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by lumb63 3y ago
The supply chain for military hardware is already under heavy scrutiny. I don’t think the CHIPS Act is about security; it’s about onshoring production so the US can avoid caring about Taiwan.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I hope a protocol that has built in E2E encryption is the future. RCS is dead on arrival without that.
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by lumb63 3y ago
What rubs me the wrong way about the Apple monopoly case(s?) is they sound to me like “we (the people) don’t want to actually solve the problem by through the totally-viable free market approach; we instead feel that we are owed some say i
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by lumb63 3y ago
If someone wants to subject themselves to CCP propaganda, why stop them? If they’re that lacking in critical thinking, then maybe they’re getting what they deserve. It’s not like anyone is forcing people to use TikTok.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I understand your concerns about open-sourcing the codebase and won’t try to convince you otherwise. It’s your code. That said, I would like to share my perspective on the subject, having given some thought to if/how I should open sour
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by lumb63 3y ago
But also, a bigger alliance creates a larger amount of territory to defend. For example if the US were to leave NATO, they miss out on all the benefits that European NATO members provide, but also would not need to defend Europe, which is w
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by lumb63 3y ago
Yesterday I watched a video that described a two-dimensional grid where the x and y axes were “skill” and “challenge” respectively. A range surrounding y=x was the flow state. Below it was boredom (skills exceed demands) and above it was an
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by lumb63 3y ago
Not a chemist, but I think trying to do chemistry without modeling quantum effects is like trying to do physics without math. The latter is necessary to express the former.
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by lumb63 3y ago
Businesses will do what is most profitable for them. If we want pharma companies to spend more on R&D, we either need to make R&D more lucrative (which would likely require higher drug prices, higher approval rates from FDA, or high
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by lumb63 3y ago
Personally, I wince at Python because, while I view it as a quick-and-dirty scripting language, some people write production code in Python. And here we are ten years later, stuck with code that reads a few metrics from the system, packages
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by lumb63 3y ago
Why? I don’t mean this as a dig against the tech, since I’m not familiar with it, or with BlueSky, but where and why is there demand for a new social media product? I’ve certainly come to view social media as so close to useless that I don’
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m curious why you say “easily”. Has this ever been done in a realistic environment? AFAIK it takes over 100 base pairs to produce a single self-replicating RNA, and prior to its ability to self-replicate there is nothing which would favor
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by lumb63 3y ago
Wait until people figure out this is going on for salaries as well… I don’t see how this is any different from what companies do with data they but from, e.g. PayScale.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I see your point regarding wanted posters and providing bounties for info on criminals. What’s going on with the intelligence agencies buying data from data brokers is definitely similar. However, it seems to me that the scale of what is go
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by lumb63 3y ago
I see your point. Data collection is required to some degree to, e.g., prosecute criminals. Any agency tasked with law enforcement would use all means at their disposal to do that, and legally purchasing data on the open market does seem re
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m not sure of your personal skills, abilities, and background, so this is more of a general call to action: Why not create an alternative? I’ve often heard people talk of a lack of alternatives to certain services, so they use them begrud
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by lumb63 3y ago
It seems to me that the government accessing, even if by purchase, information of citizens without probable cause is a violation, if not in letter, then in spirit, of the fourth amendment. I’d like to see an amendment to the Constitution to
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by lumb63 3y ago
… we’ve been right. Television, music, video games, movies, etc., have decimated social capital and communication in the western world. It is not uncommon to “hang out” with people who are your “friends” without ever interacting with them
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by lumb63 3y ago
A subscription service is an agreement between a consumer and a business, where the consumer agrees to provide money in exchange for access to some service. That service might be something that they regularly receive, e.g. meal kits, or it
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by lumb63 3y ago
What’s wrong with incorporating exercise into one’s lifestyle, without dedicated exercise time? It’s convenient and sustainable. Sure, it’s not as good as dedicated exercise time in terms of the adaptations one would get, but it’s much bett
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by lumb63 3y ago
What are people doing that their homes need so much bandwidth? My ISP offers Gigabit and I use their cheaper, third-tier, 200 Mbps option, since I cannot conceive of a use for more.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I thought this until a few days ago! At my “smaller company” of 150 or so employees, they just laid off a third of the company, and virtually everybody outside of the C suite was blindsided. I think the posters who remind people that the em
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by lumb63 3y ago
I agree with your position regarding Apple’s statement being bogus. That said, I don’t understand the monopoly comparison. Complaining there is only an Apple App Store is like buying a Ford and complaining Chevy parts don’t fit. Or a Samsun
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by lumb63 3y ago
> The only known energy source that can cause the appearance of life is the reaction between dihydrogen (elemental hydrogen) and carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. What do you mean by “the appearance of life”? These elements couldn’t mak
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by lumb63 3y ago
Whatever kids grow up into is not okay with most parents. I’d imagine almost everyone would agree with that statement. There are probably traits you wouldn’t want your children to have. You probably wouldn’t be okay with them being gambling
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by lumb63 3y ago
I can’t help but wonder about the privacy implications of tech like this. I’m no fishing vessel, but I’m not that much smaller than some fishing vessels. Certainly my car is of comparable size. How long is it before humans can be tracked in
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by lumb63 3y ago
I think it’s funny that this page has a “If you or someone you know is struggling or in mental health crisis …” blurb at the bottom. This is like Bud Light saying “please drink responsibly”. The entire point of this invention seems to be to
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by lumb63 3y ago
Wouldn’t it be better for all parties involved to keep it open and implement regulations requiring they be honest about products? The customers could use the marketplace to get the products they actually want, and the business gets to benef
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by lumb63 3y ago
Even if VSCode/other IDE had features that blew Neovim out of the water, I don’t think I’d move over. The customizability, modal aspect, and open-source-ness are huge for me. I can create macros on the fly for repetitive tasks, can nav
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by lumb63 3y ago
Calling for Amazon to be banned from selling supplements is extreme, IMO. But they should be accountable for preventing counterfeit items from being sold or marketed as the items they’re counterfeiting. In cases where the authenticity of th

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