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by ctdonath 5y ago
The local cinemas have at most a dozen movies available at any one time, maybe one of which is interesting. One viewing requires $10-50 in assorted expenses. For $10-50 monthly, I have available approximately every movie ever made - and I d
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ll take that a step further and contend Apple wants to do away with advertising technical specs: resolution, speed, capacity, etc should be good enough that users just don’t care to know. At that point, most customers shy away from compet
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Construing common opposing views as “violence and lies” does not, historically, end well.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Correlation does not prove causality. Filing the case is reasonable on its own. Leveraging the fundraising opportunity it creates is normal politics. Insisting the core motive IS fundraising is mind reading.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
What TOS? He posted nothing violating TOS, considering how far worse is regularly overlooked just because of political origin. ...which is the point of the suit.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Mind-reading? You know his motive?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Issue is common carrier vs publishers. Common carrier: service provider is not responsible for any information customers transmit. Publisher: service provider is responsible for which customer-supplied information is transmitted. Section 20
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by ctdonath 5y ago
My utility solar cost average 50% over regular electricity $ for 2 years. Texas suffered a doomsday scenario last winter, power demand far exceeding renewables ability under prolonged bad weather. California has frequent rolling blackouts;
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Point is language does limit possible thought. There are concepts which are hard/awkward/impossible to express because one’s language lacks constructs to do so.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Then maybe the bosses & investors for those few successful companies deserve their profits after all.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Strong units also reveal surprising relationships, such as matter is energy (E=mc^2), or energy consumption is fuel area (an XKCD I can’t find).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Hence the genius of E=mc^2 in that the units did line up but nobody would accept the obvious, until Einstein.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
do what others hate because you get paid more for it. So very true. I see top management, up close, spending much of their time handling stupid/obnoxious tasks nobody else wants. I see a friend reap considerable wealth by dealing, li
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Yes, X may be their only option. X sucks, and it’s not what anyone with options would choose. Well, except for Y, which is even worse. You’re arguing that X shouldn’t exist, leaving only Y. This, in your words, “makes you sound like a compl
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by ctdonath 5y ago
This is part of an ongoing attempt to create quality affordable housing - just as other products have done over time. If the product weren’t there, the option wouldn’t be there - and your reasoning functionally favors driving down lower cla
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ve heard an aphorism to wit: length is cheap, corners are expensive.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Because it isn’t. Anyone can open a social media site. Anyone can use it. Anyone can leave it. Being where everyone wants to be isn’t a monopoly when innumerable other venues are no harder to visit.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Commute? Down the stairs. Provisions would require more planning, but that’s a good thing - more deliberation, more efficiency. The “socializing” argument is overrated. Important yes, but they’re not completely isolated, and need to know ho
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by ctdonath 5y ago
USA population density is 6.6 acres per person, or 37 people per square kilometer. I’d far rather my family be in a more expensive larger home on 25 acres (with prospect of self-sufficiency) than jammed into a large building with X # of str
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Missing by a couple minutes of angle is understandable, and factored into safe use. “Unable to hit the broad side of a barn” (American aphorism) isn’t a miss, it’s functional/cognitive inability to abide by safety rules.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
For all those disagreeing, I’ll agree with you. Inability to hit a large target at very close range belies cognitive inability to perform safely. Knowing rules of the road doesn’t matter if you can’t drive on the road for a mere 100 feet wi
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I was responding to “The moment one country starts militarizing in a world without militaries, you know their intentions and can start remilitarizing to counter.” Lack of a military is quite a weakness to exploit.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
($66T = 1m^2 panel + 1kWh battery from https://www.goalzero.com/shop/kits/goal-zero-yeti-1000x-powe... times 44,000km^2. That’s 3 years of the USA‘s entire GDP.)
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Obviously not. Germany noticed lines have ends, and just went around.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Short answer: solar produces ~10 watts per square meter, all factors considered. Wind, even less. USA consumes 3.8T kWh/yr electricity, needing 44,000 square kilometers (20% of Utah) of solar panels & buffer batteries to supply. Co
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Germany, between WWI & WWII, officially has no military to worry about. Was able to create a Europe-conquering army very quickly.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Had my daughter make a scaled model of the solar system, radius of 1km: https://youtu.be/-fPm5mj0Bhg
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Seems a remarkable number of people don't grasp the difference (in context of US Constitution) between a press and a postal road - as in they think Facebook et al _is_ the internet, not comprehending they have any number of options
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Why is this presented as a problem? If one works 1-2 hours more daily and still gets more personal/family time, for eliminating of unproductive commuting time, is this not good? is this not in fact more efficient?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The U.S. Constitution permits “Letters of Marque and Reprisal”, essentially Congress giving individuals permission to wage outright war on foreign entities. Ransoms (be it for life or data) are absolutely an appropriate application.

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