SwetDrems

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by SwetDrems 8mo ago
Any nation launching any nuke has the potential to eliminate most life on earth. Limited nuclear war is very unlikely. This is a nightmare. Please read Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book by Annie Jacobsen that discusses the insanity of nuclear
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by SwetDrems 3y ago
Reducing car dependency will increase social activity. Cars are isolating socially and geographically. Everyone should try live car-free and see how much more connected to your community you'll become.
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
Cars are extremely space inefficient, so when cities are built for cars it is done at the expense of more efficient transportation methods. And what you're left with in the end is a very inefficient transportation system that REQUIRES
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
A big perpetrator of this is the designed environment surrounding car culture. I moved somewhere where there's plenty of foot traffic, specifically so my kid will walk/bike to school and that is seen as completely normal. Most Ame
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
Of course images are not relevant to ChatGPT (I never specified ChatGPT), but to other models being trained by OpenAI. From the article: "That month, Sama began pilot work for a separate project for OpenAI: collecting sexual and violen
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
I feel like comments here are too focused on the $2 per hour aspect and not enough on the emotional abuse that this labour entails. Sure, maybe it's an "average wage", but the people performing this work are suffering mental
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
American suburban culture is embarrassing. Cities should be filled with kids living their own independent lives. Look how dutch cities are built and it's clear to see why dutch youth are the happiest and most free in the world.
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
What other engineering field has acceptable death rates? We design roads EXPECTING people to die on them. Insane.
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
Cars were a mistake. Cities would be much better without them.
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
Hell Let Loose does something similar. Each team of 50 has one commander, and multiple squads with infantry (all human players). The squad leads communicate with the commander, their squad, and other squad leads in order to accomplish plans
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by SwetDrems 4y ago
Building up doesn't mean building a cypherpunk environment. Building 4/5 story buildings with units for families is enough for healthy urbanization.
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by SwetDrems 5y ago
Do things in your regular life that help the planet: Don't drive; bike. Don't eat meat. Stop buying products you don't need. Plant trees in your city. Donate to climate action foundations.
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by SwetDrems 7y ago
>Skepticism is good, but you should also be skeptical of the first conclusion it leads you to. As someone who is naturally skeptical, I will keep in this mind more. Thanks. It feels easy to be skeptical of others, yet much harder to be s
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by SwetDrems 7y ago
I (now) understand your intention was to simply share your opinion of the keyboard, I happened to see the post in the same format many other commodity-like product posts take: disguising themselves as a genuine review, but really just exist
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by SwetDrems 7y ago
This is blatant advertising on the front-page of HN. How did a post about a generic keyboard rise so high in such a short period of time?
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by SwetDrems 7y ago
Are there any active attempts by any large organizations to reduce the temperature of the planet? I know there is plenty of funding from government and industry into green technologies to reduce carbon emissions to eventually reduce the tot
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by SwetDrems 7y ago
Firefox's Facebook container extension and Privacy Badger extension makes this easy to do.
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by SwetDrems 8y ago
I loved the experience of reading this article. The flow through the images, animations, and text all controlled without thinking only using one input-device was executed perfectly. There was a strong connection between the text and the ima
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by SwetDrems 8y ago
There's an example of this happening in the 2018 book Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. A doctor gets the scoop on what Theranos is developing and files a patent loosely based on what they understand Theranos to be developing. The patent wa
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by SwetDrems 8y ago
This is why I'm so excited for WASM: the tech is great, but its ability to break down barriers to entry to markets for new and upcoming players is what makes it socially meaningful and worth supporting.
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by SwetDrems 9y ago
This is what I thought as well. Mindfulness is a skill to be practiced. Similar to how your heart strengthens through running and your muscle-mass increases through weight training, your ability to recognize physiological and physical respo
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by SwetDrems 9y ago
I frequently travel to non-English speaking countries and am conscious of what I ingest - the attempt to standardize nutrition labeling on an international scale is a great effort! At this point, no, I don't know what the symbols mean
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by SwetDrems 9y ago
Only tangentially related, but here[0] is a video of the great reforestation program that South Korea undertook after the Korean War. They effectively transformed vast arid landscapes into healthy forests. Shows the power of a nation/p
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by SwetDrems 10y ago
I thought we were under the consensus that these large scale associative studies were not accurate/effective in predicting causal effects, especially in nutrition. I can't find any studies right now, but I remember reading about m