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by Dig1t 3y ago
lol I don’t know if anyone knows what a Geo Metro is anymore, but I agree with your analogy :) Maybe a Corolla would be more relatable nowadays.
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by Dig1t 3y ago
This is the most advanced rocket ever built, far superior to anything any government has ever created. It’s a technological marvel and represents progress for the entire species. You’re depriving yourself of the opportunity to appreciate a
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by Dig1t 3y ago
We are planning to have kids soon and I am seriously considering homeschooling for this reason. I also had a terrible experience with school growing up myself. It managed to make me hate learning for a long time, and I had to undo a lot of
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by Dig1t 3y ago
We can, and must, do both. Solar and wind are awesome, but they are not dispatchable like nuclear is. They are not available when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. We have enough nuclear fuel to power all of human civilizati
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by Dig1t 3y ago
These things are capable of being wrong and malicious in every way that a human can. To me it doesn’t really seem like news. A human is capable of creating a dataset to support a false conclusion, are we really surprised that an AI model ca
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Mostly this is silly, props for making it just like the communicator from Star Trek TNG. I can only think of one use case that would be awesome that I couldn’t get with an iPhone: automatic food tracking. Having a camera mounted near your n
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by Dig1t 3y ago
The key difference between governments and Visa/Mastercard is that the government has the monopoly on violence. They can force you to do things, with guns. Giving them direct control over your day to day spending is a solid step toward
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by Dig1t 3y ago
The people on the zoning board are homeowners in the city! Of course they are going to zone things so that their neighborhood never changes. This is how it works in 99% of cities in the US and it’s terrible.
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by Dig1t 3y ago
I would love to hear an explanation as to why that makes a difference?
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by Dig1t 3y ago
SpaceX is "ours" in the exact same way as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc. It's a company run by Americans in America. Even more so than the other companies I listed because all of the manufacturing is also done here.
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by Dig1t 3y ago
It also takes extra fuel to land an airplane. Does it make sense to just throw the whole plane away after one use to save the extra landing fuel?
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by Dig1t 3y ago
I personally have good internet access because of Starlink. Before that I had very poor options. Living outside of a metro area is a nightmare for internet access. People living in cities take it for granted but it's a complete game ch
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by Dig1t 3y ago
LED bulbs are naturally way better. People install them in their house because they last longer and a simple calculation tells you that they are a better value. Also they are safer because of reduced operating heat. The government doesn’t n
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Everyone knows they are spending way more on food. The CPI inflation numbers feel like a lie.
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Why does this site always captcha loop on my phone?
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by Dig1t 3y ago
I have good internet because of Starlink. Before I had absolutely terrible options and there was no hope on the horizon. Starlink specifically is very good for the world, it's giving rural people access to the full experience of the in
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Are you really suggesting drone striking data centers? What about running AI models on personal hardware? Are we going to require that everyone must have a chip installed in their computer that will report to the government illegal AI softw
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by Dig1t 3y ago
This is probably not going to go well because good-faith discussions on this topic are pretty hard to have, but here goes. Government regulations often represent losses of liberty when applied to individual citizens. The government has a mo
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Solar and wind are great, we should continue to build that stuff. But also "have ever been" is the key part of your message. The cost of nuclear is based on technology from the 1960's. There have been no new reactor designs s
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Fair enough, I'm just generally frustrated at the doom and gloom. I don't think putting everyone into a constant state of panic is the right approach at all, we need to be inspired to build and be creative, not fearful and depress
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Literally billions have been, and are being, spent on electrification. Solar, wind etc have had a ridiculous amount of investment. Yet the one technology that could actually solve this problem (nuclear energy) is off the table for some reas
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by Dig1t 3y ago
I’m not denying climate change is real. But we’ve been hearing “just x years left until catastrophe” for decades now. It always results in higher taxes, fewer freedoms, and the crisis never abates. If you live in a constant state of emergen
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by Dig1t 3y ago
>Non-soldered storage. Seriously. Storage is the most likely component to fail. SSDs only have so many write cycles. One thing to note is the quality of Apple’s storage is above and beyond anything else you can buy. They have teams at ev
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by Dig1t 3y ago
>I don't take the "kill spray" approach to interviewing Sadly this is the only option nowadays if you seriously want a job. Instead of the interviewee being picky and only selecting the jobs they think nicely fit their per
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by Dig1t 3y ago
>Shutdown the Sacramento data center and re-provisioned the 5,200 racks and 148,000 servers, which generated more than $100M in annual savings. In total, we freed up 48 MW of capacity and tore down 60k lbs. of network ladder rack before
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by Dig1t 3y ago
In the middle of the ARPANET map at the beginning, there's a node right in the middle called "SCOTT". I tried Googling for what this node was and didn't come up with much. Why was the node called Scott? Was it run by a g
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Well said, this is not a black and white issue. Also prop 13 was a proposition, which means it was the result of a popular vote put directly to the people. The California proposition system is one of the most democratic institutions in the
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Catalytic converter theft is so common in Southern California, it happened to my mom twice. It's so upsetting because she doesn't have very much money and it's expensive to get a new one. It really hurts to be hit with a rand
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by Dig1t 3y ago
I know a 26 year old guy who died of heart failure after getting his. It was a huge shock because he was a really healthy guy.
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by Dig1t 3y ago
Science and exploration are not “needless bullshit”. They are the most important and meaningful that thing humans do.

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