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by ballenf 3y ago
Don't forget the maintenance costs and related expenses that Country B incurs. Not to mention that Country B has to guess the right amount of infrastructure to build. The costs Country A incurs are plowed back into Country A's eco
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by ballenf 3y ago
It's kind of ironic how quantum physics discoveries have given these proponents new language to cloak their claims in. When you have quantum effects that depend on observation, it can be quite convincing to a lay person that an ESP abi
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by ballenf 3y ago
Maybe a new paradigm could be the personalization of the language to each user, where the user controls which areas are exposed in lower or higher levels. The underlying code is stored in a neutral "byte code" and then decompiled
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by ballenf 3y ago
How many strong WFH advocates are anti school-from-home? The anti-SFH sentiment seems to come from antagonism to which groups have been the first to adopt it, but I'm sure my bias affects my interpretation.
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by ballenf 3y ago
And if you do the money gets clawed back in the bankruptcy that comes immediately after the company has handed over all their free cash.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Copyright around fonts may not support such a suit in the same as way as works of art. Wikipedia says: "In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright but may be protected by design patent (although it is
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by ballenf 3y ago
When someone says "it's [current year] so [bad thing] should have stopped by now", I get confused. It feels like it's implying that humans today are fundamentally different from humans in the past. In fact it feels dange
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by ballenf 3y ago
I watched two incredible grandparents' life ebb away painfully in hospital beds and hospice care. It was agonizing to sit helplessly while they suffered for days on end. But it helped me come to peace with my actual powerlessness in th
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by ballenf 3y ago
I'm sure Zuckerberg will get the same sentence as Ulbricht.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Because audio-only or, worse text-only, is throwing away >90% of the bandwidth of human-to-human communication. Studies show that relatively little of in-person communication is the words themselves. I don't think emojis solve this.
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by ballenf 3y ago
To be fair to POTS, it at least made up for frequency response with near zero latency. What you describe is worst of both worlds -- latency of commodity packet switching plus bandwidth of POTS. Personally, I'd always choose zero latenc
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by ballenf 3y ago
If certain members become known as being super important or valuable, management's response will more often be "fix this risk" not "great, let's reward that person". In the short term it will bring that person
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by ballenf 3y ago
These wheels often take a generation or more to fully rotate. And I have no idea whether any collective or group action can materially accelerate the timeline.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I don't know, for me each one has been a downgrade of the things I value most in an OS. Not saying a bunch of stuff wasn't upgraded, it just wasn't stuff I cared about (except security patches, but those just felt like mafia
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by ballenf 3y ago
Question from ignorance: if the planets are "moons" around the sun and the sun rotates around P9, how would we know?
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by ballenf 3y ago
Exactly, an average 12-14yo of modest strength could maneuver the chainsaw. The hard part about that work is doing it safely when unexpected things happen.
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by ballenf 3y ago
I'm not sure we know much about galaxies' intelligence, outside the Milky Way.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Yes, there is a low power mode. And you're forced to use that if you startup with an "under"-powered supply. Jeff Geerling on YT has a great in-depth review of these options in his latest video.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Perhaps but this thread and discussion might add up to a year's worth of that waste. Just saying every little thing counts can be very misleading, even though inarguable in theory, and result in non-obvious inefficiency.
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by ballenf 3y ago
> worst uses of surveillance in general do not apply to this case So only the "pretty bad" uses of surveillance apply and that's ok? Not sure I understand your point.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Maybe the real problem is that there exists a system design to allow querying a person's family connections to police interactions. This isn't even just convictions, but basically any accusations or investigations. The wording is
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by ballenf 3y ago
Beginning 40 years ago, the same efforts were made under the guise of fighting the drug war. Then 15-20 years ago, it became clear that that boogeyman wasn't scary enough, so the messaging slowly shifted to terrorism and then children.
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by ballenf 3y ago
A secure communication backdoor has the same logic as a two-sided triangle.
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by ballenf 3y ago
In the US, food banks I've volunteered at had very strict food expiration policies and wouldn't (couldn't?) offer any food very near expiration. They threw out huge quantities of food. Also turned away even more donations for
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by ballenf 3y ago
- Registration of alternative treatments with contact info (registered business address, etc.). Prevent fly-by-night hucksters from hiding in the dark. - Require disclosure of ingredients - Require disclosure of tests for contaminants - Req
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by ballenf 3y ago
Really would love to see a state allow non-alphanumeric characters as part of plate. Just to watch the chaos when they travel out of state and get a ticket or parking infraction. Would love to have a smiley or thumbs up character in my plat
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by ballenf 3y ago
One aspect of analysis ignored is review stuffing as a possible explanation for the repetition of keywords. At $2M/mo there's almost certainly a portion of the marketing budget going to inflating reviews.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Apple will take the approach theorized here when it can be done wirelessly. Bring your phone close to a "Magic Monitor" and the desktop experience starts instantly. The change of plug shape is irrelevant to whether this paradigm s
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by ballenf 3y ago
To put it another way, we might as well call a steam train a robot who will murder any human who tries to obstruct its desire to get to the next station, instead of jumping the track and going around.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Total tangent, but why don't homes use these ideas broadly? We have refrigerators, A/C and hot water heaters all in close proximity. Not to mention cool water. Would it really be so hard to get some of the waste heat or cool from

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