Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You're conflating two tangential things, automatic driving is automatic driving whether it's a car or a bus. The biggest issue that automatic driving needs to overcome is that it's sharing the road with manually driven cars.
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>they are very much not specific to one culture. It's American culture. Or as Civilization would put it: We made them buy our blue jeans and listen to our pop music. Note: I disagree with all the other points like "ugly" a
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>while it being replaced by robots may be better for society as a whole (if one follows the belief that all work should be done by machines so that humans can follow their individual interests) While "robots" are a fairly recen
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>only one that's good and built by a nonprofit. Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit.
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I have no links handy, but practically every report by NHK and other outlets all come to the same conclusion that medical workers are leaving the industry and newcomers (medical students) aren't coming in because the pay is too low for
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Doctors and nurses are paid too much in this country. Pharmaceuticals charge too much. Be very careful what you wish for. Japan has been suffering a chronic and severe shortage of doctors and other medical staff because pay is too low
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Considering Windows and then iOS were smashing surprise success stories, vehicles defined by software probably is barking up the right tree. The problem is whether the barking is effective.
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>Well we were talking about the government being bad, so are you agreeing with me here or disagreeing? Government is merely an expression of the underlying society and culture. >When you say "Japan thinks", do you mean gover
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>knowledge accumulated and scientists / engineers created from them can bring success to other areas Japanese companies and institutions hate sharing knowledge (read: trade secrets) with each other.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>A chip factory in bumfuck Hokkaido, really? Indeed: Rapidus in Chitose, Hokkaido. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14851046
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm all for letting Intel die if all we get with government subsidies are more layoffs and spinoffs. Fuck that noise. Note that Japan isn't exactly gleaming either; I personally don't believe their chip ventures in Hokkaido a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Space Shuttle (and now SLS) SRBs always dropped into the ocean for recovery after the fact.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Any monies donated in excess of what is needed to provide the service through to 16th March 2025 will be spent personally on unnecessary bike gear or astrophotography equipment, but more likely on my transition costs as being transfemme
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Work, living, house chores, social obligations, basically being a functioning and self-sufficient adult member of society.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The Cold War seemed to set humanity back by a many decades Landing men on the Moon was just one of many battles fought in the Cold War. If anything, the conclusion of the Cold War combined with all subsequent wars America was involved i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
At least in the US, legislation for age verification already exists and it actually far predates social media: COPPA[1]. It is, however, seldom actually enforced due largely to the impracticality and inconvenience of the matter. The law als
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It is worth noting that the Constitution itself states (interpreted as stating) that Constitutional rights only apply to US nationals/citizens (which the Constitution derives powers from) and only those residing within US sovereign jur
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think you're trying to read too much between the lines. When I say I'm tired, I mean literally so. I have lots of joys in life even if it's not as wonderous anymore; lots of things I want to do. The problem is I don't
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>On another hand - my 20yo self wouldn't have believed my 40yo self - some things you just have to live through. As Otto Von Bismarck once said: "Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.&quo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>these limitations seem rather self imposed. Simply put, aging is a bitch. I can't pull all-nighters or concentrate as hard as I could in my youth anymore, among many other things, and I'm more or less constantly exhausted simp
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm 35, I consider myself old. Why? Objectively speaking, I simply can't do what I could during my 10s and 20s anymore. It's a fundamental change from becoming able to do more things as I got older, now I can do less things a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As the US Air Force once demonstrated, there is no such thing as the average man. On average coffee is good, but you are not the average man.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Amusing joke, but it actually is effectively called the 586 because the internal name is P5 and Penta from which Pentium is derived is 5.[1] Incidentally, Pentium M to Intel Core through 16th gen Lunarrow Lake all identify as P6 ("Fami
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Maybe the market is telling us that we don't need so many cuisines. Think about it: There are probably 100+ distinct cuisines in the world. How many people have tried every single one? How many people have gotten tired of a substan
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This reminds me of a plot twist from Gundam 00 , where a device whose nature is absolute radar stealth via radio absorption is detected by flipping the situation: Saturate an area with radio waves and look for silent spots, the stealthy Gu
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There is a reason I didn't link your comment, though I'm not sure if you realize we are in agreement: Slashing Social Security and Medicare (along with Health) would go a long way towards balancing the sheets. But of course, even
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>The one that annoys me is handsets using proprietary batteries and charging. You can squarely blame Japan for that hellscape of a mess. Nowadays we like egging Apple for their proprietary shenanigans, but they are actually nothing com
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>The federal government budget is not a household budget. There's no such thing as having money or not having money. Entire countries default fairly often, the USA is no exception if such a fate befalls us. We've already had ou
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A person can't choose for himself when or even if to come into existence in this world. In an era when human rights are considered sacred above all, it is hypocritical to me that a person can't decide for himself when he wants to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Probably because the incoming administration actually has credible possibility of firing public servants who just steal and waste tax dollars. For once in the modern(?) history of the Republican party, the incoming administration is hell

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