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by api 3mo ago
Chernobyl instantly comes to mind. The giant problem with that particular RBMK design was known to a few people, but nobody fixed it, and if they had... we wouldn't even know, since it would be lost to history.
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by api 3mo ago
Real programmers use uintptr_t for pointers.
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by api 3mo ago
Technically yes, but usually I think there’s a racist undercurrent to xenophobia. The US stopped accepting refugees recently… except white South Africans. I’d say these people share no more culture or values with the average American than a
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by api 3mo ago
Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer. You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.
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by api 3mo ago
Why just ethnic? It can also be religious, ideological, or based on some economic interest. The US revolution was a mix of tax revolt and ideology. The British were the same ethnic group as most of the leaders of the revolution.
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by api 3mo ago
It wasn’t that long ago that American racists debated whether Italians and even Irish were truly “white.” The definition of white had expanded considerably over the years. Eastern Europeans, Jews (of course), and Russians were also at times
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by api 3mo ago
It uses container based virtualization under a single host kernel instead of VM based virtualization.
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by api 3mo ago
I look at this as a technical problem. We just aren't very good at this yet. We are, in fact, slowly getting better. Renewable energy was the largest category of new installed energy for the last few years at least, and that's a s
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by api 3mo ago
Social media hasn't been "social" in more than a decade. It stopped being that when algorithmic feeds and infinite scroll were introduced.
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by api 3mo ago
That means most people can never have it, which is why romanticism ends up pining for aristocracy.
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by api 3mo ago
I didn’t mean to come off as criticizing you, just providing a balancing counterpoint on some of the ideas. The question is: can you give billions of people the “authentic” version? In some cases you can. In the US at least there’s boutiq
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by api 3mo ago
When it comes to these lines of thinking, and to romanticism which is closely related, I have a hard time not seeing some of it as disdain for the middle class and nostalgia for the stories classic aristocracy told about itself. I’m America
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by api 3mo ago
Turn it off, then. I’ve almost completely turned off social media. Realized I’m missing nothing. All this stuff can pretty easily be ignored.
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by api 3mo ago
Doesn’t that make a feedback loop though? Poor health equals higher health care overhead, lower productivity, more family issues, and overall worse outcomes all over the place. That in turn is going to make educational outcomes worse and ch
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by api 3mo ago
My take for a while is that if the low birth rates persist and do become a critical problem, we might just have to do a boring thing that we do for other areas where the unregulated market or society doesn’t produce enough of something or d
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by api 3mo ago
… and way further to the right than OANN or Breitbart. I’m always skeptical of media with an obvious institutional slant of any kind. Sometimes that’s true even if it’s a slant I kind of agree with. Kind of narrows the media pool though. Mo
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by api 3mo ago
ZeroTier has "roots," which are nodes that relay packets and also tell you what your IP info is. Everyone in the world connects to a pool of these. Other than relaying and STUN-like IP info reflection, they're dumb and do ver
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by api 3mo ago
I've wondered for a while if the apparently higher cognitive performance and resulting societal wealth at higher latitudes might be some kind of second order side effect from long-term selection for lower sun exposure. We already know
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by api 3mo ago
We do P2P in our networking software and this is why we do it all in band instead of using STUN, TURN, or other common methods. Those get blocked and they’re also often insecure. STUN has mitigations now against being weaponized but it’s st
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by api 3mo ago
Same is true for most eco villages, back to the land farms, etc. It’s a mix of the lifestyle not being exactly what people thought plus them getting culty. In many cases it’s more the latter than the former.
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by api 3mo ago
Entry level is being automated away. Eventually I can see the solution as UBI plus abolishing minimum wage; allowing people to live on basic and take apprenticeships where they can just earn experience.
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by api 3mo ago
Meth induced superhero powers?
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by api 3mo ago
Reduce will never happen unless population falls. Not in a big way. It should be: reuse, recycle, renewable. First try to reuse and make things more reusable. Then try to recycle. Last, substitute renewable for non renewable sources for thi
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by api 3mo ago
The wealth comment is valid. The resource stuff is overblown. Look up the energy cost of AI vs ordering a burrito on DoorDash.
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by api 3mo ago
If model performance asymptotes and CPU/GPU and RAM keep growing, even slowly, then eventually we will have frontier models on desktop that are totally competitive with hosted. It’s only a matter of time. You already can if you’re will
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by api 4mo ago
As far as I know it’s the latter and that’s a big problem for physics. A lot of stuff like string theory, loop quantum gravity, etc. require energies that would take a particle accelerator the diameter of the solar system or something nuts
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by api 4mo ago
This is insane. Didn’t know how bad it got. I bought a mini PC a few years ago with 64 gigs in it for a home VM server for like $600 total. Looks like I’m keeping it a while. Usually these bottlenecks lead to a price crash later. Of course
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by api 4mo ago
That’s kind of an incredible point. We know what a bunch of these people did, or at least tolerated being done and looked the other way. It’s public information. Nothing happens. We even re-elect them. People don’t care.
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by api 4mo ago
It’s been kind of obvious to me that China did it by copying what America was doing from the post Civil War era until we abandoned the formula in the 1970s. China calls it “iron and salt” I think. The state makes very large investments in i
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by api 4mo ago
Old school Internet forums and sites were not designed to be addictive. The "time on site" KPI and its variants is the root of all evil.

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