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by ardy42 6y ago
> “Death” seems a bit dramatic in this context. Classic Mac OS is about as dead as software can get: it's no longer developed or developed for, there's no backwards compatibility in its successors, and they don't even make
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by ardy42 6y ago
> macOS died Classic Mac OS died, and what they call "Mac OS" now is really NeXTSTEP.
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> "The free market shall decide" and "let the buyer beware" are great until you eat a sandwich and find out the ground beef was cut with sawdust, or buy a house with a deck, have a party, and the deck collapses becaus
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> Which is why I suspect the obsession of education around the world with biological classification dates to the period where most people lived in the country, not in urban spaces. Honestly, I would be surprised if that "obsession&q
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> Private space travel funded by government contracts. So, just like the 60s. Per Wikipedia: The Apollo Command and Service Module was built by North American Aviation (now part of Boeing) and the Lunar Module by Grumman (now Northrop G
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> The suggestion that you make here is that when the telescope was funded in the 1950s, our national leadership identified itself less strongly as a capitalist free-market nation than it does today. Those terms don't have a consiste
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> Is a GoFundMe campaign outside of the realm of possibility? I know that I'd contribute to such a worthy effort, but only if the rest of the players would pledge to fund current operations. The biggest GoFundMe campaign according t
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> It’s not particularly utopian....A student who has been taught to read comprehensively, communicate clearly and think critically should have no trouble acquiring that knowledge. That sounds pretty utopian. Firstly, I don't think
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> Is this a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century? No, it's a symbol of the degradation of US political capability in the 21st century. To be more explicit: why build a telescope like this
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> But infrastructure ages, and 60 years isn't a bad run. What comes next? Clearly there's going to be a capabilities gap for a while, but now that it's 60 years after its original design, what kind of design is going to re
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It boggles my mind how broken the model of rote memorization to pass written tests is. School should teach you the fundamentals of how to acquire knowledge and then get out of your way. That's utopian and a rather unrealistic, inc
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by ardy42 6y ago
> OS X is replaced, Big Sur is now OS 11 Not really, that's just branding. I'm talking "replaced" like they replaced Classic Mac OS.
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> Off topic, but I love that Apple is still using NS as the prefix; I wonder how long that will last :) If it's lasted this long, probably forever (or until they completely replace OSX).
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by ardy42 6y ago
> No local access and/or physical control => don't buy it. No exceptions. Are there any thermostats like that? The only mass market product like that that I know of like is Philips Hue lights (their base stations have a lo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You can't force people to care about things they just do not care about. Exactly, so don't complain about downvotes again next time you want to resist "toeing the covid line." To make an analogy, there are probably
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Why isn't it valid to acknowledge all the data/risks, and still feel like we should just let the virus run its course? It's technically valid, but tiresome to rehash the same broadly rejected viewpoints over an over. Wh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 1700 people under the age of 35 have died in the USA. Let that sink in. Out of EVERYONE in this country, only 1700 have died under 35 That's the wrong way to look at it. How many people over 35 in the USA have died or was hospita
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's surprising to me how difficult it is to have a discussion in the (cyberspace) open holding what I consider the internet-minority-viewpoint on covid. The thing is, not all viewpoints are equally valid, and some are both unreas
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Let's apply that thought process to climate change, condoms, and surgical PPE too! Don't you dare impose reality on me! Or drunk driving.
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> Since top comments here are anecdata about how terrible covid is for a young person, just thought I'd share my experience. ... We don't want to paint our picture of the situation using only extremes. How about we include the
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I don't really get what's paradoxical here. IIRC, the implication is that change predetermined and fixed, so is essentially static.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are. At least one way they could rationalize their actions is by taking an outlandish but not uncommon vie
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> There can, I’m surprised no one has implemented this: The reason is you're inappropriately applying an technical solution to a social problem. You also make at least one critical error: > As you contribute to thoughtful discuss
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Part of making sure "truth prevails" is having open discourse about topics. That involves people with "Wrong" ideas the ability to talk. Yes, but for that to work, the discourse has to between people who are actuall
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So what? People should be free to discuss stupid and wrong ideas. And they are, but if they want to do it on Twitter, Twitter gets to have its say as well. However, the conspiracy theorists don't seem to like it when Twitter exe
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 1. Tech platforms are uncomfortable with certain viewpoints expressed on their platforms and seek to limit these viewpoints. For the most part, those "viewpoints" are verifiable falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and other typ
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by ardy42 6y ago
> https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like a gold bug website, advocating for "hard" money (e.g. gold or bitcoin). I'm pretty sure the answer they want you to find
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria.... Bacteria will cause extinction. They didn't cause humanity to go extinct before antibiotics were invented. If they all lost effectiveness, we'd just re
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> In Brave New World, it's only a meritocracy because they've engineered human embryos to produce the different castes. In the novel, they deliberately induce fetal alcohol syndrome to stunt the intelligence of the lower classe
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> I would be hesitant to go above 4000IU daily without monitoring blood levels every six months or so. I did that for a little while (though the nurse practitioner at my work clinic wasn't too keen on signing off on non-medically in

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