Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty?
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 17h ago 83%

    And a tax on second, third, etc homes. Outside of summer some places are starting to look like a ghost town.

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  • US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2d ago 66%

    It's because I was born disabled.

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  • US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 2d ago 20%

    I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but as a transhumanist the potential for this kind of technology is huge.

    It's expensive now, but 20 years ago it cost $2.7 billion to sequence a full human genome, now it's around $600. Imagine a world where this process is inexpensive and easily available.

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  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3d ago 85%

    I'm not seeing a negative here? As long as they accept liability why shouldn't someone be able to dig through landfill?

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  • Brexit 'disaster' cost London 40,000 finance jobs, City chief says
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3d ago 83%

    All those poor unemployed investment bankers 😭

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  • The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3d ago 100%

    So they can save money by firing their army of nafo meat puppets?

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  • The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 3d ago 14%

    So they can save money by firing their army of nafo meat puppets?

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  • The irony of powering AI on atomic energy.
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4d ago 88%

    a dying and dangerous 20th century technology

    I stopped reading there, nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy generation.

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  • What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4d ago 85%

    I don't think it's documented as happening to an element, but some compounds have changed their properties due to disappearing polymorphs.

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  • Would an approximate/measured antithesis of Project 25 basically be the recipe for a great society?
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 4d ago 100%

    Rhetorically: What’s the antithesis of an 18% (base) corporate tax rate?

    An 82% (base) corporate tax rate?

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  • X changes creator payouts to depend on engagement, not ads
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 5d ago 100%

    People made careers out of tweeting?

    I had no idea that was possible.

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  • What do we call communities in Lemmy?
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 5d ago 100%

    I vote we call them lems.

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  • Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 5d ago 100%

    And currently the largest (publicly disclosed) quantum computer has 1,180 qbits.

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  • https://archive.ph/EN1Yg

    Original (paywalled) link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/anti-zionism-protected-under-equality-law-judge-rules-7zscc630d

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    Why is the vision correction in VR headsets only an afterthought?
  • RobotToaster RobotToaster 6d ago 95%
    • Not everyone has the same prescription for both eyes.
    • This doesn't help with astigmatism.
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