Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>"stop using Chrome, Google is evil, use Firefox" is enough to overcome the market dominance of a monopoly like Google's That is exactly how Firefox slew Internet Explorer.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Chrome won because it was more performant (read: only point of interest for Joe Average) and it was modern and cool (read: only point of interest for nerds). Firefox failed because it stagnated on performance and code quality (read: memory
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>the US purposefully left the Emperor in place with only a slap on the fingers This was a deliberate political decision in an effort to not repeat the grave mistake of how post-WW1 Germany was handled which essentially led to WW2. Denyin
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm Japanese-American, so I can throw two cents in your hat. Post-war Japan is against nuclear weapons to an absolute, but it must be admitted that the response to nukes in particular is just as much a kneejerk reaction. NHK literally
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I agree. I've been to the Hiroshima Peace Park or whatever it's called in English numerous times, but I can't say I've been anymore moved by it than any other demonstration of human brutality. I can't register a dif
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Obama is by far the most vapid recipient of the award, but I wonder if he is also the best representative for the lack of peace given his legacy of "Yes we can, (but we don't)." The reason we seemingly can't have peace i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Japan's national security policy is hypocritical given that it relies solely on the US nuclear umbrella for security despite disavowing anything to do with nuclear weapons, but unfortunately reality is not ideality. Ukraine is the perf
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For those who don't RTFA and just see the headline: "Floss" as in FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software), not Floss as in the teeth-cleaning instrument.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The likelihood an American will read something decreases with each word written. Seriously: We hate reading. The fewer words the better.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Here's something to blow your mind: Most Americans are not literate. Yes, I'm serious and I say that as a fellow American. We are not literate. So use as few words as possible and a date. Honestly we could probably do without the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Meanwhile in Maine, you're questioning the sanity of Californians.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
"Clear English" is using as few words as possible.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>However, educating that your food isn't instantly bad when it's gone pass would encourage people to waste less food. If there's a date then frankly I don't want to waste brain cycles thinking if something in the fr
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Depending on who you ask, flour isn't food. I consider them crazies in the same vein as vegetarians who judge whether something is a vegetable based on how cute it looks.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I mean, I'm here typing with my left hand.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You're certainly wasting everyone else's time, you don't even know why credit cards have interest rates as high as they do. (No, it's not to prey on low income people.)
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Maybe my choice of words was insufficient, my apologies. What I mean is making money off of interest is not their first choice. Interest money is not guaranteed, there is no collateral securing that debt. If the debtor (card holder) can&#x2
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I mean, I'm in the 12% tax bracket and handling my credit cards just fine. Then again, I'm also accumulating some savings and not spending my entire paycheck let alone beyond my means. If you are paying interest on credit cards, t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I am really happy and uplifted that people expose Mozilla's wrongdoing I remember up until around 10 to 15 years ago when Mozilla enjoyed seemingly limitless good will from basically anyone who had anything to do with computers. No
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If you're paying interest on your credit card, you're using them wrong. (Sole exception given to spend done out of duress, that balance should be paid ASAP but you may be excused because something had to give.)
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Classism exists basically everywhere. The most obvious example is the country bumpkin, he's gonna have a hard time impressing a metropolitan.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>collectivism and subservience towards authority figures are taught as virtues Remind me to never fly on a plane piloted by an Indian flight crew. (Protip: If you can't stand up to your captain, your plane is going down.)
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Sincerely, please stop talking nonsense. Renewables can be a complement to other power sources, but to even suggest they can be a "replacement" for nuclear power indicates either naivety or ignorance.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
" Most of the video you encode ..."
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You're essentially arguing that kitchen knives should be banned because a small handful of psychos will murder someone with them. That isn't how this works.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better. That was the case up to like 5 to 10 years ago. These days it's all hardware encoded and hardware decod
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Also weird that it's framed as a "gift." https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... >The
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Characterizing the failure of politicians as a failure of nuclear power is the error in logic I am talking about.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>why was the system set up such that it was not already clearly defined For the simple reason that the 3/11 Tohoku Earthquake defied and rewrote essentially all the geological/maritime scientific and political expectations up t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Congratulations, you're armpits-deep in the Japanese political propaganda machine. PM Naoto Kan infamously declared "I know nuclear!" in unilaterally ordering TEPCO around during the crisis and ultimately denying their requ

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