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by freen 3y ago
Jevons paradox. Higher efficiency results in greater utilization.
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by freen 3y ago
They buy the guns from the cops.
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by freen 3y ago
This is precisely counter to everything I’ve read about municipal broadband. Frankly, your description of consistent incompetence reads much more like my local cable internet monopoly…
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by freen 3y ago
Correct: pay for value, not useless hashing.
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by freen 3y ago
Personal responsibility for environmental issues is a fiction peddled by the biggest polluters. The moment you think an individual is going to make any sort of a difference through minor changes in behavior, you have already lost the plot.
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by freen 3y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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by freen 3y ago
“Lock her up” I didn’t know that impersonating a public figure was acceptable according to twitter’s terms of service. Perhaps there was special consideration that permitted an impersonator to remain on the platform?
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by freen 3y ago
Perhaps some sort of action that affirmatively supports systemically oppressed folks. Huh, wonder what we could call it?
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by freen 3y ago
Not yet.
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by freen 3y ago
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” Yogi Berra
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by freen 3y ago
The whole “bullpen of cubicles” mode of offices created office building floor plans that cannot easily be repurposed for residential. Less humane office spaces lead to less versatile buildings and now the chickens have come home to roost.
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by freen 3y ago
Nope. As far as I know, everything can be run locally, given a sufficiently powerful machine.
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by freen 3y ago
That is incredibly rad.
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by freen 4y ago
The “n” word was socially acceptable for white folks to use to refer to Black people only a few decades ago.
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by freen 4y ago
One could say the exact same thing about the “n” word, only a few decades ago…
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by freen 4y ago
Only thing that matters: what is said under oath. The rest is marketing/BS.
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by freen 4y ago
Ask, and you shall receive: http://ngx.mruby.org/
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by freen 4y ago
Likely there is considerable overlap in ownership between the handful of railway companies that dominate the market and handful of media companies that dominate the market.
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by freen 4y ago
Last time I tried make.com, they couldn’t run scenarios in parallel: every subsequent run had to wait for the prior one to finish. Was a dealbreaker for me.
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by freen 4y ago
Next up, a social network called Ubermensch written in brainfuck. </sarcasm>
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by freen 4y ago
Yarvin and his work is forever tainted with his Mencius Moldbug nrx/dark enlightenment nonsense. Unless you are cool with absolute monarchism and the divine right of kings, avoid giving him and his work any oxygen.
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by freen 4y ago
I’m responding to an argument you dismissed with a false equivalency and in turn you now avoid addressing the point I just made. My brother in Christ, re-examine your priors.
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by freen 4y ago
If you are going to claim that a position is invalid due to financial influence, you really have to do the basic math of how much profit is actually at stake on either side of the argument And weight the impact of said influence appropriate
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by freen 4y ago
Ahh yes, Big Induction. Well known astroturfers. They’ve known since 1970 that climate change due to induction stoves… wait, sorry, confused them with Exxon. Easy mistake.
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by freen 4y ago
When the “free speech absolutists” are protecting drag queen story hour from armed right wing goons, maybe I’ll start listening to them. For now, “free speech absolutistism” seems to boil down to: don’t ban me for being a nazi/spreadin
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by freen 4y ago
It never existed. Cash value is realized upon liquidation. Before that, it’s just paper.
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by freen 4y ago
Exactly. If you live in a major metropolitan area, or own a home that has rapidly appreciated, well, it all adds up quickly. Also consider: import taxes raise the price of goods, and thus are a wealth transfer from consumers to producers. S
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by freen 4y ago
Hard problems, they are hard. “I can build a twitter clone in a weekend” is famous for a reason.
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by freen 4y ago
50 cents of every dollar earned by farmers in the US is paid by tax dollars buying excess food at fixed, over market prices. Lookup the strategic cheese reserve. Does the government pay half your salary? They take half of mine.
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by freen 4y ago
For reference, the NYC public and emergency housing population is larger than metropolitan San Francisco.

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