MadDemon

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by MadDemon 6mo ago
Did they really die out, or did the population just merge with modern humans? Most people on the planet have some Neanderthal DNA, so clearly there was some intermixing. If modern humans were a much larger population, it makes sense that th
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by MadDemon 7mo ago
That does not explain how mathematically your statement of 40%-60% heritability represents anything other than a coin flip.
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by MadDemon 7mo ago
Doesn't 50% heritability mean that it's a coin flip in a 2 party country? So basically no heritability?
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
If a debtor can't pay their debt, you don't just get to wipe out the bond holders. There is some kind of negotiation to try to restructure the debt and see how much the bond holders can still get. Simply wiping out the debt would
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
Greece took on more debt than they could serve. Do you expect the tax payers from other countries to just pay for that without significant changes to how Greece operates? If you can't pay your debts and you can't print your own cu
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
The high voltage DC transmission lines from north to south are being built right now and for example SuedLink is expected to be operational in 2028. Their transmission capacity will be more than enough. Why would you split Germany into elec
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
It's great for you that you were able to create this app that wouldn't otherwise exist, but does that app dramatically increase your overall productivity? And can you imagine that a significant chunk of the population would experi
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
LLMs and their capabilities are very impressive and definitely useful. The productivity gains often seem to be smaller than intuitively expected though. For example, using ChatGPT to get a response to a random question like "How do I d
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by MadDemon 8mo ago
Liechtenstein is as much a monarchy as Britain is. It probably falls more in the direct democracy bucket. Also, the GDP per capita figures for these tiny countries are very missleading because you can have a situation where more than half t
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
The food system in Europe works pretty well.
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
That's definitely questionable, but a drop in the bucket. Irrigation for all the farms in the desert is using vastly more water.
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
They seem to be able to survive with the small amount of water that is allocated to them from the Colorado river.
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
Nevada only uses a small percentage of the Colorado river water ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact ). Most of the water is used for farming in the desert.
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
Las Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.
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by MadDemon 9mo ago
The Brenner base tunnel is still under construction.
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by MadDemon 10mo ago
Switzerland has such close ties to the EU that I would consider them half in.
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by MadDemon 10mo ago
Do you have something to back up this claim?
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by MadDemon 11mo ago
There is already a Wikipedia article about Grokipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia
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by MadDemon 11mo ago
I'm not a fan of Elon or whatever, but I agree with the parent. "Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles" does not seem like a title that should be flagged.
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by MadDemon 11mo ago
The tariff is applied to the import value. For many products you'll get a significant markup on top within the US for distribution, which is not affected by the tariffs.
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by MadDemon 1y ago
During the dot-com era, a much larger share of the money could be spent on engineers. Today, a lot of the money goes into data centers and not salaries.
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by MadDemon 1y ago
Places further north are great contenders because of the free cooling. Also, many of them have cheap electricity from hydro or even geothermal, like Iceland.
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by MadDemon 1y ago
Intrest rates for morgages in Switzerland are around 1% and for tax reasons most people only pay off a third of their property. The payments are very managable, as long as you have the downpayment. You can't fully compare this with a s
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by MadDemon 1y ago
Europe might not have much oil and gas, but the future is in renewables anyways. Western Europe has a lot of wind potential at the coastlines. Northern Europe and the alpine region already mostly run on hydro. Southern Europe has good solar
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by MadDemon 2y ago
In the article it says that they are shrinking the workforce by not replacing the naturally churning people (20% per year), rather than firing people.
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by MadDemon 2y ago
This can go both ways. Have you heard of Venezuela?
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by MadDemon 2y ago
It does not, but they are storing the energy for winter. Solar produces a lot more energy in summer, which is especially true in Switzerland or Europe in general.
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by MadDemon 2y ago
It renders a waveform that looks very similar to what it would look like if you drew a line between all points. If you have 100 samples per pixel and you draw lines between all of them, you'll essentially end up with a filled area that
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by MadDemon 2y ago
> Drawing one line per sample leaves very little aliasing. It's definitely gonna look better than just skipping samples, but you're also gonna draw a lot of unnecessary lines.
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by MadDemon 2y ago
You have to down sample by a lot (easily 10-100x). That would essentially remove a lot of the information in the signal. If you low pass filter you essentially remove all the peaks and the signal looks much "quieter" than it actua

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