abandonliberty

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by abandonliberty 4y ago
Is it a win? Last I heard FF was generating a unique identifier on each installer download. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-... I'm hoping the Duck Duck Go browser or Vivaldi
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
fixed: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1543311124560592898.html
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
While I share your dream of no longer needing to eat, we still can't really live on Soylent. Our understanding of nutrition is growing, including what we consider as nutrients and how they're absorbed/interact. One of the hyp
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
So you're hoping pedantry will save us from climate change. Hopefully you live long enough to see how this turns out.
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
Farmers expect you to pay extra for the inconvenience, in addition to already cutting out the middle-men. Same thing everywhere I've been in more developed countries across North America and Asia. Even Bali. The most charitable interpr
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
The distance from your head to the ground on a bike is sufficient to cause serious injury of you just fall off. Your individual risk is very low, because you don't fall of bikes often. But multiplied across millions in the population,
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
I haven't seen one of these that takes major factors into account. Tires and pet food contain animals. Animal by-products are used everywhere. Switching away would require replacements. Replacements would become more efficient with eco
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
>People still tell me I shouldn't be hungry. >Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry. I think you're 100% on to something. We suffer from avoidance of discomfort, as demonstrated by our obesity and opioid epidemics. Facing
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
26% of heating in Canada is electric baseboard, much of it in buildings that can't or won't allow heat pumps. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=381002... Even for those who can,
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
I have electrical heating, so until the summer there's no such thing as wasted electricity. Many people struggle to understand this concept. In some climates and energy grids, switching from things like incandescent to LED causes a gre
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
There's time, effort, and cognitive load in switching. Potential self-image impacts. Some people will think past their immediate needs and want to support Netflix, because that's how they fund good content. The most price-consciou
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
When everything was bundled together, we complained about paying for things we didn't use. Unbundling was initially cheaper because it was just extra profit on the side. Now, it's becoming the primary business model and has to sta
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
Funny. In any case, the processes and diligence required are extensive which creates a huge barrier of entry. It creates an environment where it's much easier to go with a company that knows all of your requirements and compliance need
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
So much of this technology perpetuates the biases they're intended to fix. We put some of our job postings through one of these, and it flagged too many 'masculine' words, like 'analyze', 'leadership', and
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
Silicon valley disruptors who replace knobs with touchscreens aren't exactly welcome. Move fast and break things doesn't quite apply.
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by abandonliberty 4y ago
The NLAW has a single warhead, while the Javelin and Stugna have a tandem warhead designed to deactivate ERA first. Who knows how it works in practice. NLAW - 40k Javelin - 80k missile + 140k launcher Stugna - 20k missile
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
I agree that Uber is using VC cash to outcompete more effective businesses. It's not sustainable, but in many cases those businesses were predatory either to their employees or the public. This isn't the case everywhere. I talked
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
1 - Evolution is only increased genetic contribution to the next generation. Random mutations that help with that will become more common. It's not a magical process that makes us better. 2 - It turns out that your mind does control
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
I can see how, for the jaded, data might match these conclusions. It feels like something written by someone with relatively low social and emotional intelligence, which will generate a negative feedback loop and more disappointment and cyn
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
Google is experimental. We're both the product and research subjects, not customers, for their free offerings. Their transition into the paid/enterprise space is very interesting. I'm very excited for them to find a non-adver
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
I've been on Bitwarden for years. Wouldn't trade it for anything. Security source code must be open and provable, rather than trusting a vendor. Closed-source commercial vendors always face a moral hazard or risk of capture. It&#x
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
Yes, I'm in Vivaldi as well. For now! We need to avoid making software/product choices part of our identity. A true firefox fan would've raised the alarm years ago, and voted with their feet when it kept moving in the wrong d
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
Are you suggesting in good faith that Mozilla would implement and transmit a unique ID without linking you to your download session? I've never come so close to breaking hacker news etiquette.
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
I can't believe the apologists commenting on this. Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There's no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla's
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
I got lost in your word soup. Messy writing often implies messy thinking. Beware conspiracy theories. Yes, there's almost always more going on than you see in the news. Russia's strategy has stayed remarkably true to The Foundatio
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
There will be collateral damage. ~20% of Kyrgyzstan’s GDP is remittance from Russia. Sanctions should be kept on Russia. This is an opportunity to further unite. Supporting these affected nations is a win for all involved, except Russia. We
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
>Cuba decided to allow the Soviets to deploy nuclear weapons on their soil. Don't they also have that right? This was before 1997, when NATO and Russia signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, stating t
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
Thanks for that. It seems like it all comes down to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence#Contempora... Notably: "Our state has given up its share of the Soviet nuclear arsenal - the third larges
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
He will keep playing this card as long as it keeps working. Appeasement with a power like him is not an effective long-term strategy.
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by abandonliberty 5y ago
Mining rewards and the price of a coin are mostly separate. Coins wouldn't crash, but rewards would be spread across more miners, reducing mining profits per hash rate.

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