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by addicted 2y ago
It also ignores the fact that people driving in Manhattan are disproportionately among the richest people in NYC.
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by addicted 2y ago
Haha. I attended one of the lectures mentioned in the Wikipedia and I didn’t realize until the very end that it wasn’t a stand up comedy show. (Admittedly I was also pretty drunk).
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by addicted 2y ago
Even to the extent this is true (which it isn’t entirely), it’s basically only been true overnight. Israel has only recently become as strong as it is. Until very recently it could very well lose, and has lost, wars with its neighbors.
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by addicted 2y ago
Whether the comment is informative or not it dismisses the news article without even tackling the actual issue which is the commerce secretary recommending the stick for which the presidents closest advisor is the CEO/largest sharehold
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by addicted 2y ago
India has its own set of political issues, but as far as I can tell nothing this egregious. Lets consider the fact that after 10 years of Modi and the BJP having overwhelming majorities in Parliament, with Modi’s personally popularity close
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by addicted 2y ago
> > Wrapping up - Migrating away from US cloud services was easier than I expected. > This is absolutely not the main takeaway and I find it difficult to see how he could write this He explains why he writes this, but this is an in
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by addicted 2y ago
Where’s the evidence that the cause is “clean energy”?
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by addicted 2y ago
Actually we do know what the trade off is. The trade off is we spend that money on fossil fuels. And therefore we spend the money on more air pollution, dirtier rivers, dirtier seas, more heavy metals in our soils and air, etc. So the comic
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by addicted 2y ago
The bill itself is evidence of mental illness, except on the part of the authors of the bill. The fact that they are introducing this bill itself proves that they are possibly suffering from clinically concerning levels of delusion, paranoi
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by addicted 2y ago
Soft power is simply the capability to persuade others without coercion. So it’s usually a much less destructive tool to achieve the same goal when the alternative is “hard” power. Whether you build the soft power ethically or unethically (
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by addicted 2y ago
> am I wrong that it sounds crazy and inefficient for the government to essentially compete with private industry? The Internet is a strong and definitive counterpoint to this claim, IMO. If the government didn’t create the open internet
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by addicted 2y ago
India doesn’t have low hygiene levels. Thats nothing more than a racist TikTok trend. Indians do have a different conception of public urban space which matches more closely with how the urban public in Europe would treat public space a 100
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by addicted 2y ago
> Same as StackOverflow, same as Google, same as Wikipedia for students. Is it though? If I used stack overflow, for example, I still needed to understand the code well enough to translate it to my specific codebase, changing variable na
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by addicted 2y ago
Let’s look at all these things. Land - Land transfers are almost non existent since WW2 at national levels because instead of spending immense resource fighting over land, countries have realized it’s much more useful to make the land they
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by addicted 2y ago
> She was trying to commit immigration fraud by coming to work to the US with ESTA. There was evidence. So she could not be let in. She also could not be legally turned around. And deportation takes time. Even if we accept everything you
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by addicted 2y ago
You mean like the entire wellness industry reselling fiber and turmeric and black pepper for you at 100x multiples?
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by addicted 2y ago
> Perhaps this is a shift away from cancel culture? I don't see why that's a bad thing. Wait, so canceling the account is a shift away from cancel culture? What the fuck is cancel culture even at this point?
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by addicted 2y ago
Cottage cheese is a terrible idea with bird flu floating around in dairy, complete chaos in the systems that are supposed to inspect these supply chains, and voluntary testing requirements that meant even when the inspection systems were no
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by addicted 2y ago
Get some dried lentils. They last a long time, are cheap as shit, and extremely healthy with the lowest dollar per gram of protein and couple it with a bunch of fiber and whole host of beneficial micronutrients.
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by addicted 2y ago
Again, if it’s open source there’s nothing illegal in it. The point of closed source is that it allows the people doing the research and engineering to recoup and profit off their investments. Which I’m in favor of. However, considering cur
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by addicted 2y ago
If it’s open source it doesn’t matter who the state they’re collaborating with is.
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by addicted 2y ago
How can any reasonable national leader justify building their military on American systems anymore? Especially now that the U.S. government is also talking about not living up to its NATO obligations. This is not gonna hurt the rest of the
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by addicted 2y ago
There are a couple of issues that get confused in this discussion that end up reinforcing the status quo. 1 - The only problem with DST is the change in timing. There is a spike in all sorts of issues including accidents, heart attacks, etc
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by addicted 2y ago
Those are some huge claims. Any references or explanations for why those might be the case?
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by addicted 2y ago
> you just have to increase quality Today’s day and age you don’t even have to increase quality. You simply repackage stuff in a new social media friendly way. I mean, just look at the success of Goop and the general “wellness” industry
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by addicted 2y ago
Agreed with 2 & 3. Not as sure about 1. People are not having as many kids. And we haven’t seen a significant uptake of other forms of child bearing either. Options such as surrogacy, etc haven’t risen as much, and while those may be ex
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by addicted 2y ago
It’s less vertical integration than MS not actually taking the steps to control this market. For example, the Precision touchpad, which was the first actual touchpad tech MS created, with Windows previously testing touchpads as mouses, has
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by addicted 2y ago
This is my biggest issue. If I close my lid with 100% battery at the end of the workday, I should be able to open it up the next morning and get at least a few hours of work in before the battery dies. And this used to work. But with the sa
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by addicted 2y ago
You’re worried about a “brain” that has orders of magnitude fewer neurons than an ant but in the meanwhile we birth, enslave, sexually abuse, torture and kill over 80 billion land animals that definitely have conscience, sentience and a cap
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by addicted 2y ago
Why wouldn’t I want onboard cellular connection instead of having to be dependent on the more finicky and less reliable Hotspot connection, hurting my ability to use my phone freely, and burning both my laptop and my phone’s batteries at th

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