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by zaroth 4y ago
The concept fundamentally does not really apply. Building lots and lots of housing will never induce more per capita housing use in the same way that better roads induce longer per capital commutes. Because the fundamental concept of induce
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by zaroth 4y ago
EVs already have the capability to schedule charging around time-of-use electrical pricing and also a way to charge now regardless of price. I suspect this capability will only improve over time up to an including the ability to dump power
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by zaroth 4y ago
I hope you’re wrong. In 30 years another couple million people will have died in car accidents if we haven’t mostly solved autonomous driving by then.
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by zaroth 4y ago
The base stations were never free - they were subsidized by various sources. But that $4,500 a month is insanely cheap and an absolutely incredible value for Ukraine. The media loves to whip up a frenzy over Musk, but Ukrainian commanders o
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by zaroth 4y ago
From a linked article; “Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports. The contract, amounting to about $21.88 billion over ten years, follows a 2018 co
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by zaroth 4y ago
It would surely cost a few trillion to deploy the moon base and railguns capable of deploying that much material on target, but doesn’t require any physics-bending materials or processes. It would be an ongoing process of refinement and lau
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by zaroth 4y ago
It’s the people using it “purely for benevolence” that you have to be the most worried about!
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by zaroth 4y ago
This is so dumb. The reflection of sunlight to reduce TSI should happen at the L1 Lagrange point using moon dust, not by further polluting our own atmosphere. The benefit of L1 is that it’s not perfectly stable. Anything you throw up into t
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by zaroth 4y ago
They should have included the input frames side by side - it’s source images is live action video frames.
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Engine work, transmission maintenance or rebuild, replacing fuel pump, belts, alternator, etc. these are all totally standard and very common repairs for ICE vehicles no matter how many miles you say you’ve driven without having to touch th
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by zaroth 4y ago
Precisely your 3rd sentence is how I would interpret the comment. “Can we please X?” succinctly conveys a lot of meaning.
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by zaroth 4y ago
The issue here actually has nothing to do with private moderation. It has to do with the USG lying to platforms that unflattering stories are “Russian disinformation” to get them taken down, or telling platforms they are responsible for kil
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by zaroth 4y ago
This is a good summary of some of the recent revelations into how far the USG has been pushing into strong-arming online and traditional media outlets alike into suppressing critical speech. I think it’s interesting how the author tip-toed
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by zaroth 4y ago
Am I supposed to run these thru GPT and stable diffusion locally for the full effect? It’s bad enough the comments are computer generated. When they are client-side computer generated we’ve truly crossed over.
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by zaroth 4y ago
It’s wild that content producers stoop to “the only way for me to protect my shitty content on your phone, is for you to no longer be in control of your own phone.” But it’s even more wild that the industry laps it up. Thank god the tech is
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by zaroth 4y ago
What a shame though! A decent 5.1 setup should be cheap and easy to setup. Of course that’s far from the truth, but good sound is so worth it! Being able to truly enjoy music, movies, we live in an incredible era for content, video is regul
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by zaroth 4y ago
There’s been a bug for years in the Apple TV VLC app where it plays the audio channels on the wrong speakers . Center channel ends up on back right or something totally ridiculous. There’s an open issue on the bug tracker. It’s wild.
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by zaroth 4y ago
A democracy without the guardrails of a constitution can absolutely slip into totalitarianism thru entirely democratic means. The majority vote can be rallied through fear and propaganda into vesting ever greater authority in a centralized
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by zaroth 4y ago
Totalitarianism is always a solution, it’s just also always the wrong solution.
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I’m confused at who you’ve decided to be angry at for this effect you are observing. To the extent that investors are buying up perfectly good properties and leaving them vacant then you should blame the investor for taking inventory off
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by zaroth 4y ago
I would assume they are talking about HPV which causes cervical, oral, and other cancers effecting men and women. Condoms are at best ~70% effective at preventing HPV transmission so the “unsafe” part doesn’t really strike me as apt. Genera
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by zaroth 4y ago
“You need more cowbell. You gotta have more cowbell.” That’s hilarious. I’ve never accidentally triggered it. But my son seemingly never gets tired of getting into the car early and turning on “fart on turn signal”. Anything that gets him t
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by zaroth 4y ago
> This person clearly didn't actually step on any of these. Well that’s no fun at all! I was hoping for human trials of sleep deprived adults, with scoring metrics like “Number of hops” and “Number of shouted obscenities” and a prob
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by zaroth 4y ago
To be a bit more quantitative, I think the sheer volume of property damage coincident to these protests should disabuse anyone of the notion that they were mostly peaceful. Guess the amount of attributable property damage, and then click [1
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by zaroth 4y ago
Luckily for humanity that won’t actually be necessary. In the next 20-30 years I suspect we’ll just moderate total solar irradiance as-needed by injecting moon dust into L1. The only issue is if there are powerful countries that are actuall
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by zaroth 4y ago
I live near Boston which is known for its medical centers, so this might skew things somewhat, but it seems like every graduate I know is going into medicine of some form (surgery, anesthesia, nursing, surgical tech, hospice, etc. etc.) I h
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by zaroth 4y ago
Are you positing a conspiracy between McDonalds and Cardiothoracic Surgeons?
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by zaroth 4y ago
Huh? >> Wait, is this a grant or an investment? > It is an investment.
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The safe harbor has to do with moderation policy. The historical purpose of safe harbor was to allow AOL to have a walled garden without become responsible for all the illegal content that snuck past. IANAL, but DMCA safe harbor doesn’t rea
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Maybe only twice.

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