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by h0l0cube 2y ago
TFA makes the vague claim that the devices call home, but yes it seems all this is under false pretences. e.g., concerns about the Uyghurs but then just finding another source of slave labor to build their surveillance devices > Instead,
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Sub-compact cameras are still a thing. And by comparison use actual glass for their lenses, have real telephoto capabilities, and won’t distort your pictures with AI hallucinated nonsense
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> The explosive growth certainly suggests Also the LCOE: https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... They haven't put out a report for this year, but it appears they didn't for 202
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> obvious propaganda > Mark my words [..] brought us to third-world style poverty, while frantically learning mandarim to have a chance to migrate to China a) What's your reliable source of information that trumps all other insti
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Parasocial has very specific meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The tech described in the article features superconducting memory in combination with the 'SPU': > To complement the logic architecture, we also redesigned a compatible Josephson-junction-based SRAM. [...] > But there are al
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
A cursory googling led here: > Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in the signaling cascade controlling ocular refractive development, but the exact role and site of action of dopamine D1 receptors (D1Rs) involved in myopia remains unclea
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> This isn’t some hypothetical, this is current investment being made under known terms. Not sure what you mean here. Is it that private sector investments into gas? If so, it can't be said that it's a good investment. Plent
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Anyone thinking those are transitional investments that will be written off in the next 20 years is deluding themselves. I absolutely do not. Whether it’s nuclear or gas, transitional plants will either need to be subsidized or guarant
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> We’re seeing massive declines in storage prices and huge increases in production. Just in the last 9 months I’ve seen LFP prismatic cells from China drop 50% in price (and about 10% in pack volume). Add to that the variety of grid sca
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Obviously the class lines weren't exact and depending on where in the era (e.g. 1996 it was expensive, 2001 it was a lot more affordable) Facebook era was late 00s, and didn't hit full stride globally until early 10s. By thi
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> 5 ICQ chatrooms combined Perhaps you’re thinking of IRC? I don’t recall ICQ having chat rooms. It was purely chat with the ability to discover other users around the world. It was one to one, not many to many, and there was no server
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Well I'd say that Instagram was yet another inflection point, where relationships with strangers returned in parasocial many-to-one form, in place of the one-on-one intimacy afforded by ICQ. At the time of ICQ, chat programs were the s
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Most people don’t get it when I say this, maybe someone here will, but to me it all started going downhill when people all of a sudden switched to a worse alternative, MSN. It wasn't so much the platform that set ICQ apart, it was
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Scrum isn’t so much a tool but an ill defined framework. The Get out of Jail Free Card the author refers to is abusing this lack of definition to brush off any failed attempts at applying the framework. The author continues to imply if ther
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Russians are 71% of the population of Sevastopol Strawmanning again. That same census shows 17.3% of Ukraine identifies ethnically (or culturally) as Russian. But instead you want to split hairs. > 58% in Crimea Crimea is Russia
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The difference between the first and second, is that after the second, the ‘Axis’ states were brought into the global economy. Germany and Japan became famously successful both financially and technologically. The economic growth wasn’t to
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> And before you go "but borders" It was communism that fostered this independence movement of the eastern states, and it was the USSR that drew the arbitrary line soon after the revolution. > What is to be gained (other tha
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Now you’re strawmanning. Once I knew the argument you were making (which honestly wasn’t clear to me), the overall critique was correct and justifiable, but for one minor error (namely, Germany being in rubble after WW1). Just so you know,
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Many EVs make sound when driving at slow speeds. Does that mitigate the problem? It’s actually really irresponsible that this topic isn’t brought up at all in the article. This is brought up in the article: > Since July 2019, all ne
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> The suggestions to "just stop" (translation: "just lose") are actually serious. Lose? You mean retreat to their own pre-war borders? To lose would be if they actually had to pay reparations or lost territory of th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
That's fair. I may have conflated with WWII.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> so they must have understood If you aren't adding to the discussion (e.g., by being obtuse) that's reason enough for a downvote. And underneath it all you're quite brashly making a false equivalence.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> there are talks Media murmuring isn't anything legally binding. Russia have plenty of leverage to sue for peace. Namely that this is a war of attrition and Russia has plenty of cannon fodder, exhausting Ukraine in the long run.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I sorta kinda agree. The US should really have returned to isolationism after WWII instead of allying with Western Europe in conspicuous opposition to the USSR. On the other hand, the efforts of the USSR to agitate for communist revolutions
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> something I don't think anyone predicted It was definitely predicted. Marshall McLuhan basically coined the term ‘information overload’ in the 60s. The sci-fi novel ‘Stand on Zanzibar’ also published in and 60s has chapters that a
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Curious to know what equivalence you’re making?
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Solar output scales with sunlight hours
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The crippling reparations exacted on Germany were probably the greatest geopolitical miscalculation to date
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
And that it still is, with a new lightweight feature that needn’t bother anyone unless they wish to enable it.

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