You wouldn't dilute the market for a car.

I remember when there was a crackdown on pirated Windows and the argument was basically stealing is stealing no matter what the effect. Has that changed or did I misunderstand?

So if AI companies can steal and win copyright cases because "authors had not presented enough evidence that the technology company’s AI would dilute the market for their work" then why can't I? How will authors present evidence that I, one person stealing, diluted their marker?

Followed up on information I read a few months ago that Climeworks's Orca facility in Iceland removed 921 tons of CO2 in 2023. I knew it's a drop in the ocean, but I wondered how much they scaled up in 2024.

Instead learned they emitted 1700 tons of CO2 in 2023 in order to remove 921. It's not even that they need to scale up. It doesn't even work. #scam #dag #co2 #emissions #ClimateChange

@AnnaAnthro A long detailed article on the effect of disrupting the flow of oil, not a single word on climate change.

@lesley Looks nice! Handcrafted?

@joosteto @andrej @kytta You could sue Google. Sure they probably have better lawyers than you can buy and they can drag on the process practically forever. But in theory, stealing is wrong.

Scrubbing CO2 will come at a cost and the owners of the colony won't scrub for free. You'll only be able to exercise if you're rich enough to afford extra scrubbing capacity. Otherwise it'll be seen as wasteful because you could do useful paid work for the price of exhaled CO2, why would you just breathe for fun?

Don't worry, there will be a healthy competition between two scrubbing companies and you'll be able to switch if you're not happy with the service.

In the future Mars colony, if people protest the leadership, the leadership could lower or switch off their Air Revitalization System. There must be a sweet spot in CO2 levels where people don't die yet, but are suffocating just enough to be too tired to protest. Nobody will protest on Mars.

They said government is inefficient and they privatised space, cancelled SLS program. Boeing, SpaceX got paid to develop lower orbit delivery systems instead. Boeing's Starliner was a disaster that marooned two astronauts on the ISS for months and SpaceX' Dragon is being used as Musk's bargaining chip against government. Is private space still efficient, all things considered? Is it at least still efficient in terms of money?

I've now watched documentaries, read books on Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and realised a thing: people who thought something was off in these companies have left, and people who stayed don't seem to feel they need to explain their side. (Well, Facebook kinda kinda communicated their position by trying to get the book banned.)

Comfort is a narrow band of external and internal vectors. The more time I am within the bounded parameters, the narrower the band of comfortable values gets. The more time I am outside it, the wider it gets.

@FantasticalEconomics @Simplicator Can you imagine waking up in a world where we are all 20% less productive? The thing that would be immediately obviously worse would be ... surely something. Then longer term it would be apparent that something's seriously wrong with the world because ... I'd have to wait for a thing or something like that? Honestly, I can't even imagine it and I just tried.

There is at least two ways to optimise:

a) get more out of same resource
b) get same output with less resource

Option b) feels limited. Halve the resource and you've saved 50% of money. For the remaining resource to keep up it needs to be 2x as efficient and you are now 50% richer. There's a limit how far you can go: if you can make it work with 0% resource you're 100% richer and that's a theoretical upper limit.

Option a), feels more exciting to me. Just make the resource you have 2x as efficient and you are now 100% richer, which is immediately better, but on top of that, there's no reason to believe that there is an upper limit, given enough innovation.

@trini Thanks for that! Appreciated.

Knowledge has fractal properties. Pick a narrow subject, study it enough, and it becomes a big subject. That's why some tags in notes will inevitably become so numerous that they will lose the search efficiency. You cannot know in advance which tags, unless you're done learning and exploring. Refining tags later is therefore not a failure of your system, but an integral part of bottom-up approach. #NoteTaking #pkm #zettelkasten

Most of the companies fulfilling orders for Amazon UK seem to have business addresses in China. I wonder what the arrangement is here.

It's good Attenborough is going around filming wonderful nature in impeccable 4K quality. When we lose it all in order to make a few people a it richer, we'll have a lasting document how it used to be. Maybe when we're on Sol from Soylent Green like death bed watching the world as it was when we were still young, it'll suck a bit less when it's in 4K.

Sol: Can you see it?
Thorn: Yes...
Sol: Isn't it beautiful?
Thorn: Oh, yes...

@tekvsakdan Zabavno! Kaj pa če se ne bi izogibal in se bodo mogoče navadili, da nisi grožnja?

@trini Oh wonderful, thank you. I'll have a read. Keychron is a frequently suggested to me by various algorithms and people.