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by callalex 3y ago
If the Supreme Court cared at all about appearing legitimate, they would have made the effort to remove Justice Thomas, who keeps taking outright bribes in order to influence his decisions, and the public is completely aware of it with docu
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by callalex 3y ago
Can you provide any examples where rapid growth has occurred in the Bay Area in the last 20 years?
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by callalex 3y ago
Unless they are going to live with you forever, a new home must be built to contain them. Unless you want your children to leave the state and live far away from you, new housing stock must be built to house them in your current town. If yo
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by callalex 3y ago
Have you had children, or do you plan to have children?
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by callalex 3y ago
In this case the democratic model doesn’t really work because the people who need the development to happen are people who will need a house in about 20 years. Most of those people are too young to vote, so are not represented by the democr
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by callalex 3y ago
Monoprice mostly fits your description.
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by callalex 3y ago
Yes, unless you eat too much.
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by callalex 3y ago
The slowness is a feature. The “smart” or “ai” or “fuzzy logic” or “buzzword” cookers take longer to cook the rice than a simple cheap cooker or a pot on the stove. The rice comes out better that way.
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by callalex 3y ago
Until fairly recently (and sometimes still), electricity could be fairly unreliable in many parts of India.
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by callalex 3y ago
A few things. 1) It’s easier, you don’t have to watch them, just fill them and turn them on while you do something else. 2) The nicer models will hold the rice at warm-but-below-boiling for a while before cooking because the rice comes out
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by callalex 3y ago
I’m almost certain that the manual gives an approximate time range for each mode.
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by callalex 3y ago
> your desire to lock out competition doesn't necessarily translate to something customers actually want or need For the sake of humanity, we need to crowdfund a blimp with this quote that just flies back and forth between Cupertino
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by callalex 3y ago
Many computer users have a hard time with invisible concepts. Copy and Cur put text away in some invisible buffer that some people don’t get, so dragging text works better for them.
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by callalex 3y ago
Also kids these days don’t know the pain of GPS taking 3-10 minutes to get a position fix without almanac data.
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by callalex 3y ago
Glyphosate lawsuits have been going on for more than a decade now…
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by callalex 3y ago
Actions speak louder than words and history shows us that the movement exists for people who hoard obscene wealth to justify their hoarding retroactively while playing cowboy on a tropical island.
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by callalex 3y ago
I was too brief, I meant I would add redundancy reactively where there was none there before if a service I’m using can’t consistently keep 4 9’s. You are correct that being proactive is more complicated.
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by callalex 3y ago
I draw that line at around 99.9% availability.
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by callalex 3y ago
This podcast by Robert Evans (of Behind the Bastards fame) covers the history and thinking of the movement pretty well. https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-effective-alt...
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by callalex 3y ago
With religion you quickly come into contact with conflicting rules, and then you have to start relying on different peoples’ interpretations of the “rules” so any time saving is just coming from delegation, not the religion itself.
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by callalex 3y ago
Current web browsers still act as a bit of a user agent, they allow the user to inspect what is happening and block certain elements from loading or displaying. The end goal is to re-implement the web browser within current browsers but wit
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I think it’s important to note that such a depiction failed spectacularly.
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by callalex 3y ago
He was raised at Stanford by two Stanford professors and surrounded by blowhards that subscribe to the insane concept of “effective altruism”. It’s really no surprise he ended up this way.
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by callalex 3y ago
Patents last for 20 years and these were granted in the mid 00’s. They’re milking the last drops out of their cow.
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by callalex 3y ago
Sheesh, I should patent urinating after drinking a beverage, that’s about as novel of an invention.
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by callalex 3y ago
Public funding does a lot of the work as well.
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https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
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by callalex 3y ago
These days Kelly Blue Book only exists so that insurance companies can rip off their customers by underpaying when totaling out a car.
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A lot. A modern iPhone is multiple orders of magnitude faster than the original.
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by callalex 3y ago
The explicit stated reason is to avoid copyleft.

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