Freight rail in USA is massively better than anywhere else in the world.
Don’t they have daily de-railings? I remember some YouTube video talking about derailings with hazardous materials.
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On the positive side, Trump is so unstable that he'll trash your business one day and then the next day he'll reverse course. So, "if people kiss your ass enough, they get contract" does not seem to be a long-term viable strategy. (Exhibit A: Musk.)
I'm 90% sure it will lead to America's ruin, but it might not quite be the same path that led the USSR to ruin. Hey, at least it looks more entertaining! :/
That’s the key right? It’s world as content. Nothing means anything anymore as long as it gets spread on media platforms. The easiest way for the US to get out this downward spiral is to just ignore the medias coverage of ”politics”. But that’s not gonna happen is it? Gotta se what happens next!
Phenomenit commented on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users blog.kagi.com/assistant-f... · Posted by u/angilr
How do you use kagi and not know the basic plan has unlimited searches and has had it for ages?
It doesn’t, I use the starter plan, that’s the lowest paid tie.
Phenomenit commented on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users blog.kagi.com/assistant-f... · Posted by u/angilr
The "fair use" part takes a lot of place in this article.
It talks a lot about what happens if you use more tokens than what you're allowed, but curiously doesn't pip a word about what happens if you use less - for example maybe with a partial rebate on your next billing cycle ?
I think "fair" should mean "fair for all parties involved", currently it's rather a "we don't want to incur any risk" policy, since I don't see how it's fair for my end of the contract. I'd rather pay for my actual usage at any other provider than pay for min(actual usage, 25$) at Kagi.
Yeah I concur.
As an early adopter I first got forced off my grandfather plan to the regular one(at least I got a T-shirt). Now I have a limited number of searches that I have to keep track of and this has made me only use Kagi if necessary. This has dropped my number of searches significantly but at the end of the year I’m still being charged for renewing my plan even though I haven’t used a quarter of my allotted searches.
I don’t care about LLMs so this brings nothing of value to me. Give me an email account or some backup storage and open source office suite and I would be willing to pay and pay more.
I’m seriously considering not re-newing my subscription for the first time in ages.
Is there something similar in French? Preferably from French/English to simplified French?
Phenomenit commented on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians' sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/davikr
All of Hegel, and most of his descendants, are fashionable nonsense. All types of "Dialectics" are fake and don't exist. It's telling that the most common version of the term "Dialectics" that everyone thinks Hegel coined was actually coined by one of his (many butthurt) students, Fitche.
Philosophy will continue to be bankrupt for as long as Hegel's stranglehold on Philosophy remains. Kill his thought, Kill "dialectics", Kill the "world spirit" or "Geist". Otherwise philosophy continues down the "post modern neo marxism" loony world that has led so many to turn reactionary.
Edit (in response to the comment cus I can't reply faster since Dang's HN policies are bad):
I cover to cover read his shitty books. They weren't worth opening, let alone reading. This is the same for most of the rest of the "postmodern" canon.
Competitive debate meant that we weaponized these long dead idolaters for our own needs. I've (unfortunately) read Zizek, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Sartre, Heidigger, etc. I regret most of the time I spent reading these authors. They are all intellectually bankrupt and many of them are straight up pseudo-scientific charlatan snake oil salespeople (Lacan).
So you’ve discarded a lot of modern , post modern and contemporary thinkers without offering some alternative or do you mean that there isn’t much to philosophy in general? I’m curious because I have also come to a similar conclusion but I have to admit that I have not read everyone that you’ve mentioned but I have read summaries and analysis.
Phenomenit commented on The largest solar farm just came online in China electrek.co/2024/06/04/wo... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
That looks pretty good for nuclear! I assume the cost of batteries to shift a annualized watt from day to night is more that $1.50
But let’s not ignore the average down time of 35-40 days per year for refueling nuclear PP.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/185276/us-nuclear-refuel...
Horses would often be swapped out at stations when a wealthy person would have to travel very quickly across a long distance. Maybe this is an average since the speed with which horsemen could travel would depend on the rate at which they exchanged their horses.
In an extreme example from the year 9 BC, the future emperor Tiberius traveled on the Roman Roads 330 miles (531 km) between northern Italy and modern day Mainz, Germany in 36 hours without sleep. He was rushing to the deathbed of his older brother Drusus after the latter suffered mortal injuries in a freak horse accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drususstein
So he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?
> The "information age" might be coming to an end.
This is a little melodramatic, no?
Access to information, even without Wikipedia or Reddit, can still be found easily (compared to pre internet days) I personally don’t use google search anymore, but can still find links to public MIT textbooks (like SICP or Deep Learning) by searching on there. I’m sure google scholar, scihub, and arxiv will be around for a good while.
I’m sure if Wikipedia falls, another encyclopedia would take its place, since so many primary sources are still discoverable if you know the terms to search for. Maybe with a paywall, maybe not.
Yeah the problem is that academia has the same issue with garbage papers. As long as information has some ad value, be it commercial or political it will fill all spaces with garbage to make a buck.
Phenomenit commented on Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race run.outsideonline.com/new... · Posted by u/Tomte
Very hard to compare because it's usual - indeed basically mandatory - to climb Everest as a group whereas it's forbidden to attempt these ultra races in that way, the competitors aren't even allowed to help each other during a loop.
Also they're not kidding about Everest's death zone - it's genuinely incompatible with human life up on that mountain, whereas while its no stroll in the park where this race is held, it's not going to just kill you if you stay there a bit longer - the strict timer is because many more people could complete the loops at a slower pace. Not me, but probably most serious entrants.
”it's forbidden to attempt these ultra races in that way, the competitors aren't even allowed to help each other during a loop.”
What? No that’s not right, of course they stick together or else no rookie would ever finish a loop.