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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This information is easily found on Wikipedia for those curious enough to look.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> What is your standard here? If the massacres had been riled up by spreading paper pamphlets you would want to shut down the printers? If it had been though the TV news, shut down the TV stations? Yes. Why is this even a question?
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted the three most senior managers of genocide, incitement to genocide, and crimes against humanity. They were sentenced to life in prison. The sentences were reduced, upon appeal, to bet
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
You'll make a fortune if you can find a way to convert 40-150 KWhr of electrical energy to heat quickly enough to make a difference in an emergency situation without causing the car to combust (or explode). You'll make a fortune b
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Most notably that manufacturers now use very narrow gamut LCD panels (50% NTSC, or even 50% sRGB) in low/mid range screens to force consumers to spend vastly more on hardware than was necessary, even a few years ago, to have access to
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I suspect the popular tide against science, especially among the 'America first' crowd, turned once science came up with results that threatened to make certain very large piles of money slightly smaller. With society and the econ
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To Understand How Science Denial Works, Look to History(scientificamerican.com)
24 points by bleepblorp 6y ago|19 comments
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Krita.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Nah. The US has pursued a spectacularly inept constellation of policies that have killed granny and created an economic disaster. The economy can't recover until the pandemic is controlled. Doing nothing about the pandemic to 's
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Relative economic standing != absolute economic standing. Statistical measures of poverty are set in terms of being able to afford the basic necessities of life, such as food, housing, medical care, transport, education and communications.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This is the primary source: https://www.lisep.org/
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> It is creating a schism in the American workforce, and those on the outside lack access to the necessary educational institutions to ever catch up. The implicit idea of offering a transition to knowledge work as a means for people who
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
SMART does report transfer errors between a disk and the motherboard/HBA. Failing cables should be detected.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
OP is likely referring to documentation required under the EU's energy performance certificates rules. See: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/eu-buildings-factsheets-topics-t...
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
You'd like to imagine that, in a climate with very cold winters, the building code would require high efficiency windows. It's completely mind boggling that anyone was allowed to build housing with single pane windows in 2003.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
HN has exactly the same groupthink hostility against countervailing views. The only difference between FB and HN is that HN groupthink enforcement is depersonalized and hidden behind the downvoting and flagging system, both to keep abusive
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
OP is probably referring to the Steve Bannon's recent statement calling for the beheading of Dr. Fauci. This has been very widely covered, even by Trumpist media. See: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/
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Bill Gates says social media platform Parler’s content has some 'crazy stuff.'(cnbc.com)
2 points by bleepblorp 6y ago|1 comments
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> I wonder what the answer for this is? Don't rely on politicians to do direct questioning of witnesses. Politicians have the wrong incentives, and generally lack the skills, to do anything other than grandstand in public meetings.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I don't extend personal sympathy to people worth over even a few million dollars -- if they don't like their jobs they can just retire -- but, in the abstract, the social media firms have bitten off far more than they can chew.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The free market is right there, refusing to address shortages and price gouging you for essential supplies. A few people are getting rich and many people are being put at risk, but the free market is fine with this. Meanwhile, in South Kore
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This is cargo-cult thinking. The American constitution is designed (in principle) to give Americans freedom against undue interference into their private affairs by government. The constitution does not, and cannot, give you protection agai
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
One of the first things Trump said about SARS-CoV-2 is that it was a 'Democratic' 'hoax.' How do you focus on educating against that, when any contradiction of Trump will be seen by his followers as a purely political ac
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
'It just works' is not a phrase I've ever seen applied to the Windows 10 update process before. While bricking updates for Windows are rare, the most infamous Windows update bug deleted all user data. If you want stability, d
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The even more blunt implication of good-faith originalism would be interpreting the 2nd amendment to allow the non-governmental ownership of nuclear weapons. The original intent of the 2nd amendment was to allow a 'well regulated milit
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I would seriously question the overall competence of any electrician who ran any low voltage cable in direct contact with AC power cables. This practice is not permitted by the electrical code. An electrician who does not respect that code
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Never send a consumer IoT (where the 'q' stands for 'quality') product to do the job of a commercial lighting control system. The right tool to automate a house with 100-150 lighting fixtures is something along the lines
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
JeOS is the SUSE OS for small footprint virtualized environments. I'm not too sure what niche MicroOS is supposed to fill that JeOS and the full-weight Leap don't already cover. MicroOS just seems to be answer to RedHat's Sil
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Congestion pricing is the brilliant idea that traffic congestion can be alleviated by making the roads too expensive for poorer people to use during peak times. It's very hard to see making the poor pay a regressive tax for traffic con
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I would imagine the decision was based on a lack of electric commercial vehicles, combined with the fact that personal vehicles vastly outnumber commercial vehicles.

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