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by kunai 6y ago
And Linux is fantastic for that, until you come across a use case that is outside those typical bounds. Say your mom decides she likes photography one day and decides to buy a camera and take some lessons. Say her teacher says "we use
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In terms of usability, yes, but the problem with Linux in recent years has rarely been usability, it's the lack of workstation-level applications that are readily available on Windows and MacOS. As long as Linux lacks native support fo
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Free markets are excellent for lifting the baseline level of wealth among a nation's people (Marx admitted this as industrialization rapidly increased the wealth of Western Europe at the time of his coming of age). It does not solve th
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I am well aware, but the inefficiencies posed by regulatory capture are often used as an excuse to privatize state property, in this case the USPS and the situation with the PMG intentionally hobbling it to make that very case.
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At the core of the problem is that society is not allowed to not accept this behavior. The systems by which Apple et al abuse their positions to harm small businesses and "the little" guy are literally enshrined in our legal and a
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by kunai 6y ago
You are correct, it's not the food deserts, redlining, institutional and systemic factors, widespread government corruption spearheaded by Coke and McDonalds lobbyists promoting unhealthy products, that led to poor nutritional attainme
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by kunai 6y ago
Definitely approaching real holodeck hours, with many implications for society at large. VR already has a reputation of being "uncool" and just being a way to vicariously experience things others actually do IRL (think of the &quo
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I'll always have a soft spot for my Lumia. I loved it too
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There's a burgeoning film industry (well, at least there was before COVID hit pause on it), thriving nightlife, beaches... a pretty big tech sector in Alpharetta (northern suburb of ATL)... lots of opportunities for Black creators (and
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by kunai 6y ago
As someone that lives there let me tell you there is no "downtown" Atlanta. There is a neighborhood called Downtown, but it's one of three (four, or maybe even five, depending on who you ask) major, dense business and retai
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by kunai 6y ago
Someone once told me that tradition just consists of the personality quirks of our ancestors. I don't necessarily agree with it in the majority of instances but it was eye-opening. The line between tradition/superstition is thin.
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It's funny because we all knew Flash was a scourge on the web and highly inefficient, and we swung so far around in the other direction that now Electron is a scourge on desktop and highly inefficient. Price of progress I suppose.
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> He said PCs would still be there for work, but most consumers won't own one, just like all vehicles used to be trucks, until people moved to cities and switched to cars, and now some people use trucks but most people use cars. And
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by kunai 6y ago
You are arguing with a group of technocratic ideologues who truly believe in the myths that America is a meritocracy and that the free market can solve all problems. That privilege doesn't exist and that everything that comes out of El
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by kunai 6y ago
I personally feel the same is true for those protesters as well. We all have the right to protest for Constitutional rights and the right to do so free of invasive surveillance measures. As far as I know the VA protesters were not Nazis or
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by kunai 6y ago
This type of mentality is exactly what led to "urban renewal" in the 1960s and the complete destruction of American inner cities to be replaced with 18-lane freeways and grimy concrete housing projects that concentrated poverty an
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Jane Jacobs is required reading as well.
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That's so odd given everything we know about cell biology -- aerobic respiration is required for cell activity and anaerobic processes generate lots of toxins and are an inferior alternative. This is really exciting research.
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by kunai 7y ago
Not to be pedantic but I believe the Airbus A340 is actually regarded as the safest airliner ever, with zero fatalities over the course of its nearly 30-year operational history.
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by kunai 7y ago
The app commonly used for Democratic campaign on-ground canvassing, known as MiniVAN, is vetted, works well, and available through proper channels. There is no reason that that couldn't have been the case here. For something as mission
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by kunai 7y ago
On the counterfactual, it's actually not very smart, and a toxic and myopic view of society. There's an entire spectrum of coordinating collective human behavior that ranges from systems like feudalism to anarcho-syndicalism to mi
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by kunai 7y ago
I feel like this is where the "Apple in California" way of thinking really shows itself. If you think about it, Apple really exclusively makes products for the normal consumer market, and then their pro products are exclusively ai
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by kunai 7y ago
In some regards, yes, but it's more than the structure of the UI. The menu-based interface should be perfectly suited to any task you want to accomplish, as it is in many other apps, but use LibreOffice for any amount of time and you b
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by kunai 7y ago
These are not mainstream CPUs; people who do rendering and run server farms for a living will find this level of parallel computing a godsend.
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Don't think you need to be this sanctimonious, as those two things aren't mutually exclusive. A child raised with a sociological imagination will eventually come to understand a housing shortage is unjust.
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by kunai 7y ago
AbiWord, a word processor with far more rich text features, .doc export, support for multimedia images and charts, etc. uses 4MB of memory on a blank page. There is no legitimate reason for Typora to use literally 18 times the RAM as a full
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by kunai 7y ago
Congress may get into petty squabbles over issues like farm subsidies or trans rights, but they are generally agreed on the status quo of the current United States economy. There is bipartisan support for unfettered corporate control over w
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I think you underestimate the sheer genius of Robert Caro. I cannot think of a biographer or scholar who researches, digs, puts his hands in the mud more to uncover the truth. He is a national treasure. His Moses and LBJ bios are absolute g
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by kunai 7y ago
Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality. Nice UI though.
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The average American "small-government" ruling class mentality chronically starves public goods and the commons from widely available resources, and then points to the failure of said services and goods as a reason why government

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