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by d1zzy 7y ago
I see many comments on this article on people's choice to do anything to avoid dying. One argument I haven't seen covered is the fairness of it. Is it fair to younger generations that we keep on living? If we don't die there
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by d1zzy 7y ago
In many places euthanasia is legal and plenty of people chose to die than continue living, that shows that there are people and situations where dying is better than living under any conditions. It's unfortunate that's the choice
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There seems to be at least one positive to death: the end of the struggle. If you don't exist you don't need to worry, to suffer, to care. There's a certain type of comfort in knowing that at the end of it all, it's real
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> I suspect repair and maintenance cost savings probably don't kick in very much until after the warranted period expires. Warranty doesn't cover maintenance, like oil change, which EVs don't need. Other examples: engine a
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Back on topic: Horse and cart is pretty eco friendly tho :)
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Unfortunately regulation does seem to be mostly written in stone. Sure, things can drastically change in events like revolutions but I'm not holding my breath for that (nor do I think that kind of instability is something good to have,
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by d1zzy 7y ago
When I moved to the US years ago, one of the big differences I noticed (coming from Eastern Europe) was the implicit "trust" people and businesses have of "strangers", people and businesses they have never met before. Wh
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by d1zzy 7y ago
What's interesting is that with the death of Moore's Law there's a sudden increased interest in accelerators (software or hardware assisted), specialized pieces of software/hardware that can perform certain tasks really
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by d1zzy 7y ago
The issue at hand is that Chrome may or may not perform surveillance or support it. If that is the concern, with Chromium you get to see everything it does and you know the code you're running, like any other open source project. So I
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by d1zzy 7y ago
If you are wondering (like I was) what exactly are the claims against Chrome that the article makes (instead of having just a flashy title): - Chrome doesn't, by default, block cookie based tracking, nowhere near as much as default Fir
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Also Chromium is open source.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I feel exactly the same. I am still surprised by the broadness and complexity of software projects I engaged in when much younger (under 18). At some point I was writing a videogame (programming a sprite editor from scratch in Borland Pasca
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by d1zzy 7y ago
You don't even need to declare yourself as antinatalism, simply answering the simple question question of "do you have kids" with "my wife and I decided against that" seems enough to get most people on the defensive
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Youtube is not a TV channel, it's a video crowdsourced sharing site. If we want to have a "free" (as in no subscription and no money required to be payed for the service) video sharing/uploading site, what model would th
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by d1zzy 7y ago
That's correct, however, considering that Zen 2 supports PCI-E 4.0, that's double the bandwidth of the previous generation, it means that those multiplexed 4x can theoretically now support double the bandwidth of the previous gen
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by d1zzy 7y ago
That is not a likely scenario. There are so many ways through which purposeful anti-competitive behavior masked as accident would get exposed for what it is that it wouldn't work in practice (just look at how many internal posts got le
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Why would this have any relevance to FB and Amazon? I realize a lot of people on HN don't like what these companies are doing with their data, but this lawsuit is not about privacy at all so I don't see how it relates to those 2 c
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by d1zzy 7y ago
If everyone just "keeps their money" the amount of cash changing hands would be much reduced which has a big negative impact on the US market (for better or worse). It's why everyone's monitoring "consumer confidenc
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Does it matter that they are foreign owners? Would any of this be better if the owners happened to be US citizens?
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There may not be a choice. Vanguard refused to log me in until I configured 2-factor SMS.
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by d1zzy 7y ago
One big problem with KVM based VMs that gVisor fixes is that KVM is a (complex) piece of host kernel software. There have been many security incidents in the past related to KVM and there will be more for sure. With gVisor the "virtua
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Saying that "you're not payed for that" is risky. Yes, you're technically right but when you will be at your new fancy job you may need to do MANY things that you aren't technically being payed to do, so that you ca
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I think full-stack simply means the company wants the flexibility to hire someone that may work on either frontend or backend as need arises. With every specific company over the course of a few (<5) years that need will likely be just i
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Recently I've joined the home NAS crowd. I never thought I would but it just happened naturally. I was rewatching the GoT BluRays to prepare for the new season and it was very frustrating having to change discs every 2 episodes, takin
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by d1zzy 8y ago
That's only if you want a standing army. Standing armies are the root of civilization, and of all evil, depends on how you look at it (I actually think both are true, since they aren't exclusive).
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by d1zzy 8y ago
While I haven't had to live with hunger all my life, I've been through some months of real hunger, with no money to buy food. Your description above comes very close to my (foggy) memories of the experience. It changed me. Things
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by d1zzy 8y ago
The best thing about this scandal is that (at least for now) all new VW cars have 6 years of warranty/72k miles. Such a great deal, couldn't say no to that.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I'm curious, how do you get a $33k MSRP Volt down to $18k? Was it second hand? (if it was then you don't get any federal/state credits, those are claimed by the original owner)
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by d1zzy 8y ago
The first sale doctrine allows any individual/company to buy retail discs and rent those physical copies out. No need of an agreement from the copyright holder for that. However, in practice, large rental companies (like Netflix) likel
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by d1zzy 8y ago
The first sale doctrine protects this business model so even if all studios stop all rental contracts with you, you can still legally purchase retail discs and rent those out. Unfortunately there is no such thing for streaming.

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