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by gorkonsine 9y ago
My utility trailer is far better than your SUV for hauling furniture, appliances, mulch, etc. And for the 363 days of the year that I'm not hauling anything needing that much capacity, my economy car gets far better fuel economy than
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
If you need to move more than 3 kids, you need to get a minivan. But most suburban people don't, they get the more gas-guzzling SUVs instead. Minivans can also haul a lot more cargo; SUVs are generally rather poor at that. For most p
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Home heating and meat consumption are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. What? Citation needed. That's complete BS. See here: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... The #1 ca
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
How is CO2 a problem in breathable air? To humans, it's a harmless and inert gas, just like nitrogen. The real problem is too little O2, which humans require for respiration. Obviously, too much CO2 could displace O2 and reduce O2 l
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I can't stop thinking those opposing nuclear power is not serious about climate change. They mostly are I think, they're just completely ignorant and naive and unrealistic about all the solutions. The strongly anti-nuclear pe
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You are being rude. It's normal to complain about things without wanting to give up on them altogether. Do you have any small complaints about your spouse? Why don't you just get a divorce? Do you have any complaints about you
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You're not answering the question. How does it benefit society for the works of Shakespeare to be protected by copyright now, after hundreds of years?
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>How about "the community is better here than Reddit's default subreddits", then? Well how about, "the community here is better than the community on Twitter"? That makes about as much sense. Who cares what Red
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I understand piracy more when it's literally impossible to make a legal purchase of something; I get it. When it's merely a matter of spending less money, I have a lot less sympathy for the copyright infringers. What if the wo
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Or just give up on them or the entire music industry. Well to be fair, that's pretty easy these days since there's no good music being released any more from the big labels.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>And I do find that the community is better here than Reddit No, it's really not. It's much worse. Reddit is not a single community. It's a collection of tens of thousands of communities (or hundreds even). Each subredd
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I recently avoided purchasing an item from Yakima Luckily, there's a lot of other options there, depending on exactly what product you're looking at. Thule is a very big competitor here, plus there's lots of other smalle
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I also rsync my entire home directory to an external drive every other week or so. This is what I do as well, just not quite as often. Sometimes I wonder if I should switch to something like rdiff-backup to get snapshots, but that woul
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
As another responder astutely pointed out below, services like this aren't contractually-bound, they're subject to TOSes. Good luck getting any kind of conflict resolution with a giant company when all you have are TOS. Companie
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Companies used to have their own servers all the time before "cloud computing" became a thing.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
No, if it's for non-web-hosting stuff, I mean buying your own servers and administering them yourself. Obviously, web-hosting stuff is a little different. AWS is a lot more than just web hosting: it's a cloud computing provider.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Your comparison, and the toaster one by the responder, are nonsensical. There's a difference between a product and a service. Toothpaste is a product, not a service. AWS is a service, not a product. You can buy toothpaste anywhere;
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
There's always a danger when you rely on outside provider for something that's critical to your business or life. Sometimes you can't avoid it or it's completely infeasible to, but choose carefully. I see too many compa
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
This should be a good warning about what you can expect when relying on other companies for service.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Oh, no. Hobby Lobby's customers are typically conservative suburban Christians. Liberals with any political awareness at all would know very well of their contraception case at the SCOTUS, and go to Michael's instead. There&#x2
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The highest levels of the government now are good buddies with people just like this. I'm surprised they aren't just being let off scot-free to keep their artifacts.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Their customers are obviously perfectly happy to patronize them regardless of this.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Rotating something that size in Mars' gravity is far more difficult that rotating something in space. Clearly, you're far less competent than you think you are.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Yeah, but that's the thing: these days, tons of sites that do nothing but display some info are horrifically bloated and slow to load, and full of Javascript, just to show a little bit of text.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
You sound like a teenager, and you obviously have no idea how the real world works. I'm done with your silliness. After working for decades in bullshit jobs, no one cares about making the best use of their talent, they care about enj
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
A small centrifuge is not a viable place to have an entire colony to live in. Sure, you can stick someone in a high-g centrifuge by himself for a little while, but I'm talking about a habitat that people live indefinitely. Equating t
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I think it's great you have a two-pronged approach (buying stuff you really like, so you're not out of luck if the streaming provider folds like this), but I have to question your assertion about online video: Netflix is clearly a
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
This shows why the modern trend of not buying music and just subscribing to streaming services is so short-sighted. The companies are all basically fly-by-night, and can change their product in a heartbeat, leaving you with something subst
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
How would you rotate a habitat on Mars, without having a major engineering challenge due to the existing gravity? Citation needed. And how would it not be necessary? 1/3g gravity is surely not healthy for humans long-term. Citation
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
So what the hell are you arguing for anyway? Becoming a multi-millionaire? That's simply not possible for most people. What the hell is your point?

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