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by bigbubba 6y ago
Assuming everybody were doing it, the percentage of residential power wasted on it would still be miniscule. And residential is only about a third of all power consumption. You may as well try to empty an ocean with a thimble.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't think you're being hyperbolic, the ruinously bad updates broke my addiction to reddit too. The charitable take is that they made it deliberately shit to drive adoption of their official app. If it's not that, th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole I disagree, it seems to be totally disrupted by general anesthesia. Having experienced it, from my perspective it was time travel in a way that normal sleep never is. When you wake u
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by bigbubba 6y ago
If anything it seems to debunk a right-wing talking point. Very strange accusation.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Perpetrators [... have] legal guns too. Is that known in this case? It's often not the case in America.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'd not hold it against them if the government were forcing their hand.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Well damn, I was expecting accidents with machinery, not murders! Farm work is dangerous enough as it is.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Perhaps Hunter Biden should send out some DMCA claims. Then twitter/Facebook/etc could have their cake and eat it too, censor that content without getting blame for it being censored. But perhaps there is a fair use argument to b
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sure, I'd support that. My above comments are certainly not a suggestion that these companies not be broken up!
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I encourage you to dig deeper into the background of the Walter Duranty and Judith Miller cases, in both cases the individuals were lying and their colleagues and coworkers knew they were lying or had good reason to suspect it. In the case
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes I'm aware, but usually when I voice my gripes with integrating rsync somebody unfamiliar with the matter quickly googles 'rsync library', finds librsync, and assumes it must be the answer to my problem. Then I have to ex
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by bigbubba 6y ago
None can be counted on. I happen to think the NYTimes is better than most, which is why I read them more often than the rest. But you cannot count on them to not tell lies, even in the most important sort of matters, and anybody who rea
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They obviously chose it because it fits their worldview. Their lack of originality is beyond the point.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Would twitter have blocked NYTimes in response to Walter Duranty or Judith Miller's reporting? Denying genocide or uncritically spreading pro-war propaganda seem comparably egregious to anything the NYPost has done.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
ZH proudly flaunts their bearish bias. The name Zero Hedge really says it all. Their motto, 'On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everybody drops to zero' , makes this explicit.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The GP's Google example concerns thermostats, not search. Google doesn't have a thermostat monopoly. Is it therefore okay for Google to remotely deactivate the thermostats of people they've decided to dislike?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The New York Times once allowed itself to be used as a mouthpiece for Stalin, publishing Walter Duranty's denials of famine in Ukraine. They didn't come clean on this until 1990: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There are many small businesses who use Amazon as a platform for reaching their customers. If Amazon kicks them out, their business evaporates in an instant. You may think it's foolish to create such a fragile business. I know I do.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Not necessarily. Preference falsification is a thing; it's quite possible for a organization to enforce compliance with a principle which no individual member of the organization sincerely holds. In cases of large scale preference fa
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by bigbubba 6y ago
How is this using rsync? Does it invoke an rsync process, or implement the rsync wire protocol? One of my gripes with rsync is I've not found another way to integrate it into other systems. librsync doesn't implement the wire p
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I envision the tank being between the engine and the capsule, not wrapped around the engine or something like that. As another commenter points out, you only need a shadow shield. I don't think there would be much more heat transferr
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I wasn't thinking of employees, but rather people running businesses selling things on Amazon or otherwise using their services. Insofar as Amazon can fire you, they're no different from any small business. Well, not quite. If Am
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Amazon isn’t going to arrest and deport me. They may however take away some people's livelihood capriciously and without due process.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Personally I think our common definitions of intelligence are too narrowly defined, we have a bias towards recognizing intelligence similar to our own and a blindspot for intelligent systems unlike our own. I agree with Paul Stamets that m
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Fish hook theory is perpetuated by some among the far right in an attempt to rebrand their ideology to give it more mainstream appeal.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I believe a tank full of liquid hydrogen would be a reasonable neutron radiation shield. Generally things like water or concrete are used for neutron radiation shielding due to the large amount of light nuclei (hydrogen) in those.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes, I conceded that we aren't blank slates. I still think we're on the wring track.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I assume she's probably barred from entry by ship as well. But I share your apathy to her plight.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Transmission never broke. GNOME devs requested that Transmission break itself on non-GNOME platforms. Falling back on 'well you're not paying anything' really does nothing to dispel the perception that GNOME devs don't
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> You are forming your current opinion about entire communities based on one comment made by one developer 10 years ago Incorrect. I am using a single example to illustrate a trend. A single example to illustrate what "unreasona

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