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by CrossVR 2y ago
> In hindsight, it was premature by Germany to shut down theirs so early What hindsight? Everyone knew at the time that it was premature. It was a deliberate choice to bear the burden of increased pollution and to make the country more
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> Throwing up your arms and saying "well we can't tax the rich, they're too powerful and wily, and will easily commit tax fraud to evade those taxes, and in actuality you'll bring in less money" is exactly the we
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by CrossVR 2y ago
There were non-MAGA republicans who still held Reagan-era values about freedom and democracy.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
A non-profit foundation is allowed to earn revenue from a product. It just can't transfer that revenue to the owners of the foundation or spend it on dividends.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
I think it goes further than just bad communication though. This policy is the typical cover-your-ass method of giving yourself as broad of a license to user data as legally possible. An organization like Mozilla should take a stance and do
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by CrossVR 2y ago
If Spotify was properly paying its share of royalty fees to the artists I don't think it violates any regulations that they used pirated versions of the music. It's simply more convenient for Spotify because they don't have t
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Switzerland has a strong permit system allowing the government to control who can purchase a firearm. Automatic firearms and concealed carry permits are given sparingly and only for a good reason. Basically unlike the U.S. Switzerland doesn
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> Has the US fallen much in education quality in absolute terms? Or just relative to other countries? And how does that map relative to the percentage of the population being educated at that level? Those are fair questions that I don&#x
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Back when I worked on the MPC-HC project we found a bug in the Visual Studio MSVC compiler. When we upgraded from VS2010 to VS2012 subtitles would fail to render. We eventually traced it down to a small for loop that added 0.5 to double mem
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by CrossVR 2y ago
The quality of high school educations have fallen, which is the most important to develop critical thinking. This is measurable when the education level of U.S. high school students is compared in global rankings. On top of that social medi
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by CrossVR 2y ago
To answer that question in the context of Vulkan I highly recommend reading the proposal document for VK_EXT_shader_object which contains a great explanation in the problem statement about how modern graphics APIs ended up in this situation
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by CrossVR 2y ago
You are entirely correct, however most consumers would take the loss and discard the data rather than replace a drive controller or salvage the platters. That's something they would need to hire an expensive data recovery service for.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
There is an important difference in failure modes between HDDs and SSDs for consumers though. An SSD that fails is likely to go into a read-only mode that still allows you to recover your data. The only way to recover your data from a HDD f
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Yeah I don't think I can take much more disruption. I'd like some stability more than anything right now.