EricE

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by EricE 2y ago
No kidding. The amount of gaslighting in this piece is excessive, even for the NYT.
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by EricE 2y ago
Amen!
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by EricE 2y ago
Not exactly new behavior! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK01HhyOGA
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by EricE 2y ago
lol - check again. As others pointed out it's just about assured your car has an embedded cellular modem and is spying on you unless you explicitly opt out. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figu
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by EricE 2y ago
around 2010 just about every car started to come with an embedded cellular modem. If your car offers any sort of remote start, SOS or concierge functionality, it's infected. And car companies have been caught selling driving data to
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by EricE 2y ago
The cheapest truck I could find is from Nissan - the Frontier, starting at $30K. Luckily it's a darn good truck/platform!
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by EricE 2y ago
Yup - nothing to compute!
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by EricE 2y ago
Ha! https://9gag.com/gag/avOj8WE
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by EricE 2y ago
It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS. https://medium.com/adevinta-tech-blog/its-not-always-dns-unl...
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by EricE 2y ago
No child left behind was the most disastrous cancer to infect public education. We should absolutely segregate the kids who don't want to learn from those who do, instead of dumbing them all down.
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by EricE 2y ago
Indeed. Fear = control Control = power
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by EricE 2y ago
Historical precedent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK01HhyOGA
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by EricE 2y ago
Obsessing about mental health harms mental health? Who could have guessed!
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by EricE 2y ago
What could those investors see that they think the market in SF is "on the brink of recovery"? Must be some strong stuff they are smoking.
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by EricE 2y ago
"Like today, the industrial revolution included a period of time that saw many lose their jobs and a massive surge in inequality. It also lifted millions of others out of sustenance farming. Then again, it also propagated slavery, part
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by EricE 2y ago
Buying clothes at Costco is amazing - you just get a few of different sizes, try them on at home then return the ones you don't want later. Costco's return policy is one of the best things about them.
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by EricE 2y ago
There is a market but not enough profit in serving it, unfortunately. Maybe if more people were aware/cared there could be. There are car companies now bragging about retaining physical controls so there might be hope longer term. S
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by EricE 2y ago
Car company. On lowspeed, low priority connections (basically idle airtime) that are very cheap. Car companies also by airtime in bulk. If I'm ever (god forbid!) forced to buy a new car the first thing I will be doing is ripping out
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by EricE 2y ago
It's a horrible idea. In a crises the last thing you need to be doing is searching through pages of soft buttons looking for that critical control vs. reaching out to a physical control that's always in the same spot no matter wh
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by EricE 2y ago
Ah, the old argument that to end racism we must embrace noble bigotry. How about ignoring immutable characteristics, period, and picking solely on merit? I love other commenters mentioning removing personal characteristics such as name,
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by EricE 2y ago
A great list of alternatives has been floating around on Twitter after their AI debacle: https://twitter.com/WayneTalbot/status/1786703024330588237 I really enjoy the Affinity tools; they more than meet my modest
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by EricE 2y ago
These areas are going to burn - whether we like it or not. You can either do it routinely in a controlled manor, or stick your head in the sand and the suffer catastrophe when they do eventually go up.
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by EricE 2y ago
My personal favorite https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
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by EricE 2y ago
Speaking of China and new reactor designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqU5EPJSsM
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by EricE 2y ago
The majority of negative economics with nuclear are from asinine policy decisions as well as tilted markets with subsidies for other sources. Lithium reactors would burn fuel that we idiotically label as waste and try to bury. China has pi
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by EricE 2y ago
How's banning those assault knives going in London? Assault cars? Guns are far from the only way to kill people. The tools are the problem, the people wielding the tools are always the problem.
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by EricE 2y ago
>I agree that tax rates should be higher, Why? Why isn't reducing waste ever an option?
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by EricE 2y ago
That would require awareness it doesn't have - kind of the point of the article.
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by EricE 2y ago
Along the lines of this it reminds me of the people who obsessively baby things like phones so they can "preserve the resale value". Screw that. If someone wants a pristine phone they can buy a new one like I did. It's bonk
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by EricE 2y ago
An excellent commentary from an actual ships chief engineer for some great context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B9znFDwdBI

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