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7861.
by api 6y ago
There is no chance of stopping this. The challenge is massive even if there were political will, and there is no political will. We need to plan for climate change as a near certainty and start preparing now.
7862.
by api 6y ago
That has been achieved largely by outsourcing heavy manufacturing that requires a lot of cheap energy to China. China one of the highest carbon emission rates per GDP of any large developed nation, but China can't exclusively be blamed
7863.
by api 6y ago
It's really unfortunate that Web Components are utterly useless. They simply are not components. It's insane.
7864.
by api 6y ago
The benefits of scale come with the cost of unaffordability and inability for the middle class to build wealth. I have also come to see it as overrated in general. Concentrations bring benefits but also groupthink and tunnel vision, which i
7865.
by api 6y ago
But adding more office space than housing drives up home prices, which benefits existing owners. That’s what I meant by cartel. The whole thing is really unsustainable and doesn’t work. I don’t think it can be fixed. There is no political w
7866.
by api 6y ago
Everyone is just going to go virtual/remote and leave. It's clear that the state is run by a property owners' cartel determined to restrict supply until they strangle the place.
7867.
by api 6y ago
I've heard nothing but bad things about American unions from both management and many (but not all) workers. I strongly believe that we need labor organization, but I also wonder if someone needs to (cliche alert!) disrupt the space wi
7868.
by api 6y ago
I try avoid installing apps unless it's something I really want and the app is far better than the web site. Apps these days are loaded with spyware. I assume that any mobile app will track me as much as it can possibly get away with.
7869.
by api 6y ago
Yes, I think that is entirely possible.
7870.
by api 6y ago
Is it just me or is there fantastically more fraud these days than a decade or two ago? Any transaction feels like walking around in northern Canada during black fly season. I receive several cold scam calls per day and I’ve known people
7871.
by api 6y ago
It always makes me think of that STTNG episode where they destroy the Borg collective by injecting a fascinating but impossible geometry problem. Cryptocurrency basically did that to the hacker and startup spheres, wasting unfathomable amou
7872.
by api 6y ago
Censorship always starts with unpopular speech. Historically it's been raunchy porn, religious blasphemy, and direct opposition to the state. Hate speech seems to be a new one that works well to sell censorship to liberals (who should
7873.
by api 6y ago
Guess they should ban Chrome, since hate speech appears on the web. All these Fediverse things can be accessed via web apps and progressive web apps (PWAs) too.
7874.
by api 6y ago
> No genocide is intended; assimilation is intended. The goal is not so much to erase any existing cultural identity as to make it subordinate to "Chinese" identity. That includes accepting a healthy helping of Han, but the peo
7875.
by api 6y ago
All rules will be gamed. No exceptions.
7876.
by api 6y ago
Fast search over huge data sets in distributed networks of unreliable and possibly untrustworthy nodes is really really hard. Nobody has all the data in one place and the indices are huge and cross cut the data. It can be done, but making i
7877.
by api 6y ago
You can already mirror a repo easily to/from GitHub, and moving is pretty easy unless you are deeply invested in GitHub proprietary features. People use GitHub because people use GitHub. It’s a classic network effect.
7878.
by api 6y ago
They are more like minimum possible feature size, not average feature size. The real metrics you want to look at are things like transistor density, power density, power use, etc.
7879.
by api 6y ago
Also unlike Concorde today it is quite possible to make the plane fly itself if the pilots and crew all pass out. If all the meat sacks pass out, drop out of mach and drop down in altitude, send SOS, find somewhere to land. At this point gr
7880.
by api 6y ago
It’s not a conspiracy. If customers demanded decentralized, companies would be pushed down that path. They don’t. Customers demand ease of use, features, and speed, and all that is technically easier to deliver with a centralized model. Why
7881.
by api 6y ago
NFS is a lot faster. A custom protocol will almost always beat a kludge on top of HTTP
7882.
by api 6y ago
It can also be summed up as: "we see there are managers with budget, and we have a solution to this problem..." Any place you have money, you will find someone selling snake oil.
7883.
by api 6y ago
As far as I know efficiency is what has kept civilian supersonic flight from being a thing. Even military aircraft tend to only go supersonic when needed because it guzzles fuel. My biggest skepticism about Boom is that I don't see the
7884.
by api 6y ago
I doubt it will still be a big issue in 5 years, and I expect it to take longer for them to develop a real passenger plane, test it, and clear all the regulatory and performance hurdles.
7885.
by api 6y ago
> despite vast efforts put in. I disagree with that part. Things slowed dramatically because we stopped putting extreme amounts of effort in, largely because there wasn't enough market demand for aviation or space flight beyond 1970
7886.
by api 6y ago
Privacy concerns are usually about how information could be misused, not how it's used right now or routinely.
7887.
by api 6y ago
Shorting anything now is shorting the federal reserve.
7888.
by api 6y ago
There are over 7 billion people on Earth. You aren't extraordinary, so you're going to have to get used to it. If you think you are you're probably either in a small pond or not paying attention.
7889.
by api 6y ago
Unfortunately the best way to discredit something is to have a toxic community like incels pick it up.
7890.
by api 6y ago
Locked boot loader, locked App Store. It’s a console.

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