benj111

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by benj111 2mo ago
Why are we appealing to emotion? Why a shopkeeper on 15 and hour and not Walmart? Why the advertising industrial complex and not some small 1 man advertising firm?
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by benj111 2mo ago
I'm pushing back against the argument that the advertiser make money, ergo we are paying more than we 'should'. That's how businesses work. The shop makes money when you buy things, so surely the same argument should app
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by benj111 2mo ago
I'm not saying the consumer is helped. I'm saying that all businesses aim to make money, so the fact that this one is doesn't make it morally wrong. Further you've ascribed some price we 'should' be paying. The
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by benj111 2mo ago
"water, gas and light bills" I assume light bills refers to electricity, as, especially pre war, that's what electricity was predominantly used for?
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by benj111 2mo ago
So you are paying more than you should for a loaf of bread because your local shop is making a profit? because if you went to the factory you could buy the same loaf for less? Of course you could make the bread yourself for even less becaus
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by benj111 2mo ago
I got stuck in a lift once. I mashed button combinations to get eventually get out. I found out after the fact you need to hold down the buttons. User interfaces are apparently hard...
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by benj111 2mo ago
>Only with 21st century goggles on does your idea of induced vehicular traffic make sense I live between Manchester and Bradford. 2 towns that didn't exist before the industrial revolution. 2 entire cities built, basically because o
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by benj111 2mo ago
I don't think there was ever a situation of roads getting overgrown. The canals and trains were part an parcel of the industrial revolution. That if anything led to more road traffic. Yes it may not be long distance, but it's stil
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by benj111 2mo ago
>And historically, roads didn’t improve until after bicycles became common—indeed it seems that it was in part the cyclists who called for the improvement of roads. I don't know about other countries, but in the UK it was the cyclis
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by benj111 2mo ago
Wouldn't you do better say indexing Wikipedia, then what it links directly, then what those link directly? As you note, you got into an adult content 'bubble'. Going to random sites doesn't mean that site is good in anyw
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by benj111 2mo ago
Problem is, how do you tell that character X is indeed character X and not something that looks like character X? Further, how far do we take the function names are a language thing? Should an ss be rendered differently in Germany? Is leß()
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by benj111 2mo ago
I think there's also a bit of Unix philosophy in there. If you're using 5 different dsls to write a script, 1 more isn't really an issue. Now the fashion is for 1 big batteries included language, which requires you to know a
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by benj111 2mo ago
To extend the metaphor though. An RSS reader that works with atom is the same as a VHS player that also has a beta max player. Or your blueray player that plays dvds and CDs....
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by benj111 2mo ago
I think the move to allow plug in solar is good, but its just a sticking plaster over the issue. And that is rental houses not having solar, or much of anything. In the 60s many houses only got indoor toilets because the government forced t
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by benj111 2mo ago
On the other hand you could just not export the coal and leave it in the ground? Unfortunately that will piss off others who want the income. But then those same people won't plan for a time when there's no buyers for coal, so....
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by benj111 2mo ago
>It’s also government picking winners, which historically has never worked, rather than letting private enterprise pick winners, and potentially failing, in an open and free market. The internet was funded by the government until it got
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by benj111 2mo ago
I owned my last house for 12 years, I replaced 1 bulb? Half the bulbs were carried over from a previous house, so some are ~14 years old. Admittedly these were early ones, so the original batch had metal bodies etc. the replacement was a Ph
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by benj111 3mo ago
If you aren't using induction, it's also slow, slow to heat, slow to cool. Yes you can get used to turning the heat up 5 minutes before you want hot. A down 5 minutes before your food is done. But it's a pain.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Are window cleaners not a thing in your neck of the woods?
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by benj111 3mo ago
For the same reason, get a car with dents, or light obviously bubbling.
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by benj111 3mo ago
If it wouldn't happen today, it's only because the US has a long history of doing this, mainly to black people. Youre more confident that it doesn't still happen than I am though.
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by benj111 3mo ago
As a person it should scare you. Unfortunately this isn't unusual, well except it actually being accepted that he was innocent after the fact.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Yeah but I don't get why it's so defensive. Sure some people are against AC for reasons, and some people are for a, for reasons. I don't see why that has to turn into an ideological battle. Discuss the issues, don't just
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by benj111 3mo ago
Well one can follow on from the other. Assembly is add R1 R2. Forth takes the 2 numbers from the TOS and puts it in those registers. That wasn't obvious what was happening in the post, I wonder if student me would have wondered. You co
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by benj111 3mo ago
I don't know. It's got some extremely simple rules. 1 data structure. And nothing is particularly hidden. Python might be better for actually producing something, but from a 'teaching how computers work' pov, forth would
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by benj111 3mo ago
Is this an American thing? There seem to be a number of comments akin to "you'll prise it from my cold dead fingers" when that isn't being suggested.
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by benj111 3mo ago
The old school way where? And for what class of people? The working class weren't moving for the summer. Further I put a jumper on in the winter, have insulation in my house, have curtains etc to keep heat in. What's wrong with ha
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by benj111 3mo ago
It takes 1 to 3 years to offset the energy used to manufacture a solar panel. The only situation where you would have a point is micro wind generation, and that's basically no longer a thing because it doesn't work.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Off the top of my head. Have a group that doesn't die on logout. So you can have an email Daemon that responds with out of office. And you tmux session can keep running? I'm not necessarily talking about the Unix concept of a grou
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by benj111 3mo ago
Ah ok. Seems like the log out metaphor is kind of broken then? It seems to me if you want persistence between logouts, the processes should belong to a different group/user. (I'm spitballing hypotheticalshere, not saying anyone&#x

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