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by aeternum 2y ago
The environmental concerns are illegitimate though, the probability of hitting a sea creature is so vanishingly small. Where's the outrage around the thousands of container ships that burn the dirtiest crude oil and dump their waste in
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by aeternum 2y ago
This is not true. The path of the rocket is carefully chosen so that an abort/explosion does not intersect with other people's property. It launches over the ocean.
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by aeternum 2y ago
There is some real technical debt but there is often also imagined technical debt. To use an analogy, some engineers may think gothic architecture is ugly and should be replaced. That doesn't mean it is structurally unsound or that th
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by aeternum 2y ago
Perhaps it's time to rename colleges to social clubs since there is very little academic rigor now.
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by aeternum 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if the answer is: we put a higher value on human life. Preventing mistakes and accidental deaths is not trivial in a factory and especially not with ship building. Often doing something with very high safely means doing
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by aeternum 2y ago
Imagine how much nicer cities would be if most people drove around on e-bikes and e-scooters instead of cars. Sure you might have the occasional delivery truck or car but it would generally be much safer and more pleasant for everyone. It&#
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by aeternum 2y ago
More than I imagined are owned by individual investors. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/08/02/as-nation... Once you get to 25 units or more it is corporation dominated.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Allowing a SFH to be knocked down to build 10 units is a good thing where additional housing is needed and it will reduce the cost of housing. Corporations are holding these homes because they are such a safe investment because they know th
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why not talk to the person rather than write an article about it? You generally are expected to deal with slight unpleasantries when in public. For example you are not guaranteed to be seated at a table without kids around, without dogs ar
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by aeternum 2y ago
Human drivers are not safe. The question is not which is perfectly safe because neither is. The question should be which is more safe.
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by aeternum 2y ago
I'm not so sure, the feed is quite important and users understand that. Look at how many people switched between X and Threads given their political view. People switched off Reddit or cancelled their FB account at times in the past
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by aeternum 2y ago
Open-source the algorithm and have users choose. A marketplace is the best solution to most problems. It is pretty clear that china already forces a very different tiktok ranking algo for kids within the country vs outside the country. Fo
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by aeternum 2y ago
Linux distros are much better but they can still phone home. Here's one example: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPopularityContest For awhile Canonical had a deal with Amazon that was highly questionable.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Why not point out which parts of my comment you feel are incorrect?
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by aeternum 2y ago
What percentage of Telegram users access it exclusively via Linux?
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by aeternum 2y ago
When it comes down to it, practical encryption no longer exists. Every operating system now phones home and uploads copious event logs. Many users install custom "swipe" keyboards, ad blockers, toolbars, and even bios chips are n
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by aeternum 2y ago
New startup idea: Pool unused "accident" credits, automate the forgiveness request, and sell it to the highest bidder.
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, often a car that is stopped on the tracks then the driver panics when the gates start to come down. Starting with cameras only at the crossings would prevent these with extremely low cost, and crossings are also the only places where t
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by aeternum 2y ago
The worst part is the horns and bells don't even work. Many people die each year from being hit by Caltrain. Computer vision has come a long way and PoE cameras are now super cheap, would be nice if they installed cameras as part of t
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes there are quite a few algos and YT already uses many of them but it only takes one person to find a workaround then publish it and it again opens the floodgates. All the different mechanisms that youtube has used is an interesting rabbi
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by aeternum 2y ago
>Cheating is indistinguishable from debugging skill. Even with knowledge of the exact bug ahead of time, if you just open the file with the bug, barf out the code to fix it, and run the tests, you’re going to fail the interview. Umm hope
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by aeternum 2y ago
They need it anyway to enforce copyright. Simple content hashing tricks don't work because people upload slightly cropped or mirrored copyrighted content. Understanding the content is ultimately the only way to properly enforce and di
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by aeternum 2y ago
Clean fuel is foolish until we're no longer burning hydrocarbons for electricity. Even at that point it will probably be foolish because the demand for oil will then be so low that the few niche machines that use it will have a miniscu
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by aeternum 2y ago
Yes, throwing out first principles thinking just because you failed to think about all the first principles is a major error. You can often discover missing first principles by going the other direction. IE what companies were successful l
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by aeternum 2y ago
Even a worse decision then because they're still supporting UI around it. Did it really come down to some PM not wanting to do registrar paperwork?
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by aeternum 2y ago
I'd like to see it illegal to prompt for a tip. Businesses can have a tip jar or a sign with a venmo QR code on it. But make it illegal for POS systems to have a default tip and prompt for a tip.
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by aeternum 2y ago
The breakdown of a project into milestones of predictable difficulty generally has high error bars. If something has been built before then you can predict it but why are you building it again? The only way I've found of doing this ac
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by aeternum 2y ago
You sure you're allowed to post this? You better double-check with your department of censorship. Remember that you're also free to open a hotel that doesn't have this policy and there's plenty of cheap land to be had v
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by aeternum 2y ago
A fun way to do this is to try to guess which Mastodon server the author uses based solely upon the tone of the article.
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by aeternum 2y ago
It's simple abuse and monetization of the law. These firms issue lawsuits to businesses of all sizes to establish the threat then turn around and offer 'consulting' services of course with high fees as the purport to be the

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