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by marricks 5y ago
Some comments are mentioning the utility but I'd like to offer another opinion: until humanity actually makes decisions based on what's best for the stability of the planet rather than short term gains I'm not sure we should
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by marricks 5y ago
Same here. Mac has had some poor choices (Touch Bar, less ports) but at least the decisions aren’t quite that huge in terms of the OS? Not to mention Apple makes money off devices so you don’t have shitty decisions like ads in search and we
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by marricks 5y ago
Ah, ok. That makes complete sense.
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by marricks 5y ago
How many rich people do get charged for tax avoidance? Often times I feel like there's a whole class of rules which mainly exist to punish you if you step out of line. Take for instance gun permits in blue states. Not saying that he d
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by marricks 5y ago
Who knows what the net affect is but taking the final sentences of some of the results paragraphs makes it seem like taking care of a cat is a good idea: > [...] Therefore, cat ownership may be involved in mediating the abundance of dise
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by marricks 5y ago
Wow that demo has it all. - car stalled in it's lane - complicated intersections - people exiting cars in it's lane - car going over into it's lane If I had an hour of driving that I'd be stressed.
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General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by marricks 5y ago
If I was the president I would explain how, without drastic changes, most species on earth will go extinct in the next 50 years and that humans could be one of them. Then I'd explain that we need to immediately change from fossil fuels
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by marricks 5y ago
The lack of productivity in the conversation comes from voices like yours which compromise themselves internally before even facing the opposing side. Obviously if all oil companies magically shutdown today human society would be cataclysmi
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by marricks 5y ago
Our current government structures seem incapable of planning more than 1 year out. Without radically higher oil prices it seems unlikely we'll see the large scale changes needed. Shut down as many pipelines as we can, stop producing oi
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by marricks 5y ago
Why oh why are so many people just buying what Microsoft is selling here? For a person give them the benefit of the doubt sure, but this is a feature which isn't turned off and on with a simple switch. Either: 1) Microsoft did this int
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by marricks 5y ago
I hate Facebook a lot but I am willing to bet they are terrible largely because of their business model and not some internal factors. Apple could start out better in that space but I don't see how they'd avoid getting corrupted b
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by marricks 5y ago
Really surprised you brought up Proof of Stake for decentralization and not the environmental aspect. It could actually solve the environment issue! But decentralization? How will the ease of entry not allow allow rich people to dump money
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by marricks 5y ago
I think that cyberpunk dream died when billionaires and VC got involved and Bitcoin (and other) currencies skyrocketed in price from millions of people playing crypto-lottery. Strikes against it: - It's burning a massive amount of reso
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by marricks 5y ago
The overflow release valve of a dam is there by design but if it's gushing constantly that isn't necessarily indicative of everything being all sunshine and roses.
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by marricks 5y ago
Let me give an example, say you you have 61% of the senators so you have a supermajority and can anything you want passed. Ok that's fine. Well says there's a quorum where 70% of senators must be present for a vote. The very minor
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by marricks 5y ago
Having good information accessibly presented is helpful but when local news outlets are owned by Sinclair Media[1] and Fox News is the most watched cable outlet for the conservatives that live there the facts really don't matter. We ca
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by marricks 5y ago
As an left Oregonian I think this would be a win-win. Oregon is an extremely liberal state in the valley but outside of metropolitan areas, obviously not. Our state legislature is regularly shut down and forced to cater to far right views.
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by marricks 5y ago
This seems immensely reasonable, but if this post is to be believed, our legal system values protecting intel gathering tools more than an individuals expectation of privacy. Depressing but not surprising.
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by marricks 5y ago
Does anyone have more information in this WSPR system? I’m not certain how someone could have access to enough stations to pick up enough stray radio signals to detect a flight path. It sounds very intricate. Edit: sounds like it’s based of
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by marricks 5y ago
Any thoughts on if the Colmi P8 plus still run ok?
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by marricks 5y ago
If anyone was a stupid as me in thinking "wow that's not that high up!" the "death zone" for humans is 26k feet, where if exposed long enough we will die[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by marricks 5y ago
Ok, well that's way less than thousands of dollars so it's a start! Not to mention, they probably haven't realized the economies of scale yet at all.
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by marricks 6y ago
That was my take! I think stirfish was being sarcastic about factory farms and probably reached the same (scary) conclusion.
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by marricks 6y ago
Looking at the definition I see united front actually fits the idea better! I did mean to be sarcastic and wrong though.
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by marricks 6y ago
The only true popular front! /s
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by marricks 6y ago
I mean, this comment could give you some clues [to what their leanings are and what content could be hosted*]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26610522 *Added context since parent was flagged
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by marricks 6y ago
Firefox is 17+ on App store
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by marricks 6y ago
Amazon will of course have a PR statement about how it cares about open source. It's not like Apple is known for it's commitment to open source but it has a similar page: https://developer.apple.com/opensource&#x2F
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by marricks 6y ago
I would rather not talk to them so I'll keep my secrets to myself :X Seriously though, obvious and good point. Thank you for calling me out.

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