Kadin

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by Kadin 9y ago
It used to, but the current administration is intentionally handing the control of various regulatory agencies over to the industries that they regulate. There is little reason in trying to argue with those in charge of the FCC, EPA, etc.,
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I'm sure lots of people do that, but it's actually easier with the streaming services to listen to an entire album than it was a few years ago when iTunes 99c/song was the dominant model. Pay-per-song encouraged playlists and
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> Lots of problems to be solved back then, but Bitcoin is just the same now. Nothing was solved. No progress Oh, it's way worse than that. Now, a small country's worth of electricity is consumed every day to no end at all, exc
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Lots of things are done because there's a broad consensus opinion that it's a good idea. There is nothing intrinsically bad about that, and needless or baseless skepticism is often counterproductive and paralyzing, leading to ina
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by Kadin 9y ago
It's not impossible, but: 1. It's expensive, and that cost doesn't work out when you have petroleum available as a fuel and can just carry your own energy supply around easily in a small tank under the passenger compartment.
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Those are both nonrenewable, use-once resources with fixed (on human timescales) supplies. Metals are different; they're not really consumed, just tied up in manufactured products during the life of that product. After the product&#x2
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Yeah I didn't really get it. It sounds like there's a lot of nickel, just not ... as much cheap nickel as we'd like? Or maybe as much as some people who own certain nickel mines would like? I'm not sure. It's lik
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Because cars. I mean, there's pages and pages to write, but basically it boils down to that. The bicycle existed before the car, will probably exist after it, but at least when cars and fuel was cheap, people preferred cars. So the i
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> unauthorized tampering The rub is in who is doing the authorization? Increasingly it's the manufacturer, not the user. That is a gaping chasm of a difference. I don't think many people really want to punt on that to the manu
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> consumers have chosen with their wallets on this one. There are plenty of situations where we do not simply let the default selection made by consumers stand, because often that choice is suboptimal or intensely shortsighted. Particul
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In most states, when a corporation is dissolved, there's a period of time for creditors to submit claims, and then those claims are paid out, and then any remaining assets are distributed to company owners (shareholders). I don't
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It does work on Windows, but it's a pretty unpleasant process, particularly if that's your only reason for installing Ruby (i.e. you aren't doing any actual Ruby development and just want to run the site generator). I was col
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I think that Liquid, the template language used by Jekyll and some other products, is designed to basically be that. https://shopify.github.io/liquid/ The problem is that it's written in Ruby and therefore most im
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This is why I'll never buy a DAC that doesn't have a headphone monitor output on the front panel! The performance of low-latency audio has gotten worse over time, not better, at least on the Mac. (It was better under OS 9 than a
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Super Hexagon is akin to "sight reading" or performing music "a prima vista", while DDR as played by most players is a type of rehearsed musical performance (or, well, dance, I suppose). Being able to play a prima vista
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I would turn off the water lines as well. On the chance the house doesn't burn but is damaged, preventing water damage and flooding may make some property significantly more salvageable. (Unless the house has sprinklers, of course, or
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I think it'd be much preferable to turn the power off before leaving.
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> However, I raise another point, wouldn't then these people who are made jobless due to technology, etc. be again powerless and unable to stop tyranny or autocracy in a without-UBI scenario [...] I think this is a pretty good point
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Fascinating! I am something of an amateur baker and I'd never heard of it. I assume it comes from periods of high wheat prices, since it also heavily uses rye? Sadly rye (which I have something of a personal taste for, mostly in whis
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> From a "fair" point of view, the industries trying to hire engineers should fund education. At least at some points in the past, this was a significant funding source for universities. (In the US, not sure about outside of i
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You could do that, I suppose, but the ability to pay back the loan and the downstream income potential of the graduate are likely to be very strongly correlated to the student's financial background (really, their family's financi
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> Why does a government structured around the economic activity of its voters suddenly become tyrannical and dysfunctional when when most of them are no longer productive? Because those people wield the power in the relationship, by virt
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The schools would undoubtedly respond that in doing so, they would necessarily have to stop educating people from anything less than the most privileged (and thus low-risk) backgrounds. You'd need to cook up some sort of risk-pooling s
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The higher cost of delivering classes with a lab component is generally solved via lab fees. This seems a much better solution than raising the cost per credit hour. Also, some STEM-type departments get grants (public and private) at a rat
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Makes some sense. As a result of fast-growing corn, areas previously planted to wheat are switching to corn instead. This has increased the supply, and thus decreased the price, of corn -- but wheat, on the other hand, would see a corresp
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Insofar as an OS is really a visible middleware layer that lets you run application software and manage files, I don't know if the lack of applications can be hand-waved away; that's a very tough nut to crack. Though, for develope
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The hardware/software integration is a big part of it, it's not just the software. Linux attempts a much harder task than MacOS, in trying to be compatible with a wide variety of hardware. That it's even considered remotely
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I've been a Mac user for decades and I think I'm reaching the end of the line; it's always been just enough of a better overall experience to keep me paying the "Apple tax" over Linux on commodity x86 hardware, but
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Well, it was . I think the high water mark for MacOS as a Unix-with-a-nice-UI will, in retrospect, be back around 10.8 or 10.10. The latest iterations have been stagnation in most respects, except for iOS-like functionality that's b
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> sadly the only mailing-list software for windows/exchange i found was commercial, expensive and will be a hard sell ... Not that I am campaigning against Topicbox, but I think it's worth making clear that just because your em

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