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by manfredo 7y ago
> Supreme Court has ruled money is free speech. It will take a constitutional amendment to change this. This is a massive oversimplification. There are still set limits on donating money to candidates, and to political parties. The &quot
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The problem is when journalist make "mistakes" and are subsequently promoted. When Bloomberg made one of the biggest hacking accusations of the decade and failed to even remotely substantiate their claim that Apple and others were
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Quite the opposite: political speech is one of the most protected forms of speech. Your example for polling stations is a very narrow case where the integrity of the election takes priority. Your second case is effectively just pointing out
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Transit reacts to changes in transportation demand, it doesn't set demand. How do you envision BART would profit from underused directions? Put out ads encouraging people to take these routes for fun? As I said, pointing out that trans
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You're putting the cart before the horse. More commuters creates more ticket revenue, which gives BART more resources to expand capacity. They're not going to expand capacity until there's more demand.
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Remember that many renters (>70% in some cities like San Francisco) have price controls on their rents. If you're guaranteed that your rent will effectively never go up, then you're much more likely to block an apartment comple
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By building higher density housing, instead of restrictive zoning laws that foster urban sprawl.
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My point is a company handing over books is not the same situation as the police commanding you to tell them where you put a journal. A company's financial records are something they are specifically required to keep and provide by law
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> By producing other evidence that suggests that you’re lying (eg. metadata or witnesses suggesting that you recently entered the correct password). People have forgotten passwords in a matter of minutes in some cases. Not to mention, th
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Does fentanyl enable rapid transcontinental travel? Does it provide innumerable economic opportunities by enabling global social mobility?
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> The rule makes more sense if you think about it in terms of financial crimes; it'd be hard to ever prosecute someone for fraud if they didn't have to give up their books. I don't think these two situations are the same.
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You're paying a percentage of your income, if you're making above a threshold. This is in comparison to debt which has interest that makes the debt increase over time until paid off - regardless of whether you are employed in
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There's no "ISA debt". There's no interest racking up. You may not even pay anything if you don't get a well paying job. Sure, an ISA from a bad program is not good. But at least you're not paying unless you ge
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> if you are on the receiving end of a crap course that doesn't help you get a job is it really good that you'll have to pay for it (when you get a well paying job from entirely unconnected means)? When the alternative is: >
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Liquid hydrogen actually has the best energy density by unit of mass than any other fuel (combustible fuel, nuclear is on a whole different level). If lightweight cryogenic storage is developed, then hydrogen powered plans could be a viable
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This is a bit of an oversimplification though. The duration of moving people by ship means that people need to be given food and water. People also aren't going to be spending the entirety of a weeks long voyage in a seat - they'l
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I think as far as learning to code, bootcamps aren't much better than following tutorials online. I do, however, think that bootcamps are good at getting people who already know how to code to learn how to code well, and code in a job
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The attempt to portray income share agreements as bad is very large stretch: > These ISAs are the bedrock of Lambda’s program. They allow the school to market itself as an “accessible” computer science education. But critics, like Sen. E
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by manfredo 7y ago
People have indeed complained - for decades - the same way people complain that their cars run like crap of they never change the oil. But companies can't change the laws of physics. Again, if this functionality does not exist then the
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> So punish smaller European firms first just to not give the impression that it's anti-US? Yes, go fine every other company that throttled processor clock rates when battery power supply was low. Apply the law equally and that woul
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I really don't I made it clear how universal clock throttling is to account for unreliable power sources. Every tablet, laptop, and phone does this. Your device wouldn't be able to boot up in cold weather if it didn't. Your d
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Right. And between going after Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and now Apple one really has to wonder if "biggest offender" just coincidentally seems to mean the same thing as "non-European offender" or if there's a re
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> The problem is they didn't tell anyone they were doing it. Then France should issue fines for every electronic device sold that had this functionality. Except that would have meant fines being issued for effectively every laptop,
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> If it takes a slight misunderstanding about weather relating to climate change to get immediate action, isn’t that a good thing? Probably not, since people will point out that this call to action is based in falsehood and the credibili
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It largely depends on how you count emissions. Norway has very low emissions per capita, as they have the right geography for hydroelectric power (with which they generate >95% of their electricity). On the other hand, they have a large
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We're not talking 20-30 years. Even by your more optimistic estimate of 4TWh of global battery production by 2030, it would still take 5-7 years worth of global battery production supply to fulfill just the United States' storag
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As the used car market dries up, the price of used cars goes up. This increases the resale value of new cars, which lowers the net cost of buying a new car (because you will get more when you resell it). And the reality is, there's no
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Ease of battery replacement is another set of tradeoffs. 15 years ago, phones were bulkier and weren't as water resistant. Some phones still have easily replaceable batteries. Other phones, like the iPhone and Pixel optimize for form f
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This is not an effective analogy. Apple slowed down processors when the battery was not producing enough voltage to run the processor at the normal clock rate. This can happen due to old batteries. It can also happen in cold weather, or any
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I find it hard to see legitimate criticism of Apple for their state of charge management when this kind of technology is effectively universal for any substantial battery powered device. Almost every phone or laptop built in the last decade

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