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by caconym_ 6y ago
The arguments for it make a lot of sense. One of them is that it's a cost saving measure. All other things being equal, that's a good thing, not a bad one. The Falcon family is wildly successful, but it's small potatoes n
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by caconym_ 7y ago
My work machine is a 15" MBP and I dislike it for similar reasons. The design is just totally unsuccessful at managing the heat generated by its components. On the other hand, my personal laptop is an Air (2019, I think) and I have no
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by caconym_ 7y ago
At some point we have to be willing to be intellectually honest about who speaks and acts with respect and integrity and who does not. E.g. when Trump says there were "very fine people, on both sides" of a white supremacist rally,
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Guess I'm not going to be looking at any more Instagram content. ️
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by caconym_ 7y ago
My work machine, which is a 15" MPB, has such poor thermal performance that I'd never consider buying one with my own money. My personal machine is an Air, which only gets hot when I'm actually doing something taxing. I can l
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Yeah, I literally heard that line in my head immediately after reading the title of this post. What else are we supposed to think of?
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Serious question: would you make the same argument about censoring anti-vaccination views? Reopening the country has undeniably turned into a political issue, and one thing we know for certain about Facebook and social media in general is t
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I never have, but now I'm putting them on my list. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I like the angle, and mostly agree with it, but I have a hard time believing our system isn't already so deadlocked that none of it will ever happen. Like, it's not as if "the left" wouldn't love to make over instit
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by caconym_ 7y ago
This is wonderful. Details matter in fiction. It's a delicate balance to weave it in without obsessing over it to the detriment of other elements, but you need that texture to anchor the consumer's perspective in a place that seem
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I'd encourage people with this mindset to reflect on how unqualified they are to judge the holistic merits of how other people spend their time.
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Why does other people working on what they want to work on bother you? Do you think they owe you something?
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I say you are wrong, though maybe this is the line we should be using if we still think we can tiptoe backwards out of Trump's chloroquine trap. I repied to somebody saying essentially the same thing as you here: https://new
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I think Trump was just casting about for anything he might hitch his wagon to and claim credit for later. It's unfortunate that "the other side" heaped so much scorn on chloroquine just because Trump was touting it, because t
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by caconym_ 7y ago
My wife is a nurse in a hospital in one of the COVID epicenters, though she does not work with patients that have tested positive, and she is not getting adequate protection. The PPE policies she's subject to have already resulted in
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Nice. I see a Honda in my future...
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I guess I'm not convinced that the 10th one shouldn't go to them too. They are dealing with a vastly increased risk of exposure than I am, and likely with significantly greater infectious loads as well, which may^[1] increase the
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by caconym_ 7y ago
More like donating your ballistic vest to a military that's expected to win eventually but with heavy losses. The marginal benefit may be low due to the sheer scale of the problem they're facing, but it still might save a life—and
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Until healthcare workers aren't complaining about not having enough PPE to do their jobs safely, this is the correct line of thinking, zero sum or not. Personally, given the vastly greater risk of exposure for them, I don't think
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Dune holds up way better if you pretend it's just one book (the first one). It stands alone very well and IMO is completely worthy of its status in the classic sci-fi pantheon. On the other hand, I finished TBP, but I disliked it enoug
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by caconym_ 7y ago
My point is that the actual risk to life and limb from this attack is very low because in the vast majority of situations you can easily and safely get off the road without instruments, and indeed that's exactly what you should do if
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I mean, practically speaking, if the instrumentation in my car fails I'm getting off the road ASAP without checking HN to see how long I have to wait for everything to come back. My point is that the risk is low.
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I wouldn't drive it anywhere but off the road at the earliest safe opportunity, but no driver should need any instrumentation to safely manage that.
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by caconym_ 7y ago
The biggest problem is third-party software support. iPads are great right now for a lot of creative work, and in theory capable of a lot more in their current incarnation, but if you can only afford one computer and you know e.g. your hi
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by caconym_ 7y ago
No, I'm not "setting a false dichotomy" at all, actually. I could be wrong, but I'd bet some amount of money that less than 1 in 10 Americans who have an opinion about "Big Tech" (in the sense that if you say t
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Transportation is a whole other problem, but with fewer people riding and higher-risk people staying home for a longer period, it seems that the actual risk to human life can be reduced. I really believe that at some point long before this
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by caconym_ 7y ago
I agree with you on the "radioactive waste" aspect, but I put "big tech" in quotes to suggest the sense in which lay people tend to interpret the phrase. I'm fine if there is an angry public response to all of it,
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Factories like this do seem that they might be better suited for operating during semi-lockdown conditions than e.g. offices. Large, ventilated spaces, probably more separation between employees, etc. If I were looking at a stepped reductio
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Them and the ecosystem of data brokers and marketing companies that are invisible to consumers and yet do far, far sketchier things with personal data. Like, remember that thing where cell carriers were literally selling real-time user-sp
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by caconym_ 7y ago
Good. Aggressive steps like this are the only way we'll get a handle on what's happening. The alternative is exponential runaway and complete disaster. Full disclosure: I live in Seattle.

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