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by jacknews 2y ago
This makes no sense, google fund Mozilla to claim there is competition in the browser 'market'. Cutting them off would undermine that goal. I'm sure Mozilla entering the ad market and taking ad business is hardly better than
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From the comments, lol: "Sigh It's like the universe keeps throwing them softballs lately and they are determined to only use the bat to hit themselves in the crotch" Can't they just focus on producing a great standards-
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rule of law, or rule by men? This seems to be advocating the latter .. strange.
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If I understand some of the videos correctly, their innovation seems to be in the diffusion layer, which makes the LCD appear paper-like. One video mentions quite a few technical details in this area (sub-wavelength nanoparticles, dichroic
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This seems insane. Surely just use self-driving trains. Even a dedicated rail link or even a whole network would be much, much cheaper than a conveyor, which are also notoriously unreliable and would halt the entire system on every fault.
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"a proposed law that would force LGBTQIA people into conversion therapy." I'm all for countries and populations determining their own norms and cultures to a large degree, but that's outrageous; it's 2024.
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I don't find the description or the examples here very well explained. What does call/cc do? What does cc do? what is this code, or is it just a comment? (continuation of 3 \* (f() + 8))(result) ; The descriptions are just
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"Hard work wins in business (a.k.a. it ain't just about luck)" says every 'successful' business person, company owner, shareholder, etc. No doubt hard work is a major, or even necessary, factor; when you work hard,
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The mainstream press are all over this now, seemingly sharing the jubilation. Where were they in the dark days of the semi-secret travesty of a trial in London? Thankfully people like Craig Murray stepped up to the crucial fourth estate rol
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Some of the largest companies in Europe are co-ops, and they don't require employees to become CEOs overnight. Those companies still have recognizeable structures, just that the profits don't get sucked out at the whim of a small
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in this particular instance. But you seem to imply that if capitalism didn't exist, nor would chemical companies, etc. Something like this business would still exist if there was a need for it under almost any political-economic system
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more sedentary than 20-30 years ago? Sorry I don't believe it. I don't see much change in people's lifestyles, in fact with alcohol and smoking on the wane, and ubiquitous healthy-diet messaging, I think people may even be li
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Wouldn't it have been better if ownership of the company, essentially comprised of the workers and managers, actually passed to the workers who knew what they were doing? To me this just highlights the absurdity of capitalist ownership
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or soy, or whatever is cheap in that region or the time of year etc. The point is it will be highly processed whatever it was.
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"We’ve improved the fats in the U.S. food supply a lot in the last 20 years,”" And yet obesity has ballooned in the same period. What could be the cause?
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ugh we could do without the critical theory; the evil technoarchy oppressing users, etc. The divide here is really between graphical and text interfaces. I think vastly more people would be 'disenfranchised' if everyone was '
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Do the new magsafe pins burn out after a year or two like the old ones? Or the cable insulation sloughs off? And then of course you had to buy an entire new proprietary charger from Apple, not just a 3rd party cable. Or even take the laptop
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This opinion piece argues that fields are merely probability distributions, strongly implying that particles are, actually, particles: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/a-common-misunderstan... There's certai
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Fantastic project and that colour silk-screen seems to work perfectly for this. It's not clear what size screen would be ideal though, as a 3-4" one will seema bit 'stuck on'. Maybe an option for a larger screen to make
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Right place is definitely a factor. I'm a western expat in an asian developing nation, and so get lumped in with 'compatriots' as far as salary requirements go, but it's actually more expensive to live here than in many
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The launch drone(s) only need enough energy for take-off, not the entire mission, and I'm thinking more like a small swarm of launch drones, not a single 'carrier' behemoth. But as you say, maybe it makes less sense for these
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"There is advantage to take off vertically close to troops" Of course, it just seems you could launch them vertically, in two stages, so the drone itself is unencumbered by VTOL requirements, and such a system could potentially sc
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A bit more basic than what I had in mind, but thanks, that's interesting.
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VTOL is a big overhead for a plane to carry. They could consider 2-stage launch/landing? A booster drone lifts the operational drone to flight height and speed, releases it, and then immediately returns. And then either the same, or a
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If the metric is productivity, I'd say these games contribute far more than many other activities, as they exercise and hone problem solving, creativity etc, which can then be applied to 'real' problems. But then, 'produ
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Personally I think this just shows how flawed the GPD measure is - it's really just a measure of money going around, volume of trade, not really wealth. What do facebook and similar tech giants, which contribute significantly to US GDP
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lightweight in terms of features of course. it simply allows you to have multiple shell/term sessions on a server and be able to switch between them from any terminal. Kind of a 'flat ctrl-Z' cum 'nohup' if you will
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Actually I think the reverse is the case, now. If you're a doctor, and you apply for a hospital job, do they at least reply to acknowledge your application? Do they then send a rejection letter if you're simply 'not what they
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But if it's a documented API with open-source 'reference' app, everyone can make new versions, enhancements, etc. And for sure, assuming a popular standard physical/radio interface is used now, it will still be supported
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Do you think all previous wealth will simply be 'reset' in some way, come the AI rapture?

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