[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Youtube ads don't just pay creators though, they also pay for video hosting, discovery, and streaming, which aren't cheap. A lemmy for video streaming would be great, but there's a reason it hasn't really happened yet, you'd need a much larger portion of viewers to pay than what it takes lemmy to run, and you'd need a bigger community of developers to build it, which is why most youtube alternatives are strictly paid products. None of that is criticism of the idea, I think it would be great if we could wrench away some of youtube's monopoly, but at the same time we need to understand why it's a challenging concept

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, so she's not a great source for truth, that still doesn't make nuclear bad though. Why is it always framed as "nuclear vs renewables" instead of "nuclear and renewables vs fossil fuels"?

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Solar not working during the night is going to keep being a relevant point until we have the capability to manage it, your sarcasm doesn't do anything to refute that point. There are plenty of cool ways that scientists and engineers are working on solving those problems with better energy storage, but it's all still in the experimental stages, and until I see build out timelines for energy storage on national scales, all of the variable output power solutions will be nonstarters for fossil fuel replacement. You say that we can't wait 20 years for nuclear reactors, but we also can't wait 20 years to figure out how to build a big battery. We don't even know what the carbon emissions or time costs of whatever we decide on will be, but we do know that working nuclear reactors are a thing today.

I'm not against solar or wind, I have solar panels on my house right now, but it has only reduced my reliance on the fossil fuel grid, it's nowhere close to replacing it

Plus many are even scheduled to be closed.

Then don't! I kind of see your point about not building new reactors, even if I disagree, but what purpose could closing existing plants possibly have? How is that going to save carbon and reduce fossil fuels??

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a similar strong will or intention in how a multiverse evolves?

Well, if we're talking about the many worlds theorem, then probably yeah, because both worlds came from a common starting point and evolve together. Like, imagine that I flip 100 quantum coins, creating 2^100 (1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376) universes in a multiverse. Every universe will be different, but the vast majority of them will have roughly 50 heads and roughly 50 tails. 7% of them will even have exactly 50 heads. There is one universe where every coin flip lands on heads, but it's only one universe among nonillions, you could spend your entire life searching universes and never find it. None of the universes are the same, but most of them are so boringly similar that you couldn't tell them apart. It's the central limit theorem, that lots of random events trend towards uniformity

nobody really knows, but if I had to guess I'd say that's probably the way our universe would be, our universe might technically be different from the one next to it, but it would only be different by a single electron on mars that decided to move an atom to the left. There might be a universe somewhere where all of the particles in a lotto wheel quantum tunnel to make the winning number be your number, but it would be outnumbered an infinity to one by universes where that didn't happen and it looks exactly the same as ours.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But what you're missing is that being vegetarian wouldn't be possible without the conveniences of our modern world. You're relying on plants that have been heavily modified to be more nutritious to humans, and you're relying on a variety that would have been difficult to find pre industrialization, and absolutely impossible to a hunter-gatherer. It's not meat company propaganda to realize that human's evolved to eat meat, it's evident in everything about our physiology. From an evolutionary point of view, even farming is startlingly recent, an industrial world economy hasn't even registered yet, so even though we're living in a modern world, we're still dealing with bodies that were built to hunt. That's why so many types of overeating are such big issues, this farmed abundance just isn't something that we evolved to deal with.

None of that takes away from the fact that vegetarianism is feasible and healthy today, I think that it's great that we've reached a point where we can survive without meat. All that I'm saying is that we need to recognize it for the modern luxury that it is, instead of saying that it was ever the norm

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, nobody ate anything in the quantities that we eat today, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a crucial part of our diet. It's amazing that modern industrialized humans are able to get enough calories and protein from a diet of varied plants, but if you're a hunter gatherer you don't have the luxury of a variety of genetically modified protein rich plants, you need meat if you're going to grow. That's the niche we evolved to fill, it's why we have a highly acidic gut, a medium length digestive tract common in omnivores, and teeth designed to tear meat. It doesn't take a lot of meat to meet a person's protein requirements, the occasional successful hunt is enough, but without any they would die.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Nevada and Utah too. I think it's mostly the western block of states

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

4G not being 4G was different though, because 4G had absurd speed requirements that it had to hit before it could be classified as true 4G. That's why everyone had to use "lte", even though they were using the 4G standard, they didn't have fast enough service. Thankfully, 5G dropped those silly requirements, so other than AT&T's 5Ge debacle, all of the phones saying they're 5G are actually 5G. It is important to know that there's different types of 5G that are good for different situations, low band 5G is great for rural areas because it has better range than 4G and high band 5G is great for cities because it has better speed than 4G, but it's all still 5G

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It turns out that humans monitoring an AI are basically useless at stoping the AI from messing up. We don't have the reaction time to take over and be able to drive the car instantly when the car has been driving itself. That's why there aren't any companies making level three autonomous vehicles, they all skip from level 2 (like Teslas) to level 5ish (like waymo and GM cruise). It either needs to be all human, or all AI, we can't do an in between

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is that most americans don't use SMS as their main messaging system, they use iMessage, which is an IM app so long as it's between iPhone's. So when android users complain about apple not using RCS, what they're really complaining about is that they can't use the IM app that everyone else settled on.

Like, imaging living in the UK, but you have a phone that couldn't use WhatsApp at all. I'm sure that people would be telling you to download whatsApp instead of messaging them on SMS, but you literally couldn't without buying a new phone

[-] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

tbh from what I've seen of her, I'm not sure that she has the temperament for a corporate job. Like, despite having the technical skills, she would probably be wholly unable to function in a typical white collar environment.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not any reason though, the case didn't change any of the protected classes like sex, religion, or sexual orientation. It just made it so a company can choose what "expressive work" they want to do, especially websites. So it's legal to say you don't want to make someone a custom website if you disagree with the contents of the website (ie a website that supports gay marriage), but it's still illegal to refuse to make someone a website because the customer is gay. You can choose what you make, but you can't choose who you sell it to

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