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by tspike 3y ago
> Further, what things are we doing now that future generations will ask the same question about us? Lawns seem a good candidate. We take a piece of land that could provide most of the sustenance we need along with a host of positive ext
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by tspike 3y ago
I’ve been surprised how much my time spent as a 12 year old in Elanthia (I played DragonRealms, a spin-off) has served me. Most notably, it made me a very fast typist from trying to escape dying.
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by tspike 3y ago
We have. They’re on the “entity list” which bars US corps from supplying them. It’d be politically… difficult to say the least to sanction Israel.
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by tspike 3y ago
He mentions that as the inspiration for the video
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by tspike 3y ago
If you’re asking about consumer facing products, I’m aware of eBay using it to help sellers write product descriptions. But, I think the bigger immediate use case is making daily work easier inside these companies. I’ve used it extensively
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by tspike 3y ago
https://archive.is/1cYIj
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by tspike 3y ago
This is equivalent to people fretting over using plastic drinking straws when certain industrial uses are exempt from environmental laws. The vast, vast majority of aquifer depletion is for impractical crops that should never be grown where
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by tspike 3y ago
My mistake, I think the option goes away after a fixed amount of time.
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by tspike 3y ago
Seems to me that the demand would still be there, it’s just that AI would replace/augment whatever rules engine is mapping the UI into running code.
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by tspike 3y ago
You can edit it. Please do.
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by tspike 3y ago
Oh man.. I miss Air Warrior and Cyberstrike.
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by tspike 3y ago
This undifferentiated trend of “screen time” as a catch-all can’t die soon enough. There’s a massive qualitative difference between letting your kid tap on whatever the YouTube algorithm recommends for hours unsupervised and other, benefici
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by tspike 3y ago
My house has asphalt, my garage has metal. I prefer the metal overall, but it’s very difficult to walk on to sweep the chimney, and it’s a hazard during winter when sheets of ice and snow slide off of it.
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by tspike 3y ago
I'd buy that if the app stores weren't proactively rejecting apps for the same reasons they fail to enforce on others.
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by tspike 3y ago
Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?
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by tspike 3y ago
I'd rather live in a world that preserves the fundamental right to privacy than one that can automatically organize my housewarming party.
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by tspike 3y ago
This is fantastic! Just downloaded an iOS client and really having fun going down the rabbit hole.
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by tspike 3y ago
It gets a lot more expensive when you factor in what the lawyers get paid
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by tspike 3y ago
The idea is less that we can or cannot develop unlimited sources of energy, and more that we have no idea how to use that amount of energy in ways that aren’t destructive.
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by tspike 3y ago
> when the last red dwarfs are burning out and all the black holes have evaporated An odd timeline to consider, given the speed with which this chapter in existence seems to be unfolding.
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by tspike 3y ago
This quote from Wendell Berry often occurs to me in these contexts: "One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our ideals of affluence, comfort, mob
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by tspike 3y ago
They didn’t provide procedures for a no power landing. They also failed to update the conversion documentation.
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by tspike 3y ago
Unsurprisingly, this seems to be a matter of debate: > In a 2014 interview in the Washington Post of University of Miami climatologist Larry Kalkstein, who has published numerous research papers on weather-related mortality, weighed in o
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by tspike 3y ago
I see. So this comes from a temperate climate perspective, where it's historically been the case that everyone _needs_ heat but cooling is an optional luxury. This perspective would seem to need revisiting with a changing climate and i
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by tspike 3y ago
Isn't excessive heat is the leading cause of death in many areas?
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by tspike 3y ago
This is something I’ve been confused about. In common discourse, it seems that “heat pump” has positive associations with efficiency while “A/C” is associated with gluttony and waste. Aren’t they the same device? Why the difference?
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by tspike 3y ago
The point is that this solution works without access to electricity and is resilient to the loss of industrial supply chains
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by tspike 3y ago
My uncles spent a summer working tours near Aspen in the 80s. They worked tirelessly to educate the tourist population about the dangers of the Rocky Mountain Alpine Shark.
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by tspike 3y ago
Don’t forget that if you don’t saturate your lawn with poison, coat it with industrial fertilizer, water it from depleted aquifers and burn that gasoline to cut it, you run the risk of getting fined or being foreclosed upon.
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by tspike 3y ago
Maidenless?

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