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by wyager 3y ago
> Was also surprised to read that Montana emits as much ghg’s as Ireland. Does Ireland have much industry to speak of? I was under the impression that most of Ireland's "industrial" output was effectively tax services. Mon
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by wyager 3y ago
> instead allow it to continue to be poorly run as a for profit enterprise The Californian government is famous for all its well-run programs. "The trains are always on time in California", as they say.
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by wyager 3y ago
The only useful definitions of fairness are those that produce prosocial incentives. Your definition does not.
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by wyager 3y ago
> That’s the whole point of science: it’s constantly evolving. I think the point is actually to get a high degree of epistemic rigor, and when you see science "evolving", it's actually because the epistemic rigor in that f
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by wyager 3y ago
> The video is supposed to be encoded in Rec 2020. The panel is what it is. Worth noting that it is physically impossible for current flat panel displays to have full coverage of rec.2020, because the spectral width of each primary is
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by wyager 3y ago
> If they generate objectionable content it's because they were trained on objectionable content. An aristocrat who went to the most refined boarding schools still knows how to swear, even if they weren't taught to do it habitu
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by wyager 3y ago
Conceivably there could be interactions which are sufficiently constrained to prevent the equipartition theorem from coming into play in practice. For example, an interaction with a massive carrier may not be able to support thermal transfe
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by wyager 3y ago
> There is literally nothing wrong with ethics in... any other field of science. When you start putting "ethics" in fields like biology (not medicine or bioengineering, just inductive biology) you end up with nonsense like Lama
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by wyager 3y ago
What makes you say that? The history of physics (our most successful endeavor in this direction) is very monocultural (by the standard of granularity you are using).
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by wyager 3y ago
iCloud photos has all of that except the self-host option. You may be aware - just saying as I didn't see it on your list, and the E2EE is somewhat new.
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by wyager 3y ago
Presumably the equilibrium state is that we will have fewer public schools and more charter schools, rather than a bunch of half-occupied public schools.
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by wyager 3y ago
Only if you exercise a high level of discipline in keeping all your state contained in the same place, having zero implicit state, and writing clonable data representations (i.e. no impredicative references, or some kind of serialization st
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by wyager 3y ago
Or, more parsimoniously (no pun intended), because poverty isn't as strong of a unifying factor as you think.
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by wyager 3y ago
> Why not just.. well, let poor people come first? "Poor people" aren't a unified political coalition in the US. For various reasons, you can't do political favors for poor people and expect them to reliably vote for
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by wyager 3y ago
For corporate products, it's easy to see why this would happen so often; there are a hundred tacky people with no sense of taste for every one person with a strongly developed sense of taste. The people with taste have finite political
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by wyager 3y ago
IME, the base-system jail stuff is super easy to understand, use, and customize. When you start using "easy" tools on top of that, it rapidly becomes more complicated and opaque for non-trivial stuff. It's awesome that you
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by wyager 3y ago
Vnet jails are awesome. Totally changed the way I do networking and application hosting. Makes it pretty trivial to do things like set up a jail that can only talk to the internet through a VPN.
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by wyager 3y ago
On the one hand, we have the cost of paying for "all rescue missions". On the other hand, we have the cost of paying for "___ cancer treatments". In your opinion, what is the value of ___ that makes this comparison most
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by wyager 3y ago
Yes, since the structure of OP's complaint was whether or not we have "enough money" to do things. I'm not advocating for any particular expense policy here, just pointing out that we can easily afford to fund all rescue
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by wyager 3y ago
If you can get yourself lost in an equally attention-grabbing way, they probably will.
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by wyager 3y ago
How many times a year do you think people get cancer vs get lost at sea?
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by wyager 3y ago
People can and do object on ethical and sometimes religious bases when they are forced to buy insurance against their will. An approach that wouldn't force anyone to buy anything and would be socially efficient is to just not send a
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by wyager 3y ago
We do this to some degree already, but it would be nice if rescues could be repurposed as military training. The cost of a rescue is small compared to baseline military burn rate, and it's good training. Someone gets lost in the forest
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by wyager 3y ago
Iirc, the 2020 Air maxes out at or below 500 nits, whereas a new MBP maxes out at something like 1600 nits (and only for HDR content - the standard SDR white-point is below this even at max screen brightness).
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by wyager 3y ago
> Shouldn't that give you a pause? No; It's completely consistent with my model. America is more advanced by a huge margin. It's also evidently a more desirable place to live; the Germany-to-USA migration rate is something
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by wyager 3y ago
That was not a pro-American comment. I thought that would be self-evident, but perhaps not
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by wyager 3y ago
OK, sure, I agree that at some level the wire format has been stable, but that's like saying "http and http/2 both use TCP, so they are the same protocol".
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by wyager 3y ago
Energy usage is synonymous with level of civilization. I like civilization.
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by wyager 3y ago
> I think of protein powder and supplements Most protein powder is whey-based (not vegan). Whey protein is generally inferior to muscle, connective tissue, etc. but it's typically a lot cheaper. It's better than plant-based al
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by wyager 3y ago
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