mrpopo

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by mrpopo 8d ago
Runaway warming leading to a hot "supergreenhouse" climate was theorized. Alterbatively a snowpiercer scenario creating a snowball earth. Or, once billions of people die from climate change, planetary wars will start on the last h
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
At the very least stop burning 3x more fossil fuels than the world average. Or stop your president from buying out renewable energy projects in order to prop up coal and gas. Or stop blocking public transportation developments. Why does it
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
No one cares about West Texas, it's about the 33 million tons of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere and warming the world. Reminder that the USA are the country that historically burned the most fossil fuels, the world's la
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
How do you think you will change culture or politics? In the US, money IS the culture. Politics go where the money goes.
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
Divest all your stocks from all this AI data-center race bullshit, invest into renewable projects. Worst case, the orange buffoon will bail you out with taxpayer money to prevent the US grid from being too clean or something. Only money tal
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
Divest from any kind of S&P500 or cool tech stocks. Invest in renewable energy projects. The US government is failing you, only money talks.
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by mrpopo 1mo ago
> people who truly believe in the economically transformative power of AI People who truly care about becoming rich* DeepMind made enormous transformative discoveries, for instance in the world of protein folding. But that will just save
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by mrpopo 2mo ago
> Every PS5 in existence is destined to become e-waste Just like every Android device or computer in your household? Are you trying to make a point for cloud computing?
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by mrpopo 4mo ago
I feel this so much. What was all that fuss about needing 3 levels of approval for any software license? Or having to provide a compare chart against open-source alternatives? The money would be so much better spent that way as well, suppor
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by mrpopo 4mo ago
I think the "others" should open their eyes to the world around them, then.
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by mrpopo 4mo ago
Happy to say that my browser didn't tell anything that I didn't expect it to. It even identified my IP from a location 1000km away from me. Firefox on Android with ublock
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by mrpopo 5mo ago
How else do you guarantee that things will keep going the best way possible in the future? The magical hand of the market?
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by mrpopo 7mo ago
> someone can be very confident and wrong at the same time And sometimes that someone can be you, and AI is notoriously bad at telling you that you're wrong (because it has to please people)
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by mrpopo 7mo ago
Probably people complaining about AI today were fine with Stack Overflow before and didn't have anything to complain about back then. I also had a better experience with Stack Overflow over AI. It's been unable to tell me that I c
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by mrpopo 8mo ago
> Do you have some information or argument that will help me see things differently? I already told you 2 things, coastal areas and agriculture. This is Bangladesh elevation map. Bangladesh is amonng the most dense countries in the world
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by mrpopo 8mo ago
> There's certainly a lot to be said for humans needing to take better care of the planet. Co2 just gets a little too much attention for my taste. GHG are a matter of life or death for hundreds of millions living in poverty in coast
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by mrpopo 8mo ago
Yep. It's not just oil rigs in the desert. Chevron in Ecuador destroyed the Amazonian rainforest. Oil pipelines and open pit mines destroying Canadian primordial forests. Probably tons of untold stories.
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by mrpopo 8mo ago
Considering at least half of all squares are empty, further compression is in order for the empty space. Also if you're encoding the king as a position instead of a byte sequence you would have to encode their space as empty, that&#x27
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by mrpopo 1y ago
It's also 700kg of CO2, one of the best ways to worsen climate change per dollar spent
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by mrpopo 1y ago
Trains are just the most efficient way of moving people between cities. They benefit everyone, even people with cars. You have a business trip and need to go from A to B by yourself? Take a train, it frees your brain and the highway for peo
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by mrpopo 1y ago
I am quite confident that the bandwidth cost is absolutely not a concern for Microsoft, and that the obvious goal is for them to capture the market. The "C/C++" extension github repository is 4MB. Probably the download size f
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by mrpopo 1y ago
Disregard the obvious environmental risks of spraying silver iodide in the air, cloud seeding will artificially redirect rainfall in specific areas, which may deprive downstream regions of water, harming biodiversity. Note that cloud seedin
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by mrpopo 2y ago
I don't think a battery swap is more dangerous than the current fuel stations where you can just use your lighter and set everything on fire
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by mrpopo 2y ago
Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence
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by mrpopo 2y ago
> Tesla now focusing more on developing self-driving vehicles than on pushing for huge growth in EV sales volume, which many investors had been counting on. Yep, don't count on Tesla for replacing fossil fuel cars. They had a good h
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by mrpopo 2y ago
And remember that the Cybertruck is steer by wire. The software controls the entire car, and it also happens that the software just randomly crashes.
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by mrpopo 2y ago
Safe (locked) bike parks are popping up everywhere in Paris
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by mrpopo 3y ago
Mold is used on dozen varieties of cheese, on cured meats like salami, in Asian cuisine (Tempeh/Oncom, miso paste, soy sauce). More generally, fermentation and bacteria are essential to most cuisines in the world. If you feel put off b
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by mrpopo 3y ago
I want a "Netflix of information". Let me pay 30€/month for unlimited information access, quality, no clickbait and no ads. Of course, seeing what happens with Netflix now, I guess it wouldn't last long until things turn
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by mrpopo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i-MiEV Max speed is told to be 130km/h but I'm pretty sure I drove my C-zero faster than that without much issue

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