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by ebg13 7y ago
> Consider that doing business with China may be the best way to prevent this kind of thing. I'm tired of hearing this refrain. We've been doing business in China for almost 50 years, and they're still doing shit like th
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by ebg13 7y ago
> the World Uyghur Congress How suspicious that a person talking about mass abuse is part of the group being abused. /s The WUC is not recognized as a terrorist organization by anyone except China. China labels anyone who disagree
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by ebg13 7y ago
I don't know how BASIC compares to Pascal, but there was a Pascal compiler that fit. This is a really cool writeup about it. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911174601/http://www.superc...
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by ebg13 7y ago
A quick read on Specspeed gives no indication that it accounts for power consumption. Does that mean you could make a 65W A13 part and completely murder everything?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> what's the difference between 'universe expansion' and 'travel'? Travel happens inside the universe and expansion doesn't? If a rock is sliding along a stretchy sheet, stretching the sheet will make othe
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by ebg13 7y ago
Thought this would be about roboticizing my kitchen faucet. Had to dig to find: > What is it? Ever thought of (re-)using your USB-C charger (like Macbook's) to power other devices? If so, this is the board for you.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree And fuck the billions of people with CVEd kernels because of it; they're just collateral damage, right? /sigh/
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by ebg13 7y ago
It looks like you did for the circles, but not for the digits themselves?
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by ebg13 7y ago
It looks like you have some numerical instability causing the numbers to wobble as they rotate.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> manufacturers can just fork Android like Amazon did This is a pretty weak argument against doing the right thing by taking control of system updates. Even stock Android devices stop getting updates very quickly because of how tightly
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by ebg13 7y ago
What it would mean is committing to supporting previous interfaces for some window of time when introducing new ones, not one interface ever.
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by ebg13 7y ago
"can't" is such bs. Make it so that the kernel and OS can be fully updated independent of device drivers and bypass manufacturers for distribution. Why does nobody remember that Windows updates come directly from Microsoft an
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by ebg13 7y ago
Why the smiley face?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> This seems like a reasonable definition of implanting "Implanting memories" must necessarily imply "...of something that didn't happen" for the expression to not lose all value. Touching you on the arm may ca
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I've read multiple papers and articles about how slow left-lane travel causes safety hazards for everyone involved due to passing on the right This is a false dichotomy. There is in fact a third, safer alternative when driving a
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I'm not saying buying an expensive car means you drive better, there's no link there, but what I will say there is drivers of expensive cars are often more aggressive, occasionally to a dangerous degree, but honestly? I&#x27
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Drivers have to sort threats in terms of risk...At some point we are going to have to stop blaming the driver for stuff like this Missing from your response is that there are both risks FROM and risks TO. We absolutely need to blame
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by ebg13 7y ago
Unless the price of rice goes up. If they're buying rice now instead of something else with limited funds, that suggests that they need the rice more. Goods aren't all perfectly exchangeable. If you need shoes, a shirt won't
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by ebg13 7y ago
In the context of rice...We already produce more rice than people can eat, so there's no driving force for supply to increase. Increasing supply would only make more rice go unsold. It's not like just because you have more money n
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by ebg13 7y ago
Yes, because people with more money than they need will easily absorb the higher prices even if they have slightly less more money than they need.
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by ebg13 7y ago
But what will I do without left-pad?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I really don't want to try out synthetic haeme or whatever It's not synthetic, though. It's real heme in real leghemoglobin produced in yeast instead of hemoglobin in animals.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Hate speech is protected speech. Protected against the government, but not protected against community ostracization.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Who got banned from where for doing that?
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by ebg13 7y ago
I saw them. What do they have to do with deplatforming?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> deplatforming to silence opposing views I can't name any deplatformed views that aren't hate speech. If you can, I'd like to hear about them to broaden my views. > Free speech is a fundamental good that must be pro
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by ebg13 7y ago
Your distinction is not meaningful. It's like saying that TLS isn't secured because one day someone may crack it. Everything is/was secure up until the point that it isn't/wasn't.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Uh. And getting secured tax documents from CPAs or employers by email. Let's not suddenly pretend like encryption has no value.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Google Search would have to be spun off as well I'm in favor of the proposal as generically described, but how does this specific detail work if "Search" doesn't make any money without ads?
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by ebg13 7y ago
Demoing stereoscopic image pairs stacked one on top of the other is a peculiar choice. How exactly is one supposed to evaluate that? Cross their eyes up and down?

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