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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
there is no version of reality where farming a carnivore that requires animal proteins for growth is magically going to be more economically efficient than non-carnivores.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
financial engineering has become a disaster.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
not really underestimating Kagi users, just the inexorable push to colonize every last useful network. This could also be an attack vector for adversaries looking to pollute Kagi's search results and/or force you to divert resourc
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
> "understand... the real world" doing a lot of heavy lifting in this statement
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
this tacit acceptance of aggressive advertising is exactly why it keeps showing up everywhere.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
You can turn history sync off. It’s like, one of the first main toggle options shown to the user.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
This is not FTL in any real sense. The apparent motion of distant galaxies is just that - an appearance only. In our frame of reference, they appear to be receding faster than light, but in their own frames of reference, these galaxies them
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
Copper piping is unfortunately several orders of magnitude more susceptible to corrosion from a variety of sources: water acidity, high temperatures, and exposure to common household chemicals like bleach and drain cleaner.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
lowercase effective altruism is fine and good. Effective Altruists hijacked their original, not-terrible idea into a cult.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
Google destroying goodwill with a low-effort rent seeking agenda, after years of effort to extinguish real competiton. Giving money to Google for programmatic ads ≠ funding creators. Most creators are small and don’t make any real money fro
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
Man, I got the Breville combo toaster/oven/air fryer/dehydrator thing (name escapes me) back in 2017 and it’s the best appliance I’ve ever had. I use it basically every day in at least one mode; I hardly use our full-sized ga
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
> But, back then, if your library didn’t have it then you had almost no chance of even knowing it existed. This is flatly untrue - and begs the question, have you ever actually used a library? Or a librarian? Library science is informati
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
genuinely curious what truth-distilling insight you think the average customer has that somehow can’t be manipulated artificially. people get duped by deceptive marketing every day, man.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
thanks for this.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
For those of you about to reply with some variation of “the ends justify the means” - this ain’t it. Plenty of commenters here will defend the idea that bleeding-edge science sometimes requires an uncomfortable amount of actual blood. (edit
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
You’re right, OS subscription isn’t a bad idea. It’s a horrific, intrinsically anti-user idea that should be loudly and aggressively smothered every time it rears its ugly head. There is no version of reality where OS-as-a-service does not
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
I have come to this same conclusion as well. Too many economic opinions are still predicated on the idea that the free market is still working correctly, and that there are effective controls in place. The reality is that - at least in the
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
Worth noting that all of the "sources" this article, and the Reuters piece it is based on, appear to be Tesla executives or staff.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
unfortunately the reality has become such that lawsuits and fines are just the cost of doing business, so long as the investor money keeps coming.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
> "Nobody should seriously consider these options unless they are living a very privileged life". > I maintain that most employees have basically zero leverage to negotiate their worker-hostile contracts He's trying to
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
An employment contract is intended to backstop everything you were promised or negotiated during the hiring process. It doesn't really matter if you're in a right-to-work state or not, an employment contract provides you with reco
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
> I've seen examples of an employee contract, with things like "if any piece of this contract is invalid it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract". This concept of severability exists in basically all contracts,
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
I wanted to math this out. East china sea: ~770,000 square km surface area; 350m average depth = 269,500,000,000 cubic meters of water First discharge = 7,800 cubic meters over 17 days == approx. 459m^3 released / day == 1.70315399 x 1
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
how would Japanese tea be affected by sea water?
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
Genuine question: would you please quote where I dismissed the entire study? (note that I have slightly modified the wording of the first sentence since your original reply - the original phrasing was: >>> "approaching" i
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
45C average is insane! but thankfully a worst-case scenario - not the current situation. Here is the present day temperature readings, from the abstract: >>> Here we found that pantropical canopy temperatures independently triangul
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
I plainly did not say that there was nothing to do about it, but I appreciate your enthusiastic defense of the forests. Unless we stop clear-cutting in the short term, there won't be any rainforests left by the time the temperatures hi
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
This is good data, but I think "approaching" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this title - more than is supported by the abstract: >>> Using an empirical model incorporating these dynamics (validated with warming experi
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
?? I don’t believe a virtual assistant can cook, nor clean, nor anything else physical.
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by mentalpiracy 3y ago
One important detail to add: hinge limits users to one new match per day. This fact also goes into the calculation when grading user interactions.

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