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by eecc 6y ago
I still haven't heard a convincing protocol for long term storage of spent fuel. That's even worse than a remotely possible nuclear disaster: because unless a solution is found, it's a certainty.
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by eecc 6y ago
You knew perfectly well how applications are installed on that device before you bought it. If you disagree to that just go buy anyone of the other posh 1000$ devices on the market. It’s not like the ‘00s when you couldn’t buy a PC without
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by eecc 6y ago
Dude, you do sound like stubborness incarnate. You’re trying to assert your subjective perception as an unquestionable truth, while everyone else is trying to make the point that this truth really is ambiguous (because of the underlying lie
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by eecc 6y ago
What a waste of human ingenuity. And I thought ad-tech was bad enough
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by eecc 6y ago
The farce at the UN Security Council that Colin Powell made years ago spelled that out pretty clearly already. If anything, it somewhat formally respected the role of the UN, but the brazen lying asserted how the USA wasn’t worried at all
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by eecc 6y ago
Salary. It’s much cheaper to outsource a “cost center” to a country where employees have passable proficiency in English and costs of living that are significantly lower...
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by eecc 6y ago
Ah true. Last thing I did before leaving a support role - in a company that regretted hiring support people in EU and was actively driving us out of the door - was indeed this. This customer had become aware of the MTTR metric driven bounci
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AI software waxes US F-16 pilot's tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills(theregister.com)
1 points by eecc 6y ago|1 comments
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by eecc 6y ago
No shit, I’m totallY on the same boat. Maybe I’m over dramatizing - after all I’m white - but I’m also EU, Italian in particular and who knows what racist subculture I might bump into in the US. There are already plenty here, where I get ca
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Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada(appleinsider.com)
187 points by eecc 6y ago|131 comments
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by eecc 6y ago
I guess it would be crazy to consider maxillofacial surgery just to reshape the maxilla. But I imagine progress in medical practices will increase the numbers of patients undergoing this sort of treatment making it progressively more viable
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by eecc 6y ago
Yup, but that’s achieved via taxation, currently one of the costs that are being trimmed in the 19M/y example above... It’s a case of having your cake and eating it too
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by eecc 6y ago
Seems reasonable to host this on https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
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by eecc 6y ago
> Even giving warnings by default about unsigned apps requesting high privileges would be fine if the implied message weren't basically "everything we haven't checked is malware". Something like "We nor any other
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by eecc 6y ago
Frankly, I’m afraid your premise is a bit of a straw man argument. I’m constantly running npm, mvn, sbt, docker and some that download hundreds of megabytes from unknown organizations, hosted on unknown servers, written by unknown developer
946.
by eecc 6y ago
Yes, indeed a “bad flu”. One that sends 10% of its victims to the hospital, half of these to ICU and half of this latter group to the morgue. And this, assuming a functioning health infrastructure, otherwise you get many many more ending in
947.
by eecc 6y ago
You’re severely underestimating the benefits of collective coordinated action. You just need to look at today’s plutocrats and the decades of relentless lobbying and investment in promoting the most self-serving policies and politicians wil
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by eecc 6y ago
Ok, lets just set aside our strawmen for a second and ask: why did Apple do this and what's the big deal anyway? * Why did Apple trounce these folks? My first thought is, ridiculously intrusive anti-cheat? * Then, assuming that's
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by eecc 6y ago
Yes, less fireflies and ladybugs, yet plenty of bloody tiger mosquitoes... I’d say is a typical case of “half chicken statistics”
950.
by eecc 6y ago
That’s not the right approach to this problem. The moral thing to do is is to redistribute that added productivity increasing the beneficiaries of this increased added value
951.
by eecc 6y ago
Nope, no blind ideology here. It’s just ridiculous that C-suites and their direct entourage get paid billions (and can afford to buy mansions that used to be the final reward to a successful career with what amounts to pocket money to them)
952.
by eecc 6y ago
Or the competent were ousted for not aligning with the team strategy and lowering morale?
953.
by eecc 6y ago
Thanks for your first-hand account, indeed all these personality disorders summed up can explain the reckless courage and egotism that made Soleri do and undo. Tragic
954.
by eecc 6y ago
Soleri was also a weird, creepy person. Years later his daughter found the courage to denounce his abuses: https://www.google.nl/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign... It is entirely possible that these tr
955.
by eecc 6y ago
I’m pretty annoyed by the inscrutability of some new UIs, their total lack of interactive cues and discoverability. It makes me feel old and most importantly it reminds me that often if not always, it’s not the potential utility that motiva
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by eecc 6y ago
I can’t count the times I was greeted Maestro! by the typical blond middle-aged manager from Amsterdam... (I’m Italian, so I guess we’re all Pavarotti even without the waistline.) I’ve been toiling 10years in NL and I’ve yet to see anyone i
957.
by eecc 6y ago
Italy’s Immuni wasn’t downloaded enough to be a significant sample; people are too worried about their bloody battery performance and “what if I’m flagged and gub’mint makes me isolate home”. The National Health Service’s effort to run a po
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, that was the US before a bunch of manic Nationalist idiots from Europe scared into exile everyone of some use in society. Thee folks proceeded go lay the groundwork for US cultural and economic dominance in the post-war era. Somewhat
959.
by eecc 6y ago
I’m not saying CUDA is not valuable. Heck, proprietary has a ton of value... see how Intel owes much of its position to its compiler (the FORTRAN one in particular) suite. Of course you don’t get to dominate a field to such an extent withou
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by eecc 6y ago
You’re talking about the average European small town...

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