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by cedilla 5y ago
Poisoning the water supply to increase the margin on bottled water is a valid business plan. Banning that is a good answer, and neither authoritarian nor fascist.
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by cedilla 5y ago
You severely underestimate the power use of proof-of-work blockchains. It's on the scale of nations. But the main difference is that whatever you compare with those blockchains, it will never have the critical flaw: the automatically i
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by cedilla 5y ago
How are the people who want to build modern energy plants the luddites? If anything it's the people who insist to keep ancient technology on life support that had failed all its promises by the late 1970s who are luddites.
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by cedilla 5y ago
I understand the frustration with centralized services. What I don't understand is how an embedded program on a blockchain service would guarantee my access to a Ubisoft service or game.
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by cedilla 5y ago
How exactly would the embedded program force Ubisoft to act?
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by cedilla 5y ago
If the publisher who provides the game downloads doesn't honour your store account, why would they honour your text file?
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by cedilla 5y ago
It's revealing that you accuse an organisation's organ for not following criminal trial standards when making a preliminary decision, but you have no problem to denounce strangers "power hungry" and "rogue" wit
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by cedilla 5y ago
Probably, yes. But that's not proven. The property that a number contains all sequences is called being "normal". We assume π is normal, but we have never proven any number to be normal, except those specifically constructed
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by cedilla 5y ago
Of course vaccines are about harm reduction. How can that be "not true" in any frame? What is even the logical alternative? Are we trying to reduce the infection count because smaller numbers are aesthetically more pleasing? I&#x2
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by cedilla 5y ago
Germany just announced a travel ban for people coming from the UK. Which seems quite late to me as a layperson, almost a week after Omicron became predominant...
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by cedilla 5y ago
Nothing changed. Of course the aim of vaccination campaigns is to reduce harm. What a bizarre strawman argument. Protecting the health care system was always express goal.
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by cedilla 5y ago
At least for Germany, that's just not the case. Wind is going quite strong this quarter, so strong that it easily offsets the lower-than-average solar generation. And that's mostly due to the weather – expansion was massively stal
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by cedilla 5y ago
Nuclear isn't sustainable, extremely slow to build and astronomically expensive. It's not an option. Hydropower is sustainable but has a very limited potential,and its impact on the environment is much, much higher than comparable
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by cedilla 5y ago
Yes, a lot of scientists believed in hateful pseudoscience like scientific racism, eugenics and phrenology. Your argument is a very common one but very flawed. Antisemitism, ultranationalism and eugenics aren't bad because the Nazis di
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by cedilla 5y ago
This is a matter of great debate. Germany does have a system that assigns courts to cases in a fair way, however the first step is determining the place of venue, which usually depends on the place of residence of the defendent, or it hinge
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by cedilla 5y ago
Yes and no. Yes, they will get the chance to argue in front of a higher court. But they can't skip the lower court. If I understand it correctly (Quad9 is a bit sparse on details here), this was a decision to uphold the original injunc
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by cedilla 5y ago
I don't find any of these points to be convincing. Storing data in a blockchain doesn't mean that local laws don't still apply. Even if the FBI can't prevent you sending money to a terror organisation with a smart contra
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by cedilla 5y ago
It's literally an implementation of a Kafkaesque judge that can never be reasoned with, will never explain itself beyond pointing to the rules and can never be overruled. Why this is supposed to be a good thing is never explained.
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by cedilla 5y ago
It is unethical. All your accusations of narrow-mindedness, but you can't see the obvious, glaring ethical problems with such a trial. Not the least because it would be completely infeasible. You may pretend that we can "simply&qu
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by cedilla 5y ago
Data centres account for only a few percent of energy usage, and energy use in developed countries increases quite slowly. Since renewable energy is so much cheaper than energy generated by nuclear or fossil fuel plants it can easily outpac
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by cedilla 5y ago
It's not dumb as long as you ask questions (and are interested in the answer). The global ice sheets currently melt at a rate of 1.4 trillion tons per year. Biomass of all living things is about 500 billion tons C. Let's pretend a
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by cedilla 5y ago
That's not true. The domain name system doesn't really know about different levels of domains, so such a rule doesn't even make that much sense. What you are not allowed to have is a CNAME record in addition to anything else.
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by cedilla 5y ago
CS:GO is also almost 10 years old, running on the venerable Source engine. While it was a nice graphical update over CS: Source, it wasn't exactly winning any beauty contests.
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by cedilla 5y ago
In general, sources from the middle ages aren't as sparse as people like to think. He isn't making that kind of error. The burden of proof is on the people making the claim. Otherwise any sort of weakly plausible reason for choosi
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by cedilla 5y ago
Solar is hardly over-hyped. It has always over-delivered since the first panels were built in the 19th century. No one predicted such a success and so incredibly low prices even 20 years ago. Could you explain what you mean by "hyped i
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by cedilla 5y ago
Your ignorance of a neurological disorder before you watched a commercial about it doesn't imply it's an invention. Restless leg syndrome has been described for centuries.
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by cedilla 5y ago
That's a very good idea, but I'm not sure if the increased difficulty in building the filters underwater in an oceanic current would really make things much easier.
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by cedilla 5y ago
It is a meaningful comparison. Agricultural and road use is huge. The solar installation you linked looks huge, but really, I could just as easily link an image of a uranium mine. Some of them are positively enormous - but that doesn't
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by cedilla 5y ago
Even if we created all our power from solar, it's negligible in land use compared to things like roads or agricultural land.
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by cedilla 5y ago
We are concerned on R&D budgets. Costs matter because costs represents material and personnel that needs to be devoted. We are also tight on time. Nuclear reactors take at least a decade to build. Oh, and while we have lots and lots of

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