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by loudmax 4y ago
Augmented reality contact lenses feature prominently in the 2006 science fiction novel Rainbows End. The novel isn't really about the technical details of AR, but more about people living in a society in which they're able to con
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by loudmax 4y ago
> it isn't controlled by a company that is ultimately beholden to the US government. The issue isn't so much that TikTok isn't beholden to the US government. The issue is that TikTok is beholden to the Chinese Communi
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by loudmax 4y ago
> It would be really nice to have some antitrust regulation so that the FCC doesn't have this power. Antitrust regulation is to prevent an Apple+Google duopoly (or cartel) from having this power. This is nothing about the FCC.
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by loudmax 4y ago
The War on Drugs has to be one of the biggest blunders of the 20th century. Attempting to block fentanyl at the borders is a fool's errand and blaming Mexico for supplying US demand is misguided and unjust. The reason the pandemic is
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by loudmax 4y ago
Comparing the US average life expectancy to the average of other rich countries is tricky because the US population is so much bigger and more diverse than most other countries. If US data were broken down by state, we'd probably see
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by loudmax 4y ago
I tend to agree with your notion of negative impact studies. We tend to favor the status quo, even if the status quo isn't sustainable in the long run. I do have concerns about private groups bringing in third parties. In practice, t
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by loudmax 4y ago
The article lays out a lot of the problems with American projects, but doesn't do much to explain why European projects are able to manage a better track record. Are their unions weaker, or are their goals better aligned with the proj
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by loudmax 4y ago
The article doesn't: "Instead of hiring staff, the Authority relied heavily on outside consultants. These consultants were well paid, with the primary consultant compensation for HSR at $427,000 per engineer, compared with the Aut
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by loudmax 4y ago
I don't think I've ever seen an argument from the hardcore "WFH or nothing" contingent saying that nobody should be allowed to work in an office if that's what they prefer. But I have seen arguments from the hardcor
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by loudmax 4y ago
Humans are sentient and we're made out of matter, just like these computers. Unless you're postulating a divine immaterial soul. In that case, God or the Universe or whoever can use their own logic to decide whether AIs get to ha
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by loudmax 4y ago
This is really a social problem, not a technical problem. The technology for instant communication exists and it isn't going to disappear. Your coworkers need to learn to give people space to do their job. Sorry that's scant co
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by loudmax 4y ago
No, the West does not have similar systems. There is plenty of injustice in the Western treatment of immigrant workers, but it's nowhere close to the outright slavery taking place in the Saudi peninsula. To point out injustice in t
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by loudmax 4y ago
In the long term, most countries on earth will not be able to function as they are now if they don't switch to alternative energy sources. This will involve a mix of wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and nuclear on grids that span conti
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by loudmax 4y ago
If you haven't looked into this already, I'd recommend checking out how to write a udev rule for your USB devices. There's probably a way to lock them down so OBS identifies them consistently. The Arch wiki has fairly in-dep
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by loudmax 4y ago
The street I used to live on in the suburbs of Portland, OR was not contiguous. To get from one part of the street to the other, you had to drive down at least two other other streets. Or another way to look at it was that there were two
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by loudmax 4y ago
I don't know that fear and hate are the only drivers of engagement, but they do seem to be easy drivers of engagement. If some social network succeeds in basing their drivers on empathy and social responsibility I hope they displace
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by loudmax 4y ago
Twitter is also a private company. They are under no legal or moral obligation to disseminate all views.
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by loudmax 4y ago
> This doesn’t make them conservative I'm not a conservative, but I respect conservative values such as the rule of law. I will grant you that the populist wing of the Republican party in no way reflects conservative values.
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by loudmax 4y ago
The Wasmer main page is splashy but not particularly informative. There's a lot more information on their github page here: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
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by loudmax 4y ago
Dubliners is absolutely beautiful. It's a collection of short stories, which helps to make it accessible to casual readers. There's a feeling of real depth and empathy in some of the stories. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
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by loudmax 4y ago
There are many significant benefits to streaming games. There's enormous flexibility to streaming, and it strongly lends itself to massively multiplayer online games. Stadia's problem was that Google's management worked out
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by loudmax 4y ago
Go is very easy to learn. You can be up and running with Go very quickly and it's fantastic for simple applications. The time investment to be reasonably good at writing Go is low. There's little reason not to learn Go. Rust
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by loudmax 4y ago
I highly recommend Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" talk as a way to think about software complexity. We all know that complex systems are hard to work with, but I've found his presentation very useful in understanding
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by loudmax 4y ago
This was my childhood in the 80's! I don't remember TF1 being more boring than the other two, but Antenne 2 definitely had a block of Japanese cartoons in the afternoon. I'm pretty sure all three channels had state funding t
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by loudmax 4y ago
> we will vote Republican until the Dems come more to the center, no matter how horrible the Republicans candidate is That's pretty illustrative of a lot of American politics. Republicans have been moving further and further away f
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by loudmax 4y ago
After embracing Linux, that would definitely extend it. Wonder what would come next.
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by loudmax 4y ago
A generator powering the grid for the electric company is going to capture a far greater portion of the fossil fuel energy than the gas range in your kitchen. There will be some loss transmitting electrical power from the generator to your
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by loudmax 4y ago
I love Radio Paradise! One of the best things about it is how the main mix transcends genres. I consider it basically a rock station, but they'll also play Country, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Classical and miscellaneous other stuff. In a sing
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by loudmax 4y ago
The submitter is Jason Donenfeld, aka zx2c4, creator of Wireguard (and the `pass` password manager). This is an impressive record.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Politicians shouldn't be in charge of defining interoperability standards. But politicians can mandate that companies be interoperable. Regulation is hard. This doesn't mean that rules shouldn't exist.

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