hungrybread [comrade/them]

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Joined 6 years ago
Cake day: January 19th, 2021
  • hungrybread [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.ml•Couldn't have happened to a nicer guyEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.

    Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to “disrupt”. Why wouldn’t an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it’s not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.

  • hungrybread [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Say I have US$10,000. What's the best use of that money if my goal is to stop climate change?English
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    2 years ago

    I gotta say, the C02 number seems very high to me too, just got that from a quick search and saw that a couple of times. I haven’t investigated it closely tbh.

    I wasn’t aware of the mining differences between uranium and thorium, that is encouraging.

    Regarding the waste, that’s a fair point as well. Thanks for the response! Interesting points.

    I used to be very pro nuclear energy. Besides the waste and the occasional meltdown it seemed like a no brainer as a renewable supplement. After learning a little more about it though it just seems like we have more runway for positive growth with wind and solar than nuclear, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

  • hungrybread [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Say I have US$10,000. What's the best use of that money if my goal is to stop climate change?English
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    2 years ago

    From what I understand nuclear in general is (at least now) a dead end as a climate change solution.

    1. From planning time to turning on the reactor is something like 15 - 20 years (note, that’s longer than the global average of 7 years for construction, because construction is not the whole picture)
    2. It’s difficult to have more than 1 plant project ongoing simultaneously due to the scale and complexity
    3. Nuclear plants take a lot of C02 to construct and maintain. The fuel has to be mined, resulting in emissions, and the amount of concrete required massive. 1 ton of concrete creates .8-.9 tons of C02, and a nuclear power plant has hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete in it.
    4. We still don’t have a good answer for handling nuclear waste.

    Maybe at some point in the past nuclear could have resolved many climate change issues, but between project time, initial emission cost, and waste, it just doesn’t seem viable anymore.

  • hungrybread [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•A new trolley eraEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You’re right about the Snopes article. It does do a decent job of pointing out that a lot of this reporting is rumor based.

    This first anecdote (also highlighted by Snopes) is amusing

    Double-hit cases" have been around for decades. I first heard of the “hit-to-kill” phenomenon in Taiwan in the mid-1990s when I was working there as an English teacher. A fellow teacher would drive us to classes. After one near-miss of a motorcyclist, he said, “If I hit someone, I’ll hit him again and make sure he’s dead.” Enjoying my shock, he explained that in Taiwan, if you cripple a man, you pay for the injured person’s care for a lifetime. But if you kill the person, you “only have to pay once, like a burial fee.” He insisted he was serious—and that this was common.

    So is it Taiwan or the mainland with these wild laws?

    Another false claim about China, it seems.