TheCoelacanth

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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Certainly not per capita.
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
The past is the past. I think it's more important what choices they are making now. China is aggressively replacing fossil fuels with renewables. The US should be doing the same but instead is actively trying to increase fossil fuel us
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Terra Ignota is one of the most unique and extraordinary series I've ever read. It's so rare to find something that combines meticulous and expansive worldbuilding, deep exploration of big ideas, strong emotional resonance and fin
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Yeah, and you have to keep in mind that "human" in the Culture is an extremely broad category. A Klingon or a Ferengi or even something substantially weirder would count as human to the Culture. When they visit 1970s Earth in Sta
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
It's not explicitly stated, but I get the impression that Culture citizens are generally very pro-social and willing to sacrifice for others' benefits and may well have been engineered with that aim. They were willing to sacrifice
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
This is more about the trajectory. China is all-in on building renewables while the current US administration is pushing hard for more coal even when it doesn't make economic sense.
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Nuclear made a lot more sense back when solar panels and batteries were less mature. With how insanely cheap solar and batteries are getting, it doesn't make much financial sense to build new nuclear plants anymore (for grid generation
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Genuine question: I think making things worse to motivate later making them better is a relatively common idea. Are there any historical examples of it actually working well? To me, it seems more likely to concentrate power among people who
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by TheCoelacanth 11d ago
Yeah, you have to conjure a really weird scenario for there to be any advantage. Something like waiting until male puberty is already pretty far along and doing extensive strength training and then transitioning and competing immediately in
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by TheCoelacanth 12d ago
It's insane to expect people to move to a different country with zero days notice.
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by TheCoelacanth 16d ago
Railways have always been prone to failure, even in back when rail was the hot new technology transforming the economy and minting fortunes.
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by TheCoelacanth 16d ago
A lot of that isn't the drivers; it's the roads being designed for speed and traffic volume ahead of safety.
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by TheCoelacanth 16d ago
That's extreme and unusual prosecutorial overreach to the point that it's making national news. It's also unlikely that she will be convicted since VA passed a law in 2023 that makes it explicit that parents are allowed to le
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by TheCoelacanth 17d ago
I'm pretty sure they didn't think the reaction would be perpetual; just long-lasting enough to wipe out life on Earth.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Forgot to add salt? Does that actually happen? A chef forgetting to add salt sounds like a photographer forgetting to use a camera.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
The goal isn't to cause real damage. It's to be a persistent thorn in their side and make the cameras more trouble than they're worth. There are a lot more of us than them. If 1% of Americans cover up 1 camera every six month
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I don't think prosecutors generally are very motivated to pursue tiny misdemeanor fines unless they have slam dunk evidence. As far as I can tell, the most likely charges for the garbage bag strategy where I'm located would be a m
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
In general, there is not. For the border search exemption to allow a warrantless search of a citizen, the only legitimate grounds are preventing countraband from entering the country.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
The border search exemption can't be used for general purpose law enforcement; only for determining if the person should be allowed to enter the country (inapplicable to citizens) and for preventing countraband from entering the countr
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
If the police have to send someone around uncovering cameras every few days, then that does send a political message.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
> While the Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, it applies to only two interests: promoting the duty regime and preventing contraband from entering the country; and e
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
The GPL requires use of a medium customarily used for software interchange; not a medium that used to be customarily used for software interchange. It's not customary to mail software on disks anymore so it doesn't fulfill the GPL
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
GPL requires that source code be in the preferred form for making modifications. If you use source control for your own modifications, then that's obviously the preferred form and you must distribute the source in that form.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Arguably, they aren't even distributing the source code at all anymore. The GPL defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". I would be willing to bet any amount of money
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I'm not really sold on the idea of private prisons in general, but if we're going to have them it should at least be the prisoner's choice. Unaccountable private prisons that are also a government enforced monopoly is just th
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Billionaires with a b. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Tax all of them. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
That sounds dystopian as fuck.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I'm not saying it's not hard; I'm saying it's not a competitive moat. There are hundreds if not thousands of companies that successfully run streaming services and I doubt that any of them are more worried about the tech
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
They need to read some Clausewitz even more badly. No matter how powerful your military is, you can't win a war unless you have a political objective that is possible to achieve via the war.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Browsers would work as a separate business if we stopped the anti-competitive practice of giving them away for free as a way to prevent competition in your other lines of business.

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