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by lolc 5y ago
Am I too cynical in not giving this piece of overengineering the slightest chance to survive actual use? Just get a cargo bike. Or a car. I don't see what niche this is supposed to fill. > Because the specially-designed drawbar with
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by lolc 5y ago
Well these guys say they've delivered quite a few packages with their drones. To hospitals. https://flyzipline.com/ Coffee wasn't on the agenda it seems.
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by lolc 5y ago
That may be because your address hasn't made it to the spammers yet. My address has been public for a while and not filtering meant deleting a few mails per hour. Even a Gmail-address I'm not using gets a good amount of spam, prob
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by lolc 5y ago
The mails that make it to your spambox are a pithy few compared to the mass of dropped mail. You'd be very unhappy with your spambox if the filters weren't so judgmental.
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by lolc 5y ago
Hm, we've discussed doing more smaller concept reviews. Doing "first try" reviews sounds like a good alternative.
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by lolc 5y ago
Maybe easier, but not necessarily cheaper.
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by lolc 5y ago
I agree about the pollution caused by coal and that trading nuclear for coal is bad. But don't you think the "down-breeding" was tried and failed? It's been 50 years now.
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by lolc 5y ago
Exactly.
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by lolc 5y ago
> Nuclear weapons need to be dismantled or stored in neutral territory in case we encounter belligerent aliens. Lifeforms able to travel the universe are unlikely to be vulnerable to our nuclear weapons in a significant way. They might j
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by lolc 5y ago
I do expect images with "alpine" in the name to be based on the Alpine distro. And not some weird bastard of Alpine. And I see no problem with them asserting their trademark here.
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by lolc 5y ago
I've always had slow days where I didn't want to work. Just give a call that today is one of those days. At most places I worked this was understood and respected. The other places I didn't work at for long. Sometimes I feel
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by lolc 5y ago
As some other commenter pointed out, you can just add a counterweight.
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by lolc 5y ago
I carry a Beurer BR 60. It uses a small ceramic plate that heats up. It's a short burning sensation but the itching is gone for most bites after that.
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by lolc 5y ago
Haha, piss-powered, Bluetooth-enabled diapers? Truly the Internet of Shit is upon us. And as somebody with two medical devices attached that communicate via Bluetooth, I can hardly be in opposition to the idea.
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by lolc 5y ago
Has anybody asked cows if they like to eat maize?
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by lolc 5y ago
I like how they didn't expect it: "The lab is still analyzing the results from the shot. It’s not yet known which or what combination of advances to the targets, laser pulse lengths, or other variables led to the leap in performan
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by lolc 5y ago
What do you make of the statement published on snopes.com itself? https://www.snopes.com/2021/08/13/snopes-writers-condemn-pla...
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by lolc 5y ago
The iron age required a lot of wood.
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by lolc 5y ago
> Previous generations left behind rock and stone buildings, some sludge at worst. I don't see why we should ignore the deforestation or hunting to extinction that previous generations imposed on the planet.
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by lolc 5y ago
> Why would you expect that a brand-new, mostly-unregulated technology would be safer than one that is over a century old with a lot of safety regulation in place? Because they have a very different risk profile. Regulations are trading
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by lolc 5y ago
You can't say "more essential complexity" because that violates the definition. It's the complexity required by the task and that is constant and independent of the design.
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by lolc 5y ago
Regarding security: You can get fined over using fake certificates. So most people won't use fakes as long as the incentives are right. There's no need for airtight security here.
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by lolc 5y ago
I see what you mean. And I still find "capitalize on pain" too broad a framing for what the app. Characterizing it that way does not inform and draws parallels to other, less ethical players that "capitalize on pain". Su
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by lolc 5y ago
The therapists (and the app) are supposed to capitalize on improvement. Saying that they capitalize on pain takes a dystopic perspective that I find unjustified. Until they are shown to employ dark patterns, we shouldn't dismiss them l
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by lolc 5y ago
As somebody who had a porn addiction (as in: I feel my consumption negatively impacted my life) I don't understand why some commenters here say it's "only" treating a symptom. Sure, if I'd felt more engaged in other
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by lolc 5y ago
Eh, that's a low bar. By that metric therapists also capitalize on other people's pain.
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by lolc 5y ago
I found it strange him mentioning drinking coffee in the retreat, especially in the morning after experiencing strong dissociation. In general I would have thought they'd skip the coffee.
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by lolc 5y ago
> a version that someone sold without permission. I'd call that unlicensed. And fraud too. > living within the prevailing legal environment Right. The book 1984 describes a society where it is outlawed to posses old books. So whe
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by lolc 5y ago
Surely, nobody would want an unlicensed copy of a book in their library, would they?! Remember, there are people distributing government reports or even scientific research without proper license! Thankfully, our devices track license sta
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by lolc 5y ago
So what's the harm of vaping? As far as I know, there is some evidence of harm, but it compares very favorably to smoking. It's a different class. To talk about "years of life lost" is quite off from what I know about it

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