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by clairity 4y ago
i'm no fan of the dmv, but do you riot over having to register your car or getting a driver's license too? registration is equivalent, and a license is certainly more intrusive, with the biometric data they tend to collect.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, for that, we'd need complete social graphs for public servants, which would quickly run afoul the congressional staffs' civil liberties, because they'd try to hide as much as possible behind other people. you'd need
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by clairity 4y ago
that's motivated reasoning leading to hand-waved figures, driven by the desire to capitalize on the climate change frenzy.
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by clairity 4y ago
you've been lied to. climate change has not killed millions of people[0]. pollution has. the core problem with the climate change mediopolitical narrative is the focus on CO₂, which as i've noted before, is among the least importa
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by clairity 4y ago
archived version: https://archive.ph/WvMZn
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How Japan Won Its ‘Traffic War’(bloomberg.com)
3 points by clairity 4y ago|4 comments
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by clairity 4y ago
the productive conversation is to compare that to millions of deaths per year from pollution.
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by clairity 4y ago
no, see, that's exactly the problem. CO₂ is a mediopolitical wedge issue designed to trap us in partisan gridlock, not bring meaningful change to the global population. that's why it's so fickle and formless, perfect for sowi
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by clairity 4y ago
doubt they'd support that. it's surely technically possible, but apple & the carriers like to gatekeep the eSIM provisioning process to make you reveal your identity.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, the move to eSIM is about consolidating control for apple and the carriers at the expense of the consumer. it's also an anti-privacy move (you can buy SIMs anonymously with cash, but not eSIMs), but of course, apple didn't an
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by clairity 4y ago
dual eSIM[0] has been available from apple already, but more than that is in question, though they did use the term "multiple eSIMs" in the presentation. i'm bummed about the removal of the sim tray too. [0]: Using Dual SIM w
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by clairity 4y ago
the dynamic island does actually look like a neat UI/UX that transforms what would be a weakness into a strength (of course it's not enough by itself to upgrade for though). edit: it also looks like it would be a fingerprint magne
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Apple Unveils iPhone 14 Pro with Dynamic Island and Purple Color Option(macrumors.com)
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Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S.(macrumors.com)
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Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus(macrumors.com)
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by clairity 4y ago
mediopolitical narrative is driving hard on this topic right now since covid left a void that ukraine can't fill (though they're trying, with the nuclear plant[0]). i'd support a framing around pollution, but not climate chan
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by clairity 4y ago
yup, i wrote a dynamic simulation using this technique in the late 90s, using java to implement a rk45 ODE solver and js/html canvas for visualization and controls.
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by clairity 4y ago
besides the standard bandwidth improvements, it's pretty clear that this is why the major telcos were pushing 5G so hard, so they could sell that more precise location data to any and all comers.
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by clairity 4y ago
nuclear is not scaling fast enough because it's been subject to 40 years of negative mediopolitical narrative reinforced by poor market and technical regulation. nuclear easily gets to cost parity with renewables when you consider the
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by clairity 4y ago
right, it's the most optimistic possible scenario, if all of the assumptions (of which there are a lot) are correct and as you point out, all omissions (of which there are a lot, despite the length) are negligible. there are some citat
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by clairity 4y ago
a quick skim suggests this guide is largely motivated reasoning rather than being objective, as it immediately jumps to solar, wind, and batteries as its conclusive remedy. that's unrealistically simplistic, despite its length. somethi
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by clairity 4y ago
i didn't examine deeply but it seemed to me the backend is running on node, and that it was meant to be the implementation, not just a reference.
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by clairity 4y ago
it didn't even require a "great declaration" to realize, as a thinking layperson, in ~april 2020 that this pandemic was serious but not nearly as deadly as the bubonic plague or the spanish flu, and that the elderly and unhea
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by clairity 4y ago
js has come a long way but i'm skeptical that it's maturing fast enough for this to be the right medium- to long-term language/platform choice for something that's meant to be more infrastructure than just web app. and w
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by clairity 4y ago
that only works for network requests that use dns. some (including a number of apple & google services) go directly to an ip address, which is why a firewall like little snitch is still valuable beyond dns-based blockers like pihole, ne
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by clairity 4y ago
a clump of fetal cells is the textbook definition of dependent and inseparable. you're otherwise projecting what they might become if everything goes well, not objectively perceiving what they are in the present. if we projected every
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, objective . bodies (i.e., independent beings) are required to invoke bodily autonomy, which brings with it the direct corrollary that non-bodies cannot invoke bodily autonomy. that's rational and objective, as in, it's beyon
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by clairity 4y ago
haha, i would too. let's prefer all the things!
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by clairity 4y ago
i believe that’s the user agent stylesheet doing that, because the browser/system color for dark is usually a dark grey, not black, just like the browser/system color for white is usually off-white.
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by clairity 4y ago
like dark mode, there’s actually a media query for that, though it’s experimental for now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

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