Accujack

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by Accujack 6y ago
>A free person does not take orders from the state, nor from anyone. A free person has a right to weigh advice and conscience on his own terms, and negotiate his externalities with society. This hypothetical "free person" is th
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Indeed. However, if it is necessary to reduce output in order to control the virus, it surely must be fair to distribute that loss evenly. A fine point here - it's only fair if the profit in non pandemic circumstances is also distr
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Well, we can't exactly prevent people from dying of a virus that's largely outside of our control. We can prevent some of them from dying by using what control of the virus we DO have. >We can enact policies to prevent peop
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by Accujack 6y ago
Well put. Far too many people have fallen prey to learned helplessness in the US. We have to change the government ourselves, no one else can or will.
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by Accujack 6y ago
It fits a certain segment of organizations quite well, but it's not universal.
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by Accujack 6y ago
Wow... really a first world perspective here.
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by Accujack 6y ago
The problem with depending on corporations to "not be evil" is that corporations change with successive generations of management, new owners, etc. Some basic rules for when it's acceptable to read/interpret data that pa
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by Accujack 7y ago
Old design nuclear plants are too expensive. Newer ones much less so.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Makes sense.... the ability to deceive yourself into believing something would only be enhanced by ingesting a drug that alters your perceptions of reality and changes how your brain functions chemically. Empathy and creative thinking tend
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by Accujack 7y ago
> It is simply modern humans who have no need for the adaption our ancestors have gifted us with. I agreed up until this. Of course, I disagreed with my evolutionary biology profs in college, too, on this subject. These adaptations and
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by Accujack 7y ago
This was always going to happen, unfortunately. The DNC hasn't changed in four years, and they opposed Bernie this time just like last time. He's not their preferred candidate. It's even mostly the same people. They're
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by Accujack 7y ago
Awww... I was kind of hoping the three species would be Homo Rossus, Paranthropus Chandlerus, and Australopithecus Josephus.
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by Accujack 7y ago
>Consider Battlefield or COD Warzone, which simulate the effects of actions by multiple players (including projectile travel) in real time and still manage upwards of 100FPS of near photorealistic graphics. >Or factorio, where people
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by Accujack 7y ago
If by "shine" you mean "be as ineffective and underfunded as they have been for decades", then yes.
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by Accujack 7y ago
FYI, "lower bandwidth" can effectively mean dial up connections only, depending on how far someone lives from a major population center. My uncle lives about 50 miles west of Minneapolis/St. Paul, and unless he wants to pay m
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by Accujack 7y ago
That's less than the average housing cost per month in the US. Big deal.
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by Accujack 7y ago
I'm sure you'll get partisan political comments, but you're correct. I will note that I don't agree with "we" doing anything... our government is rather thoroughly insulated from the will of the citizens of th
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by Accujack 7y ago
It works well because apart from washing the virus away, soap denatures its envelope, the little "bag" that actually contains the virus. That envelope is made up of lipids. IE, molecules of fat. Soap+water dissolves the envelope
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Temporary Covid-19 ventilators – define the problem, then find options
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's going to affect all professions somewhat. Personally, a long time ago I realized that stuff happens, and you have to both deal with an unpredictable world and change. You can't really prepare except in general terms, so you
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by Accujack 7y ago
Thanks! Moberg is very well known in the area where I grew up, I'll have to have a look.
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by Accujack 7y ago
That would violate the terms of service - creating an account specifically to avoid a ban, that is. Besides, if Reddit legitimately banned me for something I said (they won't tell me what, at least not yet) I'm not going to make a
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by Accujack 7y ago
That's my point, actually. People tend to assume that anything they do is being watched, where the truth is that whether or not a given item is stored depends on whether someone has specified it's interesting somehow, or whether
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by Accujack 7y ago
Pretty unlikely. Even replacing car ECUs is not something popularly done with open source at this point, despite them being much, much more prevalent than farm equipment. I'm sure many farmers would love it if there was an open source
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by Accujack 7y ago
>The primary drivers of the locking down of software capabilities of tractors came down to emissions, if I recall correctly. No, the primary driver of locking down who can repair the entire piece of equipment is protection of profits by
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by Accujack 7y ago
Sorry, but no. Farmers fix things that can kill them every day, and implying that modern tractors are too complicated to allow the owners to fix them is disingenuous and patently false. The reason manufacturers are locking down access to f
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by Accujack 7y ago
>So what this leads to is further work on not allowing information of any sort off a phone unless approved by the user and features that let them know which apps have sent data and how much. This is the part of what you said that I agree
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by Accujack 7y ago
FYI, 3 million TB is enough to store 1 copy of the data that transfers over the Internet in the US for about a 15 month time span. It's not enough really, because in addition to the Internet data, they'd have to be storing cell p
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by Accujack 7y ago
Now if I could just get Reddit to undo my shadowban, I could congratulate him.
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by Accujack 7y ago
No, he's not. Even if an antiviral like remdesivir would cure SARS-CoV-2, there's zero chance of it being produced in enough volume fast enough to keep everyone from dying, or even to treat a significant number of patients. At be

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