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by devoply 7y ago
Not just the legal system but also the city planners who designed all sorts of things like suburbs, malls, etc. that favour cars and are pretty much copy-pasta all over each city on the whole continent. All these people want bike lanes, I w
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes back in my day they were called drug dealers. Cries regulatory capture by the rich to me.
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by devoply 7y ago
What do you do when your prevailing ideology fails, well double down on it obviously. Any economist worth her salt will tell you all you need to do is pay more and you can get all the insects and honey bees you want. Same goes for animals,
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by devoply 7y ago
Puritan ethics based on punishment rather than rehabilitation and problem solving.
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by devoply 7y ago
With all these we deleted it... we promise... does anyone not believe that they have that list stored there with your e-mail address attached to it and now you can't see it?
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by devoply 7y ago
Ever heard of locking in profits? Most investors have. And also telling them that the stock market is likely to collapse is going to make them lock in profits.
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by devoply 7y ago
> probably not a sustainable option In fact it's probably the most sustainable option. The conquistadors during the age of discovery claimed to come in peace more than once. Until humanity has the power to destroy stars and FTL tech
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by devoply 7y ago
Something to consider: From Wikipedia: “X-Ray Specs are an American novelty item, purported to allow the user to see through or into solid objects. In reality the glasses merely create an optical illusion; no X-rays are involved. The curren
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by devoply 7y ago
Probably true that white or reflective coating would be better, but even with black there would be much less green house effect inside the car. The windows would heat up though and would be cooled by the air outside.
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by devoply 7y ago
It would also be cool, pun intended, to add windows with liquid crystals that can darken when parked to keep additional heat out.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes and yet humans hate zebra mussels and label them an invasive species because they are an economic menace screwing with pipes and ship hulls and costing billions of dollars of economic damage.
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by devoply 7y ago
My main issue would be fixing stuff if it breaks. Toyota dealer's got you. With this thing after a few years good luck, unless they have built it on a bunch of standard parts from a Japanese or German manufacturer or something.
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by devoply 7y ago
Edge cases like serial killers and murderous world leaders prove there is no such thing as human nature. Human nature is as diverse as all the other life on this planet willing to play any game it can only contained by its technological, so
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by devoply 7y ago
You must not be a wanker unless you register to be a wanker. Also no wanking teens. Their innocent eyes must be protected from depravity. - UK government
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah pretty much and it's quite stupid for Amazon to keep recordings forever. What use could they possibly be, a year or two max for retention should be the case.
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by devoply 7y ago
Is a rapist or predator lurking in your neighbourhood? Now we have a drone watching him 24/7! Also it's watching you and your children to make sure everyone is safe. Coming to an Amazon delivery near you!
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by devoply 7y ago
> They are biological wastelands. That's the point. The whole idiotic point of grassy yards was that only rich people in feudal Europe could afford them historically because they were such an utter waste. The planners of these great
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by devoply 7y ago
Once you have shown your hand, now the other side has a number of new contingencies to address over the coming years. Even if you strike a deal with them, you are putting off the inevitable. It's like Trump started a half-ass war that
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by devoply 7y ago
> The wasteful habits and tastes of rich nations are are the reason we are in this mess. All the poor nations of the world would be as bad or worse given the opportunity to do so. There is no enlightenment in poverty. There is no moral h
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by devoply 7y ago
https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/images/2017/11/gw... 2.5 x India.
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by devoply 7y ago
Economic growth is the same as population growth. When the population increases consumption increase. Economic growth is increase in number of goods and services produced which leads to more consumption per person, which in most cases leads
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by devoply 7y ago
Truth is 7 billion people are an exponential bacterial like growth which under natural circumstances should collapse and is instead collapsing the entire planet and the rest of its living population with its tech to sustain its unsustainabl
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by devoply 7y ago
Tech is not a choice, especially when there are evident benefits from the tech. Like for instance was agriculture a choice, yes maybe for a small while after it was invented. After that it was no longer a choice. Now it's not a choice
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by devoply 7y ago
Once AI is invented it will be all of these things and more. The question is how will it be used instrumentally. The answer if we look at current trends is in various ways to harm most humans living on the planet to take away their agency,
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by devoply 7y ago
Once intelligence is "solved", most humans are completely and utterly screwed.
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by devoply 7y ago
I was thinking, humans are worse than nuclear radiation for life. Maybe a more effective way to sell nuclear power... hey at least it's not humans.
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by devoply 7y ago
The difference is China made me do it vs. I chose to do it.
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by devoply 7y ago
The real threat is not tampering, the real threat is from the manufacturer and the corporations that already have keys to the data kingdom and control the entire stack. I have yet to hear of a single case of hardware tampering as software t
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by devoply 7y ago
Someone in the Home Office needs to be kicked out... rather than this false narrative of China strong arming the UK, to create manufactured consent against China. Someone in the Home Office bent over backwards to appease autocracy.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah as a dev I am not touching this with a 5 foot pole. Google open source is not open source. It's a nasty tactic of pretending to be open source while not actually being open source as the speed of development is so fast that it&#x2

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