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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Which is why coal power plants are being shuttered everywhere in favor of gas and renewables (and I suppose nuclear, sometimes).
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Nah; it's to prevent a country from developing a superweapon and possibly triggering WW3 / worldwide nuclear annihilation. This comment is very exaggerated, I can think of a few more "morally corrupt" things to do.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I'm not a runner at all, but people say that they can do that for like a minute, maybe two at best... and these guys did it for two hours straight.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
There's economic / capitalist pressure to reduce cost / increase revenue and optimize for short-term profits; that's on the corporate side, anyway. But applying the military hardware stuff to software is IMO a bit of a l
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
A shame, my first mechanical keyboard was a Filco Majestouch tenkeyless with cherry blue switches, I've used it as a daily driver since 2011 (I just checked when I bought it) and only replaced it a few months ago because some of the ke
696.
by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
And as always, too much of anything isn't good for you either. A sugary soda on occasion won't do much harm, but some have several a day or it's the only thing they will drink.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I want to say a "well duh", but it seems it's not common sense that too much of anything is generally bad for someone. (For science, I'll be a willing test subject to test whether "too much money" is bad for me
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
> But then again, aren’t we all. Yes, but being aware of it is powerful in itself. I think that in this case, read Orwell, but don't only read Orwell or base your entire viewpoint on his writing. Read many, read diversely, read fr
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I can't agree. Or, part of me wants to, but I know that the Powers That Be will push AI generated propaganda music pretend to be grassroots / "someone just like you", and / but pay to have it promoted. Avoid streami
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
And with AI ingesting said floods of information, there's less incentive to read as well. Case in point, I've let AI help me write some documentation; I'd probably end up writing just as much in the end so I don't think
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Not so much a trade war as basic economic forces, and it's been going on for much longer than that. When infrastructure improves, companies and customers can look further to get their stuff done. If it's cheaper to do your industr
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
It's probably a bit more nuanced than "half this, half that"; when you look at the facts, most voters aren't that extremist. A lot of votes vote one way or the other because they would simply never vote for the other. Th
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
For now indeed, the people that want to get rid of it are currently in power. The US was one of the first democracies in the world, and many countries followed suit. But the US hasn't kept up, and now the powers that be have exploited
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Moral stances aside, I'd argue it's healthy that the US gets competition from abroad. I appreciate the boost that the world is getting from China - infrastructure and construction projects are a huge benefit to economies. Their fo
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I can only applaud it, however the challenge will be to make it meet modern standards / requirements for things like emissions and safety.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
It's not really a new problem though, as image forgery was a thing ages ago; if there weren't laws or measures taken against photoshopped images or instagram filters or faceapp things then, why would there be laws or measures take
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Marketing 101. I don't go to concerts often, but there was one last year. Tickets for the thursday show were sold out within minutes, but oh look, they tried Really Hard and revealed they were going to do an EXTRA show on the Friday! (
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Oh I'm sure it'll happen, in like 30 years. After which they'll need to make it commercially viable, build power plants, etc. (also it was 30 years away, 30 year ago)
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Completely random fun fact, the word "flibe" means "spittle" / "drool" in (west) Frisian ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_languages ).
710.
by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
There are options to save extra for retirement, if you take a private pension or a bank account that you can't withdraw from until retirement for example; in that case, you don't pay wealth tax and only pay taxes when it starts pa
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
At this point I am losing faith in my (european) pension system; state pensions will get emptied out for the boomer generation currently enjoying the returns of the good times, private / employer paid for pensions will likely get raide
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
MS is doing just fine I'm sure
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Sure, but is it worth 60 billion?
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
And given the NES emulator example, take half an hour per frame.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I suspect (but am no expert) that the main arguments for integrated batteries are actually to extend the lifetime and sturdiness; drop your Nokia and there's a chance the battery pops out and gets damaged, drop it in the water and the
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
This is about extending the lifetime of a phone - it won't work properly, even with a powerbank, if the battery is EOL. The objective is to reduce e-waste, where phones whose only issue is the battery ends up in the trash / recycl
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Your government does have various authorities over what you put in your cupboards though. like, you can't just put a gun in there (actually I don't know where you live but that's true for most countries). You can't just
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
That's why a lot of apps have a secondary login (PIN code, biometrics).
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
in the Netherlands we have a better system called iDIN; it works like doing an online payment (iDeal / WERO): * Website asks for age verification * User is redirected to their bank * Bank asks the user to log in - username/passwor
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
That's a big "presumably", lots of teenagers go out you know.

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