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by adriancr 3y ago
"intelligentsia" is not intelectuals, it just means secret police . I doubt Einstein was a member of the KGB or would even entertain that thought. Intellectuals were also murdered first / sent to hard labour to die, sent to p
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by adriancr 3y ago
> Giving them direct control over your day to day spending is a solid step towards authoritarianism. They already have that control via Visa/Mastercard, banks, limits on max amount of cash for transactions, limits on inter state tra
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by adriancr 3y ago
You can with limits to amount of cash used, how many people make large cash payments anymore? Aslo, try and make a large cash deposit somewhere and see how many questionaires you have to fill in. Control over cash payments us already a real
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by adriancr 3y ago
If a state wants to do something to you, it will, just look at russia/china. The way to defeat that is to vote/get involved/move to countries that are free. Right now, your scenario is entirely plausible but is not reality,
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by adriancr 3y ago
Why is it a privacy nightmare?, and why is it worse then existing payment opions? It seems like an EU backed cryptocurrency, that could be implemented like monero and be fairly private or like bitcoin with public ledger, It could also be li
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by adriancr 3y ago
Goal of the power plant is to burn the methane, not release it... so i would say you are wrong here.
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by adriancr 3y ago
> the fact that there are no resources on Mars that we cannot already collect here on Earth, for a fraction of the cost, and without constant risk of someone dying to explosive decompression. How come you're so confident about this?
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by adriancr 3y ago
> And we also know that there are no benefits for a Mars colony You seem to assume that, I disagree, to quote you: "would be very beneficial in terms of resources, generated taxes, and geopolitical power." > It would be a gi
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by adriancr 3y ago
> Here is what I bet noone said about america in the 1400s: The point I made is you can never know the benefits. Asimov, end of eternity is a pretty nice book to see how your point of view might be flawed. > Humanity has already prove
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by adriancr 3y ago
> Why? What purpose does a human presence on Mars have? I bet some people said the same about america in 1400s. You never know what can come from this in the future. If we can we should. > So what policy decisions could possibly make
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by adriancr 3y ago
USB batteries de facto are considered 5V, so 10.000mah at 5V.
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by adriancr 3y ago
how would bitcoin have helped them?, presumably their wallets if made public to request donations would also have been flagged at all exchanges so no way to cash out.
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by adriancr 3y ago
> 1879 and an average of 565 sqft each. I don't think what those apartments were is what we want today. That's ~50 m^2, pretty decent for young people (can have separate living room/bedroom/bathroom/kitchen if sp
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by adriancr 3y ago
> By manufacturer, nobody comes close to outsellling Apple by an order of magnitude, let alone several. Fine, I was wrong, a single order of magnitude between apple and everyone else, not several, I still thought apple had 2% of the mark
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by adriancr 3y ago
Other laptop sales outnumber macbook by several orders of magnitude. So if you base your argument on that I would say aggregate consumer doesn't care that much about apple either. I was arguing on moral grounds, it's immoral to cr
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by adriancr 3y ago
How is this acceptable though?, how big of a problem is theft that users give up repair for? Compare to framework - transform motherboard and cpu into a home server, replace components yourself if they break, upgrade as you wish. For apple,
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by adriancr 3y ago
> How would you alternatively design a system that calls emergency services in a crash? Keep state for a longer period of time. Activate when you start driving and deactivate when parking. Start could be triggered by gps detecting moveme
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by adriancr 3y ago
although not ideal, external gigabit POE splitters are ~10 euros
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by adriancr 3y ago
perhaps network issues then?
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by adriancr 3y ago
internet explorer used to be the biggest browser at some point
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by adriancr 3y ago
They can probably do just fine with another provider and less money if google gives up, so power dynamic isn't all what you say.
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by adriancr 3y ago
If they want to dig an early grave for chrome, sure, there's always firefox
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by adriancr 3y ago
Either way it's inexcusable, they should be disbarred if they are this incompetent.
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by adriancr 3y ago
> once the CCP believes they can do without Taiwan's semiconductor industry, they'll send in the troops That's still a simplistic point. Will they not consider the practicality ot invasion?, like Taiwan beating them on its
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by adriancr 3y ago
> And those poorer people aren't very valuable to advertisers Their vote is still valuable, just feed them propaganda towards your candidates
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by adriancr 4y ago
Even if you encrypt boot partition someone could modify grub to grab password for boot partition used there. Then with that password they can evil maid again and change your boot partition. (unless you have same password on root/boot o
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by adriancr 4y ago
You could set machines up for family that don't know better and they will see the popup and create the account themselves... same as with badgering for upgrades, had family that eventually upgraded by mistake then panick if/when t
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by adriancr 4y ago
Apple is close to double the price though for an arguably worse display compared to the oled one. So OP is right in that options are present that are cheaper and perhaps better for his use case. edit: oled laptop comes comes with PM9A1 ssd
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by adriancr 4y ago
Here's one under 1000e: https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/917297/asus-zenbook-14-um... If you spend 1250e you can get oled screens which are nicer then apple https://www.coolblue.nl/en&#
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by adriancr 4y ago
> Don't pretend you are some kind of climate change martyr because you are wearing a sweater. Where did i say or imply any of that?

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