janef0421

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by janef0421 4y ago
What practical utility does that perspective have? The precise intention of the creators of a scheme does not have any distinct impact on anyone else, and is incredibly difficult to verify.
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by janef0421 4y ago
It doesn't really matter what the intent of the government and medical establishment is; In fact, it may not even be coherent to attribute intent to such an entity. What matters is what the system does, and the evidence clearly indicat
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by janef0421 4y ago
They can't peak independently, but their reliability and low marginal cost means that they can are well suited to providing peaking capacity in conjunction with storage. Excess power from the reactor can be used to place energy in the
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by janef0421 4y ago
You can use a keepass file synchronised with syncthing or a similar peer-to-peer sync system. To securely share credentials, you can share a separate password file with a unique password. There might be issue with file conflicts, but I find
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by janef0421 4y ago
Is it progress? I don't think the time required to fly over an ocean is really a major problem. Time-sensitive clients can simply book an overnight flight during time they would be sleeping, and those who would be rich enough to afford
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by janef0421 4y ago
Would this actually have any effect on Russian civilians? I would guess that this jamming doesn't prevent operation of GLONASS, and most Russian civilians would primarily use GLONASS.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Abstractly? No, we don't. But we do need entertainment and leisure, and we do need to communicate with each other. In the modern age, those essential needs are most practically met by using advanced digital technologies, and not having
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by janef0421 4y ago
I don't really mind this. I don't believe it's appropriate for the government to prohibit the use of a psychoactive substance, but this law doesn't do that. It just bans a particular delivery mechanism which is known to
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by janef0421 4y ago
I find it odd that the creator of Action Office 2 apologised for it. Having grown up watching the media of the 90's and 00's, and then working in open spaces, I look at office cubicles with a fond anemoia. I would very much apprec
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by janef0421 4y ago
Even if humans would continue to attempt to gain social status by training to become buff pole-vaulters, I think it would be a massive improvement if that status seeking was decoupled from the economic system.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Or, if you're concerned with the climate impact of using fossil fuels, you can consider the economics of shifting to a technology that cab use the energy more directly; I.e, replacing aviation with electric railways.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I don't think that behaviour is an attempt to mimic Steve Jobs, or any kind of signalling strategy. It's an effective strategy for minimising cognitive load and energy.
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by janef0421 4y ago
That seems quite similar to allowing developers to SSH into a development server. That option is highly mature, allows users to use a variety of tools, and is not very expensive. How does your product improve on that?
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by janef0421 4y ago
I don't see why demographics would be regarded as so important to industrialised societies. The bulk of labour power in those societies comes from machines, not physically fit young people. In such a society, an older population is not
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by janef0421 4y ago
That would be true when purchasing a phone now, but not at the time the SE launched. At that time, the Mini had not launched, and it was not clear that any such device would launch. Since most of the people in the market for a small phone w
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think the mini failed because most of those customers bought the second-generation SE.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I find the claim that Ukraine is a "democracy" questionable considering the handling of the conflict in Donbas. Rather than allowing devolution of powers to the region, so that the predominantly Russian-speaking people of those re
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by janef0421 4y ago
Maybe, but I find that unlikely, particularly for eunuchs; Being a Eunuch is arguably more socially stigmatised than being a transsexual.
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by janef0421 4y ago
That's true, but we do have an environmental and climate problem driven by human activity, and a reduction in human population would help in solving it.
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by janef0421 4y ago
It might be the case that endocrine disruptors may be increasing the likelihood a person is trans, but what you are proposing is almost certainly incorrect and would not work. Using sex-aligned hormones to cause a person to become cisgender
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by janef0421 4y ago
The same could thing could be said of almost any experience.
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by janef0421 4y ago
It may be economically efficient, but it's materially inefficient. You're increasing the amount of materials and labour required in order to reduce the utility of manufactured products. This indicates an error in the economic syst
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by janef0421 4y ago
I find the current use of the word "terrorist" to be very strange. It seems to be little more than special pleading; The western powers apply it liberally to their enemies, essentially to label them as evil, while not applying it
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by janef0421 4y ago
I don't think adding general purpose and/or secure telecommunications functionality is going to help a microblogging service to be more profitable. There are already more mature tools for that, it's expensive, and people don&
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by janef0421 4y ago
The issues with aviation are two-fold: First, the amounts of emissions are very high relative to total passenger throughput. Second, the issue is very difficult to address meaningfully, because heavier-than-air aircraft have inherently high
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by janef0421 4y ago
Because he appears to be pragmatic and understands the benefits of open standards.
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by janef0421 4y ago
That gives me a new level of respect for Dorsey.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Or people started closing tabs more frequently and/or used something other than chrome.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Medical residents tend to be highly stressed, and these practices were apparently originated by a man who used cocaine in the same manner as coffee.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Thought this was about the http alternative for a second.

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