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by dao- 4y ago
Annihilating the eco system we life in demonstrates that our intelligence isn't that good, and doesn't seem to showcase it's a powerful force for long-term survival.
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by dao- 5y ago
> There's a reason 99% of people have non-stick aluminum cookware. Everything else is horrible Onyx pans are amazing in every way (nonstick, scratchproof, dishwasher safe, induction ready) but not yet sold in the US I think: https:
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by dao- 5y ago
The potential upside of delaying highway construction by a few decades is that you could, in theory, reconsider whether it's still a good idea. Of course that's usually not what's going to happen, and most likely the project
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by dao- 5y ago
> Is the engine really the thing you're worried about though? Yes. Google is unable to separate their ad business from making a browser engine (as any profit-seeking corporation in the same position would be). So far their power has
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by dao- 5y ago
> and chromium based. That may seem like a plus from a user's perspective when websites were only tested with / optimized for Chrome. From the perspective of someone who's concerned about Google's power as a monopoly,
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by dao- 5y ago
> I can't do that anymore! Good. You'll have to think harder to find ways not to overwork your team in the first place. This attitude towards workers rubs me the wrong way, but your side note saved you in my eyes: > Working
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by dao- 6y ago
> If there is a government monopoly you will not be able to shop around, choose best service and will have to deal with In a functioning democracy, you'd be able to elect the right people to make sure service is maintained properly
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by dao- 6y ago
> It enables business of all kind of sorts to grow It also just enables people to communicate and access information. Kinda weird that we need to make a business pitch to show that something is essential. Then again, we're living un
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by dao- 6y ago
In what regard do you think it's not mature enough yet?
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by dao- 6y ago
> It's so easy to make two boxes, one for the oppressor and the other for the oppressed, and place everyone into those two boxes. If each oppressor works a day in the shoes of the other box, does that make a difference? You've
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by dao- 6y ago
> Capitalism does not force you to create an immoral business, or to treat your employees (direct and contracted) immorally. It doesn't even really encourage it. It tends to encourage it by putting those at the top who manage to exp
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by dao- 6y ago
> if Firefox was just a small(ish) browser catering to power users. There's nothing wrong with that Except that it couldn't work in today's world, as more and more web sites would stop working in Firefox. Firefox needs sig
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by dao- 6y ago
> Like almost complete control over what can be sold online. Ever wonder why certain things are difficult to buy via PayPal or other similar systems? So, why? The article doesn't seem to answer that question. What prevents shops fro
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by dao- 6y ago
> The measures introduced to stop the disease kill the young and hence affect the loss of life far more. Not in other countries. Fix your ridiculous social security system.
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by dao- 6y ago
A good part of the initial engineering muscle came from Mozilla. Google used to pay people working on Firefox, including the Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger, but pulled them to work on Chrome instead. So they already had a system set up
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by dao- 6y ago
In fact they did contribute to Firefox by paying engineers like Ben Goodger and Seth Spitzer, but clearly they weren't happy with that level of control. Goodger was lead developer for Firefox. They pulled all those people to work on Ch
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by dao- 6y ago
> its telemetry to Google What does this even mean?
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by dao- 6y ago
What's weird is that you reflect on your emotions, understand that decisions you made are irrational, and still can't see yourself make a different decision going forward. Why did you reflect in the first place? Are you not intere
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by dao- 6y ago
Pandemics are preventable. Pandemics escalating domestically is preventable.
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by dao- 6y ago
Reminder that the US is undercounting, so 100,000 had died a while ago without anyone noticing that milestone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...
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by dao- 6y ago
I wonder how much of the association of poverty with crime can be explained by how capitalism works.
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by dao- 6y ago
Have you checked what factors make your browser fingerprint unique?
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by dao- 6y ago
"U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...
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by dao- 6y ago
> The scientists say there is no smoking gun on insect declines but they find the destruction of natural habitats due to urbanisation, to be key. Urbanization, i.e. people moving to larger cities? This doesn't seem to make sense and
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by dao- 6y ago
Which fully supports the point I was making.
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by dao- 6y ago
What's your point? My point was that you can't make that calculation with a current fatality rate.
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by dao- 6y ago
The fatality rate depends on whether and how you can treat patients. The Finnish health care system has not yet reached capacity at this stage.
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by dao- 6y ago
> I’d expected the UK Spain and France to hit herd immunity first Whoever has broad access to a vaccine first probably reaches herd immunity first. Natural herd immunity would take years to reach or massively overwhelm any health care sy
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by dao- 7y ago
> I can tell you my interactions with FF's URL bar are now always: click once, type, realize I just deleted everything, furiously ESC ESC ESC, curse, click once, twice, wrong double click, wait to be able to single click, deep breat
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by dao- 7y ago
They would just collect them at their last known location? But yes, they actually collected the scooters already. Here's a news report from two weeks ago about Lime doing just that in Berlin: https://www.bz-berlin.de/be

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