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FastMonkey commented on Parents sue TikTok, saying children died after viewing ‘blackout challenge’   nytimes.com/2022/07/06/te... · Posted by u/jbegley
vannevar · 3 years ago
I think the problem here is a mismatch between the idea of a common carrier, where distribution is content- and audience-neutral, and social media sites which actively analyze both content and audience and distribute the content accordingly. In the latter case, there is no public interest served by limiting liability, and such sites should absolutely be liable for content that they actively present to users.
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
I never thought of it like that before. I absolutely agree!
FastMonkey commented on Netflix to Its Techies: Shut Up   vulture.com/2022/07/netfl... · Posted by u/atlgator
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
I'm glad to see this. I don't want to live in the mental straight jacket that these "activists" want to create.
FastMonkey commented on Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland   energy-storage.news/world... · Posted by u/bobse
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
What's the round trip efficiency of something like this, and what's the rate of loss to the environment? There's been a couple of these posted in the last few days and I have no feel for these numbers.
FastMonkey commented on Why are there different ways of measuring energy?   ourworldindata.org/energy... · Posted by u/_Microft
blueflow · 3 years ago
I found this article disappointing. Neither Joule, Watt(seconds) nor any kind of energy potential or entropy were mentioned. The "primary, secondary, final, useful" categorizing seems arbitrary to me an i have doubts about its usefulness. In the end of the day, energy potential is nothing intrinsic to matter, it depends on what you can and will do with it.

In the diagram, the Oil, Wood and Coal chains are exclusively about burning that stuff. Oil and Coal are a climate problem just due to the fact that people dig/pump them out and put its carbon onto earths surface, burning it for heat is optional here. Think plastics.

This article gives me a odd feeling.

FastMonkey · 3 years ago
This is an article by ourworldindata, who aggregate a bunch of (mostly economic) metrics from countries around the world. It is common for energy use to be reported in that way on a country level. This looks like an explainer for the users of their website on what the terminology means.

It makes perfect sense when you think about who the audience for this data is, economists, planners etc. In those roles, the primary concern is the actual quantity of heat and electricity that the population needs in their homes and workplaces, and you need to be able to back that out to how much raw fuel that requires, or how much transmission capacity you need. You need to know this summary info so you know where the focus needs to be. At moment for instance, they need to know how much gas they need in storage tanks in Europe for this winter, and it's information like this that helps them figure that out.

FastMonkey commented on Welcome to the Subcritical Society (2020)   skventures.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/mooreds
slowmovintarget · 3 years ago
tl;dr: Things are changing.

Things are always changing. Sad that this article's primary focus is a mission statement to figure out investing strategies.

FastMonkey · 3 years ago
It looks like they're venture capitalists, so I won't hold it against them!
FastMonkey commented on Deepmind’s New AI May Be Better at Distributing Society’s Resources Than Humans   singularityhub.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/cheinyeanlim
bequanna · 3 years ago
Why would you need to “wretch power” at all?

AI is better at determining the right price? Beat the capitalists at their own game and speculate (buy/sell) in the free markets. Reinvest the profits and soon the AI will just own everything.

Before you know it, we’ll hit that sweet singularity and all be back in our 21 year old bodies sipping corona on the beach.

FastMonkey · 3 years ago
Ha, aren't you describing wall street right now? We're already living this!
FastMonkey commented on Show HN: Desklamp – convenient and collaborative notemaking on PDFs   desklamp.io/... · Posted by u/pj747
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
This looks extremely cool. I'm doing a masters right now and would definitely use it!

My one question though would be how are the notes stored? Is it possible to download them as latex or a markdown file or something? If I have to keep up a membership to return to them that would be unfortunate.

Cool project though, there's definitely a need for something more fluidly interactive in the university notetaking space. Best of luck!

FastMonkey commented on How to fuck up an airport   radiospaetkauf.com/ber/... · Posted by u/danso
ginko · 3 years ago
>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

Continuous integration?

FastMonkey · 3 years ago
Cool Infographics
FastMonkey commented on Ask HN: What cool projects do you suggest I build with a Raspberry Pi 2W    · Posted by u/vivegi
ewuhic · 3 years ago
Almost same question, but quite tangential: I'd like to have a plant watering system with least complexity involved. I would assume a fish tank pump plugged into any PC. The plugging part however is not quite-well thought out, neither the output to multiple pots. Could you suggest some ideas? Arduinos, valves, etc? The watering is not automatic and should happen with a push of a PC keyboard key.
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
You can get watering timers in home depot, you could try hacking one of those? The hard piece to get is probably the electronic valve.
FastMonkey commented on Tech layoffs keep stacking up   twitter.com/HayekAndKeyne... · Posted by u/Swizec
FastMonkey · 3 years ago
Layoffs seem to be up, but that's a questionable chart if ever I saw one. I doubt they have had representative coverage of the market for that whole period. With those numbers, looks like it's as much a chart of the increase in their data collection on layoffs as it is a chart on layoffs.

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