BRAlNlAC

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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
Really? this article[1] doesn't seem pro-Trump at all. [1] https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-...
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
>And you shouldn't need to use either daily in a civilized society. This is either some next-level elitism or a false argument. Does the recluse have no place in society? What about the logger, or the Tractor operator? What about t
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
While that is true, LA makes up a big portion of that "over 10%" hardly anyone in LA lives in anything remotely like high-density housing or lives there for much beyond the fantastic weather and job opportunities. Also, you don&#x
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
>I don't think c02 emissions represent the sum total of "evironmental impact" as was implied multiple times above. I completely agree. I'm also very reluctant to believe any report that estimates GHG emissions from in
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
>the c02 benefits of improved sales cycles or local agriculture vs global conglomerate food producers. Do you have any data to support the notion that there is a net CO2 benefit to localizing agriculture? Considering how impacted agricul
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
It's the same problem that you see in Japan to an even greater degree, consumers perceive packaging as giving the product added value, so market forces push high-end retailers away from no-packaging because it's associated with di
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
I think that the same people who do search and who do blogging shouldn't be allowed to leverage that data to sell ads. It's unethical. I also think that Google and any indexing service should be held accountable for linking to pir
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
maybe the problem is that google allows the quick indexing of all content produced on the web, including pirated content, and then uses a very opaque algorithm to guide users to sites. This has the externality of making ad-funded content ea
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
I like the union of concerned scientists, but the study that they cite on this is hot garbage, and they should be ashamed. https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life... a few quotes from the pdf
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
why is relocating smog and all of the industrial waste associated with the production of a new bus and bus batteries a "public benefit"? Diesel engines last a long time, as do bus bodies, I don't have first hand experience ma
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
Why do you think that likely? I don't think it is at all likely, the CIA et. al. like facebook too much.
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
The issue is Apple Maps is still far behind Google Maps. It is far behind Waze. It is not close and the gap grows This isn't true at all. When I was in Japan recently I was so grateful I owned an iPhone with Apple maps, as Google maps
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
I care about privacy in absolute terms. The difference to me, personally, between the advertisements I'm served after using AdNauseum and TMN running in a tab for 6 months vs the ads I was seeing using other blocking protocol (such as
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
Interested why you chose to focus solely on uBlock Origin as an alternative instead of something more forward thinking like AdNauseum?
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by BRAlNlAC 8y ago
The same way I 'volunteered' for Selective Service in the US when I was 18.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
You'll see municipalities and then states banning cars Which states? Maybe a few in New England, but I don't see that happening anywhere else. Counties perhaps, but there are rural areas pretty much everywhere, and people are goin
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>These people didn't see their jobs as unethical until someone really put a spotlight on what they do. That reflects a certain quality in the individual that I generally think of as bad, but I suppose may have some place in the grea
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
or, you know, just piss on the ground outside.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
I am partial to approach 2, although i live in the city and agree that it is rather backwards and impractical. I have a third approach that I use, I go on adventures. Whether its backpacking in the wilderness for a week, summiting a mountai
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
You only say that because your livelihood hasn't been ripped away from you by an algorithm.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>But it would also be a shame if it was changed because of a shooting. Well I put this 100% on the greed of Alphabet/Google. Building up a huge base of creators on your platform over the course of a decade, only to bow to advertiser
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
That's like saying there is no difference between a verbal description and a video of something.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
i watched a Cruise driver sit through multiple opportunities to make a left against traffic, until the light turned red and the traffic clear out complentely, basically wasting the green light. It was rather infuriating to watch, i joked to
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
Fair, but you are forgetting that this is California, so even though we are beginning construction in the 21st century all of the technological gains will be put toward safety and environmentalism, not efficiency or speed; we won't get
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
Why is pushing the market towards global adoption of USB-C anti-consumer? USB-C is one of the most consumer friendly innovations in a decade; I'm very pleased that Apple is pushing hard on its adoption.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
yeah, I think Xcode for iOS is going to be here sooner rather than later. They are already testing the water waters of compiling (I think) in Swift Playgrounds.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
>it's likely to kill productivity Possibly, but I don't think that arguments, even heated ones, aren't without benefits that may not be otherwise obtainable. Arguments require passion and commitment, you have to care about
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
I profoundly don't understand how someone can seriously advocate against estate tax. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
That doesn't really work though. If you earn 70k a year, $640 isn't a rounding error, that's still a significant part of your budget.
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by BRAlNlAC 9y ago
According to the article "Other emails obtained by The Times show Mr. Fletcher treated the incident as a bounty and encouraged Preacher to provide proof of the vulnerability, including sending a few lines of data from the database he h

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