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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Culture war outlet with culture war title. Flagged.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Even if nuclear were built as fast as possible it can't replace fossil fuels fast enough to mitigate before major feedbacks kick in. We're left with significant decrease in energy use as the main thing that has to be done and that
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
If you're sincerely interested the IPCC reports and their summaries describe the basic science and the projections and are surprisingly readable if you're willing to read scientific writing.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
If they're going to report on this then I sure hope the media demands more than third hand personal testimony. If there's anything real here then it has to be global and we have no indication that people all over the world have se
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Like discussed on the Engadget version of this same story earlier, this is basically like saying that because Gab runs on the Mastodon codebase that Mastodon has a fascism problem. Good server administrators already block 90% of the problem
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
We have so much to learn from them. They diverged from us so long ago.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Also the underlying report is mostly about servers in Japan where the laws are different and/or that are blocked by almost everyone else because they are toxic. As they should be, because the whole point is that servers can block badly
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
A misleading headline. Not too different from the last round of headlines that there are card carrying fascists in the fediverse. Both are true and they are blocked by all well run servers. This is like the web and just like we don't s
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
I agree that a ban on the posts isn't the right way. I agree moderation is the right way forward but we need much more active anti flamebait and anti culture war moderation.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
There is something wrong with it. I think about it information theoretically. Oversimplifying, the information content of something is how unpredictable it is in a given channel. On HN, in 2023, the information content of yet another commen
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Perhaps we'd be better off not having any country or state or city does X type posts here unless they're about tech. (That won't solve it, though, because any mention of certain cities or states, even in a tech context, bring
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
I agree with the guidelines, but they aren't working anymore. I can predict the tenor and content of the comments on half of the HN front page these days just from the title and domain, which means flagging isn't cutting it.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
I completely understand that everything has a political dimension. And the broader culture war is leaving nothing untouched. But that means we have less room for a shared community even in small spaces like this. What I lament is that the c
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Is everything culture war all the time now on this site? Every post becomes a stupid comment section where we'd be better off getting an LLM to write the comments for us. Here it's people trying to insert their affirmative action
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Definitely. The only place in the deserts in the US that will be an exception to this is Yuma AZ because it is close to the warm ocean waters to the south of it so it's more humid. But it doesn't have a huge population unlike Hous
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Adblock? I've been hoping for an iOS browser with adblock that isn't bloated.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Yes, this is exactly right. The wet bulb temperature in parts of Texas and Florida in the heat wave a week or two ago got close to the limit of human survivability. Five years from now Texas, Florida, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia are al
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Best I can figure it, an anonymous webboard for economists used lousy identity hashing and some data scientists wrote a security analysis showing that fact. Part of it was showing that, surprise surprise, a bunch of economists at big name s
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Eh, one can dislike the longtermists and the non-longtermist plutocrats. I'd say there's good reason to dislike both, but for different reasons.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Why should the tone have changed? The billionaires and AI godfathers talking about it now all were inspired by LW and scifi, and it's the same narrative: no need to care about people living today or real problems in the world when ther
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Sam Altman's doomstead is in Big Sur. Same idea, different Sam. EA for me not thee: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma... Anil Dash is right, billionaires are high on their
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
This strikes me as the best outcome as long as it stops here. This lets the White House move on from the nonsense AI x-risk discussion without being attacked for not doing anything about it, and also doesn't let the companies use fake
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Please stop posting culture war garbage here.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Exactly re China: my point is people should stop describing the US response as lockdowns because they literally never happened. Re reinfection, good luck with that. Every time you catch covid you have a one in ten chance of long covid, and
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
China did actual lockdowns. The US? Not so much. Herd immunity? Never happened because infection isn't preventing reinfection with a different strain. If there had been actual, effective lockdowns early enough they might have worked bu
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
Yes, this. The UK has been subsidized for several decades by the dominance of the US and as a result English. Just as Canada and others in the Anglosphere.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
GDP per capita is a poor measure. I have seen things this year that I would never have thought I'd see outside of wartime. Ambulances never showing up or taking half a day if they do. Rationing of basic vegetables at the store. The ret
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
I dunno, sounds like your beef is with the folks who buy the same truck as you for no reason other than the look, not the folks who are seeing and mocking that trend.
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
The article doesn't contest that view but instead considers how germs are an orthogonal dimension and that we are starting to understand better that the host and all of its cells, not just some ill defined subset called immune cells, a
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by throwaway72762 3y ago
This is excellent but also galaxy brain level. Not something that's ready for popular digestion, given the levels of basic science denial that have popped up post COVID, even among supposedly empirical communities like tech. Eventually

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