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by mmjaa 8y ago
>I agree that it's under-discussed. I think the reason its under-discussed is that there is a collective group-think which functions as overwhelming (to the individual) reinforcement: "there is no other way available to solve t
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Knowing that I have medications available to me that can help me get to sleep is enough that I think I don't actually need the medications any more. Honest question: Have you ever considered that your insomnia was psychosomatic an
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Are you trying to argue that humanity can keep its current quality of life in a less resource intensive manner by spreading out, or are you arguing that we should decrease our quality of life and go back to creating food and goods on ou
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Because they have immense numbers of people living in them? Because those people do less to support their own survival locally, and therefore cities require immense intake of energy and resources every day, in order to maintain that lif
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Nonsense. Factor in all the oil that was used to build the resources the city dweller depends on, and to maintain those resources. Factor in the sheer energy waste of cities. An honest appraisal cannot lead to the conclusion that cities a
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Bollocks. It takes amazing amounts of oil to get the cheap stuff to the cities. The only reason these are more 'efficient' is because of arbitrary pricing - if we placed a higher value on oil-consumption, in terms of cost to the
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Man, I yearn for a return to computers we could trust - or at least, had the tools onboard to establish, easily, whether that trust was warranted or not - i.e. compiler, dev tools, open access, and so on. The more I think about where we&#x2
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by mmjaa 8y ago
No, I completely disagree with you. Having travelled the world, I feel the worst thing we can do is continue with the big cities. They need to be dismantled, and replaced with smaller, lighter, more local communities that do not require s
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>The only reason you can get away with this sort of thing is because Americans have never had to experience these sorts of policies or any of the other things that they do to other people. If they had they would change their minds. This
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Sorry? Who with 'integrity, values and good character' joins an interrogation squad? Holy Christian soldiers who have the support/aligned-groupthink of their entire nation? Morals are relative - to an American growing up
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The Zermatism stuff is whack .. but the Protong stuff is great! >Beginning in 1940, Szukalski devoted most of his time examining the mysteries of prehistoric ancient history of mankind, the formation and shaping of languages, faiths, cus
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It always amazes me how close to this sort of thing Szukalski was, with his "Behold! The Protong!!" .. I mean, he was an artist who saw all these ancient signs and signals as a porto-tongue throughout all human culture. Does anyo
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Conflating nuclear launch code secrets with war crime secrets: this is the problem with Americans today.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
If you allow your government to keep its own secrets, it will use that right to rule you.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
.. and they will forever be ruled by them, so: not free.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
These reports make no such conclusion - that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack. They do confirm that chemical weapons were used. Who used them, is not determined, and even the reports themselves state that the provenan
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by mmjaa 8y ago
We most definitely need to see real evidence in these kinds of cases. It is not enough to be told 'the experts say it is so' - the case must be made public. Too many times we are led into disaster and tragedy by secrets.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm old enough to remember when online social networking meant logging onto a BBS and chatting with whoever else was also connected. To me, Facebook is just another BBS that has pushed past its prime and is overloading me with candy (
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Tried OpenSCAD?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The only way I've been able to stomach having to use an Atlassian product is through 3rd-party tools that expose it all to a command line interface (jira-cli, for example). I think there is $45bn worth of unexploited value to be had in
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm an avid retro-enthusiast and have an extensive collection of computers, going back to the 70's. I've also kept every computer I've ever owned personally. This year I'll be doing a retro-exhibit at the MQ in Vie
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm quite disappointed that the aboriginal cultures of Australia are not factored into this. Bias against the idea that they might have been a civilisation? Oldest oral traditions of any human culture. Oldest, still being worked, min
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Czeta! :) https://cezeta.com
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I ride a road-worthy electric moped (Unu) that cost $1800. This GM thing seems ridiculously overpriced and I don't see it succeeding, personally. The competition in Europe is just too good already - and nobody well-informed is going
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its a real paradigm shift to go from internal combustion to electric. There really isn't any comparison - electric is a better user experience, all the way. If only my Unu didn't have the soft-limit though, lol ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
They really didn't mind the Vespa, but now they really love the Unu - pretty much everyone who notices its an electric moped wants to know more, take it for a ride, and comes away impressed. Its definitely the case that the torque and
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by mmjaa 8y ago
14 km's daily, so 28km's total every day. The Unu has two batteries - I can get into work and back on a single battery, so without charging I can get to work and back twice. With the dual-batteries, it means I charge one of them
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Just a bit of anecdotal side-data: I've recently switched to a full electric transportation lifestyle, having replaced my much-loved Vespa with an Unu Motoros electric moped .. and nothing will ever make me go back to a combustion engi
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yeah, I tend to use Lua exactly for this reason: to escape the dependency hell of JS and Node and so on. Having fewer 3rd-party libraries to use in formulating an addiction to dependencies is often a positive thing.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I still have my BeBox, and love it. For the Blinky lights, a magicshifter suffices: http://magicshifter.net/ (I did the OS)

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