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by bborud 4y ago
Lots of countries generate oil revenue. Not all oil-producing countries provide national welfare. You didn't actually think about this. Try again. Do better.
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by bborud 4y ago
OK, let's not mince words. It is so bad because you, all of you who suffer under this, don't give IT managers and decision makers enough shit for choosing this crap. You don't stand up for yourself, you don't refuse to
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by bborud 4y ago
> How do you measure “sustainability development goal,” or living > standards of a person? [...ad nauseam] Here's a wild idea: perhaps you should figure out the answers to these questions first?
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by bborud 4y ago
Then I want you to explain Norway to me. Or Sweden. Or Denmark.
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by bborud 4y ago
What good alternatives to Gmail exist today that have proper support?
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by bborud 4y ago
Ah yes, the building really drives home the message that no expense will be spared on the ruling class once the revolution has happened and the peasants settle in beneath their new oppressors :-)
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by bborud 4y ago
> When you lose traction in your car from rain or snow, your instinct is probably > to countersteer, but you should instead steer into the turn and countersteer > when you regain control. I'm not entirely sure I understand.
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by bborud 4y ago
> But nuclear power does not give that kind of value to a user That wasn't the point. The point is that right now people can't even envision that nuclear can be done more efficiently because there isn't being invested much
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by bborud 4y ago
We have decades more experience with electrical cars. And for over 100 years, electrical cars were a curiosity. For at least half of the time we've had nuclear power we've also had people saying that electrical won't have a
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by bborud 4y ago
Lots of technologies have gone from "not cheap" to dirt cheap in my lifetime so this isn't really an argument. Let me give you an example. Right now I have at least half a dozen 6-9 channel IMUs on my person. Most of which c
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by bborud 4y ago
> US residences currently use ~1kW per household That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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by bborud 4y ago
You made a categorical statement, yet provided no reasonable argument to back it up, so please don't be upset if I'm inclined to not enthusiastically adopt your position. I've spent much of my life listening to what people sa
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by bborud 4y ago
You can iterate the argument one step further and say that affordable nuclear is too far into the future, and that we should instead focus on more immediately realizable options such as wind, solar, geothermal etc. This is where much of the
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by bborud 4y ago
I might, but I haven't so far. And if I do run out of password manager apps, then it is probably time to make my own.
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by bborud 4y ago
I switched to Bitwarden when LastPass started using silly tactics to make customers pay. I didn't switch because of the price - the service pricing of Bitwarden was a pleasant surprise. I switched because I lost all trust in LastPass.
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by bborud 4y ago
Then why did people migrate to where the industrial jobs were?
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by bborud 4y ago
> And we still had rich and poor. If you only care about there being a delta between the rich and the poor, sure, there have always been rich and poor people. But that neither usefully describes the world, nor does it account for what p
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by bborud 4y ago
I would suspect the software was written for a non-A4 format, so if you were to put A4 paper in it you might get line wraps that would screw up multi-page prints. Oh my, I just remembered the pain of setting the perforation skip when using
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by bborud 4y ago
Goodness. If you think the western concept of democracy is merely about voting I think your educational system has served you poorly. A good way to learn what a democracy is may be to learn a bit more about what it takes to safeguard a de
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by bborud 4y ago
No, it isn't "just democracy". Whether atheists should even be allowed to hold public office is a question that turns up regularly in public discourse. Now substitute "atheist" with "people of color", &qu
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by bborud 4y ago
When eating ice cream turns into an identity conflict there is something wrong with people. Surely, people with a positive attitude would see this as something that can be enjoyed by a bigger group and thus some common ground. It takes il
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by bborud 4y ago
Easy: Look at atheists running for office and their chances of being elected. Also, your definition of discrimination is oddly specific.
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by bborud 4y ago
You seem to misremember a few things. MSFT paid $7.2bn. After 3 years Microsoft wrote it off as a loss. That amount of money is roughly what the top two smart phone manufacturers make in one week of sales. The industry represents a multi t
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by bborud 4y ago
Not quite sure what you are asking. Could you clarify?
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by bborud 4y ago
As a software engineer I'd have to disagree. In 2011 Windows on handheld devices was a consistently low quality product that had at least a decade of Microsoft failing at it behind it. Believing that Microsoft would suddenly be capable
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by bborud 4y ago
They didn't lose when the iPhones and Androids came out. They lost when at their peak because they became complacent. It just took a few years to manifest itself. If the leadership had been worth their salaries they would have known w
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by bborud 4y ago
The exciting thing about GFS wasn't even the technology. It was the discovery you made as a new engineer starting at Google (in the 2000s) that from your workstation (and from any job you ran on Borg) you had access to this enormous a
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by bborud 4y ago
Or better yet: build an alternative that is good.
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by bborud 4y ago
My goodness people need to rein in their sense of entitlement. It is a free tier. Buy the product.
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by bborud 4y ago
This kind of exists in Norway in the sense that we have at least two systems for communicating with government offices and, to some degree other organizations and people (haven't quite figured that out). This isn't an email soluti

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