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by kaibee 7y ago
The uncomfortable truth is that action costs political capital. Something highly public, like plastic straws, by its nature is far more expensive than the actual environmental benefit that is accrued.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> How can you even answer any of these questions except with fluff and bullshit if you want to be hired? Google is supposed to be a data-driven company, but it's impossible to extract any information out of bullshit, bullshit by de
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by kaibee 7y ago
How is Smart Summon legal to use? I'm guessing parking lots are private property?
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Adding a bunch of sick people raises the costs for everyone Sick people without health insurance still get healthcare. They just don't pay, go bankrupt, probably cost the system way more than if they had preventative care paid fo
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by kaibee 7y ago
> (I don't want to hear one thing about negotiating power. That is a debunked line of reasoning. Medicare/Medicaid cover more people than many single payer systems in other countries, and their costs are still outrageous) It is
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Do you think that companies would give you a raise equivalent to what they were paying on your behalf for healthcare? I suspect not. Its anecdotal, but my company and the company my mom works for, both already do this if you choose to
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by kaibee 7y ago
> and that movement is required to make it work. Did you watch the full video? They show someone playing Asteroids without any movement. Movement is not required.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> I work with computers for a living and off the top of my head I'd say, "This is incredibly annoying to do using normal tools at my disposal." I think you're overthinking this. They aren't looking for a NN base
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by kaibee 7y ago
https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/2834/does-photosho... Same process works for Photopea.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> I'm in the US, but my understanding is that the public gets a minimum level of heathcare, provided by the state. You can additionally decide to pay extra money for fancier care if you want more than what you're getting. Sorry
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by kaibee 7y ago
> There is a rhetorical tendency to blame American public policy on conspiracies rather than honestly attempting to figure out why people vote the way they do. Poor incentive structures and feedback loops can create and perpetuate bad sy
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by kaibee 7y ago
> People who smoke cigarettes and otherwise have an unhealthy lifestyle overburden the health system and take away government spending that can be spent elsewhere. Why should I pay more because you drinks coke, diabetic and smoke yoursel
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by kaibee 7y ago
> (which is similar to the risk on the other side of the table— that the employee will find out and quit) Someone more left/anti-capitalist might argue that this is disproportionately in favor of the employer. The employee is depen
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by kaibee 7y ago
Is it? Remember how the FCC got millions of anti net-neutrality comments from some group using stolen identities of people? https://gizmodo.com/how-an-investigation-of-fake-fcc-comment...
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by kaibee 7y ago
Hi kspacewalk2, I'm John and I have views on privacy that are completely genuine and happen to align with what benefits the corporation(s) that my company, TotallyLegitimateComments LLC, contracts for. I believe advertisement is a for
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by kaibee 7y ago
I too look forward to outside sounding like a swarm of angry bees 24/7.
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by kaibee 7y ago
My layman's perspective on this: I think there's some hidden complexity at play here also. Yes, the number of symbols required is small. But those symbols are only meaningful to someone with the education to understand them. Na
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by kaibee 7y ago
> you’ll be screaming inside. Just like the passengers.
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by kaibee 7y ago
While I agree that technically, fusion is not renewable, I feel like it might as well be? Working fusion reactors make it economical to siphon hydrogen fuel from Jupiter and such. Did you mean fission?
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by kaibee 7y ago
Options.
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by kaibee 7y ago
+1 to this. Not sure if it was just that 'play' was too fast (I agree with the other comment about 'play' probably not being super useful here), but on my 27" 2560x1440 monitor, it took me a few slides to notice th
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by kaibee 7y ago
So two potential scenarios: A. Earth is going to be hit by a super-mega-death laser focusing the entire power output of a star into a concentrated beam. B. A long long time ago, a very dense moon was very far from a supernova. Unfortunat
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by kaibee 7y ago
Technically yes, but in my experience... no. Recently my parents switched carriers for whatever reason, so I had to get a new phone. Honestly I would have kept my Note4 for another year, but whatever. Being a phone from, what 2014? it was
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by kaibee 7y ago
I'm from the North East, so maybe I'm off base here, but... Using Silicon Valley as 'the perfect example' of anything that is supposed to generalize to the rest of the country, or even within 100 miles, seems... bizarre.
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by kaibee 7y ago
Fortunately, with the benefit of hindsight, we can know how this story actually played out. > On 15 April Merkel announced in a press conference that the German government had approved Böhmermann's criminal prosecution, but would ab
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by kaibee 7y ago
It's extremely unlikely that there's actual collusion. But actors acting in their selfish best interest can definitely look like collusion.
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by kaibee 7y ago
> The US is a spectacularly prosperous country, and all it seems anyone talks about is how to fundamentally change the systems that made it that way. The things that made America so wealthy were changed pre-2000. It takes time for those
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by kaibee 7y ago
> Is there any good reason for that? No. > Are fatty foods and empty carbs cheaper to produce than less processed, healthier food? They are subsidized by the government, ie: Corn subsidies. That said, even without subsidies, I'd
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by kaibee 7y ago
> I’ve had take away (healthy and organic of course) at least two days a week since I left home. Yep, same here. Though if I do cook, it has to be a massive production. If there's not something to be actively preparing the whole t
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by kaibee 7y ago
Related better implementation of the inpainting, though I wonder how it'd look with the automasking in this. https://nbei.github.io/video-inpainting.html

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