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by vlz 2y ago
In "China’s millenia-long history"? Yes, Chinese written history goes back about three thousand years, so it seems apt to say it is at least some/multiple millenia long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin
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by vlz 2y ago
Thanks for the interesting link! Nitpicking a bit, but if I understand this page (linked from the wikipedia article? see point 3) https://pinyin.info/readings/zyg/what_pinyin_is_not.html correctly however, the tex
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by vlz 2y ago
The author answers the inability to escape all narratives with the ability to constantly change perspectives. From the article: > We might never fully escape the narratives that surround us, but we can learn to change the perspectives be
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by vlz 2y ago
Ok, but you cannot truthfully advertise unlimited volume if you put a limit on the speed which is in turn also limiting the volume.
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by vlz 2y ago
But has the device really something to do with that? Right now people are staring absent-mindedly at a screen in their hands, in the future they might be staring absent-mindedly at whatever is behind the projected image on their glasses. Wh
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by vlz 2y ago
While it is heartening to hear that you have not heard many quick dismissals of personal responsibility (it really is), I certainly have quite often (and among them is the GP above, whose comment prompted me to ask for an explanation). I co
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by vlz 2y ago
True, residential emissions and personal transport might not make up the majority of emissions (though they make up a sizable amount). However, the effect of personal choices is not restricted to these two sectors. What things you buy and h
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by vlz 2y ago
Ok, point taken. Saying that individual sacrifice is a solution is not saying much. But can we agree that it is saying something? And that that something is better than handwaving at big corporations? As for concrete proposals, I don‘t have
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by vlz 2y ago
Mmh, I don't see how the article you linked in the first paragraph gives clear figures regarding individual greenhouse gas emissions. It says that 80% can be _linked_ to 57 Big Oil companies, but that does not mean that these 80% were
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by vlz 2y ago
Please explain to me, why individual sacrifice is not a solution to the problem. I really am interested what people are thinking here. Naively it would seem that individual sacrifice is surely one possible (though certainly not the only) so
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by vlz 2y ago
Hmm, sort of agree for the later stages of learning, but learning by flashcards is incredibly helpful at the beginning and to get started. Referring badly to a nose on an elephant is better than not having any word ready at all. Saying „abs
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by vlz 2y ago
Well there is the Hunane AI Pin: https://humane.com/ It looks like the product launch didn’t go well though: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/humane-ai-pin-founde...
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by vlz 2y ago
I see this as an almost scientific/scholarly exercise in modeling. While the author seems not to start with any intent to "do science" he or she tries to capture a concrete phenomenon abstractly in order to study it more clos
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by vlz 2y ago
Interesting question! From the Dendrochronology article on Wikipedia it seems we can at most go 14k years into the past with tree rings: > Bard et al write in 2023: "The oldest tree-ring series are known as floating since, while the
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by vlz 2y ago
The following is the full passage. It has Trump's as well as other president‘s (Reagan, Clinton) quotes as evidence for a certain kind of responsibility rhetoric. I think it is neither non-sequitur nor ideological but judge for yoursel
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by vlz 3y ago
I think the author alludes to Vance when she writes: > The dying-earth genre didn’t vanish on the spot, but it transformed into a stock setting for sword-and-sorcery stories set in the far future where modern civilization’s technology ha
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by vlz 3y ago
> $900M, which is probably still top 5,000 overall I was interested in this as well. For what it is worth, Wikipedia has a page aggregating a few "billionaires per country" lists. These have roughly 2600-3000 billionaires world
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by vlz 3y ago
Thank you! I was aware of the phenomenon, but never actually read any Dragon Ball. Here is a more direct link to the first three chapters (reached from your link): https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/100011
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by vlz 3y ago
It cannot happen overnight, but it could happen in a few years. Already now for each gram of beef for example, you have to grow 8-10 grams of maize or feed corn to raise the animal. (Almost no animals are gras fed.) The same area used to gr
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by vlz 3y ago
> killed for sustenance With the many alternative food sources we have available to meet our needs for sustenance (which are also less wasteful and more climate-friendly) it is hard to argue that these animals die for anything but to kee
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by vlz 3y ago
NASA (of course) has some good maps if you are interested in the eclipse path. Orthographic: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2024Apr08T... Animated: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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by vlz 3y ago
Yeah, why pay for something, if you can also simply download/steal it? Something which took a lot of work to make? Reading comments like this I can almost understand Nintendos stance on emulation. Suing the emulator team is certainly n
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by vlz 3y ago
Needs [video] (ca. 3 min). Spoiler: The answer seems to be intense exercise, which seems to cause less fat to be stored directly around the organs and more under the skin, which leads to more normal cholesterol levels.
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Lalaland.ai – AI-powered digital model studio for digital designers(lalaland.ai)
1 points by vlz 3y ago|0 comments
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by vlz 3y ago
I don't think "oh, I don't really know how the feeds work" is the best summary. Let me quote the author: > Feeds are a recent addition to atproto, and therefore, while they do exist, they may not be feature complete j
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by vlz 3y ago
I remember feeling similar a few years back when a scripting language was thrust upon me (python in this case) coming then from a few years in statically compiled languages. It felt clumsy and unproductive for an astonishingly long time. I
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by vlz 3y ago
Why? If it isn't relevant, you gain nothing. The information that nothing was found might even be better for you than "something".
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The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage(theatlantic.com)
12 points by vlz 3y ago|10 comments
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by vlz 3y ago
I call bullshit on "unfit to walk along roadways". This is victim blaming from people who want to go fast, fast, fast. The one moving a ton of metal is the one to pay attention. And the US needs to build roadways actually usable b
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by vlz 3y ago
When using Django, one of the things I am missing from rails is the `db/schema.rb` file containing the whole db structure as ruby code. It is great for getting an overview of what tables there are and also allows you to quickly recreat

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