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by calibas 6y ago
If you could cook the toxicity out of nuclear waste on stovetop, then you'd have a good argument. Simply because botulism and nuclear accidents kill roughly the same number of people (depending on the time period chosen) does not addre
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by calibas 6y ago
I made sure to specify "at the moment" as I'm well aware of the consequences of mining the resources to produce both computers and nuclear energy. I was trying to avoid this exact conversation. I'd be dead if my computer
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by calibas 6y ago
The toxicity of nuclear waste does not even begin to compare with kidney beans. I'm not sure why you're making that analogy, but it's a bit absurd to me. It's like there's a conscious tactic to compare nuclear power
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by calibas 6y ago
Does nuclear fission not produce produce incredibly toxic substances, both during mining the resources and from operating? My computer isn't doing that at the moment, these are such bad analogies... And I'm skeptical of gasoline-p
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by calibas 6y ago
You're not allowed to criticize nuclear power here. You're either pro-nuclear or ignorant, there's no middle ground. It's not this incredibly complex subject with various positives and negatives. And don't mind nucl
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by calibas 6y ago
Are we hording fire in such a way that we can wipe out most of the human population? There's a big difference here...
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by calibas 6y ago
I'm sorry, but the history of WW2 is not "FUD". You can't just scream "FUD!" at anything to instantly dismiss it. And we're still making nuclear weapons. That is a connection to death, they're used to
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by calibas 6y ago
The first thing human beings did after discovering nuclear energy was use it for mass murder, and we're still using it to create weapons. Everybody knows this, everybody knows about Chernobyl and Fukushima. I don't know how anybod
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by calibas 6y ago
And the scope for "three" is quite small, a single short function. It's not like it's using a global variable or #define.
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by calibas 6y ago
There's this wonderful group called the Flat Earth Society, it's been around for a while. There's always been a few members who take the group very seriously, but for the majority of the members, it's purely a joke. Peop
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by calibas 6y ago
I'm not claiming the reality of P2P always matches the ideas behind it. And surely you're not saying centralized hosting being a strict requirement was what people had in mind for P2P?
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by calibas 6y ago
He said that IPFS hosting is the "primary responsibility of a single party". The whole idea behind peer to peer is to avoid precisely that.
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by calibas 6y ago
You're speaking from actual experience, aren't you? I tried out IPFS and came to the same conclusion myself. Content has to be kept alive or it disappears forever, and keeping it alive requires some kind of investment. I like IPFS
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by calibas 6y ago
Gujarati? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_script
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by calibas 6y ago
I started getting in the habit of using Typescript with JS. It's annoying at first, but worth it for any decent sized codebase. All the bugs from JavaScript's unexpected type conversions just disappear.
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by calibas 6y ago
There's React Native for Windows/macOS, though if you don't like Electron I doubt that's very appealing either. I've had some nice experiences using PyInstaller to create desktop apps.
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by calibas 6y ago
Most companies today use frameworks that have good cross-compatibility so it tends to just work. In my opinion though, a responsible web developer is going to test on multiple browsers at the very least.
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by calibas 6y ago
999 out of a 1,000 people know better, but when there's thousands of people...
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by calibas 6y ago
I think it's precisely because we don't know that people have such strong opinions. People get to fill in what they want to believe, then argue a point that can never really be proven wrong or right.
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by calibas 6y ago
Whether or not you even see specific content on Facebook, Google or Hacker News depends on sorting algorithms, so that would be one of the tools used to censor content. It's not just "the delete button", it's so much mor
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by calibas 6y ago
I've been curious about how to do this, I assume you install an ActivityPub plugin and connect it to an existing platform like Mastodon or Pleroma?
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by calibas 6y ago
The problem is finding people who actually know how to use it. It's great, but it takes years to learn properly. Before that it can be frustrating as hell. It seems easy enough at first, like you can just use whatever contributed modu
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by calibas 6y ago
To me, it's just so odd that people don't seem to understand why we have an ISS. Is the main argument "We've already learned what's needed about life in space, and now we don't need a space station anymore&quot
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by calibas 6y ago
>Then there's a genuine question of what this enormous expenditure truly buys us. It helps to answer the question of whether or not humans can even survive long term away from Earth. Sure, if you judge it purely by the price tag, it
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by calibas 6y ago
It's fundamentally problematic, but some distinction needs to be made based upon genetics. Otherwise we do things like making dairy it's own "food group" and treating lactose intolerance like a disease.
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by calibas 6y ago
Can we kill the whole "security researcher" term right now? Hacker is so much easier to type.
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by calibas 6y ago
I've noticed authoritarians tend to care about maximizing volume to surface area over aesthetics, so I don't think those things are entirely unrelated.
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by calibas 6y ago
The modern approach is decriminalize small amounts, and treat addiction as a disease instead of a crime. The results speak for themselves. Very few people believe "all drugs should be legal", that's a complete misrepresentati
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by calibas 6y ago
He's being honest instead of withholding the truth to fit some agenda. Shouldn't be too surprising.
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by calibas 6y ago
Yes, a report written by the vice president found they did nothing seriously wrong. Doesn't change my mind much because I already knew their stance on the whole thing. Everybody loved Epstein right up until he got caught, and nobody ha

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