kakapo88

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by kakapo88 3y ago
I'm finishing a project now, using exactly this design pattern. Sort of backed into it, motivated pretty much by the issues outlined. In addition, I wanted something that is clear and sustainable far into the future. The simplicity
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by kakapo88 3y ago
Can you name some of those specific scientific doomsday predictions, that didn't come to pass? Not a prediction from some random internet dude, but an actual scientific IPCC prediction? The climate models have, in fact, been accurate.
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by kakapo88 3y ago
It's not "cnn". This has been widely reported by diverse scientific groups. Countless sources. And it doesn't matter what the weather is like where you are. We're talking climate here - broad trends over broad are
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by kakapo88 3y ago
Changing the ownership does not address the problem, which is market concentration. You're still left with a company with too much power. That aside, look at the historical data. Nationalization has generally been disastrous and leads
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by kakapo88 3y ago
SF Techie here. Lived and worked here, for many years. Every day I literally step over bodies to get to work. Drugs are openly dealt and consumed. Mentally ill people roam the streets, screaming. People openly use the sidewalks as a toil
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by kakapo88 3y ago
Wild guess: Sabine is not a fan.
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by kakapo88 3y ago
Posts such as this are sociologically amusing, "meta-heuristic" and the like. Using prepackaged terms to disparage people and dismiss them, without actually having to think objectively and consider opposing viewpoints. Also inter
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by kakapo88 3y ago
Different. Super-intelligence is a plausibly reachable thing, a question of engineering. TIL is an uncertain thing, requires entirely new physics, and completely unknown tech.
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by kakapo88 3y ago
And again, you are confused about timeframes. Geologic time vs human time. Sure, over a period of millions of years, everything evolves and adapts. But in shorter periods of time, before adaptation, there is enormous disruption and entire
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by kakapo88 3y ago
You're not considering timescales. True, the earth has seen all sorts of climates .. over slow-moving gradual timeframes of 100k to millions of years. And in none of those situations did human civilization exist - relying on specific
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by kakapo88 3y ago
That was a fresh and insightful post. I think the comparison to the Cambrian explosion is a good one, as well as the larger framing of technological progress in the context of punctuated equilibrium.
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by kakapo88 4y ago
Also, even in the future, the power will go off once in awhile. Hand-writing would be like swimming. Not necessarily used much, but a skill worth keeping.
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by kakapo88 4y ago
It seems the aliens are invading by balloon. No one saw that coming.
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by kakapo88 4y ago
Ideologically-fixated writer. That aside, I wonder about any essay which uses the term "solutionise".
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by kakapo88 4y ago
Interesting analogy. It is highly adapted to its host for sure. In fact, it's quite impressive how evolved it is, always morphing and camouflaging, keeping the immune system at bay.
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by kakapo88 4y ago
I wonder about that $100k limit. Why would there be that special case?
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by kakapo88 4y ago
In California we have the yellow-billed magpie. Identical to this one ... but with a yellow bill. And weirdly enough, the ranges of the two species don't overlap. It's black-billed on one side of the line, yellow-billed on the o