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by m0zg 5y ago
Instagram is actually much worse. FB is not super addictive, at least it wasn't for me. But IG is, and it very clearly has been _designed_ to be that way. It took some effort for me to get off it, and my wife is unable to kick the habi
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I'm not even talking about ITER here. Let them have their own nice European pork barrel boondoggle, though I'd point out that even if it fails miserably, it's still generating valuable science and technological capabilities t
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The relatively minuscule resources "wasted" on this project could eventually solve the "climate crisis" in one fell swoop via delivering nearly inexhaustible sources of clean energy. So inexhaustible, in fact, that we co
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by m0zg 5y ago
Maybe, but I only take it when it's particularly bad, and only started recently, so I'm pretty sure it's not THC. If it's between Ambien (benzodiazepine, impossible to get off of) and a non-addictive alternative, I pick
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by m0zg 5y ago
Magnesium (in the form of ZMA) is known to increase the vividness of dreams for some reason. Or maybe it's something else in ZMA. I did take it daily when I was lifting heavy, and I can confirm. It's a side benefit in my book, unl
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Another one of these "eggs are good"/"eggs are bad" flip flops that happens every few years. Before this the "science" was that too much vitamin D disrupts sleep. In fact it seems to have disrupted mine. I
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by m0zg 5y ago
My father used to serve in the Russian strategic rocket forces in the 70s (the nukes basically, which, ironically, would then be pointed straight where I sit today in the US, since we have some decommissioned ICBM shafts straight in the mi
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> rudimentary check on truthiness Did you miss the part where they lie pretty much all the time nowadays to advance political agendas? The argument being made by this "whistleblower" is merely that FB should be required to do t
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A fancy way of saying that microwaving rats makes them warmer and more comfortable. Now where's my $100K research grant?
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Not to defend FB, but could we please dispense with the notion that she's an actual "whistleblower" at this point? She retained an ultra expensive law firm (same lawyer as in Ukraine-gate), a PR firm, got 60 minutes interview
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by m0zg 5y ago
Sounds like they intend to pay. I'm surprised. I'd fight it if those are the actual facts as seen from their end. But I suppose the veracity is an issue no matter which side you listen to.
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> ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED Yeah. Not sure I want to read that "advice" today.
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History is likely saved by Bing. It's just that your address is not saved with it (assuming things are as DDG says, which I'm not sure how much I'd believe that). So net/net - just use Tor, and disable everything there i
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> And you have no problem with this? It was only a problem when George W Bush wanted to do it. :-p
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Sounds like a huge fishing expedition that violates what little currently remains of the 4th amendment. This kind of shit should be plainly, unequivocally illegal, and people who approved this in the first place need to be in jail.
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by m0zg 5y ago
> next to no value for Netflix Apple basically has an iron-fisted grip on _worldwide_ audience of people with money to spend. Google, for example, does not, and their App store is a raging dumpster fire in comparison. I'm not saying
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by m0zg 5y ago
Well, whether they manufacture consent or dissent depends entirely on what party currently controls the White House and the Congress. So he's half-right. I'm a big fan of Taibbi's writing, and especially his books. "Grif
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We live in a world where nearly _all_ information fed to the public is misinformation. Except in one case it's due to FB and in another it's 5 dudes who own the entirety of US (and large chunk of the world's) "free"
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by m0zg 5y ago
See e.g. Renaissance Technologies and their fund. Market goes up, it goes up, market goes down, it goes up. And the guy who runs it keeps his cards super close to his chest and doesn't discuss the methods at all.
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Which we should be thankful for, because otherwise they'd be _very_ hard to see as well, and a lot more people would be dying.
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by m0zg 5y ago
There weren't really any "cloud wars" until very recently Cloudflare started murdering egress cash cows for the Big Three. Antitrust authorities have probably been paid off by lobbyists to not pay attention to this rather obv
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by m0zg 5y ago
Society itself is built on gossip and bullshit, if you think about it. Ability to gossip and make up bullshit is the main thing which enables large groups of people to work as a semi-coherent whole. All of the social constructs we participa
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> can easily charge on any CCS charger from any charging network So can Teslas with a bundled adapter.
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AI and dashboard tech as well. And knowing BMW, likely pricing, too. Also BMW considers the car "done" once it's sold to you and there are hardly any updates (you can update maps for a few hundred dollars, but that's abo
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I did specifically mention "competitive", which this is not. Literally, this is Blackberry against Tesla's "iPhone" - it has no chance except among the most die hard of BMW fans, and it's also goofy looking wit
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BMW has officially lost it. With Tesla eating the upper end of its market all they can think of is "kidney cancer" grilles and racing stripes. Folks, you need a competitive EV. Anything else you're doing is bullshit. You know
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by m0zg 5y ago
> All these CPUs will be Arm compatible At base ISA level perhaps. But there will also be extensions for AI, DSP, media encoding, etc which will be incompatible. You nominally wouldn't have to use those, but the CPU will be nothing
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I did hit a deer in Wyoming once as well, although I did brake hard. Still $5K in repair costs, but at least I didn't total the car. The situation is not easy even for human driver TBH - deer is not something you routinely encounter on
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Believe me, things would be _a lot_ worse if there were no nukes and superpowers could go at one another. We're talking 100x the casualties. Most of the violent deaths in the 20th century were the fault of the governments, one way or a
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Yes. They can be deployed irresponsibly, but that's hardly the engineer's fault.

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