firethief

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by firethief 6y ago
Should we be worried about Xiaomi? https://www.gizchina.com/2011/08/17/xiaomi-ceo-chinas-latest... Based on more recent photos, it was just a phase. Maybe the company fixed its issues before it got caught?
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by firethief 6y ago
There's the same kind of incentive not to be the closest moth to the lightbulb, and yet.... The race-to-the-bottom/die-at-the-bottom reward structure only prevents disaster if the racers are invested for the long term. The agents
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by firethief 6y ago
Not everything is a technical problem. No technical solution is going to make the cheapest way to get animal parts in our fridges involve the animals living fulfilling lives.
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by firethief 6y ago
No
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by firethief 6y ago
The energy used to transport glass around is mostly not renewable
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by firethief 6y ago
Typical diets these days are pretty bad. But few, if any, societies of anatomically modern humans have lived under conditions where they would almost always be in ketosis, so evolutionary history doesn't provide a reason to think that
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by firethief 6y ago
> That being said, I think this adaption was more of an energy conservation mode for when food was scarce rather than our ancestors intentionally eating in a ketogenic compatible manner. Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make.
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by firethief 6y ago
Touché!
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by firethief 6y ago
It's two sides of the same coin. Anything heavily-optimized for something other than simplicity ends up maddeningly complex. It doesn't make me sad that people prefer the more entertaining perspective on the same information.
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by firethief 6y ago
c ≈ 1ns/ft
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by firethief 6y ago
Keto diets have most definitely not been around long enough for anyone's bodies to evolve to follow them. That takes many thousands of years.
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by firethief 6y ago
A nunnery is a nunnery is a nunnery.
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by firethief 6y ago
That sounds more like an argument in favor of having kidneys than anything else...
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by firethief 6y ago
Measuring the performance of a monolithic RAID-Z array for a VM image workload is like measuring the 0-60 time of a semi tractor. That's not what that configuration is optimized for. Especially for a high IOPS workload, you should see
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by firethief 6y ago
Does anyone actually want that stuff?
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by firethief 6y ago
I encounter that a lot with passwords. Amazing how many websites break in weird ways when your password manager throws in random symbols...
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by firethief 6y ago
I don't see how the cost of supporting outmoded instructions would be significant. The decoder is a tiny proportion of the die, and not a bottleneck at all. Obsolete instructions that can't be translated to the same uops everythin
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by firethief 6y ago
> the debate there is how much corporate censorship people are willing to tolerate without injury to facebook's bottom line and stature. Facebook doesn't need to respond to what its users think it should do, because its users a
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by firethief 6y ago
I agree with your point but must take issue with your phrasing. Your conflation of racial bias with racism trivializes racism.
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by firethief 6y ago
I find your absolutist interpretation hard to understand. I think if the occurrence of a situation in which violence is appropriate necessitates an exception to a rule, that doesn't necessarily indicate a bad rule. For example, even th
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by firethief 6y ago
> “Sometimes we both get them on the same day. When that happens, we warn each other to expect a delivery,” Yeah, I'd have some questions for whichever of them knows when it's going to be the kind of day they both get one...
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by firethief 6y ago
I do that in a fine-grained way with my personal domain: I receive mail addressed to any user at the domain. I never give out the same address twice. I can filter mail based on the "To" field, and always know how senders ultimatel
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by firethief 6y ago
Like REI?
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by firethief 6y ago
It is much more lucrative to make the version for Americans. The other country ends up with whatever's cheapest to make, which is more likely to be a localization than a parallel effort (the better cultural fit for an independent produ
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by firethief 6y ago
Historically most groups that have practiced cannibalism over long periods didn't use it as their exclusive source of sustenance...
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by firethief 6y ago
Could we maybe choose less sexist insults in the thread on acceptance?
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by firethief 6y ago
Firefox Sync meets all the criteria you've described, except I don't think it has automatic Tor integration.
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by firethief 6y ago
Multivitamins don't seem to benefit people whose diets aren't especially terrible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivitamin (see specifically the 6 citations in the 2nd para)
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by firethief 6y ago
Meanwhile in reality, some districts disqualify any applicant that can pass an IQ test: https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
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by firethief 6y ago
You're right, I expected it would make a bigger difference

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