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by bttrfl 3y ago
It is bad because I have a loan. It was worse because I had no money. It can be better because I could repay the loans. ... It is going to be a disaster but let my grandchildren worry about it.
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The legal battles changing the course of climate change(bbc.com)
1 points by bttrfl 3y ago|0 comments
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by bttrfl 3y ago
Invincible is just one of many books showcasing Lem's profound understanding of AI and its limitations servicing the mankind. I recommend Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the collection of short stories, many of which paint AI as a true reflec
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by bttrfl 4y ago
The fact that others are kicking an old lady to death doesn't mean you should join them. Do what you think is right even if it doesn't change anything. Avoiding flights isn't a big price to pay.
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by bttrfl 5y ago
This could be a chicken-egg thing. If the top apps had no Apple payments perhaps they wouldn't be on the list. For an established games the discovery is probably less important though I'd imagine that lots of people buy apps just
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by bttrfl 5y ago
You can enforce it using trade bans, don't need military for that. Also, if this would be a global policy then the costs would go globally for everyone making it much easier to cope with since all the competition (on company but also s
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I'm rooting for something like this too. As for the carbonfact and their focus on promoting eco brands, I'd like them to present an alternative metric if/when possible. Measuring each individual product is complicated and doe
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by bttrfl 5y ago
"Global survey finds 74% also want climate crises and protecting nature prioritised over jobs and profit" - I find the results highly optimistic, but hard to believe. I'm working frequently with data and surveys and what peop
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Humans ‘pushing Earth close to tipping point’, say most in G20(theguardian.com)
3 points by bttrfl 5y ago|1 comments
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I'm well aware of that. I remember reading a story about one of the cities in Asia which forbidden car traffic with driver only. Soon there were passengers for hire standing by the road. If AWS can charge their clients by milliseconds
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by bttrfl 5y ago
taxes on usage/consumption could be progressive. Using X costs you Y Using XX costs you YYY Using XXX costs you YYYYYY This way water, electricity would still be cheap for most and would incentivise to stop overusing it. You could stil
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Why don't you start with an idea and self-awareness of your strengths? You might be good at puzzles. Or stories. Maybe visuals ain't your thing and you can write a text based game - there are great engines for that. Maybe you&#x2
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by bttrfl 5y ago
even if it would be the worst one, optimisation based on just one metric is usually a bad idea.
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I've stopped playing chess as a teenager having reached ~2360. I was national youth champion, a vice-champion, 5th in the world at one point. I played 100+ games every year. Each game could last up to 5-6h. Some games were exhausting,
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Why?
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by bttrfl 5y ago
This is a good advice but on gov level. Governments don't need to be anti car, they just need to stop being pro car and incentivise their use. Stop subsidies, stop tax benefits for both users/producers, stop building new roads, st
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by bttrfl 5y ago
It's an excellent opportunity to remind everyone about a truly great book by Lem: "The Futurological Congress" [0] and its interesting movie adaptation "The Congress" [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I'd love a dual, absolute/category, scale to make my decisioning easier. If something is green on an absolute scale then it's a smaller problem if I pick a product labeled red on on category scale. But I do know that I should
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by bttrfl 5y ago
CO2 footprint would be nice, but CO2 isn't only environmental factor to consider. I'd rather have colour-coded stickers with two scales - absolute and relative within a product category. A sticker on a diesel car would be RED&#x2F
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Funny thing, the more people comment that it doesn't load, the more trending the post is and more traffic it gets and the loading wheel spins even more and more.
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Were those phone numbers collected using "We need your phone number to increase your security" (or similar) or just added by users to their linkedin profiles?
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Every time I read stats like this I wonder what are the externalities the PR team decided to omit. One day you hear that farmed fish are eco, the next day you find out that gigantic trawlers are depleting Antarctic oceans for feed. I tried
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I run a company offering form analytics [0] so I have seen plenty of real data on how people use forms. One stupid issue I've seen over and over again is a lack of trimming of email/username/password strings, say: 'john@
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by bttrfl 5y ago
I'm not a fan of advertising, but at least money spent on promoting your business build your brand and in theory you should benefit from that in the long term. It seems that restaurants don't have clients these days and are at mer
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by bttrfl 5y ago
this got me curious as I wasn't sure how much is "a lot more". Turns out the population in the year 0 was 190M so there are 40x more people now [0]. Anyway, according to the previously cited wikipedia article, the Three Kingd
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by bttrfl 5y ago
It's your right to be pissy. Let's drop the "global" then. I counted 18 wars with upper deaths range above 1M between 500BC and 1800AC. There were 29 of them after 1800. I didn't bother to sum the casualties. Full l
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by bttrfl 5y ago
Technology is neither source of good nor evil. Just like a hammer ain't to blame or prise. It's about its application and how tech is developed and applied is decided based on "politics" if you want. However, ever-evolvi
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by bttrfl 5y ago
What if all this is because we took a giant environmental credit that we won't be able to pay back? It's hard to argue that child mortality dropped, literacy increased and so on, but at the same time we are facing existential thre
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by bttrfl 5y ago
This is now happening on Linkedin as well. People give access to their accounts to bots or sales people to like, share and contact people.
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by bttrfl 5y ago
The decision might seem strange, but I think the rationale behind it is sound: "Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names to avoid stigma" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/

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