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by gbrown 5y ago
> I don't buy the "cars and suburbs" as a root cause argument Why? I didn’t think the connection between infrastructure and transportation was particularly controversial. Also, real world problems often have multiple cause
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by gbrown 5y ago
Also, their language support is absolute garbage compared to Netflix. Most shows support multiple audio and subtitle languages, which is great for learning.
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by gbrown 5y ago
[citation needed]
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by gbrown 5y ago
Unkillable.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Simple - our laws haven't evolved with technology. That's why your mail has about a million times more protection than your email.
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by gbrown 5y ago
What major power tool innovations have happened since 1990? Battery tech is the only big one I can think of.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Thanks… but I do. My state is responsible for more than 1/3 of the total nutrient entering the Gulf of Mexico, and our major city recently tried and failed to sue counties to the north for making their water cost prohibitive to treat.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Corn based ethanol would like a word. Also, it’s ironic to me that subsidized industrial monoculture has a number of insecurity producing effects: 1. Topsoil loss 2. Mismanagement of surface water and subsurface reserves 3. Centralization a
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by gbrown 5y ago
Well, there was that priest who got outed through data brokers recently…
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by gbrown 5y ago
Not if the price is raised through taxes.
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by gbrown 5y ago
…which is not remotely relevant to the actual point I was making.
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by gbrown 5y ago
No need to be condescending, I know the difference between natural gas and gasoline. My point was more general about carbon based fuels and their price to consumers.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Um, yeah, I got that, but they’re both carbon energy sources directly used by customers.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Oil prices != gas prices. I’m talking taxes.
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by gbrown 5y ago
People look at me funny when I say I hope gas prices go up. It’s just basic economics - we’re running up ruinous externality debt, so just about anything that pushes us towards sustainability is good. There should be some incentive not to d
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by gbrown 5y ago
Verifiably? Are people still swapping ROMs on XDA developers like its 1990? Are folks still having to dump binary blobs from devices to get the things to work with non-stock ROMs? Are some people still relying on jailbreaking tools they hav
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by gbrown 5y ago
How haven’t they been hit with antitrust action over that?
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by gbrown 5y ago
I was mostly being glib, but I've had some bad experiences with Access over the years. I actually think lightweight database and scripting utilities in Excel could be good, but it would be susceptible to some of the design traps that A
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by gbrown 5y ago
Be careful what you wish for - I think you might have just reinvented MS Access.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Within an institution where everyone has the same desktop app version, it’s ok. Especially if nobody is using the malignant cancer that is EndNote. I have a few collaborators with whom it’s not really feasible due to incompatible versions,
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by gbrown 5y ago
That’s why I finally switched to iOS for my phone, and iPhones are quite affordable if you buy used a few generations old. Nevertheless, I couldn’t go back to OSX after years of using primarily Linux.
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by gbrown 5y ago
When it works, the collaborative editing features are nice. It’s good to be able to do that in the native app rather than a browser.
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by gbrown 5y ago
The ones in a line haven’t reached their final orbits yet - they launch in clusters and then slowly separate on orbit.
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by gbrown 5y ago
> There's no reason to think that needs to be done separately, and in fact that's the kind of things that you'd expect a good model to find on its own. Disagree - learning to classify morphological characteristics is lea
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by gbrown 5y ago
Have you checked out MLJ? I think their interface does a pretty good job of what you're discussing.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I read the post as indicating that specific models of cat are required by car, but that what really matters are the specs, creating artificial complexity. Don’t know how true that is, or what the effect on price would be, but your reply did
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by gbrown 5y ago
> should be native. The word you’re looking for is “naturalized”. Not native, but they’re already there, so...
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by gbrown 5y ago
Wouldnt that be trivially detectable in the data by comparing the nominal recoil configuration, reported hitscan trajectories, and mouse input profiles? Especially since the cheats need to be available somewhere, so the developers should ce
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by gbrown 5y ago
Then why do we still see cheats in these games? In this day and age, surely they could just use ML and human supervised cheat detection teams, and set up the incentives to make account bans more painful. Instead, we get security theater and
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by gbrown 5y ago
It disrupts the fungal life and dries it out, while also increasing erosion and weed pressure. It’s not that you can’t ever till, but it’s generally to be avoided. In the case of clay, deep mulch will do wonders, and the earthworms will gen

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