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by bliteben 5y ago
Just because the growth rate isn't constant, does not make it not exponential. I do acknowledge that there are smart people forecasting the end of exponential growth, but who is to say a cultural or technological phenomena will not c
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by bliteben 5y ago
Exponential growth is the true problem and most of the technologies we are currently looking towards will only be temporary solutions. Even Fusion could only solve the problems exponential growth will throw at us in both population increas
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by bliteben 5y ago
"unlimited"? no it will just be limited by the next thing. At current rates we are what 400 years out from using all the energy that reaches earth from the Sun. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
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by bliteben 5y ago
I've noticed it not connecting on windows, I have to open the addon window twice pretty often.
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by bliteben 5y ago
I hope you do accept there are physical limits to growth that there is no way get around short of colonizing other planets and that we should at least take care of our mother planet.
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by bliteben 5y ago
survivorship bias, in New York only the people who are rich enough to avoid all these rules or the ones who will bend over and take it are left. We literally just had a president who bribed the NYPD to get his concealed carry license.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Not much different than LEO in California being able to buy off-roster handguns and resell them for profit.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Why can't the US just have less people with a higher standard of living? Why is "progress" always more. Why do we have to make everything worse by shifting the baseline ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh
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by bliteben 5y ago
You might as well live in the matrix, you seem to live in an artificial world with no connection to nature. I myself desire to live on the edge of "civilization" as much as I can, I know this presents a conundrum in that I'm
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by bliteben 5y ago
I recently read Eager ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40526225-eager ) which is an amazing book about the tide turning on Beavers in North America.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Makes me wonder if a large company like Facebook has ever "accidentally" counted their shadow profiles in user growth numbers.
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by bliteben 5y ago
UV seems more possible now that I think about it, thermal would present huge issues with export regulations
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by bliteben 5y ago
hopefully thermal imaging next
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by bliteben 5y ago
Voting in Washington is really abhorrent. I read the last Republican Governor Nominee's bio and platform in the voting guide and was just surprised that he thought he was qualified to be Governor in a state with 7 million people. I do
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by bliteben 5y ago
Also the noise, and reliability to look at, the one I have and am now getting rid of had a motherboard larger than an e-atx board inside of it. I have no clue why it needs that much circuitry, it does have wifi, but really seems insane. Fo
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by bliteben 5y ago
Super nice how it doesn't cook food to the surface.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Its annoying and I could certainly see this happening as different pans do have different noises, for me I'm not sure I could have found an egg pan without noise on the induction I had until it died.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Our GE Cafe Induction Oven https://www.cafeappliances.com/appliance/Cafe-30-Smart-Slide... had board failure in the first 6 months, the first board appeared to have a cooling shroud installed improperly (covid quality
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by bliteben 5y ago
I suspect PHP's popularity has really only waned in the US. Just my very anecdotal observations.
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by bliteben 5y ago
I suspect this boils down to those type of searches do not make money.
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by bliteben 5y ago
kind of insane for a site that used to and still somewhat encourages you to have multiple accounts.
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by bliteben 5y ago
The problem with shadow bans and most moderation is they basically all eventually just make the user's account have no voice at all and its not redeemable. Sure this helps with spam, but on a long enough time frame these types of syst
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by bliteben 5y ago
but this time it is different
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by bliteben 5y ago
I would venture most of the internet is not hosted in the EU. You expect US, Chinese, and Japanese citizens to respect an EU fine for a law they have no say in? Sure they are doing "business" in the EU, but many of them are not
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by bliteben 5y ago
What lightbulbs do you find are best for running tasmota? I'd prefer not to have to setup a zigbee setup in addition to my zwave.
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by bliteben 5y ago
Employers can't discriminate based on any of these things and there is no right to be employed. This will keep coming up as the percent of speech that happens on monopolized platforms continues to increase.
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by bliteben 5y ago
yeah yeah separate but equal
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by bliteben 5y ago
I don't understand how they don't expect a first amendment case against them, they likely are discriminating against certain ethnicities, races, or localities in using algorithms to block / sort comments. It seems like at so
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by bliteben 5y ago
I don't understand why this isn't a seo penalty. I feel like early on with google they actively looked for things like this to rank sites.
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by bliteben 5y ago
would be a great case about the legality of crowdsourced leveraged buyouts.

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