moduspol

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by moduspol 6y ago
The starting assumption is that free and rational adults are choosing to work for the wage and customers are choosing to pay a sufficient price, so it should exist. That's not working backward, or dissonance--it's an acknowledgeme
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by moduspol 6y ago
I just replaced my old APC Back-UPS with a new one. It lets you silence the alarm with a button press. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FWAZEIU/ The beeping didn't really bother me but it does fright
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by moduspol 6y ago
> Do you vehemently oppose the US federal electric-vehicle tax credit of up to $7500 until the day you decide you'll buy a Tesla, when you'll switch to staunchly demanding that it be radically increased? ( https://www
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by moduspol 6y ago
Sure, but it’s a lot easier to make a list of accounts to follow that suggests you’re impartial or well-rounded. It’s a lot tougher to spend every day ensuring your replies and retweets do the same.
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by moduspol 6y ago
> they are looking only at tweets/comments, not the people being followed Journalists have already been called out for this, so it's likely not a useful metric any more. The accounts they choose to follow are likely carefully c
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by moduspol 6y ago
It's also possible that "downtime" has different meanings to different people. The client may be seeing "downtime" as the net result of what happened the last few times the server was "down," which could h
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by moduspol 6y ago
Yep. Most of the small companies I've seen just use the Windows DNS servers because they need them for AD. You can set up separate DNS servers and delegate AD's domain to the domain controllers, but then you're maintaining ad
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by moduspol 6y ago
Sure, but it's tough to imagine in today's climate that a majority of voters living only on UBI would vote to maintain or lower the amount of money given directly to them from the top X%. We already have the issue today but it&#x2
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by moduspol 6y ago
Why $62500? The participants should be voting on how much to take from those among them with the higher incomes. I mean--unless we're assessing how UBI might work in a country without democracy.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Promises are a different case, imo. If the deal was made for the land, then past injustices and reparations are irrelevant. > The ones that are completely gone have no way to make a claim. I could have been more clear, but I was trying t
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by moduspol 6y ago
Likewise, the Native Americans who controlled the land before the US likely didn't have it gifted to them freely. Tribes were constantly at various stages of war with each other, and some wiped out completely. Do they owe reparations t
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by moduspol 6y ago
How do you know they've done it? Do you have to leave them in front of kids teaching students until they're convicted? What if that takes months? Or never actually happens? But the teacher has crossed the line inappropriately enou
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by moduspol 6y ago
This is a pretty poor argument. It's not really coherent. > When has there ever been a seriously fiscally conservative Presidential Candidate? > All Republican candidates pander to the religious right without being actually relig
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by moduspol 6y ago
A more right-wing politician would be: * Fiscally conservative * Against tariffs * Actually protective of gun rights * More interventionist in foreign affairs * Strong law and order approach to drug policy * Unsupportive of gay marriage * A
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by moduspol 6y ago
Donald Trump is extreme. But he is not "extreme right."
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by moduspol 6y ago
I agree. That seems more likely. I doubt we'll be told, but I'd be interested in the specifics. It seems like it might have ethical implications to take over it without the blessing of the owner(s) of the company. After all, I dou
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by moduspol 6y ago
Devil's advocate: Is there evidence law enforcement didn't start and run the project from the beginning? If they did, I wouldn't expect them to come out and acknowledge it. I'm similarly skeptical of popular VPN apps.
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by moduspol 6y ago
I'm no expert on ARM vs x86 performance, and AWS's own language is careful to specify it's only significantly more cost-effective for certain workloads. It'll be interesting to see how fast improvements are made in both
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by moduspol 6y ago
Agreed on all points. I saw speculation elsewhere that this change, along with AWS's addition of Graviton-based (their own ARM processors) instances at much more competitive price points relative to x86, are bound to spearhead the chan
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by moduspol 6y ago
True. I think you're right.
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by moduspol 6y ago
I don't think they even used the term "ARM" at any point. They're calling it "Apple's silicon," and they acknowledged it's the same as what iPhone and iPad use. But I thought it was interesting how th
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by moduspol 6y ago
I don't. I used Parallels for a while, and it was great, but then we kind of standardized on VirtualBox at work. It was okay. But then our dev environments got too big to run on laptops, so now they're all cloud-hosted VMs. We sti
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by moduspol 6y ago
I did not know that. Perhaps it's just to temper expectations then. If the performance or user experience isn't comparable to what today's users expect, it's probably better not to celebrate that use case.
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by moduspol 6y ago
It may be to avoid appearing to be misleading. They'll almost certainly be able to virtualize ARM-based Windows, but that's not what normal users are looking for when they want to virtualize Windows.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Not for me. I'm quite content setting a target temperature and leaving the rest on "auto", although I know for many drivers that's not the case. And obviously it's still in my interests that other drivers not be dis
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by moduspol 6y ago
Nokia believed we'd mostly prefer smartphones with physical keyboards.
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by moduspol 6y ago
They probably have gone down per capita, right? We just have a lot more people than we did 30 years ago. A car built today is certainly safer than one from 30 years ago. My hope is that driverless cars end up solving this faster than we oth
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by moduspol 6y ago
I agree, and the voice control implementations I've seen leave a lot to be desired. But they do work without taking your eyes off the road, or hands off the steering wheel. I think the most common commands can all be mapped to buttons
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by moduspol 6y ago
It might happen when statistics actually show cars with touchscreens are measurably less safe. It'd be even safer if we removed the radio all together, and banned any physical controls that aren't on the steering wheel (to ensure
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by moduspol 6y ago
Those automakers did not have competitive touch interfaces. And there's still room on the steering wheel for knobs for the most common controls, and voice control is often available.

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