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> there are often fire vaults[ Many years ago I was Unix sysadmin responsible for backups and that is exactly what we did. Once a week we rotated the backup tapes taking the oldest…

I was hoping the FAQ would answer that but, as I expected, I was disappointed.

We should all strive to make it so.

> "It's not that I don't want to stop smoking, but the cigarette companies put chemicals in that keep me addicted" > "I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke" But those tw…

> what specific actions to gain power over us can be achieved now with LLMs, that could not be achieved before using a few tens of thousands of paid humans? It's being able to do i…

Pretty much all the old Teslas in Norway have been retrofitted to allow them to connect to CCS only chargers as far as I can tell. Had mine (2015 S 70D) done years ago when it beca…

Cotton socks exist as well as wool worsted, so not a huge problem as far as I can see. Tights and stockings will be a much bigger challenge.

In Norway this is flatly illegal and the relevant government department would probably get involved. Here in Norway companies are legally required to make accommodations for people…

Why is it impractical? It would be unpopular and put prices up but it could be done. We would have to reduce the amount of clothing that is produced but that is hardly a problem as…

In Europe Tesla offer a subscription that gives you the same prices as Teslas get. Otherwise you pay more. Of course Tesla then makes a profit on the subscription cost.

Tesla chargers are CCS. It's just that in the US they use a different plug, in Europe Tesla chargers uses CCS-2 connectors.

Sounds like something Peter Watts might have invented. I like it, sort of; almost plausible, barely survivable, and deeply unpleasant.

That's enough to vaporise about 100 g of water according my back of the envelope calculations. Overkill? Or is modified for an entirely different purpose?

One could even have the occasional face to face meeting, at the office, at either party's home, at the lab, the shop floor, at a co-working space, or even just at a cafe or bar.

> it actually cost the firm money while "saving" the team money. Only in the short term. It left the desirable parts of the building empty. It might be possible to rent out this sp…

The proximate cause is obvious: more calories consumed than are necessary to maintain weight. I do understand that the causes of over eating are not necessarily so simple. What I w…

Ai in practice doesn't have anything to do with simulation, nor with 'solving a significant part of the most complex brains'. The immediate threat is that humans will use the lever…

I'm still wondering why so many people are so much heavier now than they were fifty years ago and why instead of attempting to medicate our way out of the problem we don't try to a…

In the end we had sufficiently good tests to detect such foolishness. But even that isn't good enough because if the result of the test is merely slightly off some people will just…

> Norway is special I know, I live there. Been driving electric since 2017.

Could you explain why?

We all have to sell ourselves in order to live. I'm sure that there are plenty of people working at jobs that they thoroughly dislike. Shouldn't we concentrate on making sure that …

> the additional toll it will take on the creators in terms of social ostracism, future prospects, future opportunities, and mental health. Is it such a big problem nowadays as it …

> Foreigners certainly don't want our cars (outside of maybe tesla in the nordics, The Nordics are not all the same, Norway is far ahead (20% of private cars already full EVs) of t…