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by freeflight 4y ago
As far as I remember the shooting rock with phaser thing was more about having a source of heat, as not to freeze to death. I can see the communicator on the chest being used as a flashlight with the powerful LED we have today. But 90s TV s
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by freeflight 4y ago
Or make them spy on each other to find even more "terrorists" [0] [0] https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Allowing US companies to serve people relevant ads Except these companies do way more than just serve innocent ads, as the Snowden reveals have showed; They are complicit in way more than that.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Geographically they ain't even considered separate continents.
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by freeflight 4y ago
> If you make steel, there are a bunch of types/grades subject to limits related to their use in nuclear technology. Assuming said steel is actually of the quality it's certified as [0] [0] https://asiatimes.com&#x
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by freeflight 4y ago
The original thread comment asked if this was a thing before "Apple Silicon", that's what I was referring to; I've seen it before, and not just years before but over a decade before, possibly even two decades. As such i
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by freeflight 4y ago
> They know who owns the VM, and now they know that you connected, sent & received a certain amount of data at a certain time. Which is quite similar to meta data that's collected on phone calls, such data is regularly the bas
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Then I have expanded this to google, microsoft, amazon, facebook ASNs. > The whole internet stopped working. Not that surprising, considering these companies already had direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic back in 201
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by freeflight 4y ago
> I'd say most of it is damn well earned. Respect is earned, while fanboyism is rarely a good thing as by definition it's something rather biased.
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by freeflight 4y ago
In hardware circles I've seen CPUs/GPUs colloquially being referred to as "silicon" for at least a decade. Which has very little to do with Apple PR, but everything with how CPUs/GPUs are overwhelmingly made from si
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by freeflight 4y ago
I tried GeForce Now a few years ago, overall it was a rather underwhelming, and quite weird experience; Felt more like logging into a remote desktop. Which made the process of entering login credentials for my uPlay account (wanted to try s
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by freeflight 4y ago
We had, and still have, standards to deal with crossplatform messaging, like Jabber or Matrix. What prevents that from catching on at scale is, the "big boys", like MS, FB or Google, mostly not playing ball and never implementing
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by freeflight 4y ago
> This is the supposed "Green" party that campaigned on anti-war and not sending weapons to war zones and closing coal that has been actively lobbying on reopening coal plants and has been the most vocal in its request to send
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by freeflight 4y ago
> This is why google street view sucks in Germany. Street view in Germany sucks because very rarely there will be a pixelated building front?
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by freeflight 4y ago
Oh wait, we already had that, and then we centralized and monopolized the hell out of it [0] [0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
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by freeflight 4y ago
Except that a lot of those 50 people instead consume all kinds of other "news media" who by now regularly use Twitter as a source, so they are still indirectly affected by Twitter even if they don't actively use it.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Not wanting to defend Twitter, but I'm pretty sure the situation is very similar across a whole lot of companies, even those that make security their main business, i.e. FireEye. Because investing in IT security usually has no apparent
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Could you say that any system of thought, where believe rather than know, is a religion? I think so. This is a common misconception that conflates world view with religion, when these two concepts are not really that synonymous[0] [0
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by freeflight 4y ago
As somebody working in cancer treatment; That lines up with my personal experiences, smokers are not really that overrepresented among our lung cancer patients. They do exist, but the way this topic is usually talked about in public, and wh
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by freeflight 4y ago
> We have solved a ton of environmental problems in my lifetime. While creating a ton of new ones, which is sadly in the nature of most solutions; They tend to create new problems. The question is how much "environmental capital&
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by freeflight 4y ago
PFAS always remind me about how we as a species knew about the toxicity of lead for very long, yet still decided to blast it all over the environment for decades [0] Also makes me wonder how much similar hubris exists with other topics; Afa
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by freeflight 4y ago
Google also has a rather curious funding history [0] that very neatly fits with such hires. [0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
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by freeflight 4y ago
I could actually see that working pretty well in the winter, but only then. Nobody in their right mind would go swimming in 40 C° hot water during the summer when the sun is blasting down.
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by freeflight 4y ago
> They've got egress cooling water limits of 26-30C (78-86). It's an entirely manufactured problem. There is nothing "manufactured" about not wanting to cook natural water bodies and the flora and fauna that live in
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Nuclear capacity curtailed due to a heat wave? That's a failure mode I'd not heard of. It's not a new problem [0], it's become somewhat of a regular issue in parts of Europe during summer heatwaves [1]. As the hea
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by freeflight 4y ago
I was expecting some fun UI exploits like getting a negative bill for removing all the ingredients on a burger, and adding that up to pay for an actual burger [0], sadly nothing like that. [0] https://www.delish.com/food-new
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Additional heat we put into the atmosphere will not stay for long enough to matter I'm just not too sure about that; Fossil fuels took millions of years, and massive natural forces, to accumulate in their modern day form, very s
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by freeflight 4y ago
The near-perfect vacuum of space actually makes it quite bad at absorbing heat, that's why anything we put up there, like space stations and satellites need huge radiators to keep everything cool enough to actually operate. While therm
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The WHO comically mishandled Covid. It took them months to declare a health emergency despite because they didn’t want to upset China. The WHO declared COVID-19 a PHEIC on 30 January 2020 [0], about a month after it arouse original
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by freeflight 4y ago
> According to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s center for disease control, the new, highly contagious virus variants mean that herd immunity can only be reached if 80 percent of the population is vaccinated. The Race for Herd Immu

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