I guess I inadvertently (advertently?) derailed the major point with the minor one, but it does seem to me that professed beliefs take a back seat these days to personal benefit. There seems to be a significant trend to lean into it in fact (ergo "Vice signaling"). "I think it's evil, but until someone makes it illegal I'm going to get mine." Is it a new thing or as old as time? I don't know. It seems to be more blatant/unapologetic these days.

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Not sure why anyone would bother to avoid it anymore. I was of course mocking the "literally Hitler" crowd, but it's been done to the point that it's meaningless. I doubt Godwin's law has any relevance in today's society. Almost any moderately difficult discussion starts at literally Hitler and devolves from there. If you use disposable water bottles you're literally Hitler. Any opinion you might possibly have? You guessed it, literally Hitler.

Datacenters are literally Hitler, but I need the money, so ...

It is a common misconception that the doctor's name was Frankenstein. Actually the AI was named Frankenstein. It created the doctor from spare parts.

If there was no arson, how did the police car burn, and why did the group claim responsibility? https://www.fox5atlanta.com/ne...

If identity is a poor proxy for ideology, perhaps it is also a poor proxy for almost everything else. Perhaps equality was the answer all along.

Every sport has a lot of cheating. The more money and/or prestige involved, the higher the incentive to cheat. Not sure what you mean by "so called sport". This is about as pure a sport as track and field, swimming, etc.. We're not talking about curling or trampoline acrobatics here. Most elite level sports have large numbers of top athletes that are doped to the limit of detectability. Careful schedules that taper off before a race or event can prevent even sophisticated anti-doping testing from catching the cheaters. Just google the Russian Olympic doping scandal for the lengths some programs will go to (most often successfully). Or see Lance Armstrong for an example in the sport. He was tested extensively for years and never caught. He finally admitted it after the fact. Just about every other rider at the time was also doped to the gills. I think elite cycling is likely quite a bit cleaner now than it was in the past.

I don't generally even buy a car until it's about ten years old. Still usually get about ten more years out of it without any major repairs. Average age of a car in the US is 12 years. This was a stupid plan from the beginning. Even if you are worried about the environment, keeping a car on the road is likely to be better for the environment than scrapping it and buying a new one. There is a lot of life left in them thar cars.

Now I know exactly how late I am.

Interesting time geek link to the first true atomic wristwatch.

http://leapsecond.com/pages/at...

Quick Google search. 36 billion tons of CO2 emitted, 3 trillion trees worldwide, 30-40 trees per ton of CO2 removed, global GDP 100 trillion.

So to solve the problem with trees at the 10 billion ton per year target (less than a third of emissions) you need to plant 300 billion trees per year at a cost of 800 billion dollars per year and also reforest the world at a rate of 10% annual increase.

To "solve" it with direct capture (Capture one third of emissions) you need 10 trillion dollars per year. Or 10% of global GDP every year.

So forecasting that the market might hit 250 billion per year means we will not come close to solving the problem with carbon capture, and looking at the numbers it's hard to imagine that it would even be physically possible.

just buy a house. Problem solved.

You can do active learning on laptops, but the default is probably passive learning. You can do passive learning on paper, but it's maybe a little easier to do active learning on paper.

I don't think so, the whole point of EcoTank printers is to do away with cartridges.

I'm pretty happy with my ecotank printer. It sidesteps the whole printer cartridge experience. You still have to deal with the anticonsumer company that makes the printer, but at least you can dump whatever ink you want into it.