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by thu2111 6y ago
But at our current rate, the global CO₂ budget will be fully exhausted in about eight years. We don't actually know that. It's a model projection. Academic models have a long history of being wrong and seemingly always in the di
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, but risk is all relative. The video says the replacements were sometimes things like wind turbines. These tend to kill birds. These RTGs seem quite impressive actually. Simple and easy to construct, if you have a nuclear industry. They
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by thu2111 6y ago
The video shows a block of ballots being scanned multiple times. There are other YT videos with close-ups showing this, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48ywNxVSfM So here's how the fraud works: 1. Take
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think your comment is probably the most deceptive I've ever seen on HN :( "It's just a youtube video of voting officials talking at a desk or something." The discussion they're having at the desk is about fraud.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The thing is I don't really care about your ad hominem attacks on the messenger. Ngo posts video evidence and snapshots of arrest records. His Twitter feed is a more or less constant stream of primary evidence, often presented without
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by thu2111 6y ago
There are some good data analyses showing that the US police isn't racist. The belief that it is gets repeated so much, and journalists are so loathe to investigate it, that the claims come to define reality. But it's not actually
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by thu2111 6y ago
"The left" has been storming Portland, Seattle and many other places instead, for most of 2020, based on the notion that America is filled with white supremacists and the police are systemically racist. Or put another way, because
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's unpopular because it's naive. Nobody has the ability to prove everything to themselves and everyone else from first principles. Everyone takes shortcuts by repeating things they were told by others, thus "lying" is
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by thu2111 6y ago
Is there any way to allege voting fraud as a president without the very act of making the charge inciting a mob?
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by thu2111 6y ago
saying they burned and looted cities for months is clear right-wing hyperbole Wait, is it? I'm not American and even I know that Portland has been the site of continuous nightly riots for months now. It stopped being reported a long
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by thu2111 6y ago
It was and still is purely organic. The entire establishment aggressively suppressed euroskepticism of any kind for decades to the level that it required a total outsider, who was himself frozen out completely, to create an entirely new pol
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's not quite true. Intel started out with memory. They never left and are on by far the cutting edge with memory tech. In particular Optane NVM DIMMs are so fast they basically define a new layer in the performance/cache hiera
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah yeah, the UK influenced the EU so heavily it ended up choosing to leave. I've already explained one way in which the EU is basically oriented towards the needs of France and Germany - the single market for services never really ha
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by thu2111 6y ago
But where have you looked? To pick just one example, Brexit the Movie talked about the low quality of EU bureaucracy quite a bit. The EU's old list of "myths" is a bit of a joke BTW. A lot of the so-called myth debunkings sta
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by thu2111 6y ago
Not reliably sharing source code is a big problem in health modelling too, it's an issue across academia. The last set of CS papers I read did all publish their code though, at least for the ones where I cared to look. Perhaps this pro
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think you're seeing differences between job cultures more than politicians vs civil service. Politicians are doing crazy stuff and reversing direction 24 hours later all over the world because that's what public health "exp
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by thu2111 6y ago
A big part of the justification for Brexit is because the EU is a crap bureaucracy that does arbitrary, self-harming and utterly unnecessary stuff like this all the time. It's totally in character for them to do this, which simply indi
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by thu2111 6y ago
1. Changing your domain name isn't easy. You can easily lose PageRank, email addresses stop working, OAuth has to be reconfigured, it may lead to downtime, etc. 2. The .eu domain is practically deserted. Nobody cares about it. There&#x
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by thu2111 6y ago
There's no deal on services because there's no single market in services for there to be a deal about. One of the sad truths about the EU, and one reason the UK has left, is that the much vaunted "single market" was alwa
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, it's a great article. Too bad many commenters won't have read it ;) The most interesting part to me wasn't actually the lab leak part. That's been widely discussed for some time. The more interesting bit was how the
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah. Unfortunately public health researchers/biologists have very little credibility at this point so appeals to their authority won't work. In particular arguments of the form "we need more evidence" look weak given ho
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you mixing up Graal the JIT compiler with Native Image the tool that spits out ahead-of-time compiled executables? When I say "Graal" I mean the JIT compiler that can run on regular HotSpot and is just an ordinary Java JITC im
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by thu2111 6y ago
The justification for its existence is to propagate cancel culture - read what they've written about their goals! A part of their mission is to cancel whole customers and let's face it, if they think Gebru was "fired" th
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by thu2111 6y ago
The open source version of Graal does not have poor performance, by any means. It's more or less as good as regular Java, or better for some languages, but it's not really worse except perhaps on a few specific microbenchmarks. Mo
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by thu2111 6y ago
The article is quite clear: they don't intend to unite to strengthen their bargaining power. "Arranged as a members-only union, the new organization won’t seek collective bargaining rights to negotiate a new contract with the comp
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody in this union is going to fight against "injustice". Look at their list of demands. It's indeed a red scare because they are really, really red. For example, refusing to work with the defence industry - which country i
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by thu2111 6y ago
Companies also gain the ability to support surges/drops in manning requirements They have that ability already without unions - much more easily because they can reduce staffing without the entire company falling over due to strikes.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, exactly. There is no "workers rights" argument for a union at Google. It is purely a hard-left power grab, just like at Kickstarter when they unionised for the pure, noble purpose of forcing their employer to allow fundraiser
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by thu2111 6y ago
It has really good monitoring, profiling, interop tooling. Both JITCs it has (C2 and Graal) are very good at and optimised for compiling dynamic languages. Also the recent JVMs have GCs that can collect enormous heaps without stuttering of
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by thu2111 6y ago
Can you elaborate on this? What do the two wrappers need to do - where is the primary pain points?

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