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by ardy42 6y ago
> Could it be a message? Why to send from place to place a radio signal when we could set up a bunch of planets in an improbable/impossible regular configuration to be noticed from everywhere during a very long time frame? Intuitive
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> Trump pulled the ugly band-aid off the China problem and now even the Dems and some Republicans have realized the mess that economists like Friedman got the US into. Are you kinda also thinking of Milton Friedman? Thomas Friedman isn&
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> Is it a bug if it never happens? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a problem you don’t have? Let me rephrase that: Is it a bug if I don't know about it? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a p
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> This article is completely hypocritical to be coming from Tom Friedman. He has been one of the primary cheerleaders for globalism which has been a major driver of corporations gaining more favor from the government. If that's so,
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> Contra: (some) people doing exploratory programming in the small e.g. scientists don't want to have to deal with the type checker. Which in at least some cases means ignoring bugs. Pretty much every system I've worked on tha
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> I wonder if the dust settles and the UK/EU relationship becomes much like Canada to the US. Canada is a deep ally to the US, with a demilitarized border, tons of trade, friendly relations, cultural sharing, and easy transit betwee
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> It must be basically unheard of in history for the far left and far right to experience the same issues in such a similar way, I wonder where it may lead. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all. That's not actually true: th
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> These groups should really just be using Secure Scuttlebutt. There's an already existing cultural affinity for them there, and they can have sovereignty over their digital existence. That wouldn't obviate their need for a Fac
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> Edit: And worst of all is this very confusing pattern with two columns of toggle buttons, one of which concerns "legitimate interest": https://toot.cafe/@peter/105367185171860458 That's pretty awful
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>> On the consumer side, your microwave, coffee machine and even bedside clock will > I'd be very surprised. It's cheaper to build in a 32.768kHz crystal for timekeeping than try to access the grid frequency from the isol
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That one's paywalled for me, too. However, from the snippet in the Bloomberg Law version, it sounds like this unit is separate from package delivery: > Canada’s TFI International Inc. will acquire the unit, one of the largest less-t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The Disengaged Hoarder > Here, digital hoarders are characterized by laziness or a general lack of organization. Data accumulates over time and without active management habits a disengaged hoarder can accidentally end up with a mes
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> Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased with technical evidence. All right dstola: For the purposes of argument, I accuse you of
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> We can all agree that chocolate is the best form of ice cream. Those who would disagree are obviously trolls spreading disinformation. The marketplace of ice cream can't function if we have other flavors like pistachio or strawbe
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> The problem always becomes that few think their faction has this problem. Most people think that they and their side believe in the truth, and that the other side is peddling false information. In such an environment, "combating m
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> On the one hand, I certainly struggle to see how more crowds will improve upon what is fundamentally a problem with crowds to begin with. When you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I believe that the social networks
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> Consensus is the enemy of understanding. For topics where there is conflicting or poor evidence or that bear on the culture war, I do not want people voting on what is the consensus truth. I want to see all the evidence. That's a
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> 75% of Republicans do not trust the election results and If their mistrust is based on crazy, there's nothing that can be done to fix it except to cure that crazy. And I think it's based on crazy: the reasoning seems to break
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> Why is it baseless to challenge voter fraud concerns? If anything this will chill future concerns and people will not speak up. It sounds like you don’t want anyone to ever question a vote. For the same reason it's (probably) bas
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>> The problem I think is that you are starting from the assumption that America had a uniting mythos that only recently fell apart, rather than America having had deep, vicious internal divides throughout its entire history that were
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> Won’t baseless accusations of no voter fraud undermine the confidence even more? > After all, is there any evidence for voter fraud in Russia? The accusations of there being no voter fraud in the 2020 US election fraud aren't b
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>> Dissent is only to be tolerated when it's politically convenient. Come on, man. > It’s a bit worrying that total lies about a conspiracy between Dominion and (very much dead) Hugo Chavez to rig an election for Joe Biden is
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> How would anyone know they are baseless unless a proper investigation is conducted independently? What about the thousands of sworn affidavits? Surely, ALL of them can't be lying. Proper investigations were conducted, and no ser
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>> I don't see how the state can manage a problem better than a city. > This is the core argument of economic conservatism. One level up is “CA knows CA better than the Feds”. One level down is “I know my family better than my
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> Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Highest Paid Employee In The Entire U.S. Federal Government The US really needs to hire a football coach to fix this scandalous situation.
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> I think almost all of these are great, and it'll be cool to follow the progress of most of these. The one thing I disagree with is this "ghost gun" policy: Am I looking in the wrong place? Ctrl-F "ghost" on th
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> amen. everything seems to be getting more Orwellian by the week. Even the graphic and sub-headline of this post screams Ministry of Truth. Do you think newspaper corrections [1] are totalitarian? Because it sounds like this is basica
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> I don't care how much "good reason" you think you have, it doesn't make censorship not censorship, or racist policies not racist policies, or rewriting history anything but something straight out of 1984. > &quot
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> The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years. I rec
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> I was surprised when I learned that this US ethnicity is a self-defined status. This means that me, a blond blue eyed man (and accessorily French) could define myself as Afro-American in the US. That's not really true. You wouldn

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