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by makomk 5y ago
No, this really is just a cynical way of lumping thinking of men as people together with misogyny and violence against women in an effort to dicredit it for ideological reasons. In particular, the groups lumped together as "the manosph
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by makomk 5y ago
That's a 24 V AC power supply with a 8 meter cable, which requires a lot more copper and iron than a little switch-mode DC plugpack with as little cable as they can get away with. They're very different products.
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by makomk 5y ago
The usual variant I've seen is leftpondian, though.
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by makomk 5y ago
Well, one thing it's definitely very effective at is perpetuating itself to the exclusion of any kind of more thoughtful or complex activism. This is probably a problem.
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by makomk 5y ago
The New York Times coverage of Covid-19 has been really obvious propaganda in general unfortunately - and now it's Pulitzer prize winning propaganda too. Misleading comparisons with other countries, deceptive or occasionally just outri
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by makomk 5y ago
Realistically, there's basically no chance of vaccinating enough people fast enough on a global scale to stop the virus mutating further and reducing the vaccine efficacy, probably not even of reducing the odds of it that much, and it&
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by makomk 5y ago
All the existing, currently approved vaccines weren't tested in the current real world in this way - their clinical trials were done in an environment that mostly predated the modern variants, which is where the numbers for them in the
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by makomk 5y ago
For all we know it's not actually that much worse than the vaccines currently in use since those were tested before the modern variants were in circulation. (The figures for the effectiveness of the other vaccines aren't entirely
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by makomk 5y ago
The job inherently requires moving a bunch of items around and packing them, some of which are quite heavy. I don't think there's any way around that short of eliminating it entirely through automation or similar. (Also, I've
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by makomk 5y ago
The British media's coverage of the Covid-19 crisis was and still is really blatant. For example, there have been a lot of decisions which involved tradeoffs, with each option having both upsides and downsides, and the press has pretty
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble with MMT isn't necessarily so much that it's wrong, it's that it seems to have been latched onto by populist rabble-rousers who tell people that the government could just print enough money to give people all the
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by makomk 5y ago
Wouldn't be the first time universities have acted like patent trolls. For example, you know the filament-style LED lightbulbs that are really popular these days? The University of California has been going after a bunch of retailers w
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by makomk 5y ago
As it turns out, apparently it's easier to develop an exact protocol-level clone of an existing USB to serial chip which already has working drivers than it is to write reliable, high-quality serial drivers for a new chip. This may say
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by makomk 5y ago
Probably people moving to the US from places like Europe (which is quite big, even though the individual countries in it are small - I know the US press used the small size of individual countries to play some slimy games with their Covid-1
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by makomk 5y ago
As I understand it, Prolific didn't just make it hell to use the clone PL2303 chips but also the older revision of their own chips which was being cloned - their newer drivers disabled both just the same. Which suggests that using any
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by makomk 5y ago
In this particular case, the commonly-available FT232 clones supposedly worked better than the original - the bit banging mode actually worked reliably on the knock-offs, whereas not so much on the actual FTDI chips. (The difference that FT
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by makomk 5y ago
The Guardian and the BBC basically represent the same political faction as say the New York Times and CNN in the USA, except obviously with more focus on UK stories. You can even see the overlap when they report on stories from the other co
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by makomk 5y ago
I think the answer is that it doesn't, and what he actually wanted was the minor prestige of (sort of) owning and funding (part of) Freenode and having his company's logo in the corner of the site whilst leaving the actual operati
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by makomk 5y ago
If I remember rightly, one of the big differences of the FTDI fakes in common ciruclation was that some of the advanced functionality worked and behaved according to the spec. This happens from time to time... the NRF28L01+ radio clones are
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by makomk 5y ago
Cricket has a long history of ball tampering in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_tampering
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by makomk 5y ago
If I'm following this all correctly, the former staff member who decided to give your channel to their friend is staff for the New and Better(tm) replacement to Freenode that all the open source projects are being encouraged to move to
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by makomk 5y ago
That's one of the more interesting things about this article: although it starts out along the same tired, bogus blame-the-super-wealthy lines as a lot of these arguments, it does kind of admit that the cost of what it's calling f
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by makomk 5y ago
When people say that "35% of all USD in existence have been printed in the last 10 months" and point at M1, they're not just talking about physical currency - that also includes money in people's bank accounts.
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by makomk 5y ago
The general reckoning seems to be that it wouldn't be possible to write such a program without internal knowledge available only to the CPU manufacturer, and maybe not even then - modern CPUs are too complicated and have too much stuff
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by makomk 5y ago
Also, I suspect the main cross-platform portability issues you're likely to run into with an app like that are differences in filesystem behaviour, and developing it as web app doesn't really help there.
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by makomk 5y ago
The problem with getting your news from Reddit isn't just the democratic process, if I remember rightly the moderators of the default news subreddits outright spread partisan misinformation using them.
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by makomk 5y ago
They were previously a Pulitzer finalist for a series of articles on supposed Russian assassinations in western countries that went firmly into conspiracy theory territories. The one I personally spotted was an article about the death of a
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by makomk 5y ago
Unfortunately, a single dose of the mRNA vaccines or any other vaccine seems to be pretty ineffective against the variant currently circulating in the UK - it really takes two doses, and there doesn't seem to be any way to change the r
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, there's a few things suggesting that the Moderna dose should be about half what it actually is, but it was rushed to approval due to the Covid-19 emergency and I don't think the dosing got tweaked as much as it could've
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by makomk 5y ago
Speaking of which, guess what showed up in Wales recently? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57431322 (This kind of thing is why the UK has national-level contract tracing capabilities. Occasionally something shows u

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