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by cctt23 9y ago
The worst router I’ve ever seen was a D-Link. I was in a position where I had to provide support for it, and in the end I gave up and bought them an ASUS with my own money. It ended up being worth it, just in terms of time and aggravation s
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by cctt23 9y ago
If your solution requires technology which isn’t even close to being practical, then you’re just going on about sci-fi. That’s very interesting, and with a few exceptions sci-fi usually gets it wrong.
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by cctt23 9y ago
And that’s totally how it works, less food is produced, so people just say, “Oh well, time to die.” They don’t become desperate, they don’t migrate en masse, and they don’t go to war, it’s just a peaceful loss of a few billion lives to make
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Uber’s Collision, Facebook’s Disgrace(theatlantic.com)
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by cctt23 9y ago
It’s very naive to believe that past performance is a perfect predictor, and a good way to lose your shirt.
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by cctt23 9y ago
People have not always been comfortable with airbags, or even seatbelts. It took many years of technologies proving themselves thousands of times before they achieved widespread acceptance. It probably helped thst in both cases they didn’t
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Elon Musk’s next Boring Co. merch will be big Lego bricks made from tunnel rock(techcrunch.com)
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Spotify told Wall Street it is going to have a very good year in 2018(recode.net)
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by cctt23 9y ago
That’s possibly less of an accident, and more of a strategy. Adam Curtiss on ‘Oh Dearism’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok
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by cctt23 9y ago
I’ll throw Melbourne, AU into the bubble mix, and I have friends and family in Britain who recently got off Facebook. Big bubble.
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by cctt23 9y ago
I hope that you’re right, but in a way I hope that you’re wrong too. If we could establish a robust space industry, with orbital manufacturing, then we can get those materials from asteroids. If we’re going for what is presently science fic
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by cctt23 9y ago
It’s a semantic distinction free of anything like a point, and I wouldn’t assume that OP was being so glib.
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by cctt23 9y ago
More energy will get it back to that nice usuable form. Um yeah, but until we have fusion which isn’t anytime soon, you’re proposing that we keep transforming energy, with losses at each step. In reality, where we have to live, and our en
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by cctt23 9y ago
They definitely do, even if you dismiss the ongoing media shitstorm (and you shouldn’t), people have been getting tired of Facebook for a while now. Young people think it’s for graybeards; as soon as nana got on the platform it stopped bein
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by cctt23 9y ago
Metal oxidizes, plastics weep plasticizers and become brittle, paper turns into mulch, we literally burn fossil fuels. We consume a lot more than just helium and free energy, and more if you remember that recycling costs yet more energy.
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by cctt23 9y ago
Asked about the delisting, a Facebook spokesperson said that “a number of the studies have been archived, but they’re still available at the individual links.” Asked why the “Government and Politics” section had been removed entirely, the
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Cannes Artistic Director Explains Netflix Competition Ban(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by cctt23 9y ago
Much as I appreciate you responding to only the first sentence of my reply, I’m going to have to point out that your FOSS rant is only tangentially related to what I said, mate.
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by cctt23 9y ago
Wait to judge on running and hiding until the inevitable cases reach the Supreme Court. Congress can pass any law, but that doesn’t mean it will stand.
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by cctt23 9y ago
I’m always amazed by the ability of libertarians to believe that in the jungle, they’d be tigers rather than tiger shit. More often it turns out they just have a grossly inflated opinion of themselves, as in this case. We’re all human, all
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by cctt23 9y ago
Your standard of “personal responsibility” includes the ability to audit code. I assume that you’re just irresponsible if a carmaker sells you a dangerous vehicle, because you don’t know how to detect the flaw? Doctors can just talk to you