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by atomi 6y ago
I'm sure there are very legal and very cool reasons as to why, but the result is a hardware lock in to Windows.
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by atomi 6y ago
When you lump all of government together in your judgment you lose the ability to hold individuals accountable in public discourse. It's akin to justification in my opinion.
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by atomi 6y ago
Probably the most awesome thing about the internet in my opinion is that you can look stuff up if you don't know what someone is talking about.
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by atomi 6y ago
Yeah to be fair, Bitcoin recovered pretty well after the pandemic dump. I think the biggest threat to Bitcoin will be a technological failing.
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by atomi 6y ago
There's little money in selling broccoli and kale. But the science is very clear. Eat more veggies and fruits.
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by atomi 6y ago
Whether or not all populations on Earth are mixing enough to prevent speciation remains to be seen. But the process begins with the kind of mutations documented in the article.
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by atomi 6y ago
Speciation is an ongoing process and it's happening right now in the human population. https://news.sky.com/story/human-microevolution-sees-more-pe...
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by atomi 6y ago
Why not just make a github repo with a list of these in markdown? All this javascript and html fluff is not necessary.
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by atomi 6y ago
It all depends on their budget.
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by atomi 6y ago
I don't want to start an argument, but for what it's worth RISC is a bit more energy efficient and the Pi is quite a bit cheaper.
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by atomi 6y ago
> People seem to forget that the expected total death count from day 1 was, and still is, expected to be the same no matter what actions taken This is so wrong. One has to really wonder what motivates you. Mask wearing alone, a simple ac
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by atomi 6y ago
You are so on the nose. Politics is now global and constituencies that were never exposed to other political realities and were protected by local politicking are now facing a political shock. The chickens are certainly coming home to roost
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by atomi 6y ago
Also, social contract (Hobbes and Locke)
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by atomi 6y ago
Capitalism requires liberalism. Illiberalism just doesn't make sense when profit is the question. In a capitalist system, we're a liberal society because we _have to_ be. Don't take my word for it, read some John Locke - the
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by atomi 6y ago
That's an interesting writing style.
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by atomi 6y ago
It would be incredible if there was a way to use mpsyt to watch Youtube videos with your library.
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by atomi 6y ago
On a related note: Celts descended from Spanish fishermen, study finds https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/celts-des...
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by atomi 6y ago
I wouldn't say that it's California exactly that has that shameful past.
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by atomi 6y ago
My take is that they don't want people they disagree with to speak up.
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by atomi 6y ago
You're implying that resources afforded to people have no bearing on their ability to build wealth. That's nonsensical. > Are you writing this from your 10th grade recess period? These types of comments don't belong here.
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by atomi 6y ago
I'm going to bet that sentiment has been around for a lot longer than that, likely even before the gold rush and dust bowl migrations. I think what is new are these tireless and never ending threats of leaving. It's like, ok, go a
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by atomi 6y ago
This comment will be unpopular. But, I and most people I've talked to have been waiting years for this prediction to materialize. We'd all love it here if we could enjoy all that California has to offer with fewer transplants arou
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by atomi 6y ago
If Google didn't break any antitrust laws, I don't see why it has anything to worry about. I for one am happy to see the outcome of a fair and legal trial, whatever the impetus.
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by atomi 6y ago
The rarity of animals in Blade Runner is a recurrent theme in the film.
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by atomi 6y ago
> Sure if you define anyone who wants to change things as leftist all revolutions are tautalogically leftist. Most people understand this to be the case, _unless_ the revolution is _reactionary_ which is traditionally conservative. >
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by atomi 6y ago
> ...killing political rivals... > ...got elected on a populist vote... To my mind, a violent populist movement is a revolution. It's not contentious term for me.
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by atomi 6y ago
> between 1933–39, with 30,000 communists executed and 150,000 sent to Nazi concentration camps.
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by atomi 6y ago
> The conception of leftism didn't even exist! Left is progressive, right is conservative. These terms can and are applied to historical events retroactively. > Pick up a book on the Weimar Republic some day, you might learn some
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by atomi 6y ago
> The Nazis got elected, they didn't start a revolution. Nazi's killed their political opposition, especially Communists.
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by atomi 6y ago
For some historical perspective, generally, populist revolutions throughout history, especially in the West, have been leftist, the French Revolution, American Revolution, Mexican Revolution. Right wing revolutions tend to curtail rights li

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