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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Decentralized ledger tech is just starting to get there - blockchains are the first inefficient implementation, and newer technologies like Hedera Hashgraph can do it far more cheaply and efficiently. Services are dependent on network effec
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Imagine CRISPR hardwood trees that rapidly grow as tall as Redwoods while maintaining their broad cover and proportions. Would be great both for lumber and to plant in neighborhoods. A Navi/night-elf tree for every subdivision. Having
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Hopefully they have a plan for a better mechanism to discourage frivolous ambulance calls and ER visits. Those resources are overloaded by casual abuse resulting in higher costs and wait times for those who truly need emergency care. Withou
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Closed orgs can take years to find what takes an open source crowd mere days. Regardless of organizational competence.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
With SwiftUI and Kotlin Jetpack Compose you can write architecturally and syntactically similar code across the two platforms. Essentially the same compact classes with the differences just being view property differences and OS API discrep
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The current Wifi 5 one has an ethernet adapter they sell separately: https://www.starlink.com/specifications The upcoming Wifi 6 router will likely have ethernet ports built-in given the FCC spec: https://www.pcm
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Unreal Engine 5.3(unrealengine.com)
80 points by drak0n1c 3y ago|53 comments
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That inherently arbitrary logic can be wielded against any regulation or ideology. Nearly every policy disadvantages some person or group's preferences/freedom to purportedly better enable a greater good. This slippery slope reaso
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What that statement means is that measures to facilitate supply side volume are also necessary, giving the demand side money is not the only option. If it is too cost-prohibitive and risky for incumbent firms and potential new competitors t
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
I agree. A large contingent of women want to be mothers without the stress and distraction of workplaces, but it is increasingly uneconomical to do so. So instead we resort to daycare, but with how expensive that is there is a natural cap o
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
In the last year or so I've received two strikes from Reddit Admins (employees) for report abuse when I reported two separate instances of explicit calls to violence in left-wing comments. One more "report abuse strike" and m
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
> What would the principles be worth otherwise? Surely this is the paradox of tolerance in a different package. Why not instead model communication as a bilateral contract? If it was justifiable for speech infrastructure to ban the speec
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
That logic can be used to suppress most other political/religious ideologies and speech. If all it takes to justify censorship is a slippery slope argument that "when XYZ ideology gains enough real following the resulting implemen
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The scaffolding described in the article will have to ensure that the vines do not eventually directly attach to the wall, because if they do and are not cleaned off regularly there can be severe damage to the brick and mortar, which compro
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
I have a couple doctor friends, and they on occasion share to a private group chat anonymized screenshots of humorous patient intakes and reports, and retell stories of the amusing situations they get into and patients they encounter. There
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
If thanks to those technologies new hyper-efficient compute and network hardware becomes the norm, and there is no meaningful difference between decentralized hosting and centralized hosting of services/apps/games, crypto will lik
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
"Anti-racist rhetoric" is a very recent ideological phenomenon that is not yet proven to be effective solution for past and present racial injustice. It is possible for it to be flawed, prone to be implemented badly, or self-defea
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Not tangible, but there will always be a theoretical and idealistic appeal for decentralized app/game/protocol hosting and governance. Corporate bodies like OpenAI, Twitter, YouTube, Blizzard Entertainment have made unpopular chan
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
There used to be regional boys schools and girls schools that had a military-style ethos and were quite effective in reforming bad students. They would still interface with the local school system in sports and dances, etc. So in some cases
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
This used to be the case. Even in rural Wyoming. In each region there were at least one military-style dedicated boys school and girls school focused on disciplining bad students. Public school students would receive a few detentions and su
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Interestingly, one of the largest started as https://patriots.win/ which was created in the wake of the notorious the_donald subreddit's quarantine and ban. Top posts still get 50-200 comments and 1000+ upvotes, and it
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
>“Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” Huffman, who co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in 2005, wrote. He did not admit to it until evidence was compiled
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The internet that required users to purposefully sit down at a functional desktop PC and bear with significant latency to interact with it is quite different from the internet defined everyone with a touchscreen in their pocket. Yes, there
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Unreal Engine 5.2(unrealengine.com)
8 points by drak0n1c 3y ago|0 comments
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In Texas there is an excellent local news outlet that has a paper for each major suburb/city of each metro area. They focus on detailing business openings, events, and upcoming industry and infrastructure developments. https:/&#x
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
My guess is that it’s a secondary consequence of the initial 2020-2021 wave of media theft-apologia, increasing liability for police, and defunding/prosecution-abstention: now it’s the copycat problem writ large due to social media. Pe
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by drak0n1c 4y ago
They also had a big unionization effort in 2019 and new contract negotiations in 2021. An honest effort, but it led to financially limiting conditions for a company that was increasingly lacking revenue. https://fortune.com/
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by drak0n1c 4y ago
It was there yesterday from what I recall. However, there are like 10 variant official accounts of BBC. Only one had the label at first. Similar to how NPR has multiple accounts but only the "main" one had the label. Twitter shoul
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by drak0n1c 4y ago
Comment was edited.
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by drak0n1c 4y ago
Right the economic one, not the unrelated criminology one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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