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by yyyk 4y ago
Of course, uploading wastes precious computing resources. Which is why I was considering not uploading them, just keeping a brain in a vat. We can still charge them for nutrients, calls and VR time, but avoid all those pesky bodily costs.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Religious guilt is an ineffective motivator of change. >Source: human history. The alcohol consumption statistics of certain ME states strongly disprove your thesis.
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by yyyk 4y ago
What makes you think the body is useful? Robots will be able to do everything better, and if not, there'll be no shortage of labour. The body is mostly a cost center. If we strip down the human to a mind in a box it's so much chea
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by yyyk 4y ago
Ordinary 'investment banks' were perfectly capable and allowed to hold securities under G&S, in fact they issued more than any 'same roof' banks had (and as the wiki cite in the other thread shows, there was little s
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by yyyk 4y ago
I referred to a particular point in the original cite[0], which is unsourced. Taking that to refer to my entire argument is, well, bad faith. As for your new cite, I'd say it's the arguments in favour that are most damning. They t
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by yyyk 4y ago
The story is significantly more complicated: https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/lyme-vaccine-history-ly...
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by yyyk 4y ago
> arguably led to the greatest financial crisis in a century The act did not ban securitization or buying derivatives. Even wiki can't find any justification for this argument beyond an unsourced 'cultural shift'.
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by yyyk 4y ago
>The stupidest aspect of this is that... he's going to trash arts education funding.... The UK arts sector... one of the UK's most profitable export industries. For every £1 of government money going into it, roughly £5 in fore
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by yyyk 4y ago
Semis run everything, but: they wear out slowly, there's a long line of consumer semis for reuse, and few systems require the latest semi tech; There's extra capacity in the West for the older semi tech. It's understandable H
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by yyyk 4y ago
The older tech is way more tractable, and there will also be chip recycling to help. Economics will ensure supply catches up, except the highest end chips. I find the focus on chips bewildering, since there are so many more critical issues
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by yyyk 4y ago
Moore's Law is dead. We were mostly stuck on 14nm for years and... it had no obvious effect on economic growth. A better way to put it: What kind of application must have a very small node and would not be able to run economically wi
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by yyyk 4y ago
IIRC, NVidia and Qualcomm fab at Samsung. Others would have to compete for limited remaining quantity or use slightly inferior chips. All this difficulty with high end smartphones and gaming consoles is completely insignificant compared to
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by yyyk 4y ago
The economic damage a war would cause is immense. TSMC however would contribute surprisingly little to the economic damage. TSMC has a big volume and an edge in node process. However, the vast majority of chips in use are in embedded usecas
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by yyyk 4y ago
The android/iOS comparison has many more factors than GC type. I suspect the main difference is processor type - Qualcomm ARM has been very disappointing so far, and GC type doesn't even come into it.
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by yyyk 4y ago
ARC is a perfectly respectable choice by itself. What's annoying me is ignoring the improvements other GC strategies and other languages have made in the last 20 years. There's a certain section of Apple users that thinks that eve
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by yyyk 4y ago
So this[0] wasn't current despite being edited half a year ago? I guess I'm guilty of the same mistake the post had: criticizing without understanding the state of the art on the other side (at least I didn't miss it by 20 ye
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by yyyk 4y ago
Reference counting is garbage collection, just a different strategy - and all these strategies tend to blur to the same methods eventually, eventually offering a latency-optimized GC or a throughput-optimized GC. Swift is inferior here be
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by yyyk 4y ago
Reminds me of this story: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-38.html
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by yyyk 4y ago
That's true (and minimal APIs help a lot) but ASP.NET still has a real problem with too much magic. For example, the secret incantations required to output a mere string as raw json mimetype or log incoming deserialization errors* are
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Volkswagen to Keep Factory Running in China’s Xinjiang Region(wsj.com)
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by yyyk 4y ago
"Old days" is a very relative term here. This attitude was common for Watterson's generation (b. 1958), but for example Schulz (b. 1922) had zero problems with monetization.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Cool, a UI upgrade. Yet they still omit proper tray support on Linux, barring hacks (birdtray, systray-x, etc.). Oh, well. At least it's maintained.
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by yyyk 4y ago
That paragraph referred to humans. For Fantasy races we can always come up with an explanation/excuse, but there should have been more humans along the route.
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by yyyk 4y ago
I'm not sure I get you. We were talking about possible internal conflict within the Orcs. Not sure Sauron gets their automatic allegiance, and if he does not, that's all the reason we need. As for humans, I don't have a good
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Internal warfare is caused by competing for the same resources. Politics is a sufficient condition. Perhaps Sauron would not tolerate 'independent' Orcs he can't use as canon fodder? >Again, the lack of people and trad
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by yyyk 4y ago
>however, Tolkien does not provide a good reason for the other human nations, the orcs or even the hobbits. Hm.. Orcs are easy to explain. I doubt Sauron or Saruman care at all about their lives. As the animated adaption put it: "Wh
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by yyyk 4y ago
You're of course right about the real reason, but speculating within the setting is fun (and also a waste of time by definition).
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by yyyk 4y ago
The title aside, this essay is about why Middle Earth didn't have an industrial revolution. Unfortunately, it uses a model with a limiting assumption which it ignores, the assumption being that a certain population level is also requir
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Plastics don't self-manufacture. You might not be able to control the rate. The rate is limited by the process. Since no precursors exist, it must 'self-manufacture' from scratch. This has inherent limits even before intr
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Reverse chirality autotrophs sound like a scary sci-fi novel plot I doubt this. 'Not being digestible' is very far from 'being invulnerable' or even 'being able to spread quickly'. The kingdom of life has m

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