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Why Bell Labs Worked (But the Likes of Google and Apple Don't)(manganiello.social)
5 points by donjoe0 1y ago|0 comments
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by donjoe0 1y ago
Really. I think she meant there were many possible ways to respond to the invasion, some of which may not have needed to involve a grave boomerang hit against the Western population's purchasing power and living standard - especially i
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by donjoe0 1y ago
Ah yes, the "independent" news outlet that was totally not set up by the European version of the National Endowment for Democracy, i.e. the CIA's public propaganda arm. Also totally not funded by the Canadian government, also
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by donjoe0 1y ago
Like running out of unskilled people to import, especially in these times of rapid emancipation of countries that used to be forcefully held down in an undeveloped state so they could be used precisely as reservoirs of natural resources and
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by donjoe0 1y ago
*leading orchestrator of propaganda alongside the US, which has the most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world, more effective even than its actual military All you need is to check the miles-long list of antidemocratic c
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by donjoe0 2y ago
OK, interesting to think about, but it seems a pretty wild hypothesis - not only do we have to assume these studies that revealed the U shape were so bad they failed to control for some massive health issues of some participants, the interv
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Innovation Is a Distraction(tante.cc)
3 points by donjoe0 2y ago|1 comments
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by donjoe0 2y ago
"The demand for more Innovation (and sometimes even the request for more research) has become a way to legitimize not doing anything. A way to say “the unpleasant solutions we have are not perfect but in the future there might be a mag
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by donjoe0 2y ago
I for one am sticking to this view that there's a U-shaped benefit/risk curve and for healthy people eating salt according to taste lands us just where we need to be. I'll change my opinion when I see this theory debunked: h
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Just as I thought, half the use-cases are for 'arts people', whether writers or critics, so I would never ask an LLM those questions myself, nor would - I estimate - the majority of humanity. Then some of the things in there could
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Ehh, I don't even think super-miniaturized components are needed to improve that ratio - it was already the thinnest smartwatch ever, I imagine some clever component rearranging and accepting a bit more thickness could get us some visi
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Never cared about Pebble's fitness/health tracking and never used it. I don't need my health reported to me in numbers every day, I'm not a performance athlete nor a hospital patient. Living my personal life trying to hi
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Still rocking my Time Steel since 2015, still running the same official version of the software on both watch and phone - as far as my Pebble is concerned nothing much has changed in the last decade except the app store mysteriously went of
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Huge bezel though. Would've got it if not for the bezel, I really wanted to make a custom 24h watchface for a Round. Went for the Time Steel instead. Hope in this new leg of the journey they can get a Round to have bezel coverage more
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by donjoe0 2y ago
Huh. I appreciate what they did with the tech there, but looking at this Bangle.js the first thing that comes to mind is I hope NuPebble(?) doesn't adopt that excessively-curvy-rectangle shape that screams Apple Watch, I've learne