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  • In the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?

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  • Come on. The way humans behave in groups is certainly part of human nature. And when we're talking about solving problems of a society, it is the most relevant part.

  • In the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?

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  • What I'm hearing you say is, we can solve our own problems, we just need human nature to be different. Which, well... Good luck.

  • Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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  • Practically all of us know that the difference between these memory modules is pocket change, when mass produced like this, but for those extra couple cents, they get an extra 100$ from you

    This is called capturing consumer surplus through segmentation. There's a pretty good explanation of it here.

    The long and short of it is that some people are just perfectly fine spending more money on a macbook, and apple wants to give them a good enough excuse to do so.

  • flanged rule

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  • That flail is certainly the worst of the lot. Terrible impractical weapon with scant evidence of it ever being used by anyone.

    There's a two-handed version of the flail that is basically an agricultural threshing tool with spikes stuck into the head, which is much more plausible as a peasant's weapon (very similar development process as the nunchaku, also a highly overrated weapon). However most weapons that feature a flexible rope/chain part in their design all suffer from the same drawbacks: difficult to control, and limited striking power.

  • Strange, isn't it?

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  • When the term "essential worker" was coined, it made many of the people it applied to feel flattered. They were considered essential! However this is a misunderstanding of what a capitalist is saying. The term "essential" doesn't actually refer to the worker. They consider the work essential. It is very important that those jobs are carried out. The worker that does it though is irrelevant, and considered fungible.

    You know how corporations have a department called "Human Resources?" That's exactly the mindset. Your job is essential, but you are expendable.

  • The truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms

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  • It really is as simple as blending rolled oats and water in a 1:4-ish ratio for 30 seconds or so, and straining the result twice. Adding sugar is optional. It stores pretty well in the fridge, maybe up to 5 days. Trust your nose!

    Personally I don't make it very often, as my main use for milk is in cappuccino, and plain oat milk doesn't steam very well. The barista editions you can buy have some added extras (fat, sugar, proteins, stabilisers) to improve the characteristics for steaming.

    I totally understand the convenience factor of store-bought too. If you don't have a blender on standby it's a bit of a hassle. And the store bought stuff is shelf-stable for weeks when sealed.

  • The truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms

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  • There's a couple reasons behind this:

    • Economies of scale. Oatmilk is not nearly as big of a market and therefore tends to be more expensive per gallon
    • Dairy subsidies. Dairy farmers can be pretty heavily subsidized, depending on the country, making the milk artificially cheap
    • Marketing. Oatmilk is mostly consumed by upper middle class (sub)urban folks who have enough disposable income to worry about things like animal welfare and the environment, and thus are willing to pay a premium for eco-friendly products. Companies know this so a lot of oatmilk is positioned and priced as a premium product.

    In a way it's sort of disgusting that capitalism is exploiting your desire to save the planet for extra profits, however that's how it is generally designed to operate: nothing happens unless there is a profit to be made from it.

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  • but is this prompt the entirety of what differentiates it from other GPT-4 LLMs?

    Yes. Probably 90% of AI implementations based on GPT use this technique.

    you can really have a product that's just someone else's extremely complicated product but you staple some shit to the front of every prompt?

    Oh yeah. In fact that is what OpenAI wants, it's their whole business model: they get paid by gab for every conversation people have with this thing.

  • US has seen no evidence that Israel has committed genocide, Defense Secretary says

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  • They know perfectly well, what's going on, they just have different priotities. It so happens the state of Israel is important to advance US geopolitical interests in the region. And so that's that.

  • President Biden is now posting into the fediverse

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  • It's generally accepted wisdom that the American government is bad at doing anything at all and therefore should suck as much corporate dick as possible to get the corporations to do things instead. A flawless system to be sure.

  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

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  • It's not impossible, although the loudness wars are pretty much over nowadays. All major music services and players have volume normalisation, many by default, so there's not much point to it any longer.

    Also it's pretty tough to find a decades old record still in mint condition, and the sound quality of vinyl gets worse every time you play it.

  • Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

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  • So is Uber, since this year. My point is, all of these companies ran hundreds of millions of dollars in the red for years before turning a profit.

  • Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

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  • Before they went public, who was foolish enough to invest in a company that has never turned a profit?

    You'd be surprised. The basic strategy of losing money hand over fist for years to grow yourself to as large a user base as possible, before finally aggressively monetizing that user base, is well established in silicon valley. Investors would not even raise an eyebrow at the loss numbers posted by Reddit because of how exceedingly common that is.

    And it has worked several times, making some people ridiculously wealthy. Good examples are Amazon, Facebook, and Uber. So usually companies on this level have raised hundreds of millions to sometimes billions of dollars in investment capital, allowing them to operate at these levels of losses for years at a time.

  • Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

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  • Because you're exchanging stock worth $193 million for an equivalent amount of dollars, there's technically no profit or loss involved in the transaction. In the same manner, when paying stock as a compensation, you secure services valued at $193 million for an amount of shares worth the same: the transaction is entirely equal. So you don't make or lose any money by paying in stock.

    Of course, the trick is that the value of the CEO's work for one year can be whatever he says. If your claim is that they could have gotten more value out of the stock had they sold it in the IPO, I think you are absolutely correct in that regard.

  • Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

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  • Does that not mean that reddit would have made a 113 Million profit before his $193 million compensation package?

    No. His normal salary is around 300k a year. This $193 million figure was the presumed valuation of a stock/options package he received ahead of the IPO. It doesn't cost the company anything to pay him in stock, so it doesn't affect the profit/loss calculation.

  • That gourmet luxury blend...

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  • The result is that you buy either Honey or Syrup, you know what you get, and you get what you pay for.

    You would think so, but the EU did an investigation back in 2022 and found that almost half of all honey imported into the EU is (illegally) blended with sugar syrup. If you're buying honey labeled as a blend of EU and non-EU honey (which is almost all honey available on supermarket shelves) there's a large chance you're buying a sugar blend.

    Current officially sanctioned honey tests are not capable of detecting fake honey. New testing methodology has been agreed upon as a result, but it will take a few years until those are internationally recognised.

    If you want to be certain that what you're buying is real honey, the only real option is to buy directly from a local producer.

  • The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. | How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?

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  • If you amortize training costs over all inference uses, I don't think 1000MW is too crazy. For a model like GPT3 there's likely millions of inference calls to split that cost between.

  • TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

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  • There's not really any definite border. FAA controlled airspace generally ends at flight level 600 (around 60,000 feet, although flight levels are defined by air pressure not distance from the ground, so the actual altitude can vary). Above that will be uncontrolled airspace, though that doesn't necessarily mean the US won't claim sovereignty there.

    The Outer Space treaty, generally considered the first step in establishing space law, stipulates that "outer space" is for the benefit of all mankind and not subject to sovereignty claims by any country. However there isn't a legal definition of where outer space begins. The Karman line (100km) is a common practical definition. However the US has flown spacecraft (notably the shuttle) below 80km above Canada, without asking for permission first.

    Practically speaking, there are as yet not enough craft flying at these kinds of altitudes for real legislation to be necessary. The spacefaring countries mostly work it out between them on a case by case basis.

  • ‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

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  • The difficult thing with this type of tax is that products will become more expensive. In most cases, manufacturers choose plastic because it is the cheapest option. If plastic becomes more expensive they may choose an alternative, but this will still result in a price increase.

    This type of policy also tends to be regressive, i.e. it hurts people with lower income much more than wealthier people. This makes it unpopular.