But we are not all heads of massive corperations. And we all can't have legions of people behind us pushing us into the stars. And the further we get away from Earth, the harder it will get, up until we can make jt to a other island eathlike planet.
Robots. We can all have legions of robots. Any long-term off-Earth habitation beyond ISS scale would require robotic asteroid mining to be practical, but the whole system opens up to us once we're doing that. Unlimited fuel and building materials in high orbit changes everything.
Mostly-autonomous robotic mining (and simple heavy industry) no longer sounds far-fetched. Would it surprise anyone here if all the mining jobs were lost to robots in the next 20 years?
Or do math. A Dyson Sphere at one AU has an interior surface area of 2.8e17 km^2. A population of a trillion would mean an area the size of Montana for every individual. That's ridiculous. Nobody needs that much space.
The solar system could easily support a quadrillion people, or even a quintillion.
Dyson Spheres don't actually make sense, though. Dyson Swarms do work, can be built incrementally, and give similar living room.
The population of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization is mind-boggling. We may not have found one, but if there is one they've found us - a civilization that large could have a million astronomers per potentially inhabited world in the galaxy, without astronomers being more common per capita than today. They could also build a telescope large enough to see the cities light up the night side of Earth.
We humans don't seem to be doing much in increase our population,though - most industrialized nations now have negative population growth before immigration. Perhaps it's the lack of frontiers?
There's plenty of dangerous bacteria that can survive the alcohol concentration of beer. The key is that you'll know, because they'll run wild consuming the beer. Even if you water down the beer to below 1% ("small beer"), as was typical for most drinking, as long as you give it a while you'll know the new mix is safe.
quote>You can easily see this is true with a quick trip to any jungle, which is both hotter and wetter than most other place on Earth, yet also has the greatest abundance of vegetation...
If we go back before the current Ice Age, when CO2 was much higher and the dinosaurs weren't just raised on farms for sandwiches, we can see what a sustained Warm Earth is like for flora: there were 40-ton herbivores. An abundance of vegetation unlike anything we see today.
It's a fair call to point out that the farmable land for current crops will move farther north, and that can be disruptive. But then, we're hardly new to genetically modifyig crops these days. Unlike evolution, we don't have to take centuries to catch up to climate change.
up till recently the only way to get antiseptic water was brew up the alchohol content or boil something (tea, coffeee))
The alcohol content of beer or wine is far too low to be antiseptic. You have to get near 60 proof to accomplish that, and beer was instead often watered down to produce more safe liquid to consume.
What makes beer safe is that, unlike water, you can tell immediately if it's contaminated, as that "skunks" the beer. Beer was also one of the few ways to store calories through the winter, which makes a huge difference.
I don't think it's widely known just how much a "full service broker" is a racket. Paying someone else to manage your money is generally a terrible idea. It makes sense when you're setting up a trust fund for your idiot grandkid, maybe, if you can afford to just add that much more to the trust. But in general, the only way you'll come out ahead paying a broker 2% of your account annually is if he's doing illegal insider trading on your behalf (and unless you're in the 0.01%, he's not).
Psychologists can actually help people, though I suspect it's the thin end of the bell curve of that crowd. And killing all the lawyers never solves anything - not saying don't do it, just that we'll inevitably need a new crop of them.
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I have heard that of the 20m requests, some may be routed through google, bing, etc. I wonder what the breakdown is across all these other search engines.
They don't use Google. They do use Bing and Yandex (for effectively all searches, AFAIK).
DDG used to be simply an anonymizing front-end for Bing. They've since moved to using Yandex, though I don't know what the mix is. Their own work, from what they've said and what I can tell, is to search sites like Wikipedia and StackOverflow and display results up top where appropriate.
They don't seem to do that for Wolfram Alpha, which is a shame but no doubt a licensing thing. (Wolfram Alpha is the best search for any "fact" with a numerical answer, as well as the best online calculator.) Fortunately, you can search Wolfram Alpha explicitly from the same search box with !wa, for example "!wa per-capita gdp of canada".
DDG was originally an anonymizing front-end for Bing (as Startpage is for Google). They've been moving away from that over the years, but a damaged Bing still damages DDG.
"... and it's not a destination we want to revisit." - Speak for yourself. A mass population cull of those redneck American subhumans would do the world a huge favor. We really do need to be rid of them.
The reply, I think you'll find, is "come and take it". You don't think the other side is making lists of names? You know, the side with all the guns? The side who believes "never start a fight, but always finish one"? You're really not thinking this through.
And even if by some miracle you win, read some history! Leftist revolutions always end with those who led the revolution being executed by the brutal dictator who was waiting in the wings to take power.
10-12 minute (at best) transaction confirmation times ensures that BTC will NEVER be adopted as a form of electronic money that could replace Visa et al.
Of course Visa isn't a currency, and if BTC were a currency you'd have BTC-denominated Visa cards. Banks would likely still do ACH transactions, and only move BTC between banks to the same extent that they move cash between banks today.
I'd say it a bit differently: cryptocurrencies have the potential to be accepted for good and services, just like (some) traditional currencies. If they ever do, they'll be a currency like any other, but they have yet to make much progress in that regard. They remain "almost, but not completely, unlike currency".
