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New comment by manonthewall in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

manonthewall — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:50:51 +0000

I think this is the correct take

New comment by manonthewall in "Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row"

manonthewall — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:36:21 +0000

cheap, clean, reliable -- under current conditions you only get to pick 2

New comment by manonthewall in "'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months"

manonthewall — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:32:41 +0000

You first point: that's not even close to being enslaved or forced to do whatever your government tells you to do under threat of imprisonment. Yes, it is very, very different.

New comment by manonthewall in "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)"

manonthewall — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:45:03 +0000

This should be the top comment of this whole article.

New comment by manonthewall in "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)"

manonthewall — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:10:07 +0000

Humans aren't really built for communism on a large scale either. We are tribal, capitalism gets around that with incentive and greedy individual reward for doing something that generates social improvement at scale (nation-state) level--trade, commerce, interaction, communication. Communism, Marxism will never provide that. You either have to use the carrot (capitalism) or the stick (despotism) at scale to get results. Communism (real communism) fails beyond a few hundred (may only tens) of souls, again we didn't evolve for that,

New comment by manonthewall in "Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians"

manonthewall — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:21:34 +0000

F150 is the best selling vehicle in the USA, you have to learn to walk before you run. It's a foot in the door. I think a lot of people of very high green bent don't realize you can't force people in a democracy to do things they don't want. If you go too fast then they will rebel and you get someone like Trump elected who will set it back 20 years.

New comment by manonthewall in "Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians"

manonthewall — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:18:26 +0000

I assure you that stuff is all considered into actuarial determination of how much the person is paying to get the SUV insured.

New comment by manonthewall in "U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game"

manonthewall — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:17:17 +0000

it really doesn't, those would be nice to have but to get rid of the "where are we gonna store it" crowd for a while then this doesn't sound like a bad idea if it's even remotely economically feasible. I reckon after drilling a couple hundres of these bore holes we'd get pretty good at working out the kinks

New comment by manonthewall in "U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game"

manonthewall — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:15:28 +0000

yep, I've been saying this for a couple decades

New comment by manonthewall in "U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game"

manonthewall — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:14:18 +0000

we aren't going to meet "climate goals" anyway, lets opt for the sure thing. We should have done what France did, maybe even poached half their nuclear engineers.

New comment by manonthewall in "U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game"

manonthewall — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:07:29 +0000

Trillions on military, not even 100 billion for a manhattan style project to come up with a better fission design that would solve all of our energy problems as well as global warming. Until we have battery densities 10X-20X what we have now solar and wind will always be second tier power sources to traditional and nuclear

New comment by manonthewall in "Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony"

manonthewall — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:23:48 +0000

Do you propose the government shutting down all social media because you don't like them? What is your precise solution if not. Is this the job of the government, to limit speech that you don't like or don't like how it's presented?

New comment by manonthewall in "Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops"

manonthewall — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:32:28 +0000

I think they're saying "stop complaining, it's tit for tat, so don't cry anymore big companies that hold 90% of the power"

New comment by manonthewall in "My rude-ass car"

manonthewall — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:40:10 +0000

I think it would be the 80s for me lol

New comment by manonthewall in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

manonthewall — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:36:23 +0000

I'll create a new crypto token for them for 5% of the net worth. Give me a call FTX administrators.

New comment by manonthewall in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

manonthewall — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:33:05 +0000

as long as the judge allows it, it's unlikely to be "comtemptuous"

New comment by manonthewall in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

manonthewall — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:29:34 +0000

I've lived in 6 different cities in my lifetime, in every one they claimed they had the worst drivers in the USA.

Edit: well color me an idiot, I just checked and a 2019 usnews report had boston as ranked 3rd on worst drivers, based on whatever set of variable they came up with, so touche.

New comment by manonthewall in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

manonthewall — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:28:32 +0000

the whole "book learning nerd not living in the real world" is quite cliche these days, there are much better descriptors such as emotional, literary, mathematical, etc intelligences. Someone may be high in all of them or in just one or none.

New comment by manonthewall in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

manonthewall — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:47:47 +0000

It helps, but it also misses a lot, it's really better to use multiple layers

New comment by manonthewall in "Why ACPI?"

manonthewall — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:06:17 +0000

As someone who had to test various ACPI configs and work my way through the docs, I will never do that again. I will literally get out of my seat and tender my resignation on the spot if they try to force me. Never again. It's probably the most overengineered thing I've ever had to work with.