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by thriftwy 2y ago
The embarrassing truth is that we can't do it. Humans are very bad at security.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
More interesting how they fix these things with a technique borrowed from Norway: They hang up the whole structure from its top so it becomes loosely coupled, then remove and replace any bad wood then let it land on its own gravity again.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Perhaps they came from a certain Republic of Crimea? I've glanced the article but didn't figure out the source.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I don't think that 2008 housing crisis had any serious black swans around it, instead of bad planning caused by chasing the dollar. The point of a black swan that there doesn't have to be a cause.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Asimov actually invented the Black Swan Event half a century before Taleb. Mind control was such an event that psychohistory could not account for. Sometimes things just happen and spoil our plans.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
As you can see he is thinking about that all right. The question for him is whether we want to uproot the world and rebuild it in the most energy-efficient way possible. That would affect most everyone in the world: I'm not sure the Ma
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I can't believe none of your Ukrainian and Russian friends grade countries in terms of whether they take up the area in vain. They may not use this specific wording, though they might as well do. I wonder if "middle section"
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by thriftwy 2y ago
A lot of countries has converged to median values, and the median is the one you won't consider safe for yourself and your children. Another difference is perhaps that back then, population of most countries will consider a European as
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russians are constantly asking themselves this question, "aren't we taking up the area in vain". The corollaries to these questions may surprise you, though. I can see how you are are offended by this question, though. Peop
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Unfortunately, the whole middle section of the route has exprienced a demographic explosion followed by political destabilization and muslim radicalization, and you would not want to traverse these countries over land. It makes sense to rem
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I can see uses for robots who comb jellyfish out of water and remove them from the beach. I can also see uses for robots who cut down Heracleum mantegazzianum and ideally make biodiesel out of it. I'm not going to develop or buy either
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I agree with this, but that's just extra compensation for having to interact with lawyers and the possibility of losing or getting stuck. So the customer-facing business can very often accept a deal when it's still cheap by not gr
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Why would you sue if you have been compensated adequately? I would say the opposite: The failure of a customer facing business to compensate their client adequately when they've clearly screwed up opens them to larger losses via lawsui
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by thriftwy 2y ago
There should be explicit legal mechanisms to revert any temorary measures and as many measures as possible should be viewed as temporary. For example, every extension needs to be vetted by an independent court and by default it is revoked i
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by thriftwy 2y ago
So as I see it, local white collar background citizens are either stretched too thin trying to maintain their peak life style, or maybe not stretched but also not sharing enough. Perhaps the capitalistic system also does a disservice by enc
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I always wonder what are the mechanisms that let recent immigrants from the global south settle in the capitals thah the local white collar youth has hard time affording.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The article also does it. Near the bottom it suggests family planning. Not a bad thing per se if not for family overplanning.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
VFAT patent enforcement was sufficient to declare a permanent personal vendetta against MS. Needless to say MS did half dozen such things during the 00s.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
In my opinion it is extremely stupid to use Windows Desktop for kiosks. There are always ways to crash or minimize the kioks app. Then you are on the loose. With Linux and X, it is possible to run X server with a specific app inside. You cr
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Imagine how much ridicule would a SF author in the XX century will get for suggesting his characters "hearing" FTL ships arriving into their solar system.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Same with industrialization. Awfully huge down payment.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I believe that "AI girlfriend" is bullshit. Romantic relations are inherently socially validating. Having an AI talk to you does not validate you. It does not have any choice, after all. "Decent amount of relationships"
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Space minerals are cheap by the bulk if you use them in space. But that's alao true for fruit of industrialization. Railway and steel mills make more steel mills and railway.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Most of 14-15 years old girls are not romantically active as it seems, and when they are, they would overwhelmingly prefer older boys (with the 2 years rule et al). As a 14 years old boy you're not really going to date 12 years old gir
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by thriftwy 2y ago
If you think that general dating is skewed against men, but also against older women; just watch that one of 14 year old boys. It is a minor miracle if you date at 14 years old. Just about everything is stacked against you. As a 39 years ol
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by thriftwy 2y ago
A 14 years old me was regularly viewing porn, so by Kantian philosophy it is not wrong for me to suggest making it a general rule.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You don't actually need humans to be out there all the time. Humans are not present at the bottoms of oil wells or on top of wind turbines.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You will get access to many order of magnitudes of minerals out there. You answer to it "we don't need that much, and it's not where we can use it". Which is basically Emperor's speech from the linked article.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
>. the research found that pornography use by men or women at any level negatively impacted romantic relationships What if you don't have any, and nowhere to get? What if you're 14 and realistically any serious romantic relatio
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The same may be told of our unwillingness to harness the solar system. Future dwellers would say we knew how to do this and simply did not want.

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