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by freeflight 4y ago
What is that weird source? All the links in there are self-referential, and a lot of the articles are choke full of straight up wrong info. In their "About us" page they decry "consensus science" and "global warming
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by freeflight 4y ago
They are saying that your overly theoretic application of copyright is in absolute contrast to the technical realities of how the web works. It's a discussion that's been had for literally decades, because most tech-fluent people
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by freeflight 4y ago
> I'm torn about this. I don't want my money going to silly lawsuits, I want it to go towards archiving important cultural goods. We live in a world where one corporation can singlehandedly change copyright for the worse for
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by freeflight 4y ago
IA being sued out of existence would fit perfectly into this dumpster fire of a timeline. Right now it's one of the few easily accessible places on the web that haven't completely caved in to copyright and moderation censorship, t
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by freeflight 4y ago
"The FDA does not maintain a standard of identity for either "pasteurized prepared cheese product", a designation which particularly appears on many Kraft products, or "pasteurized process cheese product", a design
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The fact that the insurance company can negotiate the bill to $500 indicates what the real price is. That really depends on your definition of "real price", particularly considering how in a lot of developed countries that&
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Now go outside and start pointing firearms at people or taking hostages and you will probably be getting some SWAT attention. The article from The Week has a WaPo source that has more detailed data on SWAT deployments in Maryland [0]
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by freeflight 4y ago
> most SWAT teams do 8-16 callouts a year Which might not seem like a lot, but this scales up quickly considering there are more than 17,000 swat units in the US [0]. If we average the callouts to 12 per yer, per units, that's still
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by freeflight 4y ago
Would you also calculate the economics of privatized firefighters like that? Or are you at some point willing to admit that not everything should be a private, purely for profit/shareholder value, venture?
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by freeflight 4y ago
> the police are more likely to come into the situation looking for conflict "We don't have time for this" [0] comes to mind. [0] https://www.insider.com/cop-said-i-dont-have-time-shooting-k...
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by freeflight 4y ago
This is from the 2020 IAEA world's uranium resources report [0]; "Meeting high case demand requirements through 2040 would consume about 28% of the total 2019 identified resource base recoverable at a cost of < USD 130/kg
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by freeflight 4y ago
Not a single country with any manufacturing and/or industry [0] to speak of [1], can just casually cut off their main hydrocarbon supplier without major consequences, nor do nuclear reactors replace such resource dependencies. If Rus
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by freeflight 4y ago
All the cities of the world can't have that because quite a few of them do not have the geological conditions to be tunneled under on a large scale. In others there are issues with digging up old stuff that's archaeologically rele
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by freeflight 4y ago
> However, I don't see cities beeing clogged by parcel delivery services. Cities are clogged by any kind of vehicle period. Particularly delivery trucks will run into issues in the future as more and more European cities start ena
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by freeflight 4y ago
I got a higher-end one as a present like a decade ago, I believe it was the Philips HX 6932/34 FlexCare. Has a whole bunch of programs, most of which I didn't use, some I've come to like and wouldn't want to miss anymore
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by freeflight 4y ago
Thanks, but I rather not choke on slugs in my sleep.
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by freeflight 4y ago
This During WWI [0], and even WWII plenty of countries would openly run propaganda ministries distributing government news. Which most people considered legitimate news, as new information from afar was not very easy to come by back then. A
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by freeflight 4y ago
> it's about Russian government wanting to know who you are so they can target you with political misinformation Which is something not only Russia is doing with that information, it's a very widespread practice [0] and one t
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by freeflight 4y ago
Large parts of the modern economy are driven solely by sharing and selling user data. "Oil of the 21st" century and all that.
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by freeflight 4y ago
> If you guys do archiving, stop spamming HN with links that are fresh and don't need archiving Just because a link is fresh, does not mean that it does not need archiving. If that link is a news article that is then taken offline
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by freeflight 4y ago
The whole "Google is not selling your data" excuse never held up to practical reality, it was always only a semantics argument along the lines of "They sell it, but not directly!" . This whole case exemplifies that ve
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by freeflight 4y ago
Tho that's quite the overly specific, and dated, definition of "propaganda". Public relations is a way more apt term for what's going on in modern times [0], and in the "cyber" manifestation of that field, priv
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by freeflight 4y ago
> How do we compete in a global market when the regulatory atmosphere is so lopsided? Not everything is always a solely economic issue. Without standards, it will just become a race to the bottom about who can cut the most corners, car
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by freeflight 4y ago
Foundation feels like it's singlehandedly carried by by the performance of Lee Pace as Brother Day.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Oof, that's sad.. I really liked RbW but didn't want to get too invested because it felt like it wouldn't even get a second season. Then the second season was released, got me really invested, and now this, booh! At least the
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by freeflight 4y ago
> I figure it was more fear of Germanic people than Japanese. Probably a combination of both to represent the Axis, in the book even the Soviets are also still around and the Cold War actually went hot, which is what lead to thermonucl
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by freeflight 4y ago
The thing I'm picking up from her is how she seems to be one of the main driving forces behind NASA's success in the show, as hinted at by the fact how she spent years living in her office and gets problems solved trough her USSR
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by freeflight 4y ago
> civil rights have spread to others (LGBTQ+ and disabled people, for example) That only started in the last two decades and in many places it's still a far cry away from being properly established.
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by freeflight 4y ago
That's a fan theory I've heard based on both shows trying to keep the space action mostly realistic.
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> demonized depending on which was more politically convenient to his successor Didn't they straight up remove some people from historical records? [0] That's something that stuck with me when visiting the Pula Arena in Croat

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