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> Treating beef like coal You'll just ruin it, nobody likes burnt beef. Coal and renewables output the exact same thing (electricity), beef and alternatives don't. Unless they make money from coal, people don't want coal
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> the premise of 'draws are boring' is debatable I also found this a bit off. Lots of goals ending in a draw can also be great fun. Wins are great for the fans of the winning team. But if you're a fan of the sport , the
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I included the casualty count as a response to the article quote in OP's comment: > So why did the Empress tragedy, which claimed even more passenger lives a little over two years later, fail to embed itself in our collective nation
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The Titanic was the largest ship at the time, "unsinkable", on its maiden voyage, carrying some of the richest people in the world, greatest maritime disaster at the time, still basically at #2 after more than a century, and the w
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> "social checking" via pre internet local newspapers and gossip circles People back then could guess how some information about them "leaked" through gossip, and must have known about what's written in the paper
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> Not "replacement", not "superior choice", but "alternative". It's not at all dishonest to suggest GIMP as a bitmap editor, Inkscape for vectors or Blender for 3D meshing. If anyone told you they need
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> and the paid version comes with a tonne of apps pre-installed I didn't like the way they sell this on their page, "Bundled with alternatives to over $5,000 of professional software". They list the commercial alternatives
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> What about Linux? Steam has supported Linux since 2013, and is notably the only big store that does. Steam is a big contributor to making games run on Linux but it's not some magical sauce unique to Steam. Unless you're talki
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The only store that really stands out in that list is GOG so I don't really see it appropriately bundled with the others in the article. It's the one store with no DRM, you own the game. And you'll own it when the current own
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> Think of a river - the water carves the banks, the banks channel the water. Which is the real river? Fantastic metaphor. I also can't help but draw a parallel (or even an overlap) with how the process works for humans. Once you pu
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> I think the general public (and by that I mean including software engineers too) overestimate the likelihood of a huge screw-up leading to being fired I've seen this misconception perpetuated by management even in countries with v
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Turning off the system just before a crash when it’s unavoidable allows them to say “the system wasn’t active when the crash occurred” and implicitly label a lot of data “irrelevant”. Which they do a lot of times according to the article, w
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Then make sure you don’t read till the end of the article where this behavior is supported. Maybe it is just a coincidence that Teslas always record data except when there’s a suspicion they caused the crash, and then the data was lost, did
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> “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” This is probably core to their legal strategy. No matter how much data the cars collect they can always safely des
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Great suggestion, I'll keep an eye on this. Not sure if this is 802.3af, or 802.3at, or even 802.3bt. I wouldn't want to upgrade the switch for this alone. The S100 product page gives me this brilliant description :). > The pro
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> But newsflash: used is different than new. I'd put it differently, "you can't have used without the new". They might not be all that different in practice but you can't have everyone buying used. For every used
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Funding people means you trust the people are so good they will push any idea to success. Funding an idea means you trust the idea is so good it will push any people to success. Funding people means having a lot of trust in them. What'
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sokoloff, I already told you twice that I am referring to YC's (or any VC's) own code of ethics, for themselves . Not just the one for founders. The rules YC applies to themselves are the root of trust for everything that later c
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> 15 seconds of search turned up ...some latent passive aggressiveness and YC's founder ethics code not YC's own ethics code. You need an anchor for the chain of trust. That must be the VC's (YC in this case) integrity a
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> That’s why no one cares about your false equivalency. It's more because people especially in the US are so partisan and self-centered right now that anything that even remotely sounds like it doesn't fully match their views l
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The easiest way to check for integrity and ethics is if the startups YC finances routinely run afoul of YC's ethics code or the law. If YC has no ethics code, that's your answer right there. If they do but it fails to mention basi
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> Like making everything so relative That industries shift affiliation if it brings them money is not "relative", it's just something they show again and again, some more than others. I don't care about US politics ri
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> "whataboutism but it's not even happening"? What's not happening? I think you are confusing what "whataboutism" is? "Whatabout" the exact same fossil fuel industry OP referenced? I corrected a mi
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> The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the far right are clear. The fossil fuel industry has ties to anyone who will promote their business. > Fossil fuel interests will stop at nothing to further their greed. Exactly. Nothin
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If blocking this integration will ever be in their interest (I can't say much about this though), then they'll just tighten the grip as soon as passkeys are the norm and other auth methods are deprecated. It's always easy to
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> you could've taken that opportunity to point out Let the kids make some "mistakes", and let them think they got away with it. It gives them the some agency, it encourages them to explore and push boundaries, as long as y
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> Again, I worked on these issues. Working on something means you put in effort, not that it's focused properly or that you even understand the real issues. At best you'll solve your problems without caring or understanding i
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> There is no incentive to represent the civically disengaged You're repeatedly misrepresenting or misunderstanding the issue. The tl'dr is that Bezos' civic engagement weighs more than my civic engagement, more than a mil
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> the real alternative is that it gets thrown in the trash and wasted, and everyone is worse off despite feeling better about themselves Depending on what's the minimum quality you consider acceptable for the product, you might wan
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It means you trust something with lower trustworthiness without (re)validating, or even trusting it at all if the validation isn't all but guaranteed. The boundary is when you switch between levels of trust. Trusting something outside

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