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by tivert 2y ago
>> Also, has anyone though of how mind-numbingly wasteful solar fusion is? All that energy, and only a tiny fraction makes it to Earth with the rest getting dumped wastefully into space. Seems like an area that's ripe for disrupt
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by tivert 2y ago
>> sunlight takes about 30,000 years to work its way out from the centre to the surface of the Sun > What? Why? I had the same question, and it looks like there's lots of variation with the number. For instance, this website (
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by tivert 2y ago
> The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Not without problem. Reading that next was noticeably slower and more difficult than reading ungarbled words.
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by tivert 2y ago
> What are some examples of this? Perhaps attempts to abolish gifted and talented programs in schools?
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by tivert 2y ago
> So why didn't this "data collapse" happen then? I'm not saying it's impossible, but people in this comment thread are acting like there's some hard barrier in technological accessibility, before which ever
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by tivert 2y ago
> The Pax Putin has been for a long time, apparently, an unwritten deal with the society, whereby he provides prosperity and prestige ("everyone is scared of Russia") in return for the society accepting authoritarian, undemocra
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by tivert 2y ago
Hasn't Putin already cracked down strongly on any dissent to his rule? So most if not all the people who would take action in relation to this sentiment are neutralized?
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by tivert 2y ago
> People disagree about their higher moral principles. Resolving to absoluteness requires violent resolution. And what do you think the implication of that is? For example, in the GGP's scenario about the warehouse of food in a fami
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by tivert 2y ago
> They're extrapolating from their beliefs which they must hold given the investments they've already made... I swear that covers an embarrassingly large fraction of tech industry reasoning. And everybody thinks they're so
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by tivert 2y ago
> If we're replacing 2 seniors and 6 juniors with just 2 seniors, where are you gonna get more seniors when the 2 retire? Happily drive off a cliff?
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by tivert 2y ago
> I am missing something, what is being said that signals incompetence? You could start at the first quoted remark: "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's
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by tivert 2y ago
> I simply yanked the Data Communications Module (DCM) fuse on my GR Corolla, but that has the unfortunate side-effect of also disabling the microphone.... > Reading this HN post on the Chevy Volt it's starting to look to me like
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by tivert 2y ago
> Step 1: vote for people who will make it mandatory that this type of "service" is opt in That's not good enough. It needs to be mandatory that these services be implemented as physical, user-removable modules . A softwa
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by tivert 2y ago
Does anyone know how much power the cellular modem uses to transmit? I wonder if it would make sense to use a higher-rated dummy load like the one below? I'd imagine the extra margin would make it less likely to fail eventually. https
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by tivert 2y ago
You are exactly right, especially with the example of the famine. Maybe in some cases moderate amounts of greed and selfishness can lead to the common good (though the market), but higher moral principles must always take priority with th
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by tivert 2y ago
> ...view of "copyright=pepper" is pure... Huh?
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by tivert 2y ago
> I do not think there is any hard evidence to indicate it will suddenly stop getting better. We have only seen consistent progress, and the cost of infererence per kwh keeps going down. You could've literally said the exact same
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by tivert 2y ago
> I always understood "news at 11" to mean that a fuller report of the event that was just briefly introduced would be provided at 11. That feels like a retcon, for lack of a better word. I'd like to see a clip of "ne
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by tivert 2y ago
> AI would be objective. It wouldn’t make mistakes. It would read hundreds of pages of municipal minutiae quickly and understand them. It would, he said, be good for democracy. We did it guys! This guy ate up the industry's hype hoo
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by tivert 2y ago
> Getting the grid back online is a laboreous manual process which will take (a lot of) time. Think... It would be even more laborious and take more time to bring things back online if the attacker manages to damage or destroy equipm
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by tivert 2y ago
> It might backfire. Manned space missions are risky and expensive, and the interesting discoveries seem to be coming from unmanned missions. Are there enough microgravity experiments left to justify the risk and expense of the ISS? I th
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by tivert 2y ago
> Honestly in a 'Just' system I think the heart surgeon is supposed to make more than a CEO Yes, but in a just system they'd both also make less than they do now. Maybe ~$200k/year total compensation, say? IIRC, su
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by tivert 2y ago
> Film, here, seems especially dated. Sometimes anachronistic idioms get modernized rather than remaining static. I don't think that's a modernization, it's a misunderstanding. The idiom makes no sense as "news at 11&
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think NASA fears that highlighting risk leads to bad press. NASA doesn't want headlines like, "NASA ignores safety concerns--story at 11". But ironically, when NASA minimizes risk, they lower the threshold for how much
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by tivert 2y ago
We should do the same for unoccupied houses/condos (e.g. second homes): hang a notice on the door, a week later have city workers haul any belongings inside to the dump, wash it out, and give it to some new person to live there.
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by tivert 2y ago
> The truth is we do not know if AI will keep growing, or stagnate, in the same way we dont know if moores law will keep going or die each year. > The only way AI stops getting better is if computers stop getting higher compute per kw
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by tivert 2y ago
> RTBF Right to be forgotten, not the Belgian public service broadcaster ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTBF )?
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by tivert 2y ago
> So yeah, Macs were around, but hardly ubiquitous. And I'm not claiming they were ubiquitous, just that they weren't so niche you'd only see them in schools or on the desk of a graphic designer. They had something like a
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by tivert 2y ago
> It seems to me that this either underemphasizes the importance of happiness or assumes that happiness Isn't it understood that focusing on trying to make yourself happy will actually make you miserable, and in any case "happi
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by tivert 2y ago
>> You'd only see Macs in professional sound, video, graphic design and publishing houses... > It was that way in the US too until the iPod and then iPhone took off and MacOS X became viable. No. As someone who had experience

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