brightlancer

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by brightlancer 3y ago
The TOR software is likely no more compromised than GNU/Linux generally -- the TOR _network_ is likely compromised by flooding it with honeypot servers that can track users by monitoring origins and destinations.
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> There's also the fact that Unity charging "per install" also includes things like game demos (which are free), or games given to subscribers of things like PlayStation Plus, I've read that Unity clarified that this
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> These (e.g. “I hope you all die*) aren’t typically referred to as death threats. "I hope" is not a threat. I specifically said "threatening general violence". Someone (pseudo) anonymously e-mailing "I'm go
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> I’ve never worked at a firm that received a death threat. If we did, I would expect it to be taken very seriously by senior management and law enforcement. You expect it would be? IOW, you wouldn't automatically be told about a de
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by brightlancer 3y ago
This interview is just not attached to reality: > The other is to create more efficiency with a through-running system, where you would have what are now New Jersey Transit trains coming to the city, crossing through Manhattan, and out t
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> Hope you never eat anything with, among other things, onions or garlic. As with many things, the risk is highly overstated -- so please stop spreading FUD. ---- "Onion poisoning is consistently noted in pets who consume more than
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> it appears that a dishwasher will consume at least 2.5 gals per cycle. No way does hand washing use 5 to 7.5 gallons of water per wash. Rinsing dishes requires fresh water from the tap, which runs somewhere from 1-2 gallons per minute.
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> and the thermometer on my digital desk clock said 63f. ... > The days this guy was in it reminded me of working in foodservice, having to stock the walk-in cooler on delivery days. 63F is not a walk-in cooler; 40F is a walk-in coole
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by brightlancer 3y ago
Septic tanks are great for single family-dwellings, awful for dense apartment buildings, and scale from great -> awful very quickly in between. IOW, wastewater infrastructure is necessary above a certain density. The irony is that wastew
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by brightlancer 3y ago
The Wayback Machine is pretty successful with older tweets before the login block: https://web.archive.org/web/20200118133242/https://twitter.c... Also, a shorthand for "give me the oldest copy of s
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The Biden administration reversed this liberalization in 2022, and is now trying to make it tighter than it was pre-Trump. "The efficiency levels proposed in today’s rule reflect that there are models available today that can meet impr
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> Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that for YOU. Please do not expect everyone to conform to your personal circumstances.
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We need to be pro-growth but it is difficult to balance that with sustainability. For example: In practice, carbon taxes are easy to game and are counter-productive. The companies prioritize profits (growth) to the exclusion of sustainabili
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> You're probably confusing carbon capture in general (which already exists in some quantities, although still small to what would be meaningful) with DAC. If so, it's the person who posted the Al Gore talk that's confusin
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by brightlancer 3y ago
The top three countries _today_, and China is > 2x the US, who is ~ 2x India -- China alone emits 30% of the CO2. How should we force China to stop emitting? India wasn't even in the top 50% 20 years ago -- the nation is developing
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> Opening up a different browser requires more attention than just opening up a different colored tab (i.e. profile). In both Firefox and Chromium, I can't open a new profile on a new tab. (This may be a difference in terms.) I crea
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by brightlancer 3y ago
The Sunday edition may be $7 at a newsstand; I'm pretty sure they M-Sa isn't near that (yet). I checked home delivery to the Bronx and the regular price is $20/week ($1,040/year). There was a default offer of 50% off to
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> The quality of the median writer would drop, as would the median income, until the perception that it was easy money reduced enough to stop people joining. Yes, yes, no. Folks' perception of Substack/ Youtube/ Twitch are
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> > Carbon capture is a scam. > Nobody thinks direct air capture is a scam. Yes, folks do. points up Two more examples in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37452537 https://news.ycombi
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> The current school of thought dominating MBA courses would see addressing these issues as a cost with no tangible benefits to the business. I can see their rationale: if consumers don’t signal that they care about security, then it is
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So any company that makes a device knows that all their proprietary work will become public if they end support -- that seems like a great reason for companies to not build devices.
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> Housewives are an inconvenient, varyingly expensive, politically incorrect solution to millennial burnout. I think it was the non-PC part that got this flagged. Personally, I prefer the term "homemaker", because that's a
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by brightlancer 3y ago
Yes, and even if the grandparents or extended family live elsewhere but nearby, there can be a sharing of the workload: not just meals and childcare, but also a family member who works on everyone's cars, one who does a lot of the yard
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It depends. Lots of families need two cars -- but some just prefer it. And as with housing (and everything else), families can often make due with something smaller, older, etc. because it's cheaper. There is this "modern" ex
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> I use a separate browser for social networks that I rarely open. I do this also, to limit tracking. A side effect is that I have to make a more deliberate action to check social media, and I mostly don't. I've tried to convin
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I'm shocked, shocked that there is gaming of systems for economic benefit! Obviously, paying to get a positive review or to bury a negative review is cheating and should be treated as such. OTOH, paying to get reviewed honestly is comp
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> The worker who works building thousands of iPhones can’t afford an iPhone. What worker can build one iPhone, let alone thousands? Comparing them to a subsistence farmer is just absurd.
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The academic tracks are like a pyramid scheme: professors need graduate students, who then become professors who need graduate students, who become professors who need even more graduate students. This was successful as we forced more and m
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> Supply and demand does not allow for unbounded rises in prices because demand is never infinite. Rather, prices go up to the highest amount demand will allow for. Generally, yes, but it's not an absolute. Each time an employee is
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It's the reverse: if unemployment is 0%, there are no persons without a job, but there may be jobs without a person.

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