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by chroem- 9y ago
It's like the brogrammer world just discovered powder metallurgy. This exact technology has existed for decades but hasn't seen widespread use because it has serious problems. I don't see any evidence that Desktop Metal solv
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by chroem- 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of Washington State's ban on public smoking, and I wish they would ban tobacco outright. Why then should I support proliferation of even more addictive and harmful substances? Tobacco smoke is bad enough, but used
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by chroem- 9y ago
This is arguably worse than if they had done nothing at all to supposedly protect user privacy. Now it's clear that Apple was just playing the crowd to win sales. Why should we even believe that they aren't covertly cooperating w
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by chroem- 9y ago
I'm curious if the author would also refer to the M4 carbine as an "infamous killing machine," given the opportunity. The fact of the matter is that the US is also developing these systems, albeit with more focus on autonomou
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by chroem- 9y ago
Just because you find one source more politically palatable than the other does not make your preferred news outlet less susceptible to being propaganda. It was the NYT after all which convinced the public that Saddam Hussein was armed to
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by chroem- 9y ago
I'd rather not vote third party for the second election in a row, but it looks like I'll have no other option if it comes down to Trump versus Zuckerberg.
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by chroem- 9y ago
How is it racist to have reservations about a nation that's implementing a modern and even more violent version of apartheid?
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by chroem- 9y ago
>The last 40+ years of globalization have raised more people out of poverty than at any other time in history This claim is a prime example of the cargo cult pseudoscience that's in question here. No causal relationship is establis
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by chroem- 9y ago
But very, very few users are miners.
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's disingenuous for big business to try to frame this as a grassroots movement for freedom on the internet when they were completely silent about illegal NSA spying. The only difference between NSA spying and losing net neutrality i
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by chroem- 9y ago
Another fine example of heartwashing. It just doesn't feel genuine when all these companies start plastering hearts all over everything.
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by chroem- 9y ago
He's right. The current type theory crazy is just another in a long line cargo cult programming fads. First it was pure OOP for everything, then it was pure FP for everything, and now it's types for everything. Yes they can be
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by chroem- 9y ago
Well it's definitely not a Turing machine.
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by chroem- 9y ago
Laziness, impatience, and hubris. http://threevirtues.com/
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by chroem- 9y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I really don't see why we should want high speed rail in the first place. It's slower than flying on a commuter airline, but the tickets cost nearly as much, and it's also enormously expensive to bui
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by chroem- 9y ago
Nitpick: fabric lay-ups are rarely used in industry because the weave exerts shear stresses on the fibers, making them weaker under load. Aerospace composites are all unidirectional. But fiber blends are very common. It's typical to
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by chroem- 9y ago
Yes, and his newspaper is blowing a study with bad methodology out of proportion.
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by chroem- 9y ago
I feel like venture capital is a major choke point in our current implementation of capitalism, where "the market will decide" is really a euphemism for "a small handful of extremely wealthy investors will decide." We&#
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by chroem- 9y ago
Sure, it was a PAC, but to deny that it existed and the two had close ties is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. The amount of gaslighting by the old guard in the DNC to justify why they supposedly lost unfairly does not bode well for
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by chroem- 9y ago
>anyone can buy a machine and offer a lower price as well Tell me more about how I can afford to open a new billion dollar factory.
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by chroem- 9y ago
> Generally, efficiencies accrue to consumers through lower prices What good is that without a source of income from employment? Even UBI proposals are for far less than the current median income. At best the two will cancel each other
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by chroem- 9y ago
>...crap like this really fuels the republican fire. It feels unethical. It feels like yet another attempt to jam politics down my throat at every turn. Understatement of the year. The fact that the Clinton campaign thought that it woul
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by chroem- 9y ago
>The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society. Those who don't want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrop
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by chroem- 9y ago
>Children do stupid things. Like facilitating your boyfriend's suicide even when he was reluctant to? Really? If that's the argument you're going to make, then we might as well throw out all those cases where the high sc
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by chroem- 9y ago
Importing large numbers of foreign migrant workers is a recent phenomenon in agriculture. Farms managed just fine 20 years ago.
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Google removes SIMD.js support from Chromium(bugs.chromium.org)
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's interesting that they have specific provisions for Zionism.
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by chroem- 9y ago
This is definitely a cause worth fighting for, but something that I've noticed is that nobody cares about these internet issues unless a major corporation's profits are threatened. The media was largely silent about NSA spying an
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by chroem- 9y ago
Because only a select few have access to these new machines, and everyone else is at their mercy. If everyone had the capital to buy their own industrial robots and automation technology, then this would be a non-issue. However the reality
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by chroem- 9y ago
Please be satire.

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