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by goodpoint 5y ago
The same way it's been done when public money funded all the groundwork for semiconductors and early computers, GPS, GSM, satellites, fiber optics, LCDs, touchscreens, spread spectrum, particle physics, space exploration, industrial ch
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> If you contribute by hiring the maintainer to do maintainer work then that falls in the great company category. No. This allows companies to seize control of FOSS projects. FLOSS is used by everybody and should not be driven a single c
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Donations are very unnatural for for-profit companies, unlike payments for services, requiring a lot of work to prove the legitimacy of a donation. Furthermore, funding public goods with donations creates ethical issues: in a competitive en
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Companies LOVE unpaid labor and they push incessantly for "company-friendly" weak licenses. We need to take back FLOSS from SaaS providers and similar megacorps: please use AGPL.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
s/ping/latency/
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Indeed, the simulation should not be done in real time. The 3D world could be a cute way for users to change the parking scenario and then let the algorithm run in background and show the winners every 1000 cycles.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Direct or reflected light is just light. Same stuff. What matters is the content and quality of the light spectrum. LED lights or even LCD screens can be designed with a more or less healthy spectrum depending on the priorities of the manuf
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by goodpoint 5y ago
As many people pointed out, the focal point is at a much higher distance than the typical screen. If anything, this could be much healthier. If only the head mounted displays were designed with health in mind rather than making a quick prof
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by goodpoint 5y ago
The correlation obviously exists for low levels of coverage. Above 80% or 90% it becomes a poor measure.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Sources needed.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
The environmental and economical cost of excavation. Also the environmental and economical cost and waste management.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> then the people that have never actually written code in Nim would be whining about that convention Spot on. I wrote plenty of Nim and the style-insensitivity is a feature and not a bug. Not allowing the use of 3 different variables na
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> how does the nuclear power hype train continue? 1) The conglomerates profiting from nuclear are not the same profiting from renewable energy. 2) Renewables can be very decentralized. Nuclear is the most centralized. This changes the ba
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> Privacy!=security. It’s not that hard to understand The very basics of security are Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. Privacy breaching is a breach of Confidentiality. Please spare us from the FUD and the patronizing tone.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
An application on Linux is very unlikely to do so, especially if shipped in a security/privacy focused distribution. OTOH Android apps are a minefield, making it extremely difficult to protect user data. Also Android itself leaks data
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> AOSP by default is effectively more secure than any Linux distro Sandboxing does not protect you from all the binary blobs, closed source components and all the telemetries and other forms of surveillance built in. Not to mention all t
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by goodpoint 5y ago
...or just use Briar.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> grab the near exact keyboard layout we use with physical keyboards, and just stick them on a tiny touchscreen Add to that the sad story of the QWERTY layout: proven to be inefficient and yet still widespread.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
When you can buy 2 everyday keyboards for 30 euros in total it's difficult to justify the shocking prices of split/mechanical/ergonomic keyboards. I could buy an ErgoDox but it feels too much like a status symbol rather than
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by goodpoint 5y ago
The healthy aspect is in not overeating meat, which is well proven by modern science to be a significant public health risk in various developed countries.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
At this point I can't really believe you are arguing in good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> Cows are actually a way to convert otherwise worthless land into food This is completely false. Animal farming is entirely based on crop farming for fodder. Farming crop for animal fodder, for human consumption and for biofuel are in d
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> I just can't grok the cognitive dissonance it takes to ooh and ahh over the cute, "human-like" reactions of, say, a cow getting a backscratch on r/aww, while simultaneously munching down on a burger. The person who
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> how many megadeaths you are willing to cause through war and famine This is a strange way to describe moving towards a more sustainable [cheaper and healthier] diet.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH7
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> I've always been skeptical of those. CPU usage is a very accurate proxy of energy usage. Second to that, network traffic. Simply ignore pages that use poor metrics. > Whereas, say, Visual Studio for instance is on my screen 6+
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by goodpoint 5y ago
LoRaWAN's marketing uses the word "community" a lot. Also add to that: > The Helium Network, also known as “The People’s Network”, ...and add the fact that LoRa and LoRaWAN is corporate-controlled and patented. This is all
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Tons, unsurprisingly. There are website energy calculators around.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
Nim is pretty pythonic in terms of expressiveness. Of course Nim is statically typed, but a lot of Python code that does not use dynamic typing heavily can be ported to Python surprisingly easily.
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by goodpoint 5y ago
> Maybe instead of complaining about "gender roles" complain about people picking shitty spouses No need for the whataboutism: gender roles exists and are deeply entrenched in some societies. A simple measure is how often divor

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