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just for the chatbot, it's trivial to switch, create a new account and start asking questions from deepseek instead. There is nothing holding the users in chatgpt.

The original comment made it sound like minorities are just hunted down by random whites, lynching style.

But even if you look at police murders on civilians, they are killing more whites than blacks. You might argue that whites are 5x more than blacks, but police has more interaction with blacks than with whites. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

If you look how many white people are killed by blacks versus blacks killed by white people, you will have a shock. Even when you account for whites being a few times more than blacks in the general population.

I really don't buy this "minorities" are being killed story.

Little known fact (I am still amazed how people don't know the mechanics of global warming...): CO2 effect in the atmosphere is logarithmic, increasing with concentration. That is because CO2 can only block one band of light, so at one point, you're approaching asymptotic effect. That's why we keep talking about "doubling of CO2", because it's a logarithmic function....

But yes, the temperature will increase slightly because of CO2 emissions. That triggers more warming due to feedback effects though, and those are hard to quantify, and more scary.

- whether the earth is warming or not

The Earth is warming, but how much of it is caused by humans is under debate. The Earth is still coming out of an ice age, so it would be warming even without humans.

Also, the more important question is: how much will it accelerate based on our emissions? If there are no positive feedback loops, it would only warm up 1C maximum, no matter how much more CO2 we will emit. But because of the positive feedback loops (warmer earth -> more water evaporating -> more warming), this warming can trigger a 4-5C further warming. The feedback loops are just theoretical(you can't measure them empirically) and the quality of the estimations is based on our understanding and modelling of the climate.

I thought they didn't bother and just buried it if it wasn't profitable.

In my county, they are obliged by the contract to NOT bury the mixed recyclables. So they used to offload it to some companies that would then also promise not to bury them (pinky promise), and ship them to China. Contracts in China are then not so easy to follow and enforce and voila, problem is now somewhere else.

It was viable only because we were shipping "recyclables" that had to be "recycled" by contract, not pure garbage that could have just been buried. Sorting through that whole mess of "recyclables" was more expensive than shipping it to China and letting them just burn or bury it.

Loss of biodiversity and microplastics pollution are even higher in my opinion.

before GPS was viable

GPS can be jammed (see Russia-UKraine war), so inertial systems are still very important for rockets, for example some HIMARS rockets start with GPS and then rely only on inertial while getting close to target.

I remember seeing one of those computers on Wisconsin, but I only saw it after decommission, as a museum piece. Those computers are truly mind boggling, if you're reading this and you're close to Norfolk you should visit battleship Wisconsin.

the opinion [1] seems to indicate that the geofence itself is not admissible, but evidence obtained as a result of it is still admissible

That means they can geofence to get a short list of suspects, and then file proper warrants for some of them if they have more clues?

The even more annoying fact is that the whole global warming crisis is BECAUSE of that thermodynamic effect. With increased CO2 alone, if we emit as much as we could, would only warm the Earth 1C at the most. CO2 has a narrow band of light that is obstructs, and once that is filled, there no more heat it can trap. The scientists believe that global warming will be as high as it will because of the positive feedback loop a little warming from CO2 causes with water vapor(which is a more potent greenhouse gas): you heat up 1C, which means more water evaporates, which means more heat trapped, which means more water evaporates etc.

If it wasn't for more water in the atmosphere, just CO2 warming, there would be no Global Warming crisis, it would be just a blip. And still, somehow people widely believe we'll overall be in desert-like conditions?

The world was wrong to expect that climate change would trigger rapid and widespread desertification in the world’s arid lands

The science never said that. It was popsci, magazines and attention brokers that pushed that narrative. A warming world looks like Jurassic park, not Mad Max, but that doesn't sell, so they had to make it scary to sell it, hence the desertification narrative.

I don't understand how Microsoft gets under fire so easily, but Google bundles everything in Android, and you can't even uninstall most of them (maps, gmail etc.). Same with iphones. This is regulatory tipping the balance.

only 10%

That does not mean anything. A car's engine contains only 10% of the parts in that car.

the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference

Charging a fee just for linking to something is a bad idea.

If you're profiting from it, it's not a bad idea.

The map shows solar resource, irrespective of the technology you're using. For example, you could be using heat collectors that would capture closer to 100%. To keep things simple, for back of the envelope calculations, you can imagine 1kW per square meter. Subtract cloud coverage, night hours and then multiply with 0.2 for PV panels efficiency.

If you want 11kWh/day, you need: (5.7 * 0.2) * Y = 11, so Y = 10 square meters. You can double check this: 10 sqm should have about 10KW of solar potential energy, but with PV efficiency you're getting about 2KW, so to reach 11kWh, you need 5 good hours of sunshine on average.

absolutely, but CAPS are intended to draw attention, and we should be paying much more attention to this. How did we end up in a society where multinational companies can assassinate their whistleblowers in plain daylight and we're all completely apathetic about it? Same with Epstein.

According to WorldBank[1], they import $36 billion and export $26 billion worth of food

[1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...

Such journalism...