Canadian Tire Money remains more well accepted than BTC, but there's nothing inherent in BTC that makes this so.
When you have a positive feedback loop, it's always good to stop the cycle before things get destroyed.
But that's the entire premise of Google search: it filters your results to those that are like results you've previously clicked on. It's call the "search bubble", and they keep you in your bubble. Most people think the results are better; me, I'm horrified at the concept and use DDG.
But the "search bubble" Google traps uyou in is probably why peole think this is a "Bing problem": Google by design would only show racist search results to racists.
Walled gardens need to identify themselves as such. Also, there needs to bea choice - I don't have a problem with a (self-declared) censoring search engine, if I have an alternative, any more than I object to searches having a "safe search" mode as long as I can turn it off.
I'm worried about the effect this will have on DDG to the extent it still fronts Bing, however.
Step outside. Face in the direction of CVS corporate HQ. Shout your complaint. It will have exactly the same effect, and not annoy some poor cashier who already wishes for a better job.
And so you assumed a bunch of stuff you wanted to argue against.
Which, btw, is wrong statistically - more whites have the relevant jobs.
Not at Amazon, or any of the large software employers except maybe Microsoft, or left coast software companies in general. Heck, I worked at a couple of smaller companies that were maybe 5% "white" (perhaps not the easiest thing to define), and that's pretty normal in the Bay Area. And obviously worldwide most developers are asian.
But of course I wasn't talking about who has the jobs, as that's not in any way relevant to how that AI would have worked, but about per-candidate likelihood of getting hired and doing well.
You really think it's impossible to take a data set that is 30% women and not be able to prove it's 30% women?
Nope. Which is why I didn't claim that, and that was not what you said. You were talking about proving that the data set did not contain any X, and life is never that simple with large data sets.
Or one that's 100% red cars and prove it's 0% blue cars?
How would you prove that? You didn't manually add each record, you combined dozens of large data sets generated automatically by systems you don't control. And there's no automated test for "blue car in a picture" vs "red car in a picture" that's 100% accurate.
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This fucking cunt could end world hunger with his pocket change today, but wont.
He could give ... $5 to everyone? Man, world hunger, solved.
But we are not all heads of massive corperations. And we all can't have legions of people behind us pushing us into the stars. And the further we get away from Earth, the harder it will get, up until we can make jt to a other island eathlike planet.
Robots. We can all have legions of robots. Any long-term off-Earth habitation beyond ISS scale would require robotic asteroid mining to be practical, but the whole system opens up to us once we're doing that. Unlimited fuel and building materials in high orbit changes everything.
Mostly-autonomous robotic mining (and simple heavy industry) no longer sounds far-fetched. Would it surprise anyone here if all the mining jobs were lost to robots in the next 20 years?
Or do math. A Dyson Sphere at one AU has an interior surface area of 2.8e17 km^2. A population of a trillion would mean an area the size of Montana for every individual. That's ridiculous. Nobody needs that much space.
The solar system could easily support a quadrillion people, or even a quintillion.
Dyson Spheres don't actually make sense, though. Dyson Swarms do work, can be built incrementally, and give similar living room.
The population of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization is mind-boggling. We may not have found one, but if there is one they've found us - a civilization that large could have a million astronomers per potentially inhabited world in the galaxy, without astronomers being more common per capita than today. They could also build a telescope large enough to see the cities light up the night side of Earth.
We humans don't seem to be doing much in increase our population,though - most industrialized nations now have negative population growth before immigration. Perhaps it's the lack of frontiers?
1% alcohol content doesn't meaningfully act as a preservative.
There's plenty of dangerous bacteria that can survive the alcohol concentration of beer. The key is that you'll know, because they'll run wild consuming the beer. Even if you water down the beer to below 1% ("small beer"), as was typical for most drinking, as long as you give it a while you'll know the new mix is safe.
quote>You can easily see this is true with a quick trip to any jungle, which is both hotter and wetter than most other place on Earth, yet also has the greatest abundance of vegetation...
If we go back before the current Ice Age, when CO2 was much higher and the dinosaurs weren't just raised on farms for sandwiches, we can see what a sustained Warm Earth is like for flora: there were 40-ton herbivores. An abundance of vegetation unlike anything we see today.
It's a fair call to point out that the farmable land for current crops will move farther north, and that can be disruptive. But then, we're hardly new to genetically modifyig crops these days. Unlike evolution, we don't have to take centuries to catch up to climate change.
Your beer may be $15, but only a few pennies of that is the cost of the barley.
If we are to stop this beerflation, we must make a solemn vow: John Barleycorn must die.
up till recently the only way to get antiseptic water was brew up the alchohol content or boil something (tea, coffeee))
The alcohol content of beer or wine is far too low to be antiseptic. You have to get near 60 proof to accomplish that, and beer was instead often watered down to produce more safe liquid to consume.
What makes beer safe is that, unlike water, you can tell immediately if it's contaminated, as that "skunks" the beer. Beer was also one of the few ways to store calories through the winter, which makes a huge difference.
