Thiez

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by Thiez 2mo ago
Of course! For example, luck may be the difference in being in good health or not, or having people that depend on you being in good health or not. If you are suffering from a depression, or (undiagnosed/untreated) ADHD, or a broken le
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by Thiez 2mo ago
The slaves were sentient at that time. AI, as it stands now, is not.
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by Thiez 3mo ago
It's not as lucky as you think. We formed from the same cloud that made the sun, so the material that made the earth was already in a fairly stable orbit.
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by Thiez 4mo ago
It isn't. Typescript is basically javascript with type annotations. There is a shorthand for class member initialisation and for defining enums, but that's basically it. There are no extra safety checks inserted. You get compile-t
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by Thiez 4mo ago
It means trust builds slowly but can be lost rapidly. It's not about horse theft.
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by Thiez 5mo ago
Preferably neither, but anywhere is better than Israel. Who would want to live in a genocidal apartheid state? Iran was a democracy before US and UK intervention, perhaps they will be again when they win the illegal war against them.
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by Thiez 5mo ago
Literally about land, oil, rare earth minerals…
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by Thiez 5mo ago
We very much do compete for resources. People die of famine, thirst, exposure, and other lack-of-resources-related causes every day. That we could theoretically feed everyone doesn't matter when people compete for more than their fair
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by Thiez 5mo ago
The extreme version of this would be insects like ants and certain types of bees, where the vast majority of individuals are biologically incapable of reproduction, and serve the one or few queens that are capable.
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by Thiez 6mo ago
You realize that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are different places, right? Your link does not support your argument.
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by Thiez 6mo ago
Surely the number of people needed to maintain a reasonable throughput of the legal system scales approximately linearly with the number of offences? I don't see why a country of millions would be unable to have an efficient and functi
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by Thiez 7mo ago
I have seen at least one stretch of highway in Germany that has overhead power lines for trucks. I think it's a very interesting concept: the big downside of batteries is slow charging (compared to diesel) and limited range. Charging w
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by Thiez 7mo ago
Sure, I just think we if we're going to pathologize activities with intent to pass laws we ought to at least stick to a science-based approach. Right now there is no basis to conclude that even a single person is addicted to TikTok, si
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by Thiez 7mo ago
Yes, which is why substance addictions are in the DSM-5 and internet/gaming/social media addictions are not.
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by Thiez 7mo ago
The DSM-5 acknowledges only gambling as a diagnosable behavioral addiction. Being addicted to a thing means substance addiction, not TikTok or games or internet.
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by Thiez 7mo ago
The VOC and EIC would like a word. While under these so-called 'Judeo-Christian values' Europe was wildly antisemitic, colonised most of the known world, and subjugated, genocided, and enslaved indigenous populations. The UK even
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by Thiez 7mo ago
So do you believe that propaganda doesn't exist, or doesn't work, or that only ever accurately shows the truth? Because as I see it you must believe that people cannot be misled by propaganda to deny the possibility of manufacture
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by Thiez 7mo ago
Note that gambling is currently the only recognized non-substance-related addiction in the DSM-5. As a society we speak of things like 'tiktok addiction', 'gaming addiction', 'food addiction' and 'porn add
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by Thiez 7mo ago
There isn't enough energy in the solar system to count to 2^128. Now a uuid v4 number "only" has 2^122 bits of entropy. Regardless, you cannot realistically scan the uuid domain. It's not even a matter of Moore's la
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by Thiez 8mo ago
Surely for the people who cannot run and manage a firewall the default 'deny incoming' rule that basically every single consumer router ships with works just as well to protect from incoming traffic as NAT? I notice many comments
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by Thiez 9mo ago
Of course people dying younger is a benefit to society. Old people cost a lot, they're not productive, and (unlike children) they don't have any productive years in their future either. Ideally we would all drop dead of a heart at
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by Thiez 10mo ago
A skilled surgeon can generate millions of negative micromorts per year. Should they get a pass if once a year they push a child off the roof of the hospital? What of the classic example of killing a healthy patient and saving several lives
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by Thiez 10mo ago
So fast food was invented around the same time as the smartphone?
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by Thiez 11mo ago
Fact is that they do exist. Whether that meshes with your personal beliefs about economics seems beside the point.
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by Thiez 11mo ago
It implies that 77% of UK visitors were not prepared to upload an id to watch porn. They either stopped watching, used a VPN, or moved to smaller and less regulated sites without age verification. The remaining 23% will also include teens t
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by Thiez 11mo ago
True privacy is not possible if websites truly want to track you. The point of the GDPR is ensuring that legitimate companies operating in the EU will refrain from doing so without consent, because it's against the law and the punishme
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by Thiez 11mo ago
That is a terrible proposal. The GDPR is not about cookies, it's about tracking. Websites can track you through cookies, through browser fingerprinting, through your IP adres, through your login, through your local storage, and various
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by Thiez 11mo ago
Are they aware that namespaces exist? Surely you're getting more out of your clusters by having few clusters running many pods instead of many clusters running few pods? At my job we also have some redundant clusters but that's be
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by Thiez 11mo ago
What were these dev ops engineers doing all day? Surely you can only polish a cluster so much before it's done and there is nothing left to do?
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by Thiez 11mo ago
Not all of physics is relevant to a brain simulation. For example, humans appear equally conscious in free fall or in an accelerating vehicle, so a simulation can probably safely ignore the effects of gravity without affecting the outcome.

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