gandalf_der_12te
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- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
While AI (as it is currently done) is a bubble,
the article is still rather interesting. It discusses that China’s grid is superior because it has state backing, instead of being privately owned (and therefore short-sighted). Which is true, and America has a lesson to learn from that, if it wants to have a part of the future.
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 5 days ago:
I’m actually wondering how much of this has to do with the climate, i.e. the physical weather patterns. something like: living in northern countries historically meant that you had a tougher time getting through the winter, because the winters are harsher and longer, so you need to store more food and make sure it doesn’t spoil, which requires extra planning. so as a historical consequence, northern countries end up with a higher degree of organization, including bigger states, more organized tax systems, overall bigger and more organized structures.
You can see many examples of this. all big empires historically have had their center on the northern hemisphere, including england, US, europe, USSR, china. there’s (almost) none on the south.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
i think “no objections” is a bit tongue-in-cheek maybe, or at least that’s how i use the phrase. like if you say “let’s go on a trip and have fun, no objections” :P they can obviously object, but it’s a figure of speech that they shouldn’t object because you think it’s fine or sth. maybe that’s a matter of dialect and local slang though :D
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 1 week ago:
- Comment on beaver girls rise 1 week ago:
The ecosystem is so hollowed out that higher-up the foodchain species like beaver have a tougher time feeding themselves, while lower-down species have to re-populate an underpopulated environment. of course you’d rather be a mouse than a beaver in these days.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on glamorous dinos 2 weeks ago:
do we know how long medieval peasant’s hair was?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 weeks ago:
they’re blaming it on the middle men
In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries.
- Comment on Cute 2 weeks ago:
“Hello.”
“Do you have a moment to talk about Linux?”
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
We’re comparing no power generated to any power generated, ignoring the equipment cost thats infinite gain.
You have to subtract the cost for the power generation station from that, then it’s negative profit margin.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
big improvements up to 4 species
interesting. is that why we plant 4 different types of plant on a field in a row?
Three Sisters in native american agriculture.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
yeah, 20 square are like, what? 3 minutes max? that’s 2 Wh at 100 W power, or 0.002 kWh.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
great, you just generated 0.01 kWh
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
how many percent, do you think, was this the inventor’s motivation?
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
public transport in general does, as it typically involves 10 minutes walking per trip.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 2 weeks ago:
this makes sense from a mathematical perspective, because you’re diversifying risks so in a year where one type of plant doesn’t grow well, another can take over. so it’s more likely that there’s a plant in there that can grow well that year.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 2 weeks ago:
an anas
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
to just disappear off for hours on end without their parents knowing where they were
yeah when i did that, my mom went mad. that was in 2012.
- Comment on Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds 2 weeks ago:
that’s what she said
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
what’s obvious to one might not be obvious to another
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
this is why i am not and will never be a feminist in a million years.
while i get your sentiment, there’s a lot of difference between feminism as it’s practiced today and feminism as it should be.
i do think that females are superior creatures and deserve all the admiration and respect
but the way it’s currently implemented is horseshit bullshit. it revolves too much around mocking men and creating an artificial and unnecessary schism in society instead of making sure that everybody can lead a good life, including strong social safety nets (economically) and advocating for things that benefit everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
what about the men who don’t lurk for years but actively comment all the time?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The way i see it, the right to free speech is a two-sided thing. If there’s a right to free speech for one side, there’s also a right not to listen for the other side. It’s ok to block a community to not have to see their content if you’re not allowed to talk back at them.
- Comment on parallels 2 weeks ago:
yeah that makes sense to me, thank you for the explanation! :P
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
People call me crazy, but I say that our society has been mass brainwashed, basically mentally neutered, acting increasingly neurotic and violent and irrational.
No i’m not calling you crazy, i actually see it the same way. Social Media is a mass brainwashing tool.
The reason why elon musk acquired twitter is because he saw it as an “social engineering” challenge, after having already taken up classical engineering challenges (tesla). the reason is because the rich see it as exactly that: society is a system that can be manipulated and twisted into shape.
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
IMO, what is going on that is destroying mental health, and again, I say this as an early tech adopter
i think you forgot a word or more in that sentence
[the internet / social media] literally retards the development of functional social behaviors
I have the same opinion, and i say that the internet takes attention away from functioning social forms of behavior. in other words, the internet feeds off people’s attention, but that reduces inter-human contact too.
- Comment on parallels 2 weeks ago:
yeah that’s what i meant to say
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
the age of sexual consent varies between 16 and 18 in the US
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
trans people only make up a small percentage of the population and they don’t explain the surge visible in the graph
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
what i have come to realize is how much different people’s view on sexuality differs.
Everybody thinks their own emotions are absolute and the way that everybody sees it; though that is not true at all. A very clear example of this is how different people are attracted to different kinds of people. It’s not only about being gay or not, it’s also that there’s a huge number of people who are either asexual or rather prudish to the extent that they basically don’t have sex outside of very narrowly-defined contexts.
This has been a huge surprise for me to learn about since my own instinct is the opposite: sexuality is what keeps the society together, what facilitates the exchange of people and causes relationships. without sexuality, a lot of things wouldn’t work or work only very slowly.
