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by boredumb 5y ago
Coal and Quartz are used to produce modern solar panels. No hand waving or EROEI can negate this fact. Takes less than 5 seconds "using a search engine" to discover this.
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by boredumb 5y ago
Even if we migrate all energy production from coal to solar, solar panels require massive amounts of coal to produce. It's a shell game at best.
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by boredumb 5y ago
Short of a decades long infrastructure project, there won't be any driverless cars outside of a few small areas of a few cities.
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by boredumb 5y ago
Capitalism has nothing to do with power disseminating information in an attempt to retain power. You are actually lucky for capitalism as it's two companies offering social media services playing PR games and not a totalitarian governm
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by boredumb 5y ago
Honest question, why on earth would you ever have a question for twitter so important that you'd consider paying them to answer it?
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by boredumb 5y ago
The discussion of "ethics" in ML tend to revolve around race and sex in order for large organizations to pretend they have some moral high ground when their models are being used to ruin peoples lives and enable billion dollar com
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by boredumb 5y ago
There were earthquake drills, shooting drills, "lock down" drills and bomb threat drills throughout school. Basically all of them consisted of "Sit under your desk and play thumb wars quietly with classmates and listen to you
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by boredumb 5y ago
"Don't optimize for the uncommon case" A fun way to ensure the case you focused on and optimize for is always the most common case since the other use cases are suboptimal and frustrating.
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by boredumb 5y ago
We need tons of coal and plastics to capture the sun shine.
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by boredumb 5y ago
Just imagine in game purchasable cosmetic items as a buy-only NFT.
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by boredumb 5y ago
It would be a much better world for most Americans if the government wasn't spending lives and billions of dollars policing countries 6000+ miles away on behalf of other countries and foreign interests. Calling people who don't wa
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by boredumb 5y ago
To be fair, WSHTF I have a feeling that paying e-bills isn't going to be the prevailing issue.
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by boredumb 5y ago
The last thing this world needs is automation around people calling things toxic or problematic.
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by boredumb 5y ago
Would probably look like everyone working for the same dozen companies.
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by boredumb 5y ago
I've been enjoying using braves search engine recently, I do however really miss typing in an address or local business and getting a map/direction pulled up as an immediate result. Even a link out to open street map pointing to t
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by boredumb 5y ago
I've always wanted to create something like this and make people use a specific cryptocurrency to rent or receive payments that they could also mine with a GPU and call it 'Ouroboros'.
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by boredumb 5y ago
I immediately thought of n-gate and then laughed out loud at this. I miss n-gate.
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by boredumb 5y ago
>Nazism is a spiritual disease and one i would be happy seeing continually wiped off the face of the earth. Not sure if this is a joke, but the idea that removing people from earth due to their belief of who should be removed from earth
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by boredumb 5y ago
>I got really good at modifying web forms with Chrome devtools to inject Puerto Rico into the State drop-downs so I could just get shit shipped. Wow. I've never thought of this... I can think of three places I've reached out to
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by boredumb 5y ago
England, Thailand, Malaysia....
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by boredumb 5y ago
There is a concern among right wing people that by placing more and more people in government housing and programs, they will vote more and more in favor of state and federal power from promise of funding and/or more personal support,
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by boredumb 5y ago
Wasn't too long ago that unity was being packaged with ubuntu including an amazon ad.
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by boredumb 5y ago
There is a rising consensus from a lot of young left wing people in the united states that is unknowingly becoming drawn towards Singapore style politics. A lot of the large government programs and initiatives they rally for within a societ
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by boredumb 5y ago
In puerto rico up until very recently (with some lagging behind) it is the condominium building name, apt # and a zip code.
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by boredumb 5y ago
I'm not proposing we take away public housing, but I encourage you to visit any of the public housing or even section 8 majority neighborhoods and just walk around for a while to take in the scenery and decipher what is narrative and w
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by boredumb 5y ago
Have you been around public housing? The idea in theory is great, but in the US and in Puerto Rico it is a hub of drugs, alcohol, crime, government dependency, broken families, youth gangs and a slew of other things concentrated into a sing
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by boredumb 5y ago
Some users may be agora-phobic
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by boredumb 5y ago
using the search console I can extract all the actionable information I need without having to burden users with downloading and executing GA.
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by boredumb 5y ago
"Making encryption illegal will ensure that only criminals use it, thus making only criminals safe online." Uptown NYC has a tragically similar problem with fire arms.
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by boredumb 5y ago
"Please make things lean and simple, Mr. Corp" I think this is the solution for that from google. Terrible as it is.

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