jrs100000
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- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 days ago:
I’m not sure what you want exactly. Its pretty hard to prove a negative, but that does not make the inverse true.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 days ago:
It seems like a pretty good reason to exclude them, considering the criticism being discuss was specifically that they would inevitably decay in to a “might makes right” situation. Communities existing in a situation where police and courts would prevent someone from taking over by force disqualifies them from disproving this hypothesis.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 days ago:
Which ones? There are few places on Earth that are not under practical control of a formal government and legal system, and most of those places are either unpopulated or controlled by various local power brokers.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 2 days ago:
That works for a phone or a laptop when the manufacturer expects you to upgrade every few years. An average house might have dozens of different items, each with its own battery with different size, capacity and discharge needs. Its already hard to track down replacement batteries for older model phones and laptops, and its going to be ten times worse trying to find just the right battery for your specific model of printer or coffee machine years after its left production. Are appliances just supposed to be disposable now, or is it just a gimmick for the first couple of years you own something? In either case, it doesnt seem like the savings to the power grid could possibly justify the expense or the waste.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 2 days ago:
And the batteries wont last nearly as long as the fridge should. Do you just toss the whole thing when it starts defrosting every morning at 2am?
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 6 days ago:
Just like incremental improvements in the bicycle will eventually allow for hypersonic peddling.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 6 days ago:
Its probably part of the standard severance package. Hand in your laptop, sign an NDA, take your COBRA paperwork, and fill out the AGI terror press release.
- Comment on USA | Biden to remove Cuba from list of state sponsors of terrorism 3 weeks ago:
The president does not grant statehood. Only congress can do that.
- Comment on How long does it take for a quantum torpedo to cover a distance of 12 parsecs? 3 weeks ago:
I think you mean “how far can a quantum torpedo travel in 12 parsecs?”. And the answer is “Reverse the polarity”.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 4 weeks ago:
Im going to guess its a proportional cost issue. Drivers take up a much larger percentage of the cost of shipping a ton of cargo by truck that the cost a human engineer on a train.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
In about 80 years global population growth should finish leveling out, at which point immigration will become a more difficult strategy for all but the most popular destinations. In the meantime, development only seems to be a barrier for importing huge numbers of low skilled labor, and thats mostly because many of the jobs were exported directly to them instead. A more developed globe has actually been a boon for anyone looking to import skilled labor.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
It seems like its just ethno-nationalists freaking out. Capitalists have been tackling this problem with immigration for a long time.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
But came out of a public university on Colombia. Nobody ever suggested doing this for profit.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 weeks ago:
What does this have to do with capitalism?
- Comment on Who's the MVP of the MPV's? 1 year ago:
No even a former colleague, Sisko was the guy he used to bully in school.
- Comment on One of my favorite Star Trek tropes in any series 1 year ago:
Well Bones didn’t appear in the pilot or first episode of TOS, so I dont think well get more than a cameo if he shows up at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It was vaguely implied several times throughout the series that the ship computer, or at least the holodecks, were more alive than anyone knew/acknowledged. Lots of strange stuff happened in there. I always assumed it had something to do with the modifications made by the Binars.
- Comment on Death to the opposition! 1 year ago:
That line is a log darker when you consider that last time Worf played a human sport he did kill someone.