GeoAtreides

There are between 6 to 9 orders of magnitude difference between coal energy and nuclear energy... and between 4 to 5 orders of magnitude difference on waste generation

I'm using lubuntu, but it just works, stable, solid, widespread support. no notes, no complaints

>A man is much more dispensable than a computer

sloppy (that is, negligent) writing. Something is either (in)dispensable, or is not. Either use something that can take degrees of comparison, like valuable (A man is less valuable etc) or reword it: A computer is indispensable, a man is not.

do these other people have a fertility rate of at least 2.1?

>I'm not going to remove the flags, because they are clearly an authentic community reaction

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are the story, so I've refrained from doing that here.

it's not selfish to want attribution for your work and knowledge, it's an essential human trait

>if you can't find an endless stream of uses for this technology,

it's the endless stream of employment that's getting harder/impossible to find...

> it’s gibberish

ironic

>vapid shit

>important jobs

As with all Culture critiques, this one boils down, again, to existentialism. Yes, we live in an meaningless universe and we brush against the absurd every day. That doesn't make The Culture any less of an utopia. And if you think it's not a true utopia, then I suggest reading Camus.

>Designating a woman as his successor was such an unprecedented action that Henry felt obliged to compel his nobles, barons and churchmen to swear an oath of allegiance to Matilda. All of them did so, although some complied with greater reluctance than others. [...] her cousin Stephen (a younger son of Henry’s sister Adela, dowager countess of Blois) had rushed to England, seized the royal treasury and had himself crowned.

G.R.R.M.: it's free real estate

the hierarchy of foreignness (Ender's game):

utlanning: a human from the same world, but a different city, country, or culture

framling: a human from a different planet or star system

raman: a non-human intelligent species capable of communication, mutual understanding, and peaceful coexistence

varelse: an alien species whose mind is so fundamentally foreign that communication and coexistence are impossible

djur: the dire beast, that comes in the night with slavering jaws

Hoping our silicon sons and daughters are raman, fearing they are varelse.

are you asking if it's ok to acknowledge the upsides of racial purity?

the things i read on hn...

that's the most green colored usernames i have ever seen on a HN thread

and then it's hilarious! a joke to die for!

>homogenous society

this is a racist dogwhistle. _Homogeneous_ is code for racial or ethnic purity.

Go on to Ao3 and a popular fandom, say like A Song of Ice and Fire: 9 out of 10 fanfictions written in the past two years stink to high heavens of AI. 9 out of 10. From some that are obvious AI to even normies, to some that slip one or two ai tropes after a couple of chapters, because the author got lazy and stopped editing carefully.

It's sad, infuriating, discouraging. A deluge of slop drowning the last embers of authentic human creativity.

how would the social media know the client is on Linux? and don't say User Agent

What we want is The Culture, or, more precisely: fully automated luxury gay space communism

>Fishing represents 40% of Iceland's total exports according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland :

>Iceland's economy depended heavily on fishing, which still provides ~20% of export earnings and employs 7% of the workforce.[77][152] [...] Iceland's economic dependence on fishing is diminishing, from an export share of 90% in the 1960s to 20% in 2020.[153][152]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iceland :

>[The fishing industry] provides 40% of export income and employs 7.0% of the workforce; therefore, the state of the economy remains sensitive to world prices for fish products.[

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo :

>its fishing and marine industries make up almost 40% of exports.

Note bbc says fishing _and_ _marine_ industries

only god knows what the truth actually is

> PM's party brokered that half-way deal with EU against the will of the people, after they had voted no to EU for the second time

what polls have to do with it? if the will of the people was against the eu deal, they should've voted against, they had 30 years to do it. norway is a democracy, right?

Since 1994 the will of the people had a lot of time to express itself...

the article:

>its fishing and marine industries make up almost 40% of exports.

you:

>Iceland's fishing industry makes up something like 40% of their exports

here we can see how a very small... re-framing (let's be charitable to op) completely changes the argument and subtly promotes a certain... viewpoint (again, let's be charitable and not call it an agenda)

> I generally get away with murder [...] The business can sense that I am aligned with their goals, so the proverbial seas tend to be parted whenever I unmute my microphone.

>The amount of unqualified ego tripping in tech has become astounding and can serve as a powerful ally for humble wizards.

beautiful, funniest thing i've read all week

Transient copies of user data, in traffic, memory or caches, are protected by the copyright law, so there is no infringing.

they have granted a licence to HN (and YC-affiliated companies), not anyone else. It's that licence that permits HN, and HN only, to send users' content to your browser

you're infringing HN users' copyright (and possible other rights as well), as they haven't granted you a license to copy, store and republish their content

>homogenous country

must you whistle so loud, i'm deaf now

Can you provide a credible source for your incredible claim?

you:

>It’s basically insinuating that we, the regular people, are the responsible.

the article:

>Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. [...] There are the queries of “What’s your carbon footprint?,” as if individual people with plastic bags or straws were the problem and not gigantic multinational corporations.

At least for food, we went from 80% 500 years ago to about 1-5% now. Maybe less, soon, when fruit picking robots come online. Work is not destiny.