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I can highly recommend Charlie’s Thai Tea if you’re ever in Chiang Mai. It’s the best! You can choose the tea from over a dozen plantations across Thailand and the strength at which they brew the tea and of course the sweetness.
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This is what ChatGPT thinks I look like lol. It knows I'm half Japanese, so idk if image generation is still shy about portraying race, but it's definitely spot on about me being an iPad enjoyer. Not sure how some of you get such generic images, either you're strict about privacy or don't use Chat much.
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After centuries of losing some of their best and brightest to emigration to the US, Europe has to be stoked at the prospect of payback, getting a brain drain from the US to Europe.
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What fountain pen is that? Montblanc?
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This is one of the interactions with ai chatbots that surprised me the most. I asked what is the single most important habit to live a fulfilling life and was told “practice gratitude” by Grok. Cut off from the picture are the words “with you?”
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So I've been in Lisbon the past few days, and I found it funny that they have a Golden Gate Bridge and a Christ the Redeemer Statue. To top it off, they also have a hipsterfied industrial area under the overpass of their Golden Gate super reminiscent of DUMBO in NY. Old World copies New World?
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The risk profile of nuclear weapons and civilian reactors are totally different things. Passive safety of new reactors are a huge improvement from older models, but many reactors don’t use them and even those that do, if attacked, can release widespread regional contamination.
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Yeah, and I want humanity to uncover the secrets of fusion too, but I still believe that before implementing them especially at scale, we need to do a full life-cycle assessment that thoroughly accounts for externalities when comparing to alternatives so we don’t get shortsighted about costs savings.
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Why? Are there any forms of nuclear reactors that wouldn’t cause long term contamination when attacked in a way that say, a solar farm wouldn’t? If you know of any I’d genuinely like to know.
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Wanted to add to the discussion the point of vulnerability of nuclear as targets in warfare and terrorism. Modern nuclear reactor designs are indeed safer and do reduce meltdown risks, but consider that the modern threat profile has also evolved (autonomous drones and cyberattacks). Even a well designed reactor is a high-value target to terrorism or in war precisely because of the energy density of nuclear. A successful attack may not cause full meltdown, but still disrupt critical systems enough to create local or regional disasters. (Also consider that the costs to launch drone and cyber attacks is already relatively low and trending ever lower)
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The current regulations over nuclear exist precisely because there have been so many accidents and near-misses to prompt those safe-guards. Are much of them regulatory bloat? Yeah. But if history is any guide, it seems unlikely that slashing regulation isn’t going to reintroduce unacceptable risks. Modern nuclear reactor designs are indeed safer and do reduce meltdown risks, but consider that the modern threat profile has also evolved (autonomous drones and cyberattacks). Even a well designed reactor is a high-value target to terrorism or in war precisely because of the energy density of nuclear. A successful attack may not cause full meltdown, but still disrupt critical systems enough to create local or regional disasters. (Also consider that the costs to launch drone and cyber attacks is already relatively low and trending ever lower)
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Sorry for the late reply. Regarding induced demand, of course expanding energy supply is broadly beneficial and low carbon emissions is a fantastic benefit. My point is that seemingly cheap nuclear energy is not so cheap when you consider massive externalities. Long lived waste, accident risk, etc. As for whether nuclear is ‘better’ than natural gas. Sure carbon emissions are negligible, but the tail risks are unprecedented in scale. They may be rare, but they can render an area uninhabitable for centuries. How do you even put a price on that kind of possibility. I want to emphasize that every step of the nuclear lifecycle, from thorium and uranium mining to fuel refinement and disposal, has the potential for contamination or accident. Nuclear energy isn’t just a technical challenge; it also poses a socio-political puzzle of providing stable governance for millennia, in a world which looks radically different from the world of today.
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I was having a conversation about nuclear energy recently, and I know it’s popular across the political spectrum these days so I thought I’d publicly share why I’m against it. Nuclear still depends on a finite resource compared to something like sunlight which never can be diminished with use. So what, we stop using one finite resource (fossil fuels) just so we can start fighting over who controls access over another? I know it’s more abundant and so efficient yada yada but… induced demand, you know what I’m saying? And don’t get me started on nuclear waste. If you look at the world today, governments can’t keep commitments for a decade ahead and you’re telling me we can keep the waste secure for centuries or millennia? Give me a break. It’s the height of irresponsibility to future generations. See, the thing is, if you want a “solar punk” utopia, the energy systems must be circular, self contained. And nuclear definitely is not.
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Since the US is in so much debt and desperately trying to downsize, you’d think it would be the one selling territories and states, not trying to buy new ones.
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I’ve been patiently waiting for people to stop referring to Google trends as a measure of interest over time. Hopefully this year.
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Hope it doesn’t involve bonding curves for the social graph.
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The comparisons of buy now pay later food deliveries to the subprime mortgage crisis (with plenty of Big Short memes) that’s making the rounds on X is totally off the mark. BNPL companies have found a solution for the 20%+ interest that low credit score consumers pay. They’re pretty good at assessing creditworthiness on a purchase by purchase basis, and even if they do get stuck with bad debt, it’s low stakes, and they can get it off their books pretty quickly. It seems obvious to me that the trend is towards micro payments and granular underwriting. https://x.com/moreperfectus/status/1902740914583261336?s=46
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I didn’t expect solana to go so far as to make anti-trans a part of their marketing. 🤮 https://x.com/solana/status/1901675230868758895?s=46
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Can anyone comment on vibe coding frames with zero programming knowledge using Replit/Cursor?
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