I don't think it's widely known just how much a "full service broker" is a racket. Paying someone else to manage your money is generally a terrible idea. It makes sense when you're setting up a trust fund for your idiot grandkid, maybe, if you can afford to just add that much more to the trust. But in general, the only way you'll come out ahead paying a broker 2% of your account annually is if he's doing illegal insider trading on your behalf (and unless you're in the 0.01%, he's not).
The problem for those guys isn't the STEM degree - they were probably OK people when they were younger. Then they got MBAs.
Hey, now, we don't need genocide. We just need an arc ...
Psychologists can actually help people, though I suspect it's the thin end of the bell curve of that crowd. And killing all the lawyers never solves anything - not saying don't do it, just that we'll inevitably need a new crop of them.
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I have heard that of the 20m requests, some may be routed through google, bing, etc. I wonder what the breakdown is across all these other search engines.
They don't use Google. They do use Bing and Yandex (for effectively all searches, AFAIK).
DDG used to be simply an anonymizing front-end for Bing. They've since moved to using Yandex, though I don't know what the mix is. Their own work, from what they've said and what I can tell, is to search sites like Wikipedia and StackOverflow and display results up top where appropriate.
They don't seem to do that for Wolfram Alpha, which is a shame but no doubt a licensing thing. (Wolfram Alpha is the best search for any "fact" with a numerical answer, as well as the best online calculator.) Fortunately, you can search Wolfram Alpha explicitly from the same search box with !wa, for example "!wa per-capita gdp of canada".
DDG was originally an anonymizing front-end for Bing (as Startpage is for Google). They've been moving away from that over the years, but a damaged Bing still damages DDG.
"... and it's not a destination we want to revisit." - Speak for yourself. A mass population cull of those redneck American subhumans would do the world a huge favor. We really do need to be rid of them.
The reply, I think you'll find, is "come and take it". You don't think the other side is making lists of names? You know, the side with all the guns? The side who believes "never start a fight, but always finish one"? You're really not thinking this through.
And even if by some miracle you win, read some history! Leftist revolutions always end with those who led the revolution being executed by the brutal dictator who was waiting in the wings to take power.
You really don't want to go there.
I find it odd that you consider it a left/right issue.
I don't know if all vegetarians are lefties, but all vegan evangelists that won't shut up about it are lefties.
10-12 minute (at best) transaction confirmation times ensures that BTC will NEVER be adopted as a form of electronic money that could replace Visa et al.
Of course Visa isn't a currency, and if BTC were a currency you'd have BTC-denominated Visa cards. Banks would likely still do ACH transactions, and only move BTC between banks to the same extent that they move cash between banks today.
I'd say it a bit differently: cryptocurrencies have the potential to be accepted for good and services, just like (some) traditional currencies. If they ever do, they'll be a currency like any other, but they have yet to make much progress in that regard. They remain "almost, but not completely, unlike currency".
Canadian Tire Money remains more well accepted than BTC, but there's nothing inherent in BTC that makes this so.
When you have a positive feedback loop, it's always good to stop the cycle before things get destroyed.
But that's the entire premise of Google search: it filters your results to those that are like results you've previously clicked on. It's call the "search bubble", and they keep you in your bubble. Most people think the results are better; me, I'm horrified at the concept and use DDG.
But the "search bubble" Google traps uyou in is probably why peole think this is a "Bing problem": Google by design would only show racist search results to racists.
Walled gardens need to identify themselves as such. Also, there needs to bea choice - I don't have a problem with a (self-declared) censoring search engine, if I have an alternative, any more than I object to searches having a "safe search" mode as long as I can turn it off.
I'm worried about the effect this will have on DDG to the extent it still fronts Bing, however.
C'mon now. Elvis was killed in a car crash in the 90s. It was on the front page of the Weekly World News.
Step outside. Face in the direction of CVS corporate HQ. Shout your complaint. It will have exactly the same effect, and not annoy some poor cashier who already wishes for a better job.
Oh, if you're not familiar with this, I think you'd find it interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The problems with proving a negative about a large data set have had centuries of thought.
Nope, you just cut off your discussion at Asians.
And so you assumed a bunch of stuff you wanted to argue against.
Which, btw, is wrong statistically - more whites have the relevant jobs.
Not at Amazon, or any of the large software employers except maybe Microsoft, or left coast software companies in general. Heck, I worked at a couple of smaller companies that were maybe 5% "white" (perhaps not the easiest thing to define), and that's pretty normal in the Bay Area. And obviously worldwide most developers are asian.
But of course I wasn't talking about who has the jobs, as that's not in any way relevant to how that AI would have worked, but about per-candidate likelihood of getting hired and doing well.
You really think it's impossible to take a data set that is 30% women and not be able to prove it's 30% women?
Nope. Which is why I didn't claim that, and that was not what you said. You were talking about proving that the data set did not contain any X, and life is never that simple with large data sets.
Or one that's 100% red cars and prove it's 0% blue cars?
How would you prove that? You didn't manually add each record, you combined dozens of large data sets generated automatically by systems you don't control. And there's no automated test for "blue car in a picture" vs "red car in a picture" that's 100% accurate.