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by mikem170 3y ago
You configure your client post your content to one or more relays. You can use relays that you setup for just yourself, paid relays, and/or free public relays. When you follow someone, or someone follows you, the follower's client
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Do you think that was cause and effect? I might assume that terrorism wasn't the "us versus them" issue that it used to be, so culture wars were something new to galavanize the in-group tribe of voters. Or maybe contemporary
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> And the democrats would do the same thing The Democrats helped force a Democrat appointed supreme court justice out in 1969, over a similar but lesser situation, even though Nixon would get to appoint a replacement. > In 1969, Just
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UV from sunlight degrades fiberglass/FRP over time. I believe that boats are painted to protect them from this, and need to be recoated periodically because the uv sunlight will degrade the paint eventually, also.
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I like the logic of that. Corporations were originally given limited liability in return for doing a public good. If they are doing something illegal - the opposite of a public good - then they broke the deal, so those who broke the law don
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by mikem170 4y ago
> you needed a Google Pixel to run it That's correct. It's my understanding that this is for two reasons: 1) google opened api/support for verified boot on the pixels (so you can tell if a border agent hacked your graphene
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by mikem170 4y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. > This particular comment was really about a much bigger issue: state laws being used abusively, to restrict individual freedom. I agree that is a bad thing. Ideally the constitution serves to protect
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> We need less laws not more; these laws will hamper progress and favor special interests. Who needs less laws? Do AI companies need less laws? Retail businesses? The police? Or the general public? How come? By "less laws" do y
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> Welcome to the "laboratory of the states". Where national and international organizations have to comply with dozens of different rule sets, serving thousands of different interests. Are you advocating for one of the followin
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To be fair one might need to compare the number of lives saved via lab virus research versus the number of lives lost via lab virus leaks. Either way viruses are going to continue to jump from animals to people.
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I agree that modern transport and communication has significantly changed peoples abilities to migrate. Wouldn't this mean that eventually the world will be more integrated in every dimension, regardless of the desires of those control
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I saw that there were passport documents for safety in the past, like you mentioned. I've also heard of documents called passports being used to grant foreigners permission to conduct commerce, and others allowing locals to move betwee
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Not the parent you replied to, but the modern passport as we know it goes back only about 100 years. > Migration was generally speaking, unhindered and each emigrant could decide on the time of his departure, his arrival or his return, t
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by mikem170 4y ago
Good point. I wonder about self-checkouts instead of cashiers, also.
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> The 2004 SARS outbreak originated in a lab This is news to me. The article you referenced opens by saying [0]: > The World Health Organization has confirmed that breaches of safety procedures on at least two occasions at one of Beij
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by mikem170 4y ago
> It’s not just the rich, but the average American who benefits from having an immigrant underclass. They enjoy cheaper food prices, more attentive and polite service in restaurants, etc. I agree. And I wonder if this is talked about eno
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> Why do they owe it to anyone else to share what they built? I agree with you that opinions vary around the cultural component of this. There's also many conflating factors influencing how a culture changes over time, and it's
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I was thinking more of the algorithms that recommend unsolicited content, like on facebook, youtube, and twitter. Were you thinking more of search engine page rank? I think that the user content recommendation algorithms might be (or could
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Agreed! I always thought it would be nice if there were user-selectable algorithms, like most recent, similar to my friends, popular in my city, random, etc.
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I thought that television producers are responsible for their content, they are considered publishers and do not have Section 230 protections. For example, NBC was sued by GM over a rigged SUV crash video. Fox News is being sued by Dominion
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I know that Japan has a separate industrial zoning category for things like that. In most of the developed world stuff like this often ends up the east side of town, because in the northern hemisphere prevailing winds usually come from the
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by mikem170 4y ago
I wondered the same thing. There's cities changing R1 to R3 or R4, and the infrastructure wasn't stopping them. On the other hand it might necessitate upgrades if all R1 units are converted to R3, but then you have three times mor
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What are the recommendation algorithms? I've read a couple of articles covering this court case, and the algorithms are talked about, justices have wondered if they are neutral or not. But nobody has asked "What is the algorithm?&
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I googled and found the correct term for what bothered my friend: Sleep Paralysis [0]: > Sleep paralysis is a condition identified by a brief loss of muscle control, known as atonia , that happens just after falling asleep or waking up.
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You have a point, interesting to think about. I assume that WASPs a century ago were saying things like "these immigrants will destroy our way of life, we have to stop them", as opposed to "they'll have a Little Italy ne
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by mikem170 4y ago
Some of what you said reminds me of a friend of mine who had "night terrors". This friend described how they would sometimes wake up in the wrong order. Their conscious mind would wake up while the body was still paralyzed with sl
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Why do you say that? In the U.S. it has been legal to own any kind of gold since 1975. This article explains that it was made illegal by FDR during the Great Depression, but made legal again in 1974, and that "There Are Currently No Li
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by mikem170 4y ago
> and the culture might turn away from harping on white privilege all the time I agree this is interesting to watch. Minorities have more voice in the culture as the demographics change, and some in the majority want to push back. Identi
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> The Latino voting bloc, growing every day, votes against immigration reduction (or even enforcement, via sanctuary cities) out of ethnic solidarity. I'm seeing numbers that conflict with your assertion, above. I've heard tha
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I second your Gandi recommendation! Everything is straightforward. Never had any problems with their service or support. When you buy a domain from them they also include a pair of web/smtp/pop/imap mailboxes you can use, wit

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