairs of elements, (left, right) for example. Functions are special cases of binary relations, in that each "left" element is linked to at most one "right" ele
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by thrance 2mo ago
The Entscheidungsproblem . Basically, is there an algorithm such that, taking an arbitrary statement as input, can output wether it is true or false? Turing and Church both independently proved that no such algorithm exists. https:/&
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by thrance 2mo ago
> You can charge money to solve a problem without summoning the demon. Then someone willing to "summon the demon" will outgrow you and you'll end up working for them. You can't fix capitalism period. The issue was nev
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by thrance 2mo ago
You can't fix capitalism from the inside...
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by thrance 2mo ago
* America wasn't "wild" when Europeans landed there, it was already inhabited. The previous owners were genocided and their land seized. * I utterly reject the concept of "birthright". Birth alone does not entitle o
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by thrance 2mo ago
Your premise is flawed, so your argument is worthless. * America was built by immigrants. * None of the Americans currently alive "built this prosperous nation". They were born into it. * Welcoming immigrants won't "kick
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by thrance 2mo ago
You're getting downvoted but this is literally true. > According to The Atlantic, while helping Trump prepare for a debate in 2024, Miller got into an argument with an ally on immigration. Trump reportedly said, "Stephen... if
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by thrance 2mo ago
Sure, he should just have lived as a slave and not socialize with anyone until he left. H1Bs have been used as a path to citizenship for a long time. You can't just change the rules like that without destroying so many lives in a sense
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by thrance 2mo ago
Just say you agree with everything Musk does and be done with it, damn. No need to hide behind this disingenuous "no politics pls".
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by thrance 2mo ago
No, I meant "heinous" as in "actual nazis and hate speech".
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by thrance 2mo ago
You can enable "showdead" in the settings to see the content of such comments. But beware, there's some truly heinous stuff sometimes.
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by thrance 2mo ago
More no-bid contracts, under the guise of building a "golden dome" that I'll bet my hands will never exist.
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by thrance 2mo ago
Your strawman didn't show anything, except that you're unwilling to engage with other viewpoints in good faith and will immediately dismiss them as ridiculous instead of advancing actual arguments. Why should we be silent over the
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by thrance 2mo ago
It's just a ploy anyway, to get billions from the government through no-bid contracts. Doesn't matter what they build. Or if it even gets built, which I doubt it ever will.
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by thrance 2mo ago
Nice strawman.
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by thrance 2mo ago
I've been building something similar, but for voxels. It's able to make pretty good models from just Python code (calling into a custom native module written in Rust). Better than I hoped it would, in fact, but it's still not
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by thrance 2mo ago
The robot in the book is named after the robot in Oz. Don't know where Bytedance got the name though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_%28Oz%29
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by thrance 2mo ago
Ok ok, America is behind petrostates. I'll add that to my comment.
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by thrance 2mo ago
That's per capita. Total keeps increasing: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... Per capita decreasing is not nothing, but unfortunately the climate doesn't care about that particula
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by thrance 2mo ago
That's added capacity. Fossil fuel use is at an all times high. Everything else is meaningless.
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by thrance 2mo ago
> So markets are working. > Instead of politics and blame we need to focus on markets and let them take care of the problem. Blind faith in the markets is what got us in this mess. > Fossil fuel extraction is not the problem. The p
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by thrance 2mo ago
Such a bad take. Africa was still mostly colonies until the mid 20th century. And today, it's ruled by corrupt dictators that the North ensures stay in place so they can bribe their ways to getting concessions, to extract resources and

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