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by addicted 1y ago
Superpower is one way to phrase it. Another is illegally using Facebook’s monopoly and data to crush or buy potential competitors. I think the olds used to call that anti-trust.
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by addicted 1y ago
Fortunately we’ve stopped torturing humans for research and exploring them for their skin, labor and flesh. Hopefully we can find ways to extend that humanity to the other sentient creatures we currently exploit in the hundreds of billions
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by addicted 1y ago
This is true but this analysis fails to consider why hydrogen receives so much interest, because similar reasoning could indicate we should be spending more on every other potential fuel source, including biofuels, and maybe running engines
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by addicted 1y ago
Can you give 2 examples?
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by addicted 1y ago
If you believe in good faith that you have not broken the law, and can reasonably convince a jury of that, you almost certainly will receive a lighter sentence than you would have otherwise and in some cases also be acquitted. So this isn’t
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by addicted 1y ago
Even if someone manufactures something in the U.S. the odds are they will still be importing some parts from China. Especially in the bike industry where most components are not manufactured in the U.S. But even if we assume for the sake of
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by addicted 1y ago
The knowledge gained from the experiments and the knowledge to do the experiments themselves has not gone anywhere. It’s with you. As the dust settles over the next couple of months and years, it’s very likely other countries will come look
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by addicted 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of the endowment is probably donated by people who are no longer alive. And even if they have a trust that’s allowed to make decisions for them, the trusts are unlikely to change the principal’s choices.
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by addicted 1y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if much of the endowment is not legally available to them. At least when I was heavily involved in the finances of a school with a much smaller endowment, less than 5% of it was general funds. The rest had tremendous
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by addicted 1y ago
> It’s adding another 1.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar module manufacturing capacity at its Brookshire factory, bringing the site’s total to 3.2 GW. The company didn’t indicate a timescale for when the capacity increase would be complete. The
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by addicted 1y ago
Or, you know, don’t fish at all so we don’t kill possibly trillions of sentient fish every year for no necessary reason whatsoever? Side bonus, we also don’t kill the highly sentient and highly intelligent creatures you’re concerned about.
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by addicted 1y ago
Well played
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by addicted 1y ago
So just we’re clear, there are countries where U.S. citizens have no rights or very limited. So you’re perfectly fine with these countries, for example, executing US citizens without due process if they visit those countries right, because
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by addicted 1y ago
Unfortunately this article begins by poisoning the well with the Greek example, and I kept reading hoping the author would either explain why despite the major difference between the Greece and US situations there are still lessons to be le
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by addicted 1y ago
Lots of issues with the battery replacement tech. There are significant logistics here. How many batteries should be stocked in any one place. Batteries are large. So you’re also talking about a lot of space. At the same time you still need
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by addicted 1y ago
What’s impressive about this, and promising about BYD in general, is that they revealed an actual product weeks after revealing the technology. This is very Apple at its peak’esque. Too many companies, especially in the EV space (Tesla is a
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by addicted 1y ago
Have other cities with similar rules seen as significant pollution drops?
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by addicted 1y ago
They acquired the Android company years before the iPhone existed. It was supposed to be a BlackBerry/Blackjack killer at the time. And then the iPhone was revealed and Google immediately changed Android’s direction to become a touch O
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by addicted 1y ago
Who cares about reality when there are messengers to shoot!
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by addicted 1y ago
This is a solved problem even in the sense that nearly all the Wordpress competitors already offer this.
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by addicted 1y ago
If an interest free loan at a time when Tesla couldn’t get a bank to loan them breakfast is not a subsidy then you also agree that none of the banks received any sort of government support either right? Because even despite many of the comp
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by addicted 1y ago
They are crowing about increasing the Pentagon’s budget.
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by addicted 1y ago
The part you’re misunderstanding about black mirror is that it’s about how technology will strip the humanity out of people. Also, the name of the show is BLACK mirror. Besides the iPhone symbolism by which the name is inspired, the whole p
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by addicted 1y ago
It was praised for its visual style.
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by addicted 1y ago
It’s funny that this comment keeps putting “researching” in quotes, but you guys do realize that R&D has the letter D in it as well right? For Development? Yeah, committing to a library isn’t research, but it is very clearly development
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by addicted 1y ago
Yeah but the damage is done. A safe haven isn’t much of a safe haven if that’s where the fire has started.
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by addicted 1y ago
The website can also choose not to track me on an individual basis.
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by addicted 1y ago
Hotel prices for $150 are unheard of in NYC since the pandemic. This isn’t just dead season
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by addicted 1y ago
The rest doesn’t matter. No one wants to be detained. People who are spending thousands and tens of thousands of dollars to travel are fine if they need to spend a few hundreds additional ro fly back and cancel their vacation. Or sucks but
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by addicted 1y ago
The word corruption sounds inadequate for an administration that is built on the idea that doesn’t even pretend to recognize laws to follow. Just as an example of what I mean, no other democracy in the world has a cabinet filled with a bunc

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