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by emsign 5y ago
Sounds like the premise is flawed. He's assuming kids are good at getting another 10 minutes before bedtime. All of them? What about those who fail? Those that don't even try? The issue is not the way our brains generalize, but th
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by emsign 5y ago
Germany did not return to coal. That's simply not true. The coal under Hambacher Forest isn't even needed and it won't be used up either.
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by emsign 5y ago
Nucler power is just too risky of an investment. You can set up a solar park in weeks, nothing compared to the decades of lobbying, nimby-backlash, getting the planning permissions, financial risks and pouring billions into the nuclear pla
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by emsign 5y ago
I think it's because we want to adopt a note taking system that works (as advertised) but in practice many people aren't happy and try out the next one. It's like that project that sits in a corner and you sporadically try an
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by emsign 5y ago
I've definitely seen sites simply showing the current date at a place where you'd normally expect the article's original publishing date.
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by emsign 5y ago
There's a key difference between how we perceive and think about two dimensional space and 2+n dimensional space. If you want to seal in one geometric object with other geometric objects like in this example then in 2D it's suffic
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by emsign 5y ago
> Comparing war propaganda, downplaying of war crimes etc, with a civil rights movement. Wokeism in mass media is big corporations' fear of missing out and losing customers. Those ideals were shared values of the younger generation
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by emsign 5y ago
I wonder if some Youtube videos by Deutsche Welle get blocked in Germany for a similar reason. I'll have to investigate that.
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by emsign 5y ago
Musk needs the working class in space or else his utopia on Mars won't even begin. This is yet another push to bring a work force of non-astronauts to space, showing off that anyone from the internet is going to be able to control a Sp
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by emsign 5y ago
So is most of his audience. No wait, they're white.
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by emsign 5y ago
Reminds me of the sponsoring VPN companies do on YouTube. Making creators say stuff in the line of "VPNs protect you from viruses". It's an unethical praxis of spreading dangerous misinformation for the sake of financing thei
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by emsign 5y ago
Not really.
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by emsign 5y ago
> Where I get uneasy is how quickly SmarterEveryDay seems to have > switched from a YouTube channel about explaining things into a > YouTube channel about stoking "Big Tech" fears as a way to sell > apps. The latest vi
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by emsign 5y ago
Could have prevented this disaster if they not turned it on but taken it apart first.
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by emsign 5y ago
Your site freezes my browser (Vivaldi). Just wanna let you know.
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by emsign 5y ago
I do like the ideas in that presentation and I'm confident that they can be realized in the Netherlands, the acceptance and the experience to make it work is there and widespread not only among officials but also in the population. But
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by emsign 5y ago
> It takes the young Dutchman roughly eight hours to collect enough fuel to fill the tank and ride his moped for about 20 km. This is not comparable to the convenience of filling up a gasoline tank or charging an electric battery, but th
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by emsign 5y ago
Sex isn't ewwww. It's a natural and everyday thing. I could ask the same question: What is wrong with you?
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by emsign 5y ago
Yep, that's definitely something you can observe. I think we've had a rich history so far of experiencing different types of online community software (newsgroups, web comment sections, IRC, BB forums, myspace, tumblr, etc) and I
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by emsign 5y ago
It's because of the very design of the board software and the resulting user experience that every 4chan board (and those of its sister sites as well) becomes a cesspool of anti-social behavior once they go beyond a certain traffic thr
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by emsign 5y ago
But it's technically correct. It says "into" not "onto". :) But I got fooled as well.
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by emsign 5y ago
Yes, and with the money come higher prices and bigger administrative overhead. Because they can get the funds they will charge more.
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by emsign 5y ago
Universities have incorporated scams and hussling for money into their very foundation in a destructive and predatory manner. Young smart people should really consider if they want get defrauded of their future by enrolling there.
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by emsign 5y ago
People were onto Anom already figuring out it wasn't what it pretended to be. Site got deleted shortly after the raid. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3APwQX...
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by emsign 5y ago
I don't see any text only the images. That site is broken.
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Recursive Islands and Lakes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by emsign 6y ago
As a sidenote, your website breaks in Vivaldi with cookies denied and several ad-blockers. It keeps on reloading, making it impossible to close the tab or the browser. Please fix your site.
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by emsign 6y ago
I love to browse the website of the Library of Congress, it has a lot of expressive historical photographs and you can download the high-res scans of the original plates. Of course, I have to process the images in an editor a bit, but I lov
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by emsign 6y ago
Phthalates causes infertility? So it's a self-balancing system after all.
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by emsign 6y ago
I found the "get bored" astonishing. I used to lie down on bed when I was younger and just think and do nothing. That always motivated me to keep doing stuff throughout the day. I really got excited after a couple of minutes to co

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