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At the very least stop burning 3x more fossil fuels than the world average. Or stop your president from buying out renewable energy projects in order to prop up coal and gas. Or st…

No one cares about West Texas, it's about the 33 million tons of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere and warming the world. Reminder that the USA are the country that historic…

How do you think you will change culture or politics? In the US, money IS the culture. Politics go where the money goes.

Divest all your stocks from all this AI data-center race bullshit, invest into renewable projects. Worst case, the orange buffoon will bail you out with taxpayer money to prevent t…

Divest from any kind of S&P500 or cool tech stocks. Invest in renewable energy projects. The US government is failing you, only money talks.

> people who truly believe in the economically transformative power of AI People who truly care about becoming rich* DeepMind made enormous transformative discoveries, for instance…

> Every PS5 in existence is destined to become e-waste Just like every Android device or computer in your household? Are you trying to make a point for cloud computing?

I feel this so much. What was all that fuss about needing 3 levels of approval for any software license? Or having to provide a compare chart against open-source alternatives? The …

I think the "others" should open their eyes to the world around them, then.

Happy to say that my browser didn't tell anything that I didn't expect it to. It even identified my IP from a location 1000km away from me. Firefox on Android with ublock

How else do you guarantee that things will keep going the best way possible in the future? The magical hand of the market?

> someone can be very confident and wrong at the same time And sometimes that someone can be you, and AI is notoriously bad at telling you that you're wrong (because it has to plea…

Probably people complaining about AI today were fine with Stack Overflow before and didn't have anything to complain about back then. I also had a better experience with Stack Over…

> Do you have some information or argument that will help me see things differently? I already told you 2 things, coastal areas and agriculture. This is Bangladesh elevation map. B…

> There's certainly a lot to be said for humans needing to take better care of the planet. Co2 just gets a little too much attention for my taste. GHG are a matter of life or death…

Yep. It's not just oil rigs in the desert. Chevron in Ecuador destroyed the Amazonian rainforest. Oil pipelines and open pit mines destroying Canadian primordial forests. Probably …

Considering at least half of all squares are empty, further compression is in order for the empty space. Also if you're encoding the king as a position instead of a byte sequence y…

It's also 700kg of CO2, one of the best ways to worsen climate change per dollar spent

Trains are just the most efficient way of moving people between cities. They benefit everyone, even people with cars. You have a business trip and need to go from A to B by yoursel…

I am quite confident that the bandwidth cost is absolutely not a concern for Microsoft, and that the obvious goal is for them to capture the market. The "C/C++" extension github re…

Disregard the obvious environmental risks of spraying silver iodide in the air, cloud seeding will artificially redirect rainfall in specific areas, which may deprive downstream re…

I don't think a battery swap is more dangerous than the current fuel stations where you can just use your lighter and set everything on fire

Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence

> Tesla now focusing more on developing self-driving vehicles than on pushing for huge growth in EV sales volume, which many investors had been counting on. Yep, don't count on Tes…

And remember that the Cybertruck is steer by wire. The software controls the entire car, and it also happens that the software just randomly crashes.