makomk

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by makomk 6y ago
Obviously, the mainstream isn't exactly campaigning for trans people to be treated in any particular way, but there's a kind of baseline expected level of respect for them as people that's changed over time, and I get the imp
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by makomk 6y ago
The shift on trans rights isn't simply a shift to the left though - it's more like the mainstream/"liberal" view on trans rights has shifted and the left-wing progressive activists have been dragged along behind it,
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by makomk 6y ago
Do you know how much those potatoes are worth to the farmer who starts with dirt, water, sunshine and diesel and grows them if the supply chains and infrastructure aren't there to get them to consumers? Zero. We saw this with the pan
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by makomk 6y ago
I get the definite impression that Tesla are engineering their cars to perform well in the test - their cars seem to consistently underperform the official range estimates in actual real-world testing in a way that others don't.
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by makomk 6y ago
The UK's contract was better written, just not in the way the EU tried to spin it where the UK were supposedly ahead of them in the queue and were stealing their doses (though there was a clause stopping UK-produced doses being diverte
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by makomk 6y ago
This is, of course, not new - it's been going on for at least a decade. One of the networks of sites like this even funded a lawsuit against one of the big revenge porn site networks that was carefully written to be entirely porn-spe
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by makomk 6y ago
One of the things limiting the life of nuclear power plants is damage from thermal cycling. So a nuclear facility which only generates power part of the time can have a shorter service life in terms of calendar time (and will almost certa
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by makomk 6y ago
The difficult part is storing it on the kind of massive scale required full stop. Sacrificing efficiency can only do so much to help solve this, especially since the wasted energy has to go somewhere and dealing with that has its own cost
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by makomk 6y ago
If they're crediting you for that energy at anything close to the retail electricity rate you're effectively getting a really generous subsidy. Because solar is so cheap but only produces electricity sometimes and at pretty much t
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by makomk 6y ago
Media reporting on anything involving 4chan has always been terrible. I remember a story about, I think, Emma Watson that turned out to be literally fake news - as in, it came from an already documented fake news site run by a known serial
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, and the Czech Republic, which used to be the big European success story which proved everyone else should be able to do better, ended up with the most Covid-19 deaths per capita in Europe (maybe in the world, can't remember). So
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by makomk 6y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that, as I understand it, other countries haven't yet released their suicide numbers for the period of the pandemic during which Japan's suicide rates rose - they apparently publish theirs more prom
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by makomk 6y ago
The overall performance of Intel's range of processors may not have changed much, but what they called an i3, i5 or i7 sure has lately. For example, the popular i7-7700k is most similar in terms of core count, clocks etc to the current
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by makomk 6y ago
QEmu also translates x86 machine code to ARM code, or vice-versa, or many other combinations. It's more optimised for portability and ease of adding translation support for new architectures than performance though but it's a real
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by makomk 6y ago
I think it's a lot easier to get people to go along with measures like this when they actually seem to work, which might make it hard to disentangle cause and effect. Certainly, Europe seemed to have a hell of a drop in lockdown compli
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by makomk 6y ago
Well, how hard countries were hit early on seems to heavily depend on distance from Italy and the amount of travel from there. There was a very noticeable gradient in Europe with Italy as the epicenter as I recall. (A lot of media coverage
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by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, the UK was doing more tracking of Covid-19 mutations than pretty much everyone else on the planet, which is exactly why this stood out.
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by makomk 6y ago
So basically, if passed as proposed this would be a higher rate of capital gains tax than at any point in US history?
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by makomk 6y ago
Pretty sure it's worse than that. The number that dictates how accurate the "100% effective against hospitalizations and death" stat from the trials can be isn't the total number of people in the trial, it's the muc
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by makomk 6y ago
Denmark has about half the Covid-19 deaths per capita of the next highest European country based on the figures I've found. They're very much not typical. Neither is Canada, though I haven't been able to figure out what gave
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by makomk 6y ago
The reporting on the CDC's failures certainly was a stitchup on behalf of the Democrats. For example, the US had a really aggressive rollout of Covid-19 testing compared to Europe and other places which would've left it much bette
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by makomk 6y ago
It's a fairly typical place for a western country to be at this stage of the pandemic. Because of the way the disease spread via inter-country travel from, mostly, Italy and surrounding countries, the developed western world was hit fi
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by makomk 6y ago
Pretty sure it's much more generous than the UK for everyone except the well-off. In many cases the US managed to pay more than 100% of people's previous salaries in unemployment, structured to be most generous compared to their p
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by makomk 6y ago
India is actually one of the countries imposing export controls on vaccines in order to redirect them to domestic use, with the result that a lot of other developing countries don't have any at all...
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by makomk 6y ago
Do we even know how many deaths it's leading to? From the article: "A Financial Times analysis also points to under-reporting of deaths. Local news reports for seven districts across the states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pr
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by makomk 6y ago
Pretty sure this is one reason why passive property speculators prefer flats over houses - houses basically need to be lived in, flats much less so. Ending both home ownership and single-family houses would be a massive gift to property inv
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by makomk 6y ago
The claims about the 2016 election being stolen had no more factual basis than the claims about the 2020 election. Amazingly, there was even a supposed proof that the 2016 election was stolen circulating where, if you understood why the sup
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by makomk 6y ago
That seems a little too optimistic. Nowadays, they cancel their subscriptions when they get to read some fact they don't like. For example, back in the run-up to the 2016 election there was an utterly nutso, completely nonsensical cons
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by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, Apple's NVMe were pretty wildly non-standards-compliant - they assume that tags are allocated to commands in the same way as Apple's driver does, including crashing if you use the same tag at the same time in b
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by makomk 6y ago
Like, say, that backdoor someone wrote an article about recently which ran from RAM and had a sophisticated self-destruct mechanism that erased all traces if anyone tried to dump its memory? I wonder how many companies had exploits like tha

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