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by amarant 1y ago
To make a silly analogy: A stone in go has 4 liberties. Take away all four and the stone dies. Chat control takes away one liberty from democracy. Ask any half decent go player what will happen to that stone if we just ignore the attack upo
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by amarant 1y ago
Are least where I'm from, there are pretty strong laws against reading snailmail post of others. To this day, any law enforcement that tries to open people's snail mail will laughed out of the courtroom, and quite possibly out of
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by amarant 1y ago
If the cost of the proposal is "let's throw democracy under the bus" as it is in this case, it better be damn close to 100% effective to be worth it! I have a hard time imagining this will be more than 10% effective. This pro
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by amarant 1y ago
How hard would it be for law enforcement today, before chat control, to get chat logs out of discord? Discord isn't exactly known for it's privacy features, still I imagine there's some challenge? If the effort is low, and th
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by amarant 1y ago
Allegedly it can find the Answer, unfortunately it'll take so long to do it we'll forget what the Question was before life is done computing the Answer!
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by amarant 1y ago
The old nature vs nurture! I'm also curious about this and I have a fairly good chance at gaining some anecdotal insight! A family member who I'm very close with was adopted from South America. He doesn't speak Spanish, but h
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by amarant 1y ago
Please hand your driver's licence and car keys over at your nearest police station. Quickly, before you kill someone
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by amarant 1y ago
Honestly, I think a lie would've been better than what I got. That might've kept my curiosity alive. The response I got made me detest chemistry for about 10 years.
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by amarant 1y ago
This seems like it has some pretty great potential. Human teachers don't have infinite patience. I recall my high school chemistry teacher's response when I was trying to understand why certain reactions happened: "just accep
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by amarant 1y ago
Well yeah but I bet slack has similar wording on their site. In this case they apparently meant it, but to me that just registers as marketing speech. I guess I've been on the internet too long, my brain automatically blacks certain la
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by amarant 1y ago
Oh, so I was missing something! That was not very obvious from their landing page! Well in that case, carry on!
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by amarant 1y ago
Everything is relative. My previous employer had daily revenue in the area of $10 million. $250k barely registers. They've got more pocket change than that lost in their couch. Anything that's less than an hour worth of revenue is
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by amarant 1y ago
Unless I'm missing something tho, zulip seems to be exactly the same? That is, it's a SaaS with no oss software, no self hostable alternative. Only difference is they haven't hiked their prices......yet. At this point anyone
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by amarant 1y ago
I think waymo actually has a better km/accident ratio than the average driver. Plus if you haven't done it before, it'll be a cool experience to ride in a car with no driver! But in the long term I think the point of waymo is
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by amarant 1y ago
As someone who's lived at latitude 52N, I can tell you for a fact that solar isn't always an option. You might think wind is a good alternative, but Greta Thunberg will vehemently protest that notion [1](and she's got a point
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by amarant 1y ago
Handmaid's tale looking more prophetic by the day! Positively clearvoyant!
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by amarant 1y ago
The intended recipient does not hold a master key to an entire nations communication. That's the difference.
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by amarant 1y ago
Aye, but with the amount of coal plants still running, I think the choice is between solar+nuclear or solar+coal I don't think anyone is arguing nuclear instead of solar. It's both. We need both.
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Graphene breaks Wiedeman-Franz law(sciencedaily.com)
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This statistic is very relevant here, and surprising to many! Deaths per kWh produced for all energy sources. Solar and nuclear both really stand out immensely as the safer alternatives. People tend to think of nuclear as dangerous, but tha
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by amarant 1y ago
Meh, it's sunny and nice here, I'll feel pretty good regardless. Living on the beach is underrated! And it's been great connecting a bit more with my wife's family. Gotta focus on the bright side, and I do love the clim
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by amarant 1y ago
Technically North America! But people don't tend to think of Mexico that way. It's not trouble free, not by a long shot. I have family connection to here though and I recon Mexico is not very likely to partake in WW3 in any meanin
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by amarant 1y ago
I sure am! And as a strategical prepper, I've left the entire continent behind well before shit hits the fan. Hopefully I'll have my new life sufficiently set up to help those I love and left behind, and even more hopefully they&#
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by amarant 1y ago
From the name, either they have 8 tentacles, or they have 8 of something else which is presumably called pus in Latin. My mind is thoroughly in the gutter now.
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by amarant 1y ago
It's 75hz when it needs to be, but if 2 frames are mostly identical, it doesn't needlessly move ink around. Effect: 75hz always as far as the user is concerned, but sometimes it uses less power than that when possible, due to very
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by amarant 1y ago
I think a large part of it is because modos is really good at partial screen updates. This is also, in my understanding, how they achieve the high FPS rate. The parts of the screen that doesn't update, courtesy of being e-ink, don&#x27
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by amarant 1y ago
Compared to other e-ink devices, yes. Compared to LCD, oled or what have you, my understanding is that it uses significantly less.
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by amarant 1y ago
Throwback to leftpad! Hey that was also on NPM iirc!
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by amarant 1y ago
But we're allegedly made in god's image. Doesn't that imply that we'd attempt to do all the things he did? Like creating a lesser life form in our image, for example. Seems logical to me
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by amarant 1y ago
Meh, God allegedly made us in his image, so it's only logical that we would create machines in our image. It's basically written in the bible that we should make make machines in likeness of our own minds, it's just written b

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