Elyra

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by Elyra 2y ago
> Because they lobby against advancement of renewable energy? Almost the opposite, look up the "solar not nuclear" campaign by oil heat institute. > More likely because others lobby against nuclear energy. Exactly this. Oil
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by Elyra 2y ago
> Nowadays computers are almost never shared. I find it ironic that Google TV still does not have this feature, it is the one "computer" that people probably still share regularly. Sure you can login to multiple accounts and ha
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by Elyra 2y ago
Same here, I have them set as my charity through Amazon smile and humble bundle
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by Elyra 2y ago
It's the exact same issue with nuclear power vs fossil fuels.
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by Elyra 3y ago
But if you want to live like someone from 30 years ago, you would need to work 100 hours/week. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a home even half as good as the one I grew up in (in Canada).
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by Elyra 3y ago
Yep, relevant discussion if you haven't seen it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446790 Here's hoping I get to be one of those people who can relocate from Toronto next.
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by Elyra 3y ago
Yep, for me Plex is the solution that "just works". I eventually got annoyed that my 4 subscriptions costing $80/month only having 2-4 of the shows I wanted to watch every month, with the other 1-3 not being available to lega
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by Elyra 3y ago
I agree with not trying to over penalize low income people in the absence of damage, but I think the other purpose is to act as a sort of insurance for the ones that were unlucky where the same act did cause damage larger than they can affo
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by Elyra 3y ago
Exactly, landlords will be working 0.5 days and renters will be working 5-6 days. So I guess they were actually right if they meant 3.5 days on average. I rent a very basic one bedroom in an awful location which costs more than half my afte
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by Elyra 3y ago
> 2.3 cents The exaggeration isn't even necessary, this is like a $1 fine for someone who makes $100k/yr and $30k on hand. I've had parking tickets which cost more for things which weren't even my fault (missing signa
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by Elyra 3y ago
> Comparatively, immigrants don’t have the purchasing power to compete What makes you say that? As someone who's currently dating a Chinese immigrant I have been made aware of an entire world I didn't know existed. They often h
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by Elyra 3y ago
I've been on Google phones since the first nexus, with the exception of a single Samsung before swearing them off due to bloatware and awful performance degradation, despite being twice the price of the nexus, and am finally tempted to
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by Elyra 3y ago
don't forget about household debt exceeding GDP, with the housing market just being a ponzi scheme held up by a combination of foreign investors, immigrants, and a lack of new construction.
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by Elyra 3y ago
This is also how I interpreted it, which I take it is probably incorrect and would like to know why.
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by Elyra 3y ago
I find it perplexing that some people can accept the 2-million-year recovery time for coral reefs, yet outraged due to Chernobyl's 24,110-year recovery [1]. If we had switched to nuclear we would be in much better shape. [1] https:&#x
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by Elyra 3y ago
I couldn't find anything for Greenpeace, but I did find Friends of the Earth (which like Greenpeace, also split from Sierra Club), was split off "because of the [Sierra Club's] positive approach to nuclear energy. The foundin
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by Elyra 3y ago
It's a distraction from the real problem by playing on people's fears in a way they can better understand. I see some parallels with how the fear of nuclear power was used as a distraction for the real issue of CO2 and fossil fuel
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by Elyra 3y ago
> Either branch name is a fine choice. It just completely doesn't matter and pretending that it has any positive impact or meaningful change on the racism and discrimination faced by Black people in America is insulting. It's p
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by Elyra 3y ago
Having supportive parents is a privilege I wish I had.
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by Elyra 4y ago
Exactly, and the reason why they're cheaper now is because it's easier to dump their externalities on developing countries with lax environmental policy, whereas nuclear has unreasonably strict safety requirements which drive up c
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by Elyra 4y ago
I agree, and personally found it upsetting once when someone who was from a relatively well off family tried shaming me for using the term slave in my code. I'm of Ukrainian descent, and my grandfather was separated from his family at
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by Elyra 4y ago
> It's xkcd's, all the way down. Forgot your link [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1416/
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by Elyra 4y ago
Not sure if you'll see this, but I stand corrected, just received a test alert on my new pixel 7 despite having those turned off. I used to not receive those (or they were at least silent, I forget since I didn't receive any in at
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by Elyra 4y ago
They're also very distracting while driving, especially if you're relying on maps since they cover the entire screen.
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by Elyra 4y ago
I wonder then if it's an error on the providers side? Because I had Extreme and Severe on, AMBER and Test off, and Vibration On (under alert preferences for wireless emergency alerts). The only other data points I have are iPhone users
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by Elyra 4y ago
Ontario
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by Elyra 4y ago
Which provider are you with? They show up as Amber alerts for me and can be disabled from my unlocked pixel (stock os, not rooted) with bell. I have confirmed this by being with other people when an alert happened to go off. Usually though
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by Elyra 4y ago
I don't know which phone you're using, but on my pixel if I have my ringer volume on silent, and the phone on "do not disturb" mode, amber alerts come in silent. I'm not sure which one, or the combination actually s
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by Elyra 4y ago
This feels like a variation of the trolly problem where currently we're on one that's killing millions (fossil fuels), and everyone is afraid to pull the lever for one that kills a handful because it has the unreasonable requireme
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by Elyra 4y ago
I'm sorry, I should have clarified that my criticism was that these sorts of tools often get recommended as a security tool that can protect you from malware/spyware. There are still valid use cases for it like what TripMode for M

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