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by ff317 7y ago
I imagine (just thinking out loud randomly, I'm sure there's other issues to consider!) one way to mitigate this would be to have a second set of much simpler software (written in a different language, perhaps running on a differe
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by ff317 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech is Swiss-based, but they don't make 5G hardware :)
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by ff317 7y ago
South Dakota (and other such places) have most of those things up to reasonable standards, except perhaps the (well-connected) telecoms and airports in some cases. All of those things can come together as the population scales up and deman
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by ff317 7y ago
I'm a fan of Rust (although I haven't waded into it much yet), and a heavy user of C, and the one particular thing I find missing so far is a properly Rust-ified abstraction of QSBR-style RCU, with the full power and flexibility t
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by ff317 7y ago
That's probably a very apt metaphor, but there's an upside too: many diets actually do at least temporarily help people in spite of their irrational basis, just because $random_diet causes the dieter to observe and reflect on thei
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by ff317 7y ago
+1000 This was how I said it, buried off in the documentation of an open source project: I'm not a fan of the way most software is developed, where features accrete on features in endless succession like barnacles attaching to the hul
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by ff317 7y ago
None of your examples are about how he looks at the particular issues in this case though. You've arbitrarily grouped this case with the several others above by putting them all on an axis of whether he's anti-consumer or pro-con
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by ff317 7y ago
Just for another voice in this sub-discussion: I'm an authdns software implementer ( https://github.com/gdnsd/gdnsd ) with no connection to Cloudflare, and I like Refuse ANY. It's maybe hard to see all the i
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by ff317 7y ago
That last perspective is the most important one. I've known a few genius-ish people, and I recently had a jarring experience where one of them who's a bit older and retired, but definitely not mentally ill or demented, had gone o
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by ff317 7y ago
Yes, but many/most nominal MLMs are effectively pyramid schemes in disguise. New entrants at the bottom rungs of the network are typically sold a "starter kit" by whomever one rung up the network recruited them. The starter
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by ff317 8y ago
Actually all of these things are more achievable than you think. I have a relative who has a family of 5 (as in two adults and three young kids) and they've managed to travel the world the past several years on a high school teacher&#
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by ff317 8y ago
Caffeine is also present in many chocolates and chocolate products, and is also more toxic to dogs than it is to humans.
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by ff317 8y ago
It also makes a nice liqueur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastika
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by ff317 8y ago
Direct democracy is still pretty awful though, especially for anyone who falls into any kind of true numerical minority category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority .
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by ff317 8y ago
Don't assume the cost of the infrastructure for privacy-invasive advertising is free, or that it's just automatically easy to do such things once you're offering some other user-facing service. Acquiring, storing, correlatin
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by ff317 8y ago
Yeah, but I think in this case there's an issue where the choosing party lacks the ability to make an informed decision. The risk-weighted long-term medical costs of removing a kidney (in less-than-ideal operating conditions!) and liv
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by ff317 8y ago
So I have another silly non-physicist question at this point: if Higgs is what gives particles mass, and it has a mass of 125 GeV/c^2, why doesn't this imply mass can only be conferred in units of this amount? We obviously have s
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by ff317 8y ago
All somewhat true, but there are a few key areas where America does attend mass events that can help spread diseases quickly. The top three examples in my mind are the trifecta of public schools, large office complexes, and churches (esp m
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by ff317 8y ago
There's a couple key points that I think help bridge the gap of understanding between these two points of view about Hard Work vs Luck (and I'll completely ignore things like existing advantages of birth/wealth, and coercion,