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by chroma 5y ago
You can't directly compare EU versus US mileage numbers.[1] A lot of conversions from liters per mile to miles per gallon use UK gallons, which are 1.2x larger than US gallons. Also the EU mileage tests are less taxing on vehicles and
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by chroma 5y ago
As other comments have mentioned, the article is misleading. No software or hardware was remotely disabled. Parts failed over time. Once the company went out of business, support was no longer available. Yes, this is terrible, but there was
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by chroma 5y ago
Current stalking laws already cover such abuses of airtags. I see quite a few comments in this thread proposing a total ban of airtags, which makes about as much sense to me as wanting to restrict chef knives.
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by chroma 5y ago
> Chefs knives are great for cooking and are inexpensive and easy to purchase; they can be very dangerous weapons in the wrong hands so we make it against the law to use them in that manner. What? I've lived in several western count
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by chroma 5y ago
Well then you got the wrong message. A glass of wine can contain over 50mg of methanol. If something's at or below the FDA reference dose, it's not worth worrying about. The FDA is rather risk-averse and tends to set limits far be
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by chroma 5y ago
Methanol is toxic because it is eventually metabolized into formic acid (the same venom used by ants) which interferes with cell metabolism.[1] If the amount of formic acid is high enough, cells can't maintain homeostatis and die. Cert
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by chroma 5y ago
I would like to remind everyone that Stross writes fiction for money. He does not make money off of accurate predictions. Here are some examples. Back in 2016, Stross was confident that Brexit would cause mass famine in the UK:[1] > I&#x
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by chroma 5y ago
I’m very skeptical that someone with an IQ of 80 could be employed as a software developer. I think other explanations are more likely. Your coworker could be joking or lying. He could be mistaken (eg: interpreting a percentile as an IQ sco
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by chroma 5y ago
Yes, sometimes introducing a gun escalates a situation. Sometimes it de-escalates by forcing compliance.[1] Sometimes it saves people's lives by stopping a threat. My point is that every country on the planet allows some people to carr
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by chroma 5y ago
You can use a weapon without firing it. For example, in this video[1] a rioter stole an M4 carbine from a police car. A security guard pointed a pistol and ordered the rioter to drop the weapon. He did. No shots were fired and the police ca
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by chroma 5y ago
I don’t live in Pennsylvania. I live in a blue state that has lower crime than California. I don’t believe most of the studies about guns and violence. The people doing them are almost always ideologically motivated. (Including the “guns re
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by chroma 5y ago
> There are armed criminals everywhere, why aren’t you carrying ${armory} on you at all times? I am, along with around 10% of adults in my state. Concealed carry by law-abiding citizens is more prevalent than ever, and I'm very glad
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by chroma 5y ago
His excuse is about as plausible as, "My dog ate my homework." Yes dogs do sometimes eat homework, but most of the time that claim is a lie. First, it's odd how such a garbled sentence managed to be perfectly understandable E
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by chroma 5y ago
It’s not a 7% chance of hospitalization. It’s the normal hospitalization rate times 0.07. If you’re 40 years old, that means your chance of hospitalization is around 0.05%, or 50 in 100,000.[1] The risk is even lower if you’re healthy (no o
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by chroma 5y ago
If al-qaeda had: - warned everyone before blowing up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon so they’d have time to evacuate - not hijacked civilian airliners and murdered the pilots - not killed everyone on board the planes by deliberately
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by chroma 5y ago
I wish I didn't have to use a pseudonym but you've shown why it's necessary. If I used my real name, is there any doubt that people such as yourself would try to ruin my life? I don't want to get anyone fired from their
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by chroma 5y ago
I am very much in favor of making political discussions external. It lets me see who the activists are so I can avoid hiring them.
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by chroma 5y ago
The title of the book is It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work .[1] At least one person criticized the title because "crazy" is apparently ableist.[2] 1. https://basecamp.com/books/calm 2. https:/&#
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by chroma 5y ago
Had it been a purely internal communication, it would have quickly leaked to the press. The press would then distort and misconstrue the info to make Basecamp look as controversial as possible. Better to get in front of that by having a pol
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by chroma 5y ago
The political leanings of the author should not surprise anyone. From https://janeyang.org/resisting/ > Racist capitalism is poison that has weakened every facet of society and been used to “justify” horrific crimes
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by chroma 6y ago
> Comparing oranges to oranges, if SARS-CoV-2 had spread in 1918, it's likely COVID would have been a bigger killer than the Spanish Flu. The lower bound on Spanish flu's IFR is 3%. Covid's IFR is around 1%, and almost all
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by chroma 6y ago
Which polio epidemic had more restrictions than covid? As far as I can tell, US authorities closed movie theaters and public pools. They also warned people to avoid amusement parks and quarantined families that had confirmed infections. The
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by chroma 6y ago
You're referencing responses to pandemics from before the germ theory of disease. More recent responses to pandemics were far less restrictive. For example: The Spanish flu was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. It infect
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by chroma 6y ago
OK, now judge governments by those same standards. I don't see Facebook invading Iraq on false pretenses, or imprisoning people for the crime of smoking marijuana, or shooting an unarmed guy for failing to follow conflicting commands.[
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by chroma 6y ago
I really think Sam had the wool pulled over his eyes by Gabriel Dance. Around 17 minutes into the podcast, Dance says that he's been investigating tech companies for years and goes into issues with ad targeting, Twitter bots, etc. Then
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by chroma 6y ago
I'll be the first to admit that capitalist systems have had their failures, but communist systems have never had a success. Communism was tried in more than a dozen countries across a century, in different cultures, in different geogra
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by chroma 6y ago
With any new technology, the likelihood of failure is high but the expected value is positive. As Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub) said: "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
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by chroma 6y ago
Try running the following experiment: open an incognito window and do a Google search for "antifa violence". Then do the same search on Bing or DuckDuckGo. On Google, the top results are things like "Anti-fascists linked to z
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by chroma 6y ago
Profits are capped, and economists agree that such caps are not helpful. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/regulating-health-insurers-a...
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by chroma 6y ago
Doesn't that argument apply to all the people wanting to abolish any government agency? eg: Why not make suggestions to make DEA/ICE/NSA/TSA/FDA/CDC/etc better? The same goes for those wanting to defund th

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