Is that really the case? Let me think about the apps I use most often. Could they be replaced by an LLM? * Email/text/chat/social network? nope, people actually like communicating with other people * Google Maps/subway…
> Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people Pretty sure this reflexive, luxury belief is not borne out by the data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
Not only do I disagree with the premise, but I think the article is poorly argued. Was working on the Manhattan project unethical because it furnished the ability for us to kill humans on an even more vast industrial…
It sort of does to me - disks made up of concentric orbits are have no intersections, and so collisions are less likely. In a ball, debris would have different directional vectors that would eventually collide with one…
Do you know if this file is possible to recover from/for kindle app highlights? (ie. off an Android Tablet) Or only off a kindle device?
Because consumption feeds the machine that ultimately increases the availability of resources which deliver basic human needs to people around the world [1]. Food, water, and shelter are important. From another…
Not sure I fully follow the critique (if it is one?). Productivity increases can yield GDP growth without additional resource consumption.
> The concept of endless growth is a key ideological component of capitalism. Despite its devastating environmental and social consequences, growth for the sake of growth remains one of the main drivers of the global…
From what I understand the purpose of the mining operation is to keep the grid "balanced". "Bitcoin solves this" loses its luster a little when you compare it to running a data center next to that plant, without…
Is that really the case? Let me think about the apps I use most often. Could they be replaced by an LLM? * Email/text/chat/social network? nope, people actually like communicating with other people * Google Maps/subway…
> Over here in capitalist paradise, it sure sucks for most people Pretty sure this reflexive, luxury belief is not borne out by the data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
Not only do I disagree with the premise, but I think the article is poorly argued. Was working on the Manhattan project unethical because it furnished the ability for us to kill humans on an even more vast industrial…
It sort of does to me - disks made up of concentric orbits are have no intersections, and so collisions are less likely. In a ball, debris would have different directional vectors that would eventually collide with one…
Do you know if this file is possible to recover from/for kindle app highlights? (ie. off an Android Tablet) Or only off a kindle device?
Because consumption feeds the machine that ultimately increases the availability of resources which deliver basic human needs to people around the world [1]. Food, water, and shelter are important. From another…
Not sure I fully follow the critique (if it is one?). Productivity increases can yield GDP growth without additional resource consumption.
> The concept of endless growth is a key ideological component of capitalism. Despite its devastating environmental and social consequences, growth for the sake of growth remains one of the main drivers of the global…
From what I understand the purpose of the mining operation is to keep the grid "balanced". "Bitcoin solves this" loses its luster a little when you compare it to running a data center next to that plant, without…