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Nothing is stopping them; this is exactly what people do.

The headline says that this year was the largest increase in population since 1962. That increase was 1% or ~600,000 people.

It is still small in relation to population change though.

> for every fairly executed person we can have up to one wrongly executed person, and that's totally fine? you are confusing two ratios. the number of fairly executed people and th…

Have you tried to get ChatGPT to answer questions about factual topics at a level of junior grad student/hobbyist independent researcher? It will generally tell you those things wh…

It seems odd to treat the suggestion that unnecessary emails cause excessive carbon emisions and the suggestion that unnecessary air travel causes excessive carbon emissions as the…

> so they get flooded by less tech-savy, more casual users that don't really see the value of open source other than they don't pay for it this was solved 30 years ago by an import…

In the UK, planning started on Hinkley Point in 2010. It was supposed to run at 3 TW by 2020, costing £24 per MWh. It's now 13 years into a process that is projected to complete in…

> Another is that these people are pretty good at starting shit storms trying to ruin your reputation if you don't comply with their unreasonable demands. If you go on social media…

So become a contractor, work for an inflated fee for two months. Then take a month off and work for yourself on whatever you want. Or just do nothing, if you prefer that to working…

> Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing. I don't think this is true. You need an extra condition 'that few people wa…

Yes, the main reason why people don't do this is because they aren't psychologically ready to find out that the thing which cost them a lot of effort has very little monetary value…

What is the evidence for this feeling of entitlement? I use tons of free software. I've never either demanded that anyone work on it for free, nor have I expressed any sense of ent…

> You could though, if the mindset of open source software consumers were to shift to 'pay for things you get value from' What if the mindset of producers were to shift? What if pe…

They were built in the past as part of nuclear-weapons-oriented industry of the Cold War. Like many things about nuclear, taking away the need to build weapons changes a lot of the…

My proposal would be to use combined cycle gas turbines to peak renewables until over-installation and storage make that no longer necessary. Gas is the cleanest fossil fuel. Moder…

No, I am saying that if a project is open sourced, and there is sufficient demand from people willing to pay for support, maintenance, etc, someone will come along to meet that dem…

If you're prepared to pay market rate for someone to maintain something you should always be able to find someone willing to accept market rate (by definition). This separates the …

the question is whether or not the same would happen with 'conventional' black paints.

No, the logarithmic effect bottoms out towards the low part of the scale. If you're somewhere very dark, your eye adjusts so that you get back to the middle of the range. But if yo…

Right but 40% of something very small is also very small. If you are experiencing the two blacks in a normal ambient environment around lighting and other non highly light absorben…

Did you reply to my comment without reading all the way to the end of the sentence?

Hmm, no. You rewrite it as key1 = foo/bar key2 = baz/bat a[key1] = b[key2] if (a[key1] == c) I'm sure a coder who understands the context can come up with better names than key1 an…

Thanks, I hate it.

So in other words, Black 4.0 'just a paint' is imperceptible from Vantablack using human vision, and the Anish Kapoor thing was just a publicity stunt?