missosoup

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by missosoup 3y ago
For those 'in the know' a lot more typical than you would think. If we don't reach at least Kardashev scale 1 in the next hundred years or so, we're going to go extinct due to several now-predictable factors. And an unch
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by missosoup 4y ago
I think GP means a lot of these projects are just links that people click and go 'oh cool, but i'd never build that and can't get one'. Which makes them glorified blog pieces.
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by missosoup 4y ago
Based on the OP post and the notion of a wait list for something that should be trivial to propagate as you mentioned, I'm guessing this whole thing is a $$/Month subscription to a proprietary variant of a common plant. "Just
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by missosoup 4y ago
On what planet is it 'free' if it requires you to hand over some of your most abusable info? The thing that really bothers me is the normalisation of 'hand over your credentials' which inevitably maps to data leaks and i
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by missosoup 4y ago
The answer is shamir's secret sharing algorithm. Give a chunk of your password to N friends who you trust, with instructions to recombine it.
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by missosoup 4y ago
So their vision of the future is that to do anything online, one MUST have a phone (ahem, portable wiretap)? And they're going to be keeping my secrets for me, for my own good? I'm not sure I'm down with any of that.
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by missosoup 4y ago
So their vision of the future is that to do anything online, one MUST have a phone (ahem, portable wiretap)? And Google is going to be keeping my secrets for me, for my own good? I'm not sure I'm down with any of that.
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by missosoup 4y ago
Not e-ink but most Garmin watches have colour always-on displays and a battery life measured in days/weeks.
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by missosoup 5y ago
> obvious to anyone with basic thinking skills that "the government of a county" and "the people/nationalities/culture of a county" are two totally different things. The CCP has invested a lot of energy into
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by missosoup 5y ago
> imperialist bully As far as empires go, America is nothing compared to the larger players. But also consider that global geopolitics is inherently an anarchy. The guy with the biggest stick makes the rules. Between America and the next
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by missosoup 6y ago
Predisposition is unambiguous and well-defined. It means that a particular outcome is more likely. It says nothing about the cause or desire for it. You substituted the real meaning for your own agenda.
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by missosoup 6y ago
'Predisposed to do job' doesn't mean 'better at doing job'. It means 'more likely to do job'. Which is what the linked article studies - the fact that as women get more choices, they choose STEM less and l
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by missosoup 6y ago
> The time I was told at a feminist event that men are more naturally predisposed to do my job They are. This is well studied in several countries now. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02&#x
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by missosoup 6y ago
Twitter+FB+ a single-digit handful of other platforms are the only mechanisms for a private individual to share an idea and have it spread to a wide audience. Yes, you can make your own blog and post whatever you like on it (actually these
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by missosoup 6y ago
This is a logical fallacy and the equivalent of saying 'you are welcome to practice free speech, in this here sound-proofed room'. Twitter is one of a small handful of platforms where an individual can share an idea and have that
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by missosoup 6y ago
They are monopolies within a set of respective markets/niches when it comes to speech platforms. GP's point was that private individuals have the power to arbitrarily deplatform speech they don't like, no court order required
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by missosoup 6y ago
RTGs don't provide enough energy to power a car. You're looking at 1kW electrical maximum. The one on mars lander Cruiosity provides about 100W electrical power nominal. But the main reason is that people are stupid and some would
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by missosoup 6y ago
Reddit hasn't been a home to deep discussion for 2+ years now. Every community is an echochamber, any dissenting views are downvoted to death simply for disagreeing with the hivemind. If someone compared HN to Tiktok, you'd laugh.
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by missosoup 6y ago
This is actually the most plausible scenario for if/when fusion is achieved by any nation state. There is evidence that China is secretly working on fusion reactors and there's no reason to assume that the Russian and US militarie
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Cover every rooftop, every parking lot 'renewables' are not a viable option for the energy requirements of large scale carbon capture. It's a massive rollout of nuclear (ideally fusion but fission is good enough), or not
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by missosoup 6y ago
It's not quite a direct comparison, but in law there is a 'heat of passion' defence which affords leniency for crimes committed when e.g. a parent walks in on their child being harmed and murders the assailant. The reason thi
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by missosoup 6y ago
> The moment you begin endangering other people's lives is the same moment that backgrounds, poorly-disadvantaged or not, become meaningless. Spoken life someone who never had to decide between rolling the 0.000001% chance dice on d
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by missosoup 6y ago
In one paragraph you've conveyed my point better than I could across multiple comments. This is the heart of what I was getting at. This, and the fact that the HN demographic, mostly being techies, seem to be a bit disconnected from wh
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Most people do not and would not drive while so tired that they knew they were likely to fall asleep while doing so For most people, the other option is to stop driving to work and then be jobless and eventually homeless, make their ki
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by missosoup 6y ago
The 'you shouldn't be driving' commenters are people who are are either living in a privileged high-income bubble and don't understand what real life is like for most of the population, or are logical purists thinking ab
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by missosoup 6y ago
That's not how real life works. It's dangerous for everyone to drive and in the future manual driving will be as legal as riding horses on highways is today. People do potentially deadly risk reward calculus all the time. And of
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Please don't get behind the wheel if you're drowsy. I know two people with the issue that GP is talking about, and it's not what you're talking about. They're perfectly alert when they get behind the wheel. The
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by missosoup 6y ago
SOTA neural networks can summarise entire articles or books down to a few paragraphs accurately. Thinking that replacing @ with 'at' or anything else in an email address that a human can infer to be an email address, and assuming
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Edit: With my wording, I was referring to this old pro-copyright ad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU Or the better version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXkxSl4f6vw
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by missosoup 6y ago
The number of new non-enterprise projects built on C# is off by a factor of 10-100x compared to Python/Node/Rust. And even in enterprise, it's now dying. .net core is an attempt to rescue it on the cloud but it's too li

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