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961.
by bluescrn 4y ago
He bought a very powerful propaganda weapon. Destroying it or disarming it is a win for humanity, I guess.
962.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Well, we saw ‘Covid Raves’ and ‘Covid Riots’, but they’re quite different things to ‘Covid Hysteria’.
963.
by bluescrn 4y ago
I had a quick search, but nothing stood out as a particularly great replacement, hence the question
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Are there any really good synonyms for 'hysteria' though, to describe a sort of crazed panic around a certain subject?
965.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Most people on here are probably spending 10hrs/day in front of a screen, though. And in that case, more calories is unlikely to be the answer to a lack of energy/focus.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> It's not even a guaranteed thing that such a device is even possible. Even if it is, no way would it be ready for 2025, maybe not even 2035. 20 years of mobile phone development gave us things that we could barely have imagined ba
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Small electric 'kick scooters' can be easily stored/charged indoors, even if you're in a city centre apartment and need to get it up/down stairs. That's not so practical to do with an e-bike, and certainly not
968.
by bluescrn 4y ago
The reaction seems kind of ridiculous, given that he's not really done anything yet. As of yet, there's been no high-profile unbannings, or even changes to the ToS, AFAIK. Just a plan to turn the blue checkmark into something th
969.
by bluescrn 4y ago
For comparison, SpaceX runs an entire private space program on ~12,000 employees. Near-weekly launches. Rocket development+production. Building+deploying Starlink. (Although that's just a number from a quick googling. Maybe they outsou
970.
by bluescrn 4y ago
It's about the image. There's no attempt to lead by example. Get some good PR photos of the rich+powerful travelling economy-class then cycling from the hotel to the event, maybe? They're making it so obvious that the 'r
971.
by bluescrn 4y ago
The problem is usually consistency. Moderators will delete comments or ban people for insults against people they like/support, but then cheer on more aggressive insults against people they deem bad (it's suddenly become very tren
972.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Not as crazy as the number of people who'll be flying in on private jets for the conference.
973.
by bluescrn 4y ago
1+1 can be made to equal 3. You just need enough powerful people to declare 1+1=2 as 'misinformation' (or 'hate speech')
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> I don’t think people are smart enough generally. This is the problem with the world today. We have decided that the average person is so dangerously stupid that we need to have governments protect us from 'average people'.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
The modern definition of 'disinformation' seems to be something along the lines of 'your propaganda but not my propaganda'
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Who do you trust to define 'harm'? I certainly don't trust governments, whether they lean left or right, as they all have heavy biases and big money influencing decision making.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Aren't we in a climate emergency at risk of catastrophic famines and the eventual extinction of the human race? There's not going to be a perfect solution. Probably not even a good one. Pumped storage (and hydro power in general)
978.
by bluescrn 4y ago
And what percentage of the immense quantity of batteries would need replacing each year?
979.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Or: can it run unsigned code?
980.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Two blocks is nothing... until you have a car that's fully-laden with heavy/bulky cargo.
981.
by bluescrn 4y ago
But how many lives are saved each year by the internal combustion engine (or it's electric successors)? Not just emergency services - more mundane things like, getting food and care to the elderly, getting workers and tools where they
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I'm really sick of city-dwellers telling the rest of us how to live. Yes, many city-dwellers can live without a car. But not everyone lives in a city, or has any desire to live in a city (especially during a time of decline and perpetu
983.
by bluescrn 4y ago
The iPad doesn't become the Macbook Air until it can run XCode and you can develop, compile, and test iPad apps on the iPad itself.
984.
by bluescrn 4y ago
So transferring a file between 2 local devices should require sending it to a cloud server and back?
985.
by bluescrn 4y ago
If it was a real computer with a 'real OS', I'd be able to easily set up network shares and transfer files over wifi, without even plugging a cable in.
986.
by bluescrn 4y ago
Well, transferring files between an iPhone and a Windows PC is still far more of a pain than it should be. Still can't just treat the phone as a drive and put files on there. (edit: or trivially share a folder on the LAN over wifi, wit
987.
by bluescrn 4y ago
But very few apps built to work files/folders. Image files?.... they obviously want to be mixed in with your photos! Media files?.... you don't want those!, would you like to subscribe to Apple Music?
988.
by bluescrn 4y ago
'Americans earning >200K/yr' is a pretty small market to be targeting. The average earner, especially outside the US, is already overburdened by recurring bills and subscriptions, especially during the energy crisis. When
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> There is no speech or behavioral weighting in the FICO formula. Yet. Wouldn't be surprised if they add some sort of ESG into the mix before long, in the push to address climate change. Eat too much meat, fly/drive too many mi
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by bluescrn 4y ago
It's like the tech tree from the Civ games in reverse. To develop 'Social Network' or 'Digital Currencies', you need 'Server Farm', 'Internet', and 'Power Grid', and to have those you n

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