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7 to 10-ish years from what I recall. Which is another thing that makes it so low risk. If you stop the subsidy it goes away with a few years.

Reducing prairie dog concentrations, and most often killing the weaker slower ones, which are likely infected and showing the most symptoms.

Reduces spread and increases evolutionary pressure to increase resistance and possibly even become immune.

Led, mercury, cadmium and arsenic are showing up in so many foods. In rice in spinach and obvious in fish.

Microplastics and PFAS in fruits and fish and everything else.

And the most recent TV report on cadmium in spinach, I watched, told me to have a diversified diet.

Diversified into WHAT?

On the other hand, the US is close to bankruptcy. And that's not all the current admin's fault.

And their cuts are trying to avoid that, although they have thrown out many babies with the bath water. It's hard to blame them for trying to avoid default, which would be far worse than anything.

The program apparently cost $900 million which is not a trivial cost.

Carbon neutral as long as your electricity is carbon neutral.

Also many steel mills are built so that they can switch between energy source, oil, coal, gas, which ever happens to be cheapest currently.

It's a commodity business, price is almost all that matters. And with the current US Administration the days of carbon subsidies might be numbered.

Addictive tech in your hand is an evolutionary trap.

Much like cars are to squirrels, squirrels have evolved to run into a straight line to the nearest tree at the hint of any danger. And for all threats other than cars that is the correct thing.

But many squirrels are "trapped" by evolution to cross the path of a car when there is no need to do so.

Humanity's curiosity, sociability and OCDness have all been trapped by algorithms and smart phones.

And it is shortening lives and even more so reducing reproduction. A faint hope is, that with all such evolutionary pressure, we can evolve our way out of them.... eventually.

I find it interesting ever more risky way to sequester carbon are invented.

Instead of making adding biochar to farm land an agricultural subsidy. A simple, extremely low risk policy, that is a local subsidy and does create international trade conflicts like other subsidies can.

And it does not affect any wilderness.

And in hot humid climates is proven to increase fertility.

Or a bit risky we could fertilize the open ocean, very significantly increase ocean life. And it has been proven that a significant percentage of fish poop sequesters carbon in the deep ocean.

Instead efforts seem to be focused on shading the sun. And new ideas using nukes....

You're doing great, keep it up!

I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.

It's doing more harm than good: https://x.com/stevemur/status/1621680046317654016

Color Blindness is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB3b7fxMEA

It sets up people for failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97R3z2ofuYk

Its origins are Marxist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbby7yFrIxM

If copyright forces a diversity of AIs. That would be good.

Every AI company using its own created training, resulting in AIs that are similar but not identical, is in my opinion much better than one or very few AIs.

Japan used to be known as the one nation in the world where old people were fans of bran new tech.

However, today it would seem that's because that generation lived through the great changes Japan experienced. Extremely quickly going from a pre-industrial civilization, to a post-industrial one.

And so despite Japan's great traditionally intense conservatism, they were fans of technological innovation.

With that generation fading away, it seems Japan is returning to being hyper conservative in every way. And falling behind technologically.

The story of Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED, is interesting. The company founder supported his experimentation, but the next generation, the son of the founder, wanted to Shuji Nakamura to stop.

Faith in innovation vs pessimism.

Copilot to me is a multiplier, just like compilers and GUI editors and languages above machine language.

And possibly the biggest multiplier. But anything times zero is zero. Someone who does not understand the code Copilot writes is too dangerous to do anything.

But I worry what Copilot will do to future developers.

And knowing what universally available spell checking has done to me, destroyed my ability to spell correctly without it, I even worry how Copilot might deskill me over the coming years.

I've seen so many personalities "shift" over this decade.

True. Not just the All In Guys, but also Tulsi and RFK, even Trump used to be a democrat.

I'd love to see facial reconstruction of people of whom we have pictures and video. Since what I've heard of facial reconstruction is that there is a lot "art" in it.

Constitutionally guaranteed privacy and free speech have made America... the world leader.

America used to push the rest of the world to give their people those rights. Used to....

Yes, state and local should pick up. The closer to the people a government is, the better it is.

I want the fewest rules that create the most fair economy. And I know very few service better in the hands of government. And that includes bridges:

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

Most conservatives and Libertarians from all times think that.

A minority of those on the right, don't.

I guess it took Trump to make Liberals want a smaller executive government.

After decades of C++ development, I prefer C, modern Fortran and Rust.

Revolutionized the battery industries and the electric car industries.

How much faster than 50 year do you think the global economy can be turned sustainable?

And what is your source for Elon working against federal scientific bodies?

But how is development of new forms of media? Which hold even more data, write and read it faster, and last longer. And thus can be used as long term backups?

How much innovation and progress is happening in that?

Microsoft has Project Silica but that's crazy expensive. Only huge corporations, government and maybe churches could afford it. Not individuals.

What are the chances we some day see something like Project Silica as a cheap commodity product, femto lasers and all?

No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately.

No. I am in control of how I feel like. Nothing else.

Yesterday I was playing with Copilot, asking it to write a python implementation of the game of life. Something I did a long time and it took me about an hour.

The first several attempts it would delete it and say identical to public code. Until I finally asked it to make a unique implementation that's not public code.

It took about a minute.

Always has been. I've been in tech for too long now. And the corporation I currently work for keeps squeezing us developers to release medical software faster, while continually ramping up red tape process we have to waste our time on.

"Could"

The National Science Foundation has received an annual budget of approximately $9 billion, the vast majority of which is spent on research and research-related activities.

We shall see.

Isn't the algorithm publicly known? Any video show it to at least one person, if they watch it show it to more.

Which people on TikTok early on called the most fair algorithm. However, I suspect Youtube initially had the same or a very similar one.

And in both cases I suspect once the app becomes very popular the algorithm is updated to be more profitable, whatever that requires.

In other words, enshittification affects everything.

Overall, there has to be something like those agencies with career professionals. How to minimize harm?

20% of the people do 80% of the work. The problem is incentives. Which political appointee has the incentive to fight the federal workers union and be great manager, rewarding the 20% and punishing the rest? Until the next election?

It's tragic, but this inability to deal with federal employees is a reason why perhaps getting rid of whole departments is the only practical way to make real reforms.

That matches my experience too. I wonder how fast they'll improve and if LLMs will hit a wall, as some AI experts think.

Because even bad writers have fans.

I hop between Opera and Firefox both with addblockers and happily continue to never see an ad on the Internet.

I think trying to force ads on adblock users is a bit like if someone had tried to bring back pop-ups.