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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Hear me out, this is not a defense or attack, only a thought made aloud... We need to reduce our carbon emissions. Even if/when we do, or die trying, it appears we will need oil for non-fuel petroleum products (at least temporarily) [1
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Your comment does a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid calling stealing, stealing and a crime, crime. Americans don’t view greed positively, we are too busy trying to survive a rigged system without falling victim to some financially crippli
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
> I would rather be able to switch jobs easily than have to follow union rules What do you think society is? We live in a giant union of citizens. The point of the union is to protect labor from capital; and protect the rest of us from s
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
I can't believe how much union busting is going on in these comments. People take for granted the little wins labor has gotten over the last century.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
> and people who depend on taxes What is that supposed to mean? We all depend on taxes. Have you heard of public infrastructure? NASA? DoJ? It's super disingenuous to pretend that the average employee is somehow getting massive valu
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Some of us don’t.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
No. I find that invasive. I would honestly quit if that were to become a requirement.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
A few years ago, I did a bit of research into how social programs in Scandinavia were able to take root. My initial hypothesis was - they must be more selfless than a traditional American, so let me find what makes that so. However, after d
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Right, a possible dramatic improvement of quality of life for those with tinnitus, but your first thought is IP theft? I surely hope those kinds of thoughts, and the arcane system that nurtured them, does a swift and painful death as we ret
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
> something else will emerge and win No, no it won't. That's capitalist spin not considering how monopolies or psychology actually work.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
I appreciate your consistency. We've been looking to buy an electric vehicle and thought Tesla was a no-brainer. Random reports of software issues have persuaded us to wait. Now, I'm learning there are more options from more matur
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it's the truth. Rent seeking is a disease that stifles progress. I don't understand how the same people who rail against overly aggressive patent, DRM, and copyright protections can justify su
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
As a veteran, I think that is only part of the story. The military is many things depending on who you ask. In fact, if you ask me throughout my life, you'd get different answers. You have to consider that the makeup of the military ra
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Most definitely. My, for a lack of a better word, jaded perspective comes from living in a country where I am constantly bombarded with ads and am forced to fight for any sort of protection from corporations :/
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
As someone who spent his entire deployment doing SIGINT in Kuwait, I've always wondered what it's like to have done what you did. Honestly, you spend some time beating yourself up over it, too - which is just dumb.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Seems like someone got fired for letting it come to public view and not so much what they did when filing these complaints.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
A public service? Sure. A paid service? No.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
At this point, can we just pin a post to the top of every message board and forum that says: > [For Profit Company] [verb] [adjective] data of [noun]. The point is, what do people think these thousands of engineers are doing throughout t
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
> We need a service where companies and their customer service, their policies and their practices are openly shamed, feedback gathered and voices heard without the need for twitter (and being famous enough on it to get world-wide attent
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Personally, I think using automobiles as a blueprint for autonomous transportation is horrifying and preposterous. The first auto I know of went 10mph in 1886. Engineers have had over 100 years to iterate on the concept yet people are still
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
I have seen comments that suggest you can write cross-platform applications (or at least shared business logic) in c++. Is that the case? If so, how would you recommend someone go about learning c++?
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Hackers and Painters (2003)(paulgraham.com)
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
> For steaming fine but not on PUBLIC spectrum. I have to call BS on this. I'm paying for the service and the bandwidth. It often goes over public land or utilities, or at least not over pipes owned by Disney, so if the ad is loaded
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
There's nothing vague about it. RFPs work in every industry. Depending on the bill, Congress should request proposals or maintain a list of credentialed experts overseen by a watchdog agency outside of their control. Or they could be n
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Ah, corporate apologia. > Companies did move millions of office jobs to India, the Philippines and other places where they could pay workers less. But those job losses were more than balanced by growth elsewhere in the economy. That&#x27
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Serious questions... Would the core just float off into space? Couldn't it make its way back to Earth? Or compromise potential life on Mars?
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
I would rate myself high on spatial intelligence based on my love of solving puzzles, and anecdotally, my perfect score on that portion of military testing. However, I will admit that as I age, my interest in arbitrary puzzles has declined.
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
That example is resourced under "plans" but doesn't offer one. It doesn't list steps or actions that can be taken to stop corporate lobbying, just a vaguely worded closing sentence about giving congress the "tools&q
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
Hard pass. This would be a fragile suture over the gushing wound that is corporate lobbying. It's literally allowing wolves in the hen house. If we're going to keep doing this whole Democratic Republic thing, along with the Consti
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by dvdhnt 7y ago
<rant> As an aside, I find it interesting that we are still contained by the limitations of our surfaces, specifically paper and screens. Hell, one could throw stairs and ladders into that. The result seems to be a mindset that the ho

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