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by labster 3y ago
Beware isolated demands for rigor
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by labster 3y ago
I think you’re blaming the wrong things. Climate change is stressing all electrical grids, but it’s obviously worse in Texas where there are no interconnections to the rest of the US. Fossil fuel plants were not resilient in the face of the
573.
by labster 3y ago
Truly, the mullet of unique identifiers.
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by labster 3y ago
Fun fact: bananas also produce antimatter, and generate antimatter in your body once consumed.
575.
by labster 3y ago
It has been [ 0 ] days since the last classified document leak on the War Thunder forums.
576.
by labster 3y ago
With expansion like that, this business can scale!
577.
by labster 3y ago
WotC’s trust bonfire was about D&D, revoking the perpetual license OGL. That said I don’t contest that MtG players have Stockholm Syndrome.
578.
by labster 3y ago
Yeah, this company does the same thing at Ars Technica, putting up long lists of Amazon affiliate links whenever it’s Prime Day.
579.
by labster 3y ago
Just curious, are you opposed to land inheritance in general, or just when it comes to indigenous groups?
580.
by labster 3y ago
Is the Glass of Theseus half-full or half-empty?
581.
by labster 3y ago
Point 1 above greatly understates the case. Water just sitting in a glass is constantly creating and destroying hydronium and hydroxide ions, and bare protons. Not to mention the carbon dioxide that gets dissolved as carbonic acid which can
582.
by labster 3y ago
About ten years back, a friend of mine devoted his spare time to mapping on OSM. Once every single local bike path was added, he started adding roads to North Korea based on satellite imagery. Folks just like making maps, even in places Goo
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by labster 3y ago
Probably yes, but I’d need to see a model to be sure. Changes to the general circulation of the oceans had massive effects on paleoclimates. Recent examples are the closing of the Panama strait, and the opening of a new strait between Austr
584.
by labster 3y ago
The meteor isn’t the problem. It’s the delta-V of the meteor which is the problem.
585.
by labster 3y ago
The only people joining X in 2023 are right-wingers, trolls, and bots. The chance of someone creating an account on X to learn something new is effectively zero.
586.
by labster 3y ago
Copyright should be 30 years for free, then 1 dollar doubling annually thereafter. 40 years of copyright should cost $2047, while 49 years costs a little over a million. So does the 50th year. Pay the public for your monopoly on publishing.
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by labster 3y ago
I didn’t actually make claim about the $0.20 case. Multiples of $1 is clearly too much for products that cost $0.99. But with America’s courts headed by an obviously illegitimate Supreme Court, who knows? The lesser amount could be pronounc
588.
by labster 3y ago
I’m pretty sure that would be an unconscionable contract at $1, not a mere unethical contract. The latter is legal, the former is not.
589.
by labster 3y ago
If they think they can find a court that will actually enforce this change, then they’ll be waiting for Godot.
590.
by labster 3y ago
So hope based on eucatastrophe then? Works for me.
591.
by labster 3y ago
Good news often comes in suppository form these days.
592.
by labster 3y ago
So basically we have no hope then?
593.
by labster 3y ago
I don’t think our grandchildren are going to care what we say. They’ll be too busy scavenging the scorched ruins of our cities for the last cans of refrigerant so they can survive another month on our doomed planet.
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by labster 3y ago
It’s expensive to eat less meat. And I done mean in an abstract way about the time it takes to prepare meals, etc. On a per weight basis, chicken is half the price of peanut butter or cheese at the local grocery store. A whole cooked chicke
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by labster 3y ago
The best part is that we can use this against people whose politics we don’t agree with. Developer says something Trumpy? Let’s make him pay! Solo developer is a trans woman? Why not shoot for bankruptcy? I wonder if this could be used as a
596.
by labster 3y ago
Just look at inputs and outputs. Electrical energy goes in; heat, noise (heat), and moving air (heat) come out. Nearly 100% of the energy going into an air conditioner produces heat.
597.
by labster 3y ago
I’m okay with owners salaries coming down as well. And stadiums getting zero public funding. I’m just more realistic about players being the first to get shafted.
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by labster 3y ago
The author is lamenting the decline of ESPN which will make everything worse, and half the ads on the page are for Fubo. Such sweet irony. The thing is, I’m one of those people who never watched ESPN, yet paid for years for it in a cable pa
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by labster 3y ago
Memories are essentially stories we tell ourselves about the world. They’re not real records of events, they’re condensed down into a narrative. Stories are how we understand the world. It’s hard to fault you for picking up on the meme of M
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by labster 3y ago
Kids these days don’t appreciate the classics.

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