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by xienze 4mo ago
It does when people start talking about a heatwave as being the "start of the end of human existence." It strongly implies that these trends will wipe out humanity in very short order. Perhaps even within the lifetimes of people i
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by xienze 4mo ago
Why do you choose 1975/30C as your cutoff point for "record heat" when it should be 1976/36C? Clearly 30C isn't unheard of, even in the past.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Serious question, are you doing a simple extrapolation and assuming in 10 years Europe is going to have 60C heatwaves or something?
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by xienze 4mo ago
Whose fault is it the electrical grid apparently, according to your thesis, hasn't been upgraded in the 30+ years since apartheid ended?
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by xienze 4mo ago
You keep using that word "stole", you can't steal digital information, remember? > then used that material to generate billions of dollars which they kept for themselves? Hasn't it also lead to distilled, free and ope
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by xienze 4mo ago
Remember how people used to justify their own personal software piracy with arguments like "information wants to be free", "no one stole anything, you still have the data", "I was never going to buy it anyway",
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by xienze 4mo ago
> Perhaps believable, had it not survived eight years of litigation ending at the ECJ You're of course making the assumption the ECJ isn't biased towards ruling in favor of the EU in these disputes... > or had there been som
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by xienze 4mo ago
> Google has attempted to allay the Commission’s concerns over the years such as allowing Android users to switch between search engines and browsers so they are not tied to the company’s apps.
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by xienze 4mo ago
More like an ATM. Need some money? Let an American tech company operate with no issue for years and then one day "whoa we checked and you've been violating <some vaguely-defined law about privacy> for years. Who knew? That&#
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by xienze 4mo ago
Just because a large percentage of the population either lacks the ability to understand why it's bad to have a livestream of your home being sent to China or simply doesn't care doesn't mean it's not a problem. Second,
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by xienze 4mo ago
> it is expensive to build, Is that because the building materials, engineering, and labor are super expensive or because of environmentalists throwing up legal and monetary roadblocks for decades? ("OK, if you can do a decade-long
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by xienze 4mo ago
> I only buy through Amazon Videos, with the logic being Amazon is going to be around awhile. Sony will be around a while too, but as you've just seen here, it's not about how healthy the company hosting the video files is.
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by xienze 4mo ago
> Why do people buy movies digitally anyway? I can understand digital movies (they are convenient) but renting or streaming seems far more reasonable. If you truly want to own a movie as I suspect people who buy them digitally do, the on
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by xienze 4mo ago
> My question is about whether renewables with storage technologies are a viable replacement for the gas power plants. I'm guessing probably not. If it was truly the no-brainer "cheap AND fast AND better" option everyone t
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by xienze 4mo ago
> That's the fucking point for fuck's sake! Pardon my language, but the entire point of the tariff is to stop people from buying masses of trivial things from the other side of the world, with all the externalities that it enta
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by xienze 4mo ago
> And at least in America, immigrant households seem to be denser than native-born ones. Answer true or false. One couple+one child requires less housing (in the short-to-medium term) than one couple+one immigrant.
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by xienze 4mo ago
But you agree it certainly must contribute to the problem?
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by xienze 4mo ago
Considerably less immigration was required for said workers because guess what, the requisite 2.1 children average per couple threshold was being met during those times.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Yeah I do, it's called supply and demand. To have a growing population, every couple needs to have an average of 2.1 children. Let's say a couple have two children. From t=0 until approximately t=20, all four people require one ho
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by xienze 4mo ago
Funny how everything worked pretty well, zoning restrictions and all, until public policy shifted towards papering over population decline with mass migration. An immigrant needs a house _today_, a baby needs their own separate housing unit
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by xienze 4mo ago
We currently have a not-insignificant population living the UBI dream. No job, section 8 housing, food stamps, free healthcare via going to the emergency room for everything and not simply not paying, as well as other social programs. What
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by xienze 4mo ago
> I said at API pricing, $200/month Well I saw $200/month and thought you were talking about a max plan, sorry. But I will say unless you're using that top end model extremely judiciously $200 for 2-4 weeks of work is simi
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by xienze 4mo ago
> I suspect it works like gym memberships, and the companies mostly make their money from people who don't use the subscriptions all that much. I think it's like that, but not quite. The people who have a subscription but barel
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by xienze 4mo ago
> I cannot see the agent burning through $50 for one moderately sized TypeScript cleanup in my setup. I have absolutely seen stuff like this happen. Think about it, when you point Claude at a bunch of files, it has to suck them all up (t
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by xienze 4mo ago
> So you could see small LLM co-operatives working out, yeah. Only on a pay-per-token basis, I think. Unless it's a very tight-knit circle of folks. Fixed monthly subscription costs I doubt would work in that model. Because you&#x27
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by xienze 4mo ago
> The author mentions $54 in costs but the reality is that developers are paid around this much per hour. Sure, but imagine a situation where you've spent an hour going back and forth with the LLM trying to fix a problem and at the
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by xienze 4mo ago
Doesn't seem bad to me. Come back for a pay bump and get paid while you search for a new job.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Well that's one state, and the one that fancies itself as the most European in spirit, at that.
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by xienze 4mo ago
> but if you drive up north you will see nothing but trees forever. Problem is you'll get some tribe coming out of the woodworks claiming whatever inaccessible area hundreds of miles from civilization is some sacred ground that can&
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by xienze 4mo ago
I've said this a million times, there is no free lunch with using immigration to paper over population decline. One of the main problems has to do with housing. A baby will require their own separate housing in ~20 years. An immigrant

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