adamcstephens

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by adamcstephens 5y ago
And the regulations are captured by the companies who much prefer no competition. So we’re screwed by BOTH the corporations and the government. We need new laws, and smaller companies.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I think in-sourcing management expertise to the public agencies would save a lot of money. Management consultants are expensive and their incentives are in conflict with public projects.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
If a flat org is communism, what is a top-down org? A dictatorship or authoritarianism?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Some self-reflection seems like it would be valuable here.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
If the taxpayer is paying for the grant, I have zero problems with them paying for publishing of the research.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Have you tried setting mem_sleep to deep? This helped on my Thinkpad until I got a new enough kernel that allowed the system to fully enter C10 state. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/pm
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
> Sorry, that's just crazy. Of the billions of businesses that exist world wide, the only "business" that has ever gone that far has been government, the Nazi's. How many people did cigarettes bring an early death to,
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
We should consider private taxes just the same as public taxes.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Cicadas can be harmful to trees from the egg laying. I’ve even heard of extreme cases where a young tree doesn’t survive. https://wtop.com/local/2021/06/the-cicadas-might-be-gone-but...
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Seems like your reason to be here is to point the finger at China while ignoring the problems in the US. Personally, I'll focus on the US since it's a massive contributor to global warming and is the place I have the most leverage
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I’m not hand waving China’s emissions away, and explicitly said they can and should do more. If and when they decide to deal with the problem, I expect they’ll make a lot more progress than we have. We’ll just have to agree to disagree that
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
What makes you think the US gives a shit either? Companies have spent the last forty years moving manufacturing out of the country because it lets them profit a bit more. They don’t give a shit about climate change unless they can make more
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Who is to blame for outsourced manufacturing then? If one country consumes a vast amount of goods from another, are they not also accountable for that other country’s emissions?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
It seems like it’s too late for technology, given that there are no large scale solutions. Technology also has a tendency to cause its own, new, set of problems, which can be worse than problems they’re trying to solve. It’s not a panacea,
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Fair enough, I was wrong so deserve the downvotes. Very few European countries are innocent when it comes to taking land that wasn’t theirs.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Almost as bad as a different country claim stealing a portion of your country and claiming it as theirs?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
This post confused me because of all the large boxes linking to other articles by the author. They really break the flow of the article and seem to take up even more space than the unique content in this one.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
They didn’t enslave people because they were racist, they enslaved people because it was effectively free labor. Sure, they chose Africans because they were racist and thought them savages, but that isn’t why the institution of slavery exis
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Thanks, I did some quick research but couldn’t find that info so just went with the “may” qualifier.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I filter mine as well, and use Fastmail’s snooze to only have them show up once a day. I used to use rss heavily, but it has been many years since I regularly checked a client. At least with email delivery I don’t miss them.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Because it undermines the legitimacy of the author, who may be writing about an area of the country he has little direct knowledge of.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Isn’t it physically inefficient and wasteful to have multiple companies running fiber through a neighborhood? Why not run one set of fiber and let companies compete for the customers on those lines?
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
The only ballot initiative we have in Ohio is constitutional amendments, which is a pretty blunt instrument.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Tax the rich more, tax carbon, and build trains and buy buses. Stop subsidizing single occupancy vehicles which are a huge resource waste even if electric. Why as a society do we want to subsidize a vehicle that is going to spend 95% of its
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Thank you for this. I don’t see how we make any significant changes to our trajectory without accepting a “lower” quality of life than what we have now. We need to localize, we need to rid ourselves of continuous consumption of useless junk
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
There are multiple different types of coops. Here’s a good breakdown: https://ncdc.unl.edu/typescooperatives.shtml You’re correct that financing is harder compared to VC funding, and likely involves personal or bank loans.
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The Co-Op Movement Is Taking on Big Tech(prospect.org)
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
Except I think the matrix project is going with pinecone instead. https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I agree that adding docker to a Go dev setup is not worth it, but I think commenter was asking for a docker image for running it. In that case, I’d say that docker could be worth it for the end user.
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by adamcstephens 5y ago
I agree with your final point, but China resource usage is partially attributable to American consumption. We can’t export all our manufacturing to other countries and then point at them for causing climate change.

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