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> Material excess just gives us a break from tribalism

Material excess is what gives many people a means to express their tribalism in the way that they do instead of being occupied with some productive activity for the common good.

How many of them have gone and bought a torrent seed-box after this?

In this case, the flywheel analogy only demonstrates is that there is low friction in the legal system aspect.

If we are talking about a flywheel as an energy storage, low friction is a key component of its ability to store energy as a buffer. If this was not the case, the flywheel would lose its energy quickly on its own and the buffer would be gone.

> People love to use it to describe a forever growing thing, when it’s actually just a buffer.

A thing has other characteristics other than its intended purpose. Your assumption that you need to use intended purpose for a successful analogy is false.

It also doesn't help if you have a long freeway trip where you don't brake.

When I need modification to a small independent Python script (<1000 loc), sure.

Not for anything serious though.

> I can imagine a universe where Bioware stuck with scripted single player RPGs and faded along with the genre.

Has the genre really faded? Larian seems to have done quite well with BG3 and the Divinity predecessor games. Owlcat games with Pathfinder series and Rogue trader has also done well.

I would have much rather Bioware tried to do a similar last hurrah with an isometric RPG or any RPG for that matter. I suppose they have, with Andromeda, but that is 9 years old already.

Ultimately, I think Bioware's problem is much simpler - the greatest talent has already left by the time Andromeda released, and the leftovers were too busy checking boxes on corporate cultural requirements rather than making an actual game.

There was probably a huge cultural shift in the years that followed the EA purchase, which was already a decade before Andromeda. Frankly I struggle to justify Bioware's relevance after the ME Trilogy was concluded. I could not get into a single one of their games past that, started a few, but never finished.

It's always been up to the individual to curate what they interact with.

If someone is willingly engaging with the latter things in your post, that's not an argument to burn down the entire thing along with the good things.

I'd wager a hefty sum that most newspapers in say 1890 were also absolute garbage filled with drivel and advertisements, but that doesn't mean they weren't useful or that the average person had to read them page to page.

> This is the cohort that was supposed to learn this material during the covid years, but got a free pass. I think most of them will probably not catch up, and their career choices will be circumscribed by it. The overwrought covid safetyism with regard to children has untold numbers of lifelong victims.

We are all going to be victims of this cohort. These are people who will be unable to integrate into society due to lack of basic competency skills.

I doubt their reading skills are much better.

> In any case the amount of energy used for cooking is dwarfed by other energy use in the home, a rounding error.

What? No it isn't. Baking something in an oven could take as much as 5kWh.

That's a lot of energy for 1 day.

In fact when the AC isn't running during mild weather months (September/May), cooking is probably the majority (50%+) of my home's electric use (resistive stovetop).

I won't speak for other countries, but in the US, the answer to "Why do we spend so much on X" is typically because X is in large part a jobs program for special interests who are really good at lobbying, whether it is healthcare or defense or any other industry.

Representatives like high employment in their districts and employees of X like high salaries. It's an incentive-compatible equilibrium.

That's an exorbitant amount per GB.

I guess at least it's capped somewhat? Is there more background preceding this legislation?

This seems as ridiculous as having 1TB internet caps for residential ISPs in 2026.

If the system BSODs, you have no way of getting to the event log without restarting and successfully booting into the OS again.

That is a strictly worse system than displaying BSOD information right away, which lets you diagnose it immediately, it's a downgrade, which is what this entire thread is about.

Is RenTech more than a rounding error amongst all active traders?

Is it more than a rounding error amongst ALL (active/passive) traders?

I'm more interested in the economics here - is it realistic to produce a land mine for under 100 Euros if you include CapEx and your volume is 1 million units?

You do realize that there exist multiple Pareto frontiers, at least for every arbitrary combination of parameters for a given benchmark?

Obviously your marketing team is going to use the Pareto frontier where your model has improved the most and compares favorably against competitors.

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

Maybe people are deterministic as well? We have certain physical arrangement of chemical pathways in our systems, so maybe free will is a complete illusion.

Just because we ponder about our output and choices and retrospect does not in itself mean that it was non-deterministic.

Assortative mating is a weak form of eugenics.

> what do we do about them as a society?

Same thing we do now - some are on welfare, some are homeless and some are in prisons.

Ideally we can be more compassionate towards these people without also placing a huge tax burden on everyone else.

The electricity generation in the article is shown per capita.

Now I'm not saying we should generate as much as humanly possible, because even with renewables that has a cost.

And some things have gotten genuinely more efficient (compare modern heat pumps to heating available in 1968).

But why shouldn't we maintain the levels our parents enjoyed? And use the extra capacity if anything for EVs, grid stabilization, medical research, etc.

So population degrowth is a pretty separate issue.

When downloading huge media files, the only speed you're being limited by is your bandwidth.

Everything else is completely negligible.

> No, since we're adults, aware of these nuances, it's not the elephant in the room.

You'd be surprised. People aware of such nuances are usually a very small minority in any room.

Coastal elites (in the USA) will gladly do this and let you know about it even if you never ask (like vegans).

I have some friend circles where upwards of 50% people do this.

To be fair it is far less prevalent outside of the US thank god.

That's a shame. Microsoft's W11 quality disaster might have actually been improved with a frontier model.

Or maybe not, but the bar was set pretty low that going all-in on AI might have been worth it.

> - Most Jewish victims of the Holocaust died by gunshot in the occupied USSR

> - In March 1942, 80% of Holocaust victims were still alive and by February 1943 80% were dead.

Makes sense. A couple of things happened: 1942 Wannsee Conference in January 1942 - which I assume took some time during 1942 to get into motion.

Germany started losing, they realized they did not have the logistics to feed additional millions of people in the occupied territories.

Breaking up big players does not impose anything on smaller competitors.

It's just that breaking up large companies has taken a very distant back seat to imposing "good for the consumer on the surface, but actually a moat" type regulations.

> When I see 2-weeks old account "Incendiary-Leg-8592" responding to a post by another weeks old user "Pivotal-Kitchen-0498", I have a hard time believing they are humans behind them.

One thing I found out is that normies really don't care about their usernames. They fundamentally don't understand the need for pseudonymity on the internet, so they are okay with whatever the website assigns to them.

It's just a little bit of extra friction to them to start sharing their opinions on the site.

That doesn't mean it's flawed. It means the arguments are even MORE in favor of what is stated in the book.

The underlying fundamentals did not change since 2008. If Solar was good/viable back then, it can only get better if it got cheaper over time.

Same goes for the nuclear debate. Nuclear was losing back then, and now it has finally lost absolutely.

I'll save everyone the time:

You gain ~0.7 VMAF score (both above 90) and save 33% bandwidth at the cost of 3.2x longer encoding for (presumably) some set of 1080p clips used in testing.

Don't worry, AGI is going to suck at hiring just as much as meatbags suck now.

You can't solve incentive-incompatibility with technology.

> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there

It's actually not there. See how many websites have now closed doors or ceased to operate because of constantly being hammered and bombarded by robotic scrapers. For others, it made websites that turned a small profit into unsustainable money pits.

Sure, their content might now be ingested into an LLM training set sitting somewhere on proprietary servers. But the site itself (the origin of truth) now does not exist.

So no. It actually isn't there. Resting on this falsehood, the rest of your retort makes not much sense.