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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'd pay for YT if it wasn't run by Google. Google wants to track me and sell the data and wants me to pay for it, and I'm not willing to be abused that badly.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> This "runaway" feedback loop is one of the main reasons why global warming should be avoided, in my opinion. The Earth has had a 4,000-7,000 ppm CO2 concentration in the atmosphere before and it hasn't led to Venusificat
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They're pushing the app and offering free fries for installing the app, while the app has a "poison pill" where you agree to give up your rights. The title is pretty fucking dead on. This shit desperately needs to just be ma
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Hopefully this leads to Wikipedia being banned/blocked in the UK and the government winds up looking as stupid as they are.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I had a driver's license and my own truck when I was 16. So glad that I never had kids because norms around raising kids these days are crazy and I definitely would have been reported to CPS.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> UDP based protocols (like QUIC) are the way forward. Sure, but QUIC was written by experts who probably had been burned in the past by thinking they could just throw away TCP and profit. Things like slow start and congestion control a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, I worry that people who just want to use quaternions to make video games will get discouraged that they can't master the content in this kind of webpage and their good old imposter syndrome will kick in hard. When all they reall
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Look at the US response to 9-11 to see what other countries would do... My immediate response to seeing the planes hit the towers was "oh fuck, we're going to kill hundreds of thousands of people in the middle east". And
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And why would I pay them for the privilege of them spying on me?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The idea that we live in a meritocracy is a fraud.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> "she's what stupid people think smart people sound like" It is what people without any real depth of thought think that geniuses sound like. Stringing together a lot of occasionally insightful sentences without having an
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I wonder if this détente all falls apart once the EU cracks open iOS so that Google can ship a Chrome that isn't a Safari skin... At this point I'd like to see Apple get into search, but if that also gets them knee-deep into adver
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"life" could apply to immigration, "liberty" should apply to immigration, and "pursuit of happiness" should apply to immigration.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"Pursuit of Happiness" might also apply to immigration to the US and in some cases so would the "Life" clause.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> In Seattle for instance you can beat a driver to the airport every time during traffic Sea-Tac is 22 minutes from my house by car, during the worst traffic it is usually around 35 mins (I don't have to drive through downtown), and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It is probably the sugar/highly refined carbs: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.023... Then you dump calories on top of those metabolic changes (and appetite stimulation by the carbs)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You said you hadn't seen one and I quickly found you one. No, I don't know how to quantify it, but if you'd like to continue to disagree with me I think you'll have to do the research on it, since you seem to be very eng
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Here's one: https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2021/02/08/2448815/maryla...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That's actually somewhat accurate, shoot someone with a single 9mm and there's a good chance they'll keep coming like they only stepped on a lego. Depends on if you hit something vital or not, but a whole lot of the human bo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Apollo wasn't really fiscally sustainable, particularly given the expansion that you visualize. In 1965 it was 0.75% of GDP per year and NASA was 1% of GDP per year. By comparison the "pork program" SLS is running at 0.018%
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It isn't government spending. We're just seeing the result of corporations successfully capturing all the post-pandemic money that was floating around which is propping up GDP numbers. The higher interest rates haven't had t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Apple blowing the PATH away in /etc/zshrc and then overwriting it on every upgrade is user-hostile even outside of Nix.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
reddit suggests not, unless the valve is compromised: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/3eqnqo/will_h...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
sorry, double scuba tanks, this kind of thing: https://www.johnchatterton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cr...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I'd kinda hope regulators would step in on something like that for a case like Gmail where they're practically the default email provider for most people. Regulators won't ever save you. * buy a domain name on namech
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I got the year for Bhopal correct, I didn't bother trying to guess the day or month (mostly luck, but I remember that I was younger). I guessed 1989 for Chernobyl, at least I got the decade correct (remember it happened in either Jr Hi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> and costs 1/10th what helium does to source and supply. I can't imagine what this this would do to helium prices if we had widespread helium airships. I've got a full set of doubles with 18/45 (45% helium in them)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Makes more sense than deliberate suicide.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I don't know how to respond to this. If you screw up there needs to be consequences that bite. Suspending their operations is better than some meaningless fine and actually punishes them. If you can't see that, I can't hel
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> 50%+ of car trips are less than three miles... as a society what we need is a way to make those trips without cars. then you've only fixed 50% of car trips, and much less than 50% of vehicle miles and probably not done much at all

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