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    Comment #44548083

    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.

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    Comment #44548032

    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 evolutiona…

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    Comment #44548011

    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 mo…

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    Comment #44547992

    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 w…

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    Comment #44547980

    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 b…

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    Comment #44547961

    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 dang…

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    Comment #44547923

    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 poli…

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    Comment #43044811

    You're doing great, keep it up!

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    Comment #43044797

    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/ste…

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    Comment #43029458

    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 m…

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    Comment #43029292

    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 gre…

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    Comment #43029214

    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. Someo…

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    Comment #42997152

    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.

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    Comment #42997118

    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.

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    Comment #42975339

    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....…

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    Comment #42969592

    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 serv…

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    Comment #42969567

    Most conservatives and Libertarians from all times think that. A minority of those on the right, don't.

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    Comment #42969556

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

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    Comment #42969542

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

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    Comment #42969515

    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 sour…

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    Comment #42968327

    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 a…

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    Comment #42968290

    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.

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    Comment #42968277

    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 at…

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    Comment #42968251

    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 r…

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    Comment #42968236

    "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. …