Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
A key problem is that when people make purchasing decisions, price ranks extremely high on the priority list, even when it will be costlier and worse for the consumer in the long run. Capitalism has found a thousand ways to exploit that inh
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’ve flown internationally for a decade and it was only around 2018-20 I noticed most airlines reminding you to keep your seat belt fastened. Before that it seemed like the exception, not the rule.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Interesting notion. Perhaps the same is happening with LED lamps and fixtures now, in the UK. Every rental is flooded with lights in all kinds of shapes. They are sold extremely affordably everywhere. To me at this point the novelty has wor
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
If any regulator acts it will be the EU. The action, if it comes, will of course be very late, possibly years from now, when the horse has long left the stable.
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Taste is absolutely linked with temperature. Cold vs hot coffee for example. Don’t know exactly why. Most things tend to taste “more” when hot. Could be the intensity of molecular activity, which is what temperature is, that varies and so r
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
Not to be rude, but isn’t that just, like, your opinion, man? That brain sizes correlate with consciousness in the way you state? At least some scientists, these, seem to disagree so at the very least it may not be quite so cut and dry as y
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
They explain this in the article. These scientists talk about a basic level of consciousness that does not include a notion of self. This would put the bees in the same category with animals that experience for example pleasure and pain but
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
It may be a stretch but since we don’t know the exact criteria for the kind of consciousness the article and scientists refer to, it seems rash to dismiss it out of hand. And quite the leap to call it “absurd behavior”
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
You seem to be reading something into my wording there that I didn’t intend. I meant proper jail, not a fine, not a suspended sentence or one of the cushy prisons financial criminals tend to go to. I mean the same jail as a non-rich murdere
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
When is the last time someone from the C suite and had a good relationship to the government/defense sector went to big boy jail? I can’t think of an occasion, even though I can think of many deadly events where it’s very well arguable
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
The interfaces are great but the setup process is still far beyond “plug and play” so the mainstream pirate probably still do it the cumbersome but simple way
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by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I’ve got a healthy respect for psychedelics after noticing lingering effects on my reality perception and mood for several days after taking some strains of marijuana. I know it can help many people, but the thought of anything stronger tha
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
On the surface that seems correct. But let me go on a tangent. Brutalism is functional in the sense that a space is designed only with the task at hand in mind. In a narrow sense, a library should be a place to come to and read and borrow b
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
The “purpose” (for lack of a better word) of brutalism was never to make people feel small and unimportant—though individual architects might have had different motivations from time to time. Rather, the style is about making buildings that
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I suspect very few customers have the wherewithal and time and effort to “tell the regulators”. (Who, to issue a fine, would have to show malfeasance so the customer needs to produce evidence of the interaction sufficient to show the insure
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Honestly, any manual tagging is still too much work. Jellyfin would be a better Plex alternative if it got this right
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Seconded! (Or thirded?) Prologue is so much better than Audible. I’m using Libation to liberate my copy protected audiobooks, not to share them but to avoid that godawful Audible app
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
“You can buy this other thing” is not a good defense against antitrust allegations simply because that’s not what it’s about.
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
That used to be the driving factor, politically at least. But things have changed. As older folks retire and sell to fund their end of life care, funds, corporations and the super rich have swept in to buy the properties, increasingly prici
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Ok, so you don’t like the titles. Do you have any problems with the actual content—the thing that matters?
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I said stopping, not reversing
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
On net I don’t think it makes a difference. When the energy is spent as electricity it basically releases heat in some form or other eventually
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Absolute madness. Do you realize how much of humanity, and the biomes we rely on, are dependent on the Amazon? And even it were a good idea on balance we have no idea of the ripple effects and externalities. How about we just focus on stopp
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Seems odd to call that exhibition a “show” but I’m not British so what do I know
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Wonder what show this refers to
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
You're baking in a lot of assumptions in the statement "profitable overall". I take it that you mean "benefits society in a way that more than makes up for its cost" but a private company doesn't care, they nat
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Reviews have remarked on it but I don’t think anyone I’ve seen have complained that it’s a problem. Its other features make up for the FOV shortfall. And lord knows it has other issues too that are probably more important than the FOV
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Top of the line displays, not one but two advanced CPUs one of which is brand new, a smorgasbord of sensors…
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
Profit is not a dirty word. I don't think that's an argument anyone is making. Profit is not _sufficient_ motivation to make a lot of infrastructure happen, and until that's recognized we'll be building too little, too l
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by Arn_Thor 3y ago
I suspect you’re right. From my hometown’s local waste authority: After [we have] collected the waste from your bin, the purple dotted bag [with plastic waste] is sent on for collection and pressing before being transported to large sorting

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