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by borkt 7y ago
Do we still need a new phone every year or two like was necessary in the past? I've had no desire to upgrade my phone and don't see a compelling reason to in the future. If manufacturing had stayed in america there would be copiou
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by borkt 7y ago
There is already a practical (but unsightly) solution to mosquitos - bug nets. There is nothing stopping people from wearing bug nets covering their entire body if they feel disease carrying mosquitos are a grave danger. It is irresponsible
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by borkt 7y ago
Dams are literally terrible in terms of ecological impact. The sooner they are all gone the better.
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by borkt 7y ago
I live 60 miles from san francisco and can't even get DSL - Satellite and cell only, cell is no service 40% of the time, 1 bar 60%
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by borkt 7y ago
Agreed. To do this correctly would take long term planning on the scale of decades most likely; growing the faculty from within and providing the necesarry resources to develop them. But it is possible and the elite universities should be m
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by borkt 7y ago
There are many people who are 4+ year graduates in other disciplines who would like to learn coding to enhance their abilities. I really don't see why having self-taught pathways available to these folks (or simply those who can't
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by borkt 7y ago
Also terrible with mental health from what I hear.
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by borkt 7y ago
I have a feeling most of these sentiments are coming from a European point of view . Continents like South America, Asia, and Africa all have many places dirtier than the US. Don't get me wrong, I hate how dirty our cities are in the U
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by borkt 7y ago
Are you talking about outside of crosswalks? Because in all of California the pedestrian has the right of way at any crosswalk and even at unmarked intersections.
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by borkt 7y ago
Definitely could have been it.
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by borkt 7y ago
The e-waste on those early generation electric clunkers could end up being just as big of a problem as gas cars as far as I can see. I would love to be proven wrong, but until they start making the heavy metals and REE containing components
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by borkt 7y ago
Saw a similar looking Tesla modified into a truck being trailered in Windsor, CA last week. Tried to grab a photo but couldn't get a good one. Anyone else seen it?
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by borkt 7y ago
See the references in the wikipedia article. Article came first it appears.
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by borkt 7y ago
No, I saw a an ebike blow out of golden gate park against a red and cause a 3 car accident in SF a few weeks back, despite only spending a few days in SF each year. At least one or more of the cars were likely totalled and would contribute
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by borkt 7y ago
Also much, much easier to solve, and more than possible with existing technology. May require more clean energy but it can be solved.
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by borkt 7y ago
I don't care how much education they have, the minds who are focused on developing ways to capture people's increasingly fractured attention are disqualified from being considered the top minds of our generation.
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by borkt 7y ago
Seen this too, literally leaving a company's production in shambles then takes a promotion to work at a competitor.
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by borkt 7y ago
I can easily notice the difference between 20 and 40 ms in FPS games. I have gotten out of FPS's due to keeping up with the hardware requirements, but a streaming service like this could make it possible. That being said, if they cant
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by borkt 7y ago
They have disability accommodations for that (which are abused by the wealthy apparently). I learned from the recent scandal news.
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by borkt 7y ago
I mention this all the time to coworkers who blindly believe solar is a perfect technology. It is really, really bad - especially the old stuff with all these REE's and extremely low efficiency. I am pretty upset that California now RE
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by borkt 7y ago
I don't see how coding is any different than being an auto mechanic in the long run. The only skills that will truly bring value long term it feels are project management and the ability to motivate a wide variety of individuals to wor
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by borkt 7y ago
Its literally just to protect privacy of someone close, nothing more. Shouldn't be interesting anyways but you never know how far doxxers will go.
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by borkt 7y ago
Airbnb is making this a distinct possibility. I regularly run into people in my small, tourism based town who own 2 or more properties they sit on and rent through airbnb. The most frustrating was a guy who after receiving inheritance is do
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by borkt 7y ago
AFOAF went through a tough time basically between the end of high school and a year out of college. Family stuff that was so hard to emotionally grasp and make sense of it absolutely paralyzed her. She went through many different forms of t
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by borkt 7y ago
This affects some of my family directly and has a very noticeable impact on local businesses who had become accustomed to and were investing pretty significantly in attracting Chinese interest in their products (California wine industry). W
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by borkt 7y ago
"At the high end of the electromagnetic spectrum, signals travel over a band of 10 million trillion Hz (that is, 10^22Hz). This end of the spectrum has phenomenal bandwidth, but it has its own set of problems. The wave forms are so min
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by borkt 8y ago
I haven't heard of others with connectivity that is even close. The fact that the airpods simply work, even long distances from my charging phone in the office, make them very valuable to me.
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by borkt 8y ago
Im pretty sure the problem is that a sensor failure is causing it to believe it is at a higher angle of attack than it actually is, but I'm only skimming.
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by borkt 8y ago
Sounds like owning a winery around these parts.
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by borkt 8y ago
Yeah, I was soldering little kits at a pretty young age. With proper supervision it feels you might as well have the kid really go for it, or have them direct the parent and lead them through the soldering process, while the parent performs

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