DubiousPusher

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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
My reply was strictly in regards to > Yeah completely agree that price is decoupled from quality nowadays In the world of physic tools, price and quality are highly coupled. To your other points, I honestly think fashion is very rewardin
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In the world of fashion perhaps. In the world of tools, absolutely not.
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> I once read an article that argued in the absence of war, it's impossible to tell if a doctrine or commander is good or not. I would argue even more drastically that, a commander or doctrine is only as good as the war they are in.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> But because the leaders of a country like Venezuela know that, they may well try to avoid developing their country into such a weak state in the first place. Sure, bribery and corruption are fun, but only if you live long enough to use
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
By "biggest material impact", I didn't mean the sector that uses the most material. I meant it was the sector that would experience the biggest impact in a real material way, which would be hard to mitigate. Obbiosl computing
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Yes. Disposable plastic packaging should be banned.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> Without PFAS there would be no production of modern electronic devices, so no computers and no mobile phones. Uh, yup. That in no way contradicts what I said. > Nevertheless, unlike with PFAS used in things like clothes, kitchenware
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I didn't say a damn thing about the state of chemistry in the 1940s. My point was that it's silly to claim the absence of PFAS or plastics would cause societal collapse when we have a ready image of our civilization without plasti
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I think the biggest material impact for any curb on plastics would largely be felt in medicine. Disposability is huge in preventing infection. Also, many medical implants rely on the combination of elasticity and strength found in plastics.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> IF we eliminated all PFAS chemicals today, society would collapse. I think this is a failure of imagination. The modern world, largely as we appreciate it today, existed in 1940 in Europe and the U.S. That is well before the widespread
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Yeah, which is why I qualified my post in the first sentence. Maybe they should've titled it, "Was Postwar Modern Art a CIA Psyop" but obviously that's just not as clickable.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I know they are trying to create a catchy headline but just to be 100% clear, Modernism as a movement predates the existence of the CIA by > 50 years. Modernism in music, literature, art and architecture appears around the end of the 19t
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
The search in Google Keep is fantastic and thus I do not use my notes in this way. Before embarking upon any project I search my notes for keywords related to it and often turn up measurements, material suggestions and instructional links t
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And 'Le Samourai' for that matter. Great flick!
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I remember watching Adrei Rublev for the first time, getting more and more pissed the whole time. It wasn't the technique. I had already seen Solaris. It was the hapless passiveness of the main character. However, the bell making seque
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I've never built a font. I had no idea you could do something procedural with them like this. I always assumed they were just a bunch of glyphs in a file.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
You know what I mean.
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It's weird but there used to be a lot of private roads. I hope one day we'll see private internet infrastructure as just as weird.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
It's hard to remember but this is the level of tech discourse in 2010. Though I guess it's not any better now. https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Yes. I got very involved in my local district party a few years back. Probably the most powerful and effective organ of this party was its endorsements committee. I found it staggeringly depressing that round after round of endorsements wen
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> There are always at least two parties involved in a war, an aggressor and a defendant. There are many wars where multiple sides are belligerent. There are wars where a side manages to profit or benefit from a conflict without appearing
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
Yeah. I think that a lot of these changes after 1940 are much more to do with socio/political factors than growth. By 1940 you have the GDP to support a middle class. It's the collective experience of the Great Depression, WWII an
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I recommend checking out the fantastic, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth". The book provides very strong evidence that the era of American growth which produced our modern standard of living starts in 1870 and actually ends i
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I think it's complicated. I don't think Butler believed that every single war was unjustified. When reading 'War is a Racket', you have to look at the context of war in which we lived. He was too young to fight in the Am
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> standing armies Armies yes. Standing, not so much no. Human history is 100,000-200,000 years. That would be < 3% of human history. To do this, humans had to invent pre-feudal client/vassal networks of specialized food producer
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
> We can fill our stomachs in 5 minutes That is not at all now it has gone for most of human history. Feudalism and its ancient world precursors, an entire religious-social-economic system of vassalage, was necessary concentrate the tiny
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
I imagine that they will go after the source. Basically Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft will have to hide the app in their respective stores for Montana users. That is, if there isn't an injunction before it even goes anywhere.
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This is why the "legislating from the bench" criticism always fell flat for me. America's legislative branch has been deadlocked for 40 years. History abhors a power vacuum. When one exists, the neighboring institutions will
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US needs an open software and open hardware mandate.
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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
How recently have you used a government website? Most of them are pretty good. They often don't look great but they're usually highly functional. And the ones that do get modernized are actually usually quite good.

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