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by Fricken 1mo ago
That's what's happening whether anybody wants it to or not.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
The IPCC consensus is limited to what politicians can agree on. Scientists all over have been observing the acceleration of climate change for some time, but it has until now been difficult to tease real change out of conventional temperatu
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Huh? Oh, I thought you were talking about the climate change part of my comment. Everything about the data centre buildout is a bet on the singularity, that's the whole operating premise behind what all AI researchers are doing. The mo
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Does our evolutionary fitness function count as self-interest? Climate change is on a runaway trajectory. We're in line for Darwin's top honour, but no one will be around to receive the award.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
The most reasonable and sober-minded people are counting on that: https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/...
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Climate Change has accelerated rapidly. We're expecting 3 degrees of warming by 2050 now, 5 degrees by 2100. Betting on the singularity to save us is culty wankery.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
German Climate scientists are claiming with 98% statistical certainty that warming has accelerated significantly since 2015, and believe we are looking at 3°C of warming by 2050, 5°C by the end of the century. That does not bode well for th
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by Fricken 1mo ago
My latest box of Trix cereal lacks the bright reds and blues of artificial dyes, the first of its kind at my local grocer. It turns out General Mills announcement to shift to away from artificial colours in Trix came over a decade ago: htt
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by Fricken 1mo ago
The rate of climate change also accelerates. The scientists are projecting 3°C by 2050 with 98% statistical certainty. Other scientists estimate 3°C of warming will kill off about 4 billion people. So yeah the old world is dying. The new on
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Builder Andrew Eylar built the Red Room of the IBM building on king street in Lego, which I thought was cool: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/40487057474/
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by Fricken 1mo ago
The important part is that it's sustainable.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Before 200 years ago we lived as hunter gatherers, and we did it sustainably for millions of years, longer than we've been human. 200 years is nothing. It's nothing, unless that is, we try to think about what the mess we're c
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Labour conditions in the capitalist west 200 years ago were some of the worst in history, so it's easy to make yourself look good in comparison.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
It was signed into law with the fair labour standards act of 1938, as part of the New Deal under FDR.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Most people landscape their own yards recreationally. They do it for fun, in their free time, at their own expense.
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by Fricken 1mo ago
Labour saving devices do not save any labour for the employees, their workday is just as long.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Engaging with the ecological concerns requires real intelligence. The intelligence in Silicon valley is not real. It is artificial, as in fake. They're just doing make believe, and ruining it for everyone in the process.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
One characteristic of a nerd was that they spent the dominant share of their time immersed in media, detached from the world of their immediate surroundings. There's nothing novel about that in the age of smartphones. The afflictions o
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Not being able to see the forest for the trees I suppose is a prerequisite for success in Silicon Valley, because it one had even a fraction of Stross's perspective on the matter they'd be in a different line of work.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
I love her writing. Her early work is strikingly depraved, as if Bukowski were a woman. Her novel "Eileen" was adapted for the screen in a film of the same name starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway. The Cinematography is r
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by Fricken 2mo ago
It isn't currently —for google— only about shipping the best models, but in the future however...
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by Fricken 2mo ago
There are less things to talk about on HN today than ever before!
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Europe wins by knowing better than to play those games.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Homer is a voice from antiquity. How many American stories and storytellers will be remembered and widely known in a millennium or 3? It will take a long time before we have a definitive answer. Such a person may not have been born yet. May
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by Fricken 2mo ago
It's probably because robots have been doing cool asf demos for half a century and they're still mostly just demos. Elon has made a lot of money greasing the 4-6 months away crowd.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Homer is America's Homer. Homer is western civilization's Homer. Thousands of Americans have composed epics, but Homer is still the one with primacy. All succeeding epics defer to Homer, including the American ones.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Nice ass montage, bro. Great storytelling. In the beginning there was ass. In the middle: ass. And at the end: ass. Both literally and figuratively your whole video is ass.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
No effort went into that. No talent went into that. The creator doesn't care about the outcome. Nobody wants to watch it. Fucken A, brilliant. The intelligence is artificial.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Yeah, he's just a humble douchenozzle minding his own business.
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by Fricken 2mo ago
Marijuana is not a recent invention

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