I should have been more specific, I was just referring to the storm surge flooded areas.
I'm surprised there isn't more movement to just completely ban building in these areas. Getting everyone else to cover the cost of their predictable destruction seems very unfair.
I am aware that they have a state insurer in Florida. They are going to need it. I can't see a single private insurance company wanting to touch anything to do with rebuilding in areas affected by this. They know climate change is getting worse, and this is only going to happen soon again.
You circumvented their TOS, by using an alt account to evade a ban on a subreddit. That's why they banned you from Reddit itself.
Like Covid, it seems humans have to wait until disaster is right on their doorstep, before they pull themselves together to do something about it.
Is the UK contemplating tariffs on Chinese EVs?, if not that will be one of the few advantages of Brexit, as the EU has just agreed to mandate them.
Oh the ladies on "The View" already love her. She'll have no problems with them.
The View and the Real Housewives franchise are guilty TV pleasures I normally hate admitting to in public.
When might it integrate Lemmy?
More customers, more revenue.
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While other countries hold back over safety concerns, it’s going full steam ahead.
Tesla Inc. is postponing its planned robotaxi unveiling to October to allow teams working on the project more time to build additional prototypes, according to people familiar with the decision.
You're the first people to join us since we set up. It's great to have you along. If you have any requests or suggestions please just say so. It would be great if we could get you some new subscribers from the 20 million people on r/futurology on Reddit. If you have any bright Ideas for making that work please let us know. We haven't had much luck with that so far. Most of the people in c/futurology are from elsewhere in the fediverse. We've had pinned posts in the subreddit that have been read by thousands, but it never seems to translate into many people singing up.
But humans still do better at turns and in the twilight
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Palantir was awarded a $480 million deal by the Army for a Maven Smart System prototype.
How can machine learning help astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recently accepted study to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated how a novel neural network-based algorithm could be used to detect Earth-like exoplanets using...
Fable, the studio behind the viral AI-generated 'South Park' clips, has announced a streaming platform that allows users to create their own content.
Jab personalised for individual’s tumours hailed as ‘gamechanger’ amid high hopes of stopping disease returning
A plug-in balcony solar system for uncertain times.
Damning new report finds nearly all major car companies are actively sabotaging world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming, and Japan companies are the worst.
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What do we do about the increasing surveillance built into Windows, Android, and MacOS? Hint: Linux won't save us
Scientists have discovered Gliese 12 b, an exoplanet similar in size to Venus and only 40 light-years away, with investigations ongoing to determine its atmosphere and potential to support life. In a rare and tantalizing discovery, astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years awa
We have identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, one of our deployed large language models. This is the first ever detailed look inside a modern, production-grade large language model.
So this is a roundabout way of saying the Israelis were about to add famine to their list of war crimes.
Renewables are way, way cheaper. Nuclear is finished. I'm sick of hearing its supporters never ending excuses.
I think I might try that approach, you're right it could motivate a subset of people. We have a pinned post spot at the top of the sub-reddit I'm going to use again in a few days. When I used it before, I'd guess a few thousand people read the post, but it seemed to generate very few people moving to the Lemmy site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/
Slightly off-topic, but how are you finding encouraging Reddit users to make the switch to Lemmy?
I mod r/futurology, which is close to 20 million subscribers, but most of the growth for futurology.today has come from within the fediverse. Any tips for encouraging Redditors to migrate?
Great info. Out of curiosity what does your hosting setup say about visitor numbers? Futurology.today uses Cloudflare. They give a figure of about 10k per day for what they call unique visitors. That seems unduly high when you look at how busy our lemmy instance actually is. We have just short of 1K subscribers, so I would assume visitor numbers would be lower than 10k per day.
If you haven't seen any of the classic late 60s/early 70s horror movies, they are worth checking out. 'Rosemary's Baby', 'The Exorcist, 'Don't Look Now', or 'The Omen' are all fantastic.
It should also worry investors open-source AI is only months behind the big tech leaders. I looked into AI voice cloning lately. There's a few really pricey options. Like $25 a month for a couple of hours voice cloning.
However, there's already an open-source version of what they're selling.
I wonder when this is going to seriously affect world oil demand? People used to think "Peak Oil" would be when supply was constrained, it turns out it will be when demand is constrained.
A US company just announced 1,800 new jobs manufacturing 10GW of solar power for India. Those post-coal jobs are out there, it would help if government bodies helped bring them to where they are needed.
Ukraine deserves to be in the EU, but they've a long way to go, and its not just the war. They have a vast corruption problem which needs fixing before becoming one with the other EU nations. The EU should start a process that ties progress on that, to getting nearer to EU membership.
If you don't know much about the topic, this is an interesting overview of some current AI concerns. I think characterizing them as 'warring' seems simplistic. Also, it's very American-centric & lacks a global perspective. The authors don't seem to have digested very different approaches to AI in the EU & China. Although it mentions mass unemployment, it doesn't elaborate further - an oversight as I expect in 5-10 years it will be people's number one AI concern.