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by hackermatic 3y ago
Although I think the existential risk of AI isn't a priority yet, this reminds me of a quote I heard for the first time yesterday night, from a draft script for 2001: A Space Odyssey[0]: > There had been no deliberate or accidental
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by hackermatic 3y ago
It sounds like you're making an ad hominem about her ad hominems.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Rare likelihood * catastrophic impact ~= almost certain likelihood * minor impact. I'm as concerned with the effects of the sudden massive scaling of AI tools, as I am with the capabilities of any individual AI or individual entity con
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Indeed. 22% would be more than most cities' current plans will achieve... but we actually need 100% reductions in 15 years (to achieve only 1.5-2 degrees Celsius of global temperature rise).
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by hackermatic 3y ago
And even who can buy what property. He takes the mantle of conservatism, but his values aren't conservative at all, and more outlets need to point that out. What he is, definitionally, is an authoritarian.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Many people are, but don't get stuck in a false dichotomy. Physical and digital spaces can each be exhausting or nourishing depending on how the space is run and your personal needs. There's nothing wrong with demanding that both
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by hackermatic 3y ago
In many places, allowing and encouraging infill development and upzoning would make carfree life viable more quickly than you'd think. I've lived most of my life in former streetcar suburbs -- neighborhoods of single-family homes,
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Anybody who is extremely on Twitter (Musk) or interested in American politics (Musk) can't help but be aware that invoking Soros is an anti-Semitic trope going back decades.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Still, it's depressing and confusing that we know the stakes and are still putting money into the status quo (natural gas) instead of racing to solve these problems. I get that people need power now and not later, but power companies a
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Speaking of 1983, if you want to see why they failed, look at what they put into the PC market instead of the Star and Alto: The Xerox 820 [0], an expensive, uninspired knockoff CP/M machine that was positioned to beat the IBM PC and p
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by hackermatic 3y ago
https://archive.is/XsxMn
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I used to drive through shelterbelt territory all the time. It's one of those projects that was so successful that most people probably think, like I did, that it was an obvious thing that farmers had always done.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Most SSRIs don't make money. I just ordered a 90-day supply of the generic version of my SSRI (actually an SNRI) for $45. And in looking it up, I realized that I overpaid because I went through my insurance, while GoodRx would get me t
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by hackermatic 3y ago
>according to a study commissioned by Facebook owner Meta Platforms This is basically a press release by Meta.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Vice Motherboard has been a really good check on the tech industry. A lot of the rest of Vice has always been trashy and exploitative, but it's had an unexpectedly big impact, as well -- much like BuzzFeed News.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
It's really that they no longer accept any fixes, as the library is officially deprecated. >As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time. But 18,302
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by hackermatic 3y ago
The problem is that this line of thinking usually turns into just doing nothing and letting them roll over us anyway because they've taken our silence as consent.
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Amazon, despite climate pledge, fought to kill emissions bill in Oregon(washingtonpost.com)
85 points by hackermatic 3y ago|32 comments
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by hackermatic 4y ago
If anything, speaking as someone who has RSI and collects typewriters, you've been spared despite them. The traditional typewriter keyboard arrangement with rows increasing in vertical height as they move away from you is precisely t
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by hackermatic 4y ago
It depends on the typewriter. The Remington 12 has the carriage return lever on the right side: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Remington.12.42.bmys
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by hackermatic 4y ago
I don't doubt it! I personally spent a long time trying to figure out if I was really a trans woman or simply an effeminate man, and believe me, things would have been easier (though not easy ) and a lot less expensive if I were the l
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by hackermatic 4y ago
The actual number is very hard to measure. Two explanations for this off the top of my head are: 1) Some people will decline to publicly identify as trans for safety reasons. The safer it gets to be out as trans, even in pockets of the US,