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by 8jef 5y ago
Just saying Yes saved my ass countless times over the years
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Like Apple is not the only mean for computing, aeroplanes do face competition: you can walk, drive, cycle, etc. You can also own your aeroplane if other people scare you. But the way I see it, Apple is more like one particular air company w
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The security argument Apple has been spinning for so many years is a fallacy of the worst kind. Like pedling life in prison, with Uncle Tim as warden, as opposed to the so much dangerous and risky life out there, in the wild, where you can
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by 8jef 5y ago
Everything coming from Russia Today (and widespread online troll farm disinformation) is highly questionable. It's only being created and published for the purpose of instigating doubt in a very perverted way. In the 'us' aga
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Being at the top of the social hierarchy in a cooperative environment is not necessarily valuable, probably not even pleasurable, at all. Because true cooperation can either exist without a top, when the experience is mostly p2p, or with a
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It's always wildly entertaining and equally demoralizing to see people trapped in this very deceptive, primitive and privately owned technological nighmarish mess created for the sole purpose of sucking the life out of them. Why aren&#
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I do agree with you, the solution I offer is far from ideal. It was only meant to be provocative and make people think about alternatives, as you did. More broadly, the way I see the situation, is that corporations are really a way for a gr
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by 8jef 5y ago
No luck opening that link with Android's Firefox flavour...
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Because that's the actual standard for cellphone communications. 4g and 5g are LTE, for which my phone needs to be compatible with if I want to use for years to come. The fact that I chose not to use cell data is only a question of cho
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One can't argue with precise calculations. Then the whole point for me is limiting my output and go farther. One's mileage may vary!
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Well, there's probably something magical happening between 220lbs and 285lbs ;) ... and/or new motors perform better.
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Well, yes but no. That's the whole point of this discussion: how considering calories with sugar intake alone doesn't completely explain the obesity pandemic. Eating too much food never made most people that fat for such a long pe
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by 8jef 5y ago
That's a great hack. But I'm a big guy, bordering on 285lbs. That kind of low power traction doesn't seem enough to move me. I know European 250w motors are never enough for me. I've build my first ebike a few months ago
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by 8jef 5y ago
Which actual culprits? It's all wind, and nobody knows about what's really making living things fatter and fatter. I'd advocate more studies on lecithin, because it became absolutely ubiquitous about 40 years ago, in all the
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by 8jef 5y ago
We should further investigate lecithin consumption as a possible culprit for the obesity epidemic. An eye opening study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19288019/ According to this webpage, lecithin production and worl
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by 8jef 5y ago
The perfect phone, to me: * Wifi only * GPS * Square e-ink touchscreen, 3 inches across * QWERTY hardware keyboard * Thin foldable a la razor * Latest LTE tech worldwide bands for future proof network compatibility * Micro SDXC slot * USB-
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Where government's steered economy can be highly hazardous, dictatorial regime's absolute economic control is always disastrous. That being said, this is probably a good thing in the long term, while China's foreseeable short
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True, but then I would assume that serious monitoring apparatus would include mail server monitoring, therefore defeating the need for a custom domain, which may contribute to identify you and/or stigmatise you further. Especially if o
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By the way, your email address provider is only one metric by which you are being monitored. Everything happening online is now being monitored, stored and AI analysed, and will be for a long time in the future as technology is evolving and
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How about Tutanota?
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Very true.
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Be aware that custom domains come with their own problems. Not being blacklisted is one of them.
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That make sense. That's why I'm using two regular service addresses redirected to my privacy focused email address, and assign different tasks to each one of them. It even help me filter out more unwanted messages and subscription
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What most people miss is Darwinian evolution theory usually plays out over very long periods of time, hundreds if not thousands of generations are necessary for real change to occur in less complex species than humans. So called social Darw
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by 8jef 5y ago
As a rash doesn't tell about one's overall health, a storm doesn't tell about overall climate conditions. If you're not out to profit from fossil fuel business, or to make profit from climate changing victims (it's
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Not a social media per se, but a decentralized hosting platform that will distribute decentralized apps securely, where one will privately host its own data and metadata on a home node. https://holochain.org/ Apps in develo
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Dream on
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I'm bored too. Why not have an expiry date on money? All of it: fiat and crypto. Good for 10 years from the date its minted/created, virtual or not. No more sleeping fortune being stashed. Why not do the same with corporations? La
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Exactly. Real life Baelish being: ...
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Back to the beginning, being forced to start again from scratch

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