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by electricblue 11y ago
Google benefits, the costs are negligible compared to the revenue they get. Its the entire business model. The problem for content creators is I can't think of much written content that i'm willing to pay a subscription fee for. I
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by electricblue 11y ago
I don't know what you get for calling it a boycott or not (can I pay with my moral high ground?), it is clearly a mass rejection of targeted advertising in all its forms and that seems to be the important part.
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by electricblue 11y ago
I see a common thread running through all of gender politics and specifically objectification, the idea that you are what you enjoy doing. You are not a free willed person with a more or less set amount of empathy, you are an unmolded piece
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by electricblue 11y ago
Looks like they are having some problems with caching. Many labels in major cities are cut off. Caching is hard, especially when you aren't using an out-of-the-box product like ESRI
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by electricblue 11y ago
I like this actually. Keep expectations low. Hyperbolic titles are the worst.
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by electricblue 11y ago
People admiring Walter White was definitely a phenomenon (does not mean it was universal among the show's fans, just that it existed), and in some ways there are aspects of Walter's personality that are admirable in an individuali
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by electricblue 11y ago
People admire characters like Walter White because they are blind to all the lives he has destroyed and they see only the desire to be great at something. It is the same with any capitalist. Any great enterprise looks a lot less amazing onc
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by electricblue 11y ago
TLDR: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by electricblue 11y ago
It seems to me that the poem is more about regret than the stories we tell ourselves about our lives to make us feel better about the randomness of the universe. The poet desperately wants to know what would've happened (if anything) o
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by electricblue 11y ago
in most cases we're talking about people who build their houses in category 1 storm surge / 10 year flood zones and then expect a subsidy when inevitably natures does what it does.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Thinking about this some more, it would seem that if we really have a Capital Maximizer then the system's process toward its objective (creating capital) is highly inefficient. If your goal is to create capital in the world you need be
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by electricblue 11y ago
War can only destroy capital, perhaps the most breathtaking destruction of capital in history was WWII. So War would be antithetical to this hypothetical capital maximizer and it would be it's among its top priorities to avoid it. Simi
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by electricblue 11y ago
I've been using colorbrewer to make maps for many years now, nice to see her getting some recognition.
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by electricblue 11y ago
The US has regulations. China does too but they enforce them...selectively.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Its more interesting when you consider how it applies to living beings. If I replace every part of a dog with cybernetics, is it still the same dog? At what point does it stop being the same dog? The brain? The nervous system? Other various
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by electricblue 11y ago
Right, they did not successfully rewrite the properties of matter and energy.
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by electricblue 11y ago
I'd like to know the difference between free upgrades and Win10 installs with a real product key
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by electricblue 11y ago
I had to look at my system clock a few times to make sure today isn't the first of april.
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by electricblue 11y ago
For me Soylent would have to be incredibly inexpensive to replace a meal or two a day. I like the idea of a cheap way to avoid going out when I don't feel like cooking, but I'm thinking ~$30 a month to replace a meal a day, not $1
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by electricblue 11y ago
Seems like they would need to be much larger than prosumer drones in order to carry anything bigger than a blu-ray. If a drone the size of the one in the 60 minutes demo hit helicopter blades you'd probably be looking at fatalities.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Even if Obama believes this nonsense, he should still pardon him, if only to take a bit of wind out of Russia's sails. Snowden's impact on the US has been entirely 100% positive and he represents no threat whatsoever to national s
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by electricblue 11y ago
'don't tread on me' 'live free or die' 'don't blame me i vote for the Bush dynasty' 'from my cold dead hands' 'gubmint cant create jerbs' etc
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by electricblue 11y ago
GitS illustrates the danger of humans integrating with computers too closely ex. Cyberbrain hacking, stand alone complex, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Ghost_in_the_She... It's fictional but ther
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by electricblue 11y ago
It remains to be seen if distributed rooftop generation will be a viable long term strategy. What is proven and viable, as an investment we can make today to combat climate change is nuclear power. It is truly insane that we continue to use
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by electricblue 11y ago
I'm thinking this is a good candidate (given the size of the island) for Project Loon https://www.google.com/loon/ of course the Cuban authorities could shoot it down or jam the signal but it might be fun anyway.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Nobody knows what the final specs are yet, look at the resolution and the refresh rate when they release that info and pick a card that can reach that frame rate in your favorite game. I'm hoping for 120hz!
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by electricblue 11y ago
Miyazaki is a rising star at From Software. Also Kojima isn't dead. I don't expect him to stop making games just because he broke up with Konami. I have no doubt he'll land on his feet.