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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I don't think I've ever heard an argument that defines individual action in the way you do. Most "individual action" arguments tend to lean towards pushing people to make individual choices to reduce emissions, and ma
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In what world is hundreds of millions of people drastically changing their lifestyle because they've been instructed to stay home by their governments "individual action"? That's a collective response to a crisis mandat
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> Dave hired Colin Angle (then a grad student working for Rod Brooks at MIT, now CEO of IS Robotics) as a summer student At the time this article was published, it looked like IS Robotics was primarily a defense/military robotics co
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> I swear the big benefit of cloud deployments is the teams ability to say “we tried throwing $$ at the problem, if we don’t want to spend $$$ we’ll need to do some work”. And have this convo play out over a day rather than months. My cu
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America has had lawsuits around scientifiv vs. "common" definitions of foods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
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The entire ecosystem of big tech has depressingly bent towards this practice – Youtube trolls monetizing your work, Amazon allowing people to steal your listing and sell counterfeit goods with the five stars you earned... The only solution
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> This was a good reminder that I need to switch banks. When you do, try your best to do what I've done ever since my mortgage processor screwed up and double charged me: never use anyone else's online services; do all the ba
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> It is circumstantial evidence, but I wouldn't expect an increase in radical activity on social media to occur in a society in which most people are afraid to express their views due to fear of omnipresent surveillance. The consist
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
The problem is that any utility that cryptocurrency may have is obscured by the incredible amount of fraud and grift used to keep the bubble intact.
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If you're worried as the original poster was about the impact of inevitable global decarbonization on national economies, I have bad news for you about Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar.
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> Does this mean that the vaccine decreases your chance of contracting the virus Yes. > but increases your chance of dying if you do contract it? No, I think not. Scroll down to table 3, page 14. No one under 60 who was vaccinated an
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My chemist wife chuckled. "Lab setting" implies bench sized quantities in motion and storage cabinet sized quantities at rest. "Manufacturing setting" implies reaction tower sized quantities in motion and train car sized
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The state wants you to believe this, and wants you to talk. You should never talk before you've met with your legal counsel, especially when you're under the pressure of being served a warrant. Almost always , if a federal agen
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Open source means many different things to many different people: that's why we have licenses . And that's why talking about "open source" often elides important details. When author(s) license a project under CC0&#x2
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> For all the recycling I’ve done, a single factory can undo in just a day. Just remember: those same factories are operated by companies that have spent millions over decades to convince people that individual solutions exist to a syste
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> I've come to think of governments/countries as just a very, very extensive, giant home owners association that happens to float its own currency, fund its own schools, etc. I'm always nervous about this type of reductive
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One of the best senior engineers I worked with taught me how to run an outage. The most important thing? Stop what you are doing, take charge, and get everyone else to stop what they are doing. The best case scenario of a bunch of enginee
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
You're making a normative argument; I'm making a positive one. You ought not try random usernames/passwords on someone's public server, I agree. But if you expose a public server that lets someone type a username/p
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
The real question is how much was spent between rework, those happy hours, and the branding consultants that made it happen? The answer would likely make you sick – I'm fairly familiar with one rebranding that changed a serifed blue lo
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Seriously, this is a laughable concern – if you have a "public facing server" you're already listed in Google, Shodan, being probed by dozens of IPs across the world...
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Under the Vienna Conventions, only people with diplomatic rank have full diplomatic immunity. Administrative and technical agents do have diplomatic immunity, but only for actions taken "in the course of their duties." But it w
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The terms "patent medicine" and "snake oil" didn't just appear from the aether.
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"Sorry Mr. Jones, we've decided your, ahem alternative lifestyle and beliefs are fundamentally incompatible with the views of our company. Your electrical service will be discontinued in three to five business days."
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https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons/ BTC uses more annual energy than the Netherlands. What did it accomplish when compared to the economic output of the Netherlands?
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> Wouldn't be fair to compare the amount energy to run bitcoin vs the amount of energy to run the banking system? Hasn't this comparison been made over and over, and every time it comes out in favor of traditional banking by a
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That's just the numerator. We'll likely never know the denominator, so if this was a real thing, let alone a new classified technology, we can't say how successful it is.
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Malaria isn't in the country because in the late 40s the US Public Health Service sprayed the interiors of five million southern homes with DDT, drained wetlands, and carpet bombed counties with pesticides. They did that until the mosq
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Going fast is one thing. Making a program that responds consistently is different, and there's a continuum of choices. The last time I read about Go's GC they targeted 500us and for tons of applications that's more than s
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> living in the dry western U.S., it's not that great Over the last four or five years, my wife & I have killed 75% of our 1 acre Eastern US lawn and replaced it with native trees and plants. I have lovely grasses and flowers (a
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
A lack of community. Or, eachother. Take your pick!

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