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by tomp 4y ago
Wow you literally picked the sunniest driest place on Earth. Now do NYC or Germany. Long winters, rainy summers, lot’s of fun with solar!
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by tomp 4y ago
Water is a cycle and isn't actually consumed. Fertilizer requires energy, as does transport. If we make plant agriculture "sustainable" (i.e. independent of fossil fuels) then we will also make meat agriculture sustainable.
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by tomp 4y ago
Every coin has two sides. Vegans are implicitly promoting genocide of cows, chicken and pigs. There's no chance these animals can survive in nature, they're so numerous exclusively because they're bred by humans for food. Is
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by tomp 4y ago
Capitalism doesn't optimise for health, it optimises for addiction, profit, and lower costs (a.k.a. lower quality). So, yes, the more processed a food is, the more aligned it is to capitalistic motives, the less healthy it is.
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by tomp 4y ago
Meat contributes literally zero to global CO2 emissions. After all, it's recycled grass. Maybe meat faming methods contribute CO2 emissions, but that's a reason to stop those farming methods , not stop eating meat . Similar
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by tomp 4y ago
How do we know these "MSA-less" models aren't cheating (i.e. learning all MSAs implicitly from their training data)? If they are, they would similarly fail on any "novel" AA sequence (i.e. one without known/lea
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by tomp 4y ago
MBA schools are just credentials laundering services.
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by tomp 4y ago
you're just repeating Western propaganda copy&paste US definitely provoked Russia in Ukraine, including the 2014 coup many people choose to believe Russiagate simply because they can't admit to themselves that Hillary Clinton
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by tomp 4y ago
I've been following Vale's progress with interest but AFAIK as of a few months ago, it's still vapourware. Excited to learn you're nearing an actual implementation though! Let's hope it's practical!
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by tomp 4y ago
Yes, "pauseless" is another keyword I forgot to mention. Azul uses a read barrier which I guess makes it so slow that noone uses it (and the same ideas haven't made their way into JDK collectors). The previous version require
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by tomp 4y ago
All of the ones you mentioned above still involve a stop-the-world phase, however brief. The keywords you’re looking for are “fullya-concurrent” or “on-the-fly” GC, but I’m not aware of any production runtime with those.
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by tomp 4y ago
The most depressing thing about memory management is that there's been 0 innovation in the past 10+ years, and it seems like we're fundamentally at a dead end where only tradeoffs exist. There are basically 3 options going forwa
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by tomp 4y ago
In my opinion, “all dictatorships” but US/EU prefer realpolitik and try to collaborate with some (Saudi/UAE for oil, China/Vietnam for cheap labour, …). Might eventually backfire (in process re:China)
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by tomp 4y ago
With the EU preference for kicking the can down the road, and Germany’s tendency to make stupid decisions (e.g. shutting down nuclear), without Russia stirring shit up it would never have happened anyways. Yeah, now, sure millions might fre
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by tomp 4y ago
The time for “not rewarding Russia and other dictatorships” was 5-10 years ago, now it’s pure economic suicide and does nothing to stop the war anyways
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by tomp 4y ago
> "Coronaviruses do not mutate" The only people saying this were vaxx aficionados and Covid certificate promoters who were trying to convince the public by claiming “you only need to get vaccinated once, the certificates will h
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by tomp 4y ago
um... how do you think plants become tolerant to diseases and parasites? pesticides
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by tomp 4y ago
Which could be equally dangerous as external pesticides like glyphosate.
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by tomp 4y ago
Well, you can also do meritocracy in organisations/companies (e.g. GitHub used to do that), and by extension, most of education system (which is preparing people for careers). Which isn't what's happening lately. Asians and w
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by tomp 4y ago
You’ve described meritocracy. Equity is pretty explicitly anti-meritocratic. E.g. a woman should be hired over a man, or a black should be accepted to university instead of an Asian, not because they’re more skilled or have greater potentia
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by tomp 4y ago
Can you define what “equity” is then, according to your understanding? To me, “freeing the outperformers” sounds like “meritocracy” which I wholeheartedly support!
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by tomp 4y ago
bad example, but there are tons of others https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric... "The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting cer
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by tomp 4y ago
Why is it better to spread out nitrogenes over a larger area? If they're the result of food production (well, of current technology of food production), than that won't change the amount of nitrogenes, just the location. If anyt
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by tomp 4y ago
Various approaches to "reducing emissions" by producing less food, by either urging people to eat less meat (quite popular in a lot of places) or by shutting down farms (e.g. what Netherlands is doing)
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by tomp 4y ago
I'm really happy that it's other countries that are experimenting with these disastrous "pro-climate" policies (but really anti-progressive and anti-civilisation). Such as Netherlands experimenting with "low-food&qu
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by tomp 4y ago
Increasing democracy definitely isn't my goal; it's increasing freedom . Remember, Hitler was democratically elected. To preserve freedom, democracy requires many different safeguards (e.g. constitutionally guaranteed rights, &
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by tomp 4y ago
Equity is a deeply evil ideology. The only way to achieve equality of outcome is to repress the out-performers. Promoters of this dogma of course deny that, but the result is inevitably always the same. [0] [0] Vancouver School Board cuts h
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by tomp 4y ago
You do realize, right, that if the rules were different, the people would vote differently? E.g. if popular vote was what mattered, more Republicans in California would bother voting. So you can’t really claim “Democrats would win the popul
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by tomp 4y ago
Exactly. UBI is like printing money - the last stage before a country's hyper-inflationary collapse. Instead of inflation & printing money, we should instead be thinking of salt - once a valuable commodity, nowadays so cheap peop
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by tomp 4y ago
Cool, next time you're hiring, remember this and hire someone with no experience, no technical interviewing, just by "divine inspiration" (a.k.a. your emotions) and/or chance.

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