You should look at the deisgn of old stone bridges. Their side facing up ( so towards the floods and ice) is like a wedge pointed upwards. So it's not like he bridge needs a buffer to fully stop all the forward energy. It can lift the object out of the water and maroon it there.

e.g. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/uploads/imported_images/uploads...

That leaves you only with candidates that are willing to work on a contract. Most are not that desperate. Do you want desperate employees? then go ahead. Also, don't be surprised when people that like contract work jump ship as soon as something slightly better appears on the horizon.

it is...the entirety of fire marshal and firefights laws being replaced by just 4-5 rules would save countless lives:

- build secondary escape doors and don't lock/block them

- have smoke detectors in every room

- have fire extinguishers in every building, and for large buildings for every 200sqm or so, and every floor.

For large commercial spaces, add sprinklers.

These are bare minimum things, but it would be better than what it's like today. And from there, they could slowly add more rules where it makes sense, and shutdown whoever is not implementing these.

There are 2 things that happen: you bribe the firefighters(rarer), OR you just continue functioning without their signoff(more common).

Because most businesses were not compliant all of the sudden, the government couldn't just shut down everything, so they allow businesses and buildings to function without authorization, simply by filling in an affidavit saying you acknowledge firefighters didn't approve and you continue at your own risk. Even the capitol building, where the MPs "work" everyday, is without proper authorization! When you go to a nightclub, you don't know if they have an actual permit from the firefighters, or a mere affidavit...and you end up with disasters like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectiv_nightclub_fire

This whole situation made everyone very complacent with fire safety, to the point it's worse than if people and businesses would have been left alone.

It can make sense. I come from a country(Romania) where fire regulations are insanely strict and complicated. If the fire department comes to inspect, they will 100% find issues and fine you. The result is that the most sane and basic requirements get drowned in a sea of useless regulations, so you end up with escape doors that are locked, missing alerting systems, flammable materials where there shouldn't be etc.

Exactly, this is a pretty bad sign for a senior dev, to just blurb out a number. What is the connection used for? End users, a backoffice tool, or a batch process? then he should have asked: what is our SLA? What's in the DB, how big are the objects, the queries? How frequent are they?

Even so, I wouldn't venture any number if you don't do some profiling or at least some tests with the most common data, and with edge cases. It can be anywhere between milliseconds and full seconds, maybe more?.

Reminds me of an interview once, I asked: the website is slow, you're in charge of it, what do you do? He just said "buy more servers"...slow down there, Rockefeller.

I am a renter myself, and I don't watch Fox. I much rather prefer living in cities(and I lived in expensive ones) where I can budget my rent on the free market, rather than be at the mercy of black markets, wait lists of 20 years and decrepit buildings that barely pass code.

If you believe that landlords should control the world

This seems like such an emotional response. The landlords are also controlled by mortgages if they are small, or by boards of directors - and shareholders if they are large.

The landlords can control the rent for their units, that's it.

As to investment properties vs affordable ones, there can be some issue there, for example if you buy a house just to park the money somewhere, but you don't rent it out, you keep it empty. That kind of behavior can be really damaging. These are the only kind regulations I would introduce: 1. don't allow properties to sit empty - tax them heavily. And 2. also don't allow airbnb's in highly troubled cities. Unless you're literally sleeping in the same house with the guests, airbnb's shouldn't be allowed for individual housing units.

I don’t think housing should be an investment

Let's run a thought experiment: Let's assume you're a retired small business owner that has 5 million dollars in the bank. You can A. built a house in your city and rent it out or B. put the money on the stock exchange.

Everything else staying equal, which of the options would create more housing units in your city?

This is not a good analogy. When you are sick, you need to get treatment, you're time constrained and usually space constrained too (you wouldn't travel 3 states out if you need an urgent procedure).

With housing it's more flexible: you can commute longer each day. You can just not move to a city where you know the "salary/cost of living" is not working in your favor. You can also time these decisions: go to NYC when you are in your 20s, live with some roommates to get some savings and then when you get older you can move to a more spacious city. You can be flexible about the space you need too: from 1 bedroom in a shared apartment, to a 3 beds detached house in a quiet suburb in another city, there is a lot of flexibility.

In a city there is a constraint on how much you can build, and everybody wants to be there. You can let the free market set the price, or you can try to distort the market with rent controls and then you end up with black markets, illegal payments, people holding on to their apartment for way longer they would normally do etc. Why would a 1 person ever move out of a large apartment if they have a low rent? They don't care that the same apartment would be a god-send for a family of 4...

no one is fucking building anything

Introducing rent control makes it even less likely to have new builds. Try to think like a millionaire that could potentially invest in real estate: would you buy a 2 million house not knowing that you can recoup that investment and also make a profit? Isn't it easier to just dump the money in an ETF and get 8% on the market?

you need it to prevent landlords from just extracting more money

Why do you need to prevent people from making money? Would you like someone preventing bradlys from making that much money? How much is too much? If you work in tech like most people here, you're probably making more than 99% of the world.

Making money is not a problem, if there is money to be made in real estate, investors would flock to it, increasing supply and therefore decreasing prices and profits over time. The problem is when the economics are not allowed to float freely: because of rent control, limitations to building (like zoning laws), insufficient infrastructure (like being stuck on an island with bad connections) etc.