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by iSnow 5y ago
As if FB stock holders or C-suite (or even regular employees, come to think about it) do care about reputational damage. As long as it is a money-printing machine, they will not care one bit if they have to heat the headquarters with seal p
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by iSnow 5y ago
Does crypto do anything but cause troubles? If it's not actively destroying the environment, then it's endangering financial stability. How does the government not step in here?
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by iSnow 5y ago
Since having older kids, this is completely trashing my wake/sleep rhythm and starting to impact my work. I want some time to do the things I care about in my own time, damnit. I don't want to be externally structured all the time
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by iSnow 5y ago
I found the perfect balance to be very pro-active and resourceful at the beginning of a project, both to structure it in a way that suits me and make a good impression. Later, not so much. And I am not lazy, but being too active means other
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by iSnow 5y ago
I tend to downvote snarky, off-topic jokes here because I want this site to keep a high signal/noise ratio. If you visit the /r/science subreddit, you can see why. The comments used to be excellent, not they are full with lam
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by iSnow 5y ago
I loved playing Empire on the Amiga back then, but TBH, it was a far cry from Civilization.
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by iSnow 5y ago
So do I, I would have preferred Lightning ports over USB-C. Unfortunately, Apple never plays nice and always has restrictive and money-making standards, so I guess they never tried to pitch it to the USB standards body. USB-C is a very capa
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by iSnow 5y ago
First off, I am not sure we need to improve on it in the short term. USB-A has existed for ~20y by now on the desktop and is still going strong. If USB-C lives as long, we'll get a break from having to buy different cables for quite so
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by iSnow 5y ago
It wasn't a non-issue till the EU stepped in. Every manufacturer had their own plug and some (eg. Nokia) even had more than one, of course they were incompatible. I'm grateful that the EU stepped up here. I feel for Apple's h
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by iSnow 5y ago
That's why the EU back then banged the heads of the manufacturers together to force them to come up with a common standard, instead of picking one and forcing it down their throat.
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by iSnow 5y ago
Not great, but better than I personally expected: "Inductive charging is not as efficient as direct charging [...] An analysis of energy use found that charging a Pixel 4 from 0 to 100 percent on a classic cable used 14.26 Wh (watt-hou
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by iSnow 5y ago
The real problem with the Framework laptop is that the ordinary consumer will not assemble their own laptop or upgrade it later. They will just go and buy a $500 cheap laptop with a 15" screen and if it breaks, buy a new generation.
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by iSnow 5y ago
This is exactly it. I do like MacOS more than Ubuntu (which I also use), and lately, customizability of Ubuntu has gone down too (As an old Mac-user, I want a menu bar, I actively dislike menus on each window) and the M1/M1X look real
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by iSnow 5y ago
I'm using an external display connected via Thunderbolt/USB-C instead of HDMI so I can use the display to - power the laptop - plug in the mouse plug into its USB-A port
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by iSnow 5y ago
Because usually, you can't just throw a 100m cable through a building and plug it just into some Ethernet socket. And who wants to carry around a spool of cable?
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by iSnow 5y ago
Is Dell still gimping them to 10Gbit/s like they used to? Considered an 13" XPS for years, but then turned to Apple because of this ridiculous decision.
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by iSnow 5y ago
Was that written by some 16 year old?
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by iSnow 5y ago
Sorry, you are falling for a category system that is entirely human-made. Nature doesn't care about "disorders" but produces the whole spectrum. Nature doesn't even care about that the evolutionary fitness of many variat
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by iSnow 5y ago
But mercury is a heavy metal. It must be prohibitively expensive to transfer the amount needed to the moon from earth.
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by iSnow 5y ago
What about infertile women or intersex persons?
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by iSnow 5y ago
No, between the two end of the gender spectrum, there is all kinds of shades of grey, starting with persons with intersex genitals and all the way up to women with a more male personality, body hair and so on. Nature doesn't care about
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by iSnow 5y ago
If I read this right, they want to do the whole wiremesh/DuAxi robot dance because the craters are not parabolic enough. They use them because they allow to build a parabola without ferrying thousands of tons of material to the moon bu
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by iSnow 5y ago
Nature does not create "bins" to sort people or things. Some traits are clustered and we latch on the most visible clusters to define "races". In reality, there is broad overlap and if you look up close, the whole concep
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by iSnow 5y ago
But housing doesn't work like this at all. "all one needs to do is find the money" is the mechanism that keeps some people out of the housing market, or at least makes their lives pretty hard. Middle-class families can find t
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by iSnow 5y ago
Chemically, it is very possible, but terraforming a whole planet takes an impossible amount of resources and man-hours. Who would pay for this and why?
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by iSnow 5y ago
But the waste heat would escape within minutes/hours whereas the greenhouse effect lasts for decades or even longer.
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by iSnow 5y ago
I believe making charcoal out of the biomass would be much more energy efficient, no?
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by iSnow 5y ago
Hi, European here Yes, Carbon sequestering and storage underground is something that brings out all the usual tin-foil hatters from Greenpeace to the alt-right who fantasize about "gassing the population". What I am wondering is w
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by iSnow 5y ago
Wow, TIL, thanks.
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by iSnow 5y ago
How is keeping the money on top of forced labor legal? Doesn't the USA have anti-slavery legislation and why doesn't it apply?

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