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by anon25783 3y ago
They have grown their GDP how, exactly? Those emissions haven't been reduced; they've been outsourced to China and India, for the most part.
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by anon25783 3y ago
Good point
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by anon25783 3y ago
> the only reason the US economy is not a complete dumpster fire. The US economy is a complete dumpster fire for those of us worth less than seven figures. Big tech monopolization does not strengthen our productive capacity, and breaki
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by anon25783 3y ago
To give the benefit of the doubt to the court, it might be justifiable on the grounds that the big tech giants form an oligopoly, i.e. that they aren't really competing businesses so much as a half-formal conglomerate of corporations w
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by anon25783 3y ago
> I really wish they'd spearhead a safe way to bring identity to the browser level, Why? I don't want companies on the internet to know who I am, or that I am even a single unique person.
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by anon25783 3y ago
> I was surprised how afraid many people are of being left to themselves in their own flats and what a big topic this was for them. Many people don't seem to have any other interest than meeting other people. You were surprised by t
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by anon25783 3y ago
> The Internal combustion engine, as someone who has owned multiple Manual Mazda Miatas, is seeing the end of it's times. I really hope you're right, because the internal combustion engine directly causes a substantial portio
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by anon25783 3y ago
we can't sustain exponential growth. we're approaching the limit and soon the curve will hit its maximum
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by anon25783 3y ago
Yeah okay but device drivers in C#? That sounds very impractical when you could pick any other language. C, C++, Rust, D, Zig, Objective-C, all seem more suitable than C#. I agree with all that stuff you said about Rust; I was asking how dr
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by anon25783 3y ago
How would this work? And why would it be a better idea?
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by anon25783 3y ago
If a company can't get by without mistreating its users/developers, that company should not exist.
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by anon25783 3y ago
Let's revise the claim, since you want to be pedantic: "Very few people, if any, quit working during the 50s-86 in protest of the high marginal tax rate".
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by anon25783 3y ago
They're billionaires. No one worth billions of dollars is "normal". Fewer than three thousand people alive are billionaires.
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by anon25783 3y ago
SF is set in the future. But its meaning is more directly relevant to the time in which it is written than the time in which it is set. Take for example, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century . If people in the actual literal 25th century are
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by anon25783 3y ago
Sounds a little like Stable Diffusion.
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by anon25783 3y ago
The same is true of lots of kinds of work: finance, healthcare, foodservice, retail, construction... ( Especially construction.) The common thread is income inequality and poor protection for workers, not sex.
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by anon25783 3y ago
Maybe they think this is LinkedIn? /j
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by anon25783 3y ago
If we ever contact intelligent space aliens and it turns out that they have no concept analogous to "objects" or "counting", I'll eat my computer.
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by anon25783 3y ago
The machines are different. Multicore 64-bit chips are now standard for consumer PCs. RAM and persistent storage are faster and much more abundant. The architecture of the modern x86-64 is much more sophisticated than that of the 386 for wh
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by anon25783 3y ago
Things are perhaps a bit different now than when Torvalds and Tanenbaum debated the issue on comp.os.minix over thirty years ago.
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by anon25783 3y ago
Negligible. You're far more likely to fall ill from bacteria in your garbage disposal or fungi in your bathroom.
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by anon25783 3y ago
I never made the switch from 10 to 11 and everything I've heard tells me that I made the absolutely correct decision. (I only have Windows at all for my video games.) If MS discontinues support for Windows 10 or tries to force me to go
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by anon25783 3y ago
Presently in Nebraska we are bracing for a heat index of 117°F, a situation with no precedent here in 2020, '21, or '22. I contend that what you describe as "apocalyptic hysteria" is the only reasonable and appropriate r
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by anon25783 3y ago
Firefox has a great feature for taking screenshots and snippets of a webpage. In the settings go to More Tools > Customize Toolbar and drag the Screenshot tool to your toolbar. It's a built-in feature that I use daily.
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by anon25783 3y ago
While I agree with the other people in this thread pointing out that the web practically is the internet for the average user, I think this is an opportune moment to mention that Gemini exists, free of any kind of mass surveillance or adver
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by anon25783 3y ago
Why and how did people quit using them? Suppose you're in a world where the interstate highway system hasn't been built and subway trains are the dominant mode of transportation, and you would like to stop taking trains to get to
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by anon25783 3y ago
I don't think "disown" is the word you want to use here. In English, "disown" means that you refuse to acknowledge that he is your son at all, not in a legal sense, but in a social sense, i.e. "I hate you so mu
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by anon25783 3y ago
How about "falsehood quotient"? Count the number of counterfactual assertions in a given text, then divide by the number of sentences. Of course, the question of what is a falsehood is an exercise for the reader, but this would at
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by anon25783 3y ago
The ten hottest summers on record happened in the last fifteen years. The number one hottest is this summer we're experiencing right now. And you call this "hysteria"?
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by anon25783 3y ago
You occasionally click on "relevant" ads? I'm really curious why you would do that? Personally, I'll go out of my way to make sure that I don't buy anything referred to me by an ad, on the grounds that advertising i

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