onethought

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by onethought 5d ago
If forestry planted it... is it "old growth" ? And yes, animals could go live in it, even if it was planted. What's your alternative? boycott wood? Let the trees fall and rerelease their carbon as they rot?
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by onethought 5d ago
nor Andrew Wiles
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by onethought 5d ago
It literally was a replacement for portraits.
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by onethought 8d ago
Logging of the forest that the Tasmanian government planted, to log. Fear not, a Tasmanian tiger never saw the forest they are logging. Environmentalists trip over themselves on what “old growth” means. It is a renewable resource, and Tasma
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by onethought 2mo ago
Google incorporated in Ireland to gain tax benefits. They’ve been Irish ever since.
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by onethought 2mo ago
Just want to point out, it’s polarising because it’s a wedge issues that divides voting blocks neatly, and nothing to do with it being The Issue that it is. More people die from obesity, cars, flu, preventable illness, etc. But we discuss e
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by onethought 2mo ago
Duress pin should unlock a benign version with ai generated chats to ai generated friends about the latest benign topics. In the Age of LLMs we could generate a fake digital existence as fast as we can delete a real one. The goal is to appe
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by onethought 2mo ago
Maybe you need to let them know. They were founded in NZ by a NZer, they launch from NZ, their employees are NZers. Calling them a US company is equivalent to saying Google is Irish.
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by onethought 4mo ago
I think it’s more nuanced. Even a “coder” spends the majority of their time, not coding.
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by onethought 5mo ago
But you're ignoring the core point (in both your metaphor and in the argument at hand): - If everyone took a Waymo... Waymo sucks. Not true of trains. ($/MW of power is stupid with nuclear in the age of solar and batteries, with b
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by onethought 8mo ago
Right so it’s not phones at all. We are really saying: turn it down - right?
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by onethought 8mo ago
I think this is the only meaningful point being made in this thread. The sound from a phone speaker is annoying, more so, than a typical in person talking. To me the solution lies somewhere in fixing that to make it sound more natural. Ever
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by onethought 8mo ago
How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?
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by onethought 9mo ago
That’s “widely available” — no one is buying them, so not “widely sold”
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by onethought 9mo ago
Or we could realise that they still have that lead, and they were limited in the US by US government policy that propped up Detroit for union/votes rather than economics/environment. Meanwhile BYD had US money with a a friendly go
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by onethought 9mo ago
I’m not sure id call Chevy widely sold, yet. Their full year sales don’t even match a single quarter of Tesla.
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by onethought 9mo ago
This isn’t true: “most” non-lfp batteries in EV context are Tesla. Which means they are cylindrical. Or are you counting OEMs rather than actual vehicles?
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by onethought 9mo ago
I mean there is benefit to understanding competitor well as well?
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by onethought 9mo ago
But anyone didn't do it... you an expert in software development did it. I would hazard a guess that your knowledge lead to better prompts, better approach... heck even understanding how to build a status bar menu on Mac OS is slightly
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by onethought 9mo ago
Love that you are disagreeing with parent by saying you built software all on your own, and you only had 20 years software experience. Isn't that the point they are making?
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by onethought 9mo ago
your heuristics is "last 50 years of US history", and you've now applied that to "That's how the whole multi planetary blob of humanity will operate". I think "handywavy logic" is now being generous.
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by onethought 10mo ago
Some handwavy logic there, both on why bubbles instead of terraforming and also why authoritarian control given bubbles.
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by onethought 10mo ago
Or we learn how to make uninhabitable planets habitable. Would also help us “save” this one. (Funny how we say “save the planet” when we really mean “save people/complex life”).
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by onethought 11mo ago
A mean not to go too deep into whataboutism… but at least they only persecute their own Muslims rather than picking random countries on a map and persecuting them.
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by onethought 11mo ago
Immigration would be another option… but not sure how willing China is to adopt that
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by onethought 11mo ago
Imperialism? Expand.
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by onethought 11mo ago
If you flicked the switch and made voting mandatory. Then you'd find the extreme views on both sides would vanish as everyone would rush to please the middle (the VAST majority of the population). You can't make statements like &q
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by onethought 1y ago
You are confusing what "Appeal to Authority" fallacy is. Namely you are ignoring the fallaciousness of it. The fallacy is where you use an authority in place of evidence. It is not fallacious to refer to consensus or experts. Else
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by onethought 1y ago
Government organisations try to produce public good. Private organisations try to produce profit. This is why “running a government like a business” is flawed, and treating all large organisations as the same, is also flawed.
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by onethought 1y ago
> I don't know much about motorcycle riding, but it seems my heuristic works well. If you don't know much about motorcycle riding, then maybe STFU. Also how could you judge if your heuristic works well, if you don't unders

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