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by barbacoa 5y ago
It's surprising the US gov would take action to stop this. One one hand yes, this isn't great for the industry. But on the other it would mean that ARM will become an American owned company which gives the US government enormous n
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Twitter Is About to Get Way Worse(bariweiss.substack.com)
29 points by barbacoa 5y ago|7 comments
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>Per capita If you rank by total murders Chicago comes in an easy first. Comparing a very large city like Chicago to comparatively smaller cities blurs the numbers when you are talking per capita. For example St Louis is a small inner ci
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Samsung to Choose Taylor, Texas, for $17B Chip-Making Factory(wsj.com)
10 points by barbacoa 5y ago|7 comments
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>How does the moral calculous work for Americans? Genuinely curious. Is it “something bad is being done to me, I am therefore justified to use any means necessary” kind of thing, or there is something else/more? In the USA there is
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>what else can I google for you? I don't think asking for clarification was an unreasonable ask. Too many people today use emotional charged rewordings to describe things. It's honestly hard at times to know what people are ref
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Just like how the seat cushion doubles as a flotation maybe arm rests should dispense 8 in knifes. Not much advantage to sneaking a weapon on a plane if everyone else has one too.
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Something people always forget when factoring solar is the cost of having the standby natural gas plant capacity that has to be ready to take over that 1 GW when the sun stops shining. Having a plant sit idle isn't much cheaper than ha
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Democrats have become a coalition party of the cultural and economic elites as well as the subsidized poor. Republicans tend to be the party of the working class.
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When the Patriot Act was sunset it was replaced with the even more Orwellian sounding USA Freedom Act, which on face value includes better safeguards. It's hard to know if that has improved matters as we have little insight into the go
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Fracking will continue as they are mainly after the oil. The by product natural gas will simply be sent to burn off towers instead of being used to cheaply power people's homes.
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>that was claimed. It's been thoroughly disputed. And you will always find news articles telling you not to believe your lying eyes. Sadly most Americans have grown a default assumption that the media is lying to you, which at least
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by barbacoa 5y ago
The whole central claim that started this was the allegations that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating the company that was paying Hunter for his "services". If it's true that foreign interests we
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Maya is notable because a region that once supported a large population quickly underwent large scale depopulation for reasons that are not clear to us today. This wasn't a matter of one nation collapsing only to absorbed by another. W
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by barbacoa 5y ago
I wish people would stop citing politifacts articles as if there were something other than partisan editorials. From their own "fact check": "Industry experts said the rules certainly impact the availability of drivers and tr
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by barbacoa 5y ago
The population decline of the Mayans happened around the same time. This decline was steep enough to be called a collapse. There has been much discussion as to the cause.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
People have done studies on other primates and found they mirror the same gender toy preferences that we see with humans. http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about/news/developmental_cogniti... I don't understand why
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by barbacoa 5y ago
People like to blame the Patriot Act but a large amount of the domestic surveillance is done under the authorization of the 2008 fisa amendment.
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Question Why are projects like this starting from scratch and not forking from the abandoned Ubuntu phone OS?
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> refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). Hunting licenses? Cool (people wit
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Piracy site could see their domain blocked by USA ISPs if MPA lawsuit succeeds(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by barbacoa 5y ago|0 comments
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And don't get me started on the Romans. After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants. This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
The 3rd option is that government is forced to keep interest rates near 0 forever, coupled with high inflation to keep debt levels in check. Onslaught of increasing wealth inequality continues into the future as the country declines into a
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by barbacoa 5y ago
NIMBYism is more a factor of incentives. Because of prop 13 California gets a large portion of state revenue from income tax, Texas has no income tax and relies on their very high property tax. Texas government has a strong incentive to pro
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by barbacoa 5y ago
The issue with the NYT is not around factual reporting but that they are shifting away from fact based reporting to opinions that are being presented as facts. I read an article about a voting bill that had passed in some Republican state.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Anecdote warning: My experience living in a city with a non-trivial homeless population is most homeless -- at least the visible ones -- are predominantly able-body young men (and increasing women too) in their 20-30s. We're not talkin
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>>you're not entitled to force someone else to print anything. Unless you're the surgeon general. Then you can force private companies to publish compelled speech on their alcohol and tobacco products.
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by barbacoa 5y ago
I took some some measurements and did the math a while back, my "Texas sized AC" draws 4KW when continuously running.
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FYI, your account is shadow banned.
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Progress may not be as slow as you think. Proliferation of body cameras on officers has done a lot to prevent bad behavior. Cops can't plant drugs/gun on someone, or lie about the facts of what happened very easily anymore. It als

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