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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Water is critical but not hard to get. The energy and cost required to take a m3 of dirty water and turn it into pure water is a rounding error compared to the energy required to hydrolyze it. Yes methane is an environmental problem, even s
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
If factories filled with civilians are fair game for conventional attacks in total war. Why not cyber attacks on cell phones and electronics needed by the civilians to do those same jobs?
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The school district is paying for the service, but the students are not paying for the laptops. Thought they like have little say in whether or not (or how to use these laptops.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Welcome to capitalism. We don’t need to assign moral judgement to the poor for trying to scrape by.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
There is a reason that you cannot sign your fundamental rights away in a contract and why contracts can’t override laws; because poor people need the money and they will do it if they don’t have a better option. Have you considered that the
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
If you have money. And the more you have the more vote matters both in practice and within the rules of the system.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Corporations are in principle and practice accountable to those with more money. For all its flaws our democracy is still one person one vote.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
With a scary header about not relying on it as your sole photo library.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> And if we hadn't given it to him, we would have given it to some other scam artists somewhere or other. No we wouldn’t have. Not every dollar we give goes to scam artists. And there are a whole lot of industries and companies far
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
First of all, this is such an anti-consumer sentiment. Voting with our wallets means that those with the biggest wallets dictate the rules. We have the first sale doctoring for a reason . That Apple can get away with this behaviour at the
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Yes it does matter. Money thrown away on his lies is money that isn’t invested on real projects.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
It just so happens that Apple gets to make that decision for us for “our good” and provides us with no say in the matter. Why does Apple get to dictate what is an authorized endpoint for my device?
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Nothing about providing the API for this requires that your phone automatically accept such requests. They can change it so that all first requests require confirmation with password.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Backups on the go. 2TB iCloud + wifi + sd card reader for iPhone. No longer have to bring laptop or external drive along for backups
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> And the company would not like the EU regulator to require the company to tweak macOS to make it possible to mirror Android phones in addition to iPhones. What reason do they have to believe this rather than “let’s blame the EU and mak
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
If they made the computer unupgradable it would defeat the purpose of their company.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Careless People did a pretty good job here too. Though definitely fewer readers than movie goers.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Put the disclosure in the footnotes that comes with the link.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
It’s entirely independent of focal length. It has to do with the ratio of the subject-camera distance to the background-camera distance. As others have pointed out you prove this to yourself in one of two ways: 1. Frame with telephoto, then
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Relative size of subject and background is cause by distance to them, not focal length.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> There is no bonus for building the house to code Why in the world should there be a bonus for following the law. If you want to talk incentives this is one where a stick should be used.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> time to any arbitrary large generation goal China is proving this to be objective false. Their total energy production (not nameplate power) for wind/solar/hydro is growing substantially faster than their nuclear output.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> absolutely relevant It is not. We’re discussing what coal is being replaced with for electricity generation. But let’s talk about it. > high electricity prices Let’s ask the obvious question: are high prices caused by wind/sola
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
It does. And very tight alignment requirements. But for a premium carmaker the simple solution of “plug in” isn’t good enough when they have to justify the price tag.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> not going to happen … nothing on the horizon for other times Batteries and storage. > heating and for industrial That’s moving to goal posts. The discussion is about electricity.
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The hefty application fee
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The data does not back up this narrative: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun... The share of electricity production that coal lost is primarily take up by wind and solar, not gas.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The problem is economics. Just because the Us built a fleet does not mean that they are economical once put in a non-military application.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> The obvious solution is to work to make politics less of a determinant of outcomes. This statement is meaningless. You can’t finance, develop, build, sell, and operate an OS and phone in a vacuum outside the reach of “politics”.

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