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by mortify 3y ago
People always drive, not to within certain parameters of the law, but to within their risk tolerance. As cars become more safe, the risk factor reduces which allow people to increase risky behavior. If you want people to drive better, don&#
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by mortify 3y ago
Can you not disable transcoding on the iOS version of Jellyfin?
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by mortify 3y ago
Flicker at certain frequencies isn't noticeable to humans in isolation. Add in other types of flicker (lights at other refresh rates, monitors, TV's, etc) and you can see the interference between them.
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by mortify 3y ago
This explains how it makes wind affordable, but not necessarily cheaper except perhaps in the 20+ year time frame. It likens the CfD models to mortgages which do, in fact, raise of the cost of housing. The long-term savings potential seems
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by mortify 3y ago
>The minimum wage is "we would pay you less if we could, but we cannot." That is what what the minimum wage is, but I'm not sure that's indicative of a flaw. We are all seeking the most value for our money. E.g. I nee
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by mortify 3y ago
Being an adult is willingly taking responsibility, and in some ways liking it. Whatever it is, I'll handle it somehow. It might not be perfect, the plan may change, and it may even ultimately fail, but it's still mine and I'l
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by mortify 3y ago
Linear conversation is a big problem for anything beyond simple, casual usage. It is the reason that YouTube is a terrible research platform. Is the information you want inside that 3-hour video? Possibly, but with text I can search an arti
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by mortify 3y ago
There are no details in this article. It doesn't even state whether their water source is tainted or if it's a transmission issue. My house tested 16ppb for lead. Our source had no lead but a low ph which was leaching lead from th
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by mortify 3y ago
Did he say that a topic was bunk because it was held by the upper class? I took his point that the prevalence of these luxury beliefs is higher among the upper-class in gross disproportion to the impact those beliefs have on people. E.g. cu
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by mortify 3y ago
The belief that success is mostly luck, while sometimes true, is useless when it comes to making decisions. There is little that I can do to increase my luck, while there is plenty that can be done to work toward a goal. One who has benefit
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by mortify 3y ago
It's not enough that large corporations use economy of scale to undercut smaller businesses. That would generally be a good thing for consumers. Instead, we're seeing larger companies use their influence to increase regulation: a
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by mortify 3y ago
It is difficult to tell from the article what impact free public transport had, but it's clear that, when Estonians had the option to take no-cost public transport or spend a ton of money on a personal vehicle (and incur the maintenanc
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by mortify 3y ago
X doesn't apply its own filter to those potentially biased reports. You can find pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel tweets. These are all suspect. What gives credence to certain points of view are the details provided. Fabrications are oft
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by mortify 3y ago
Everyone wants good usability, but what that means varies widely. When my vision was 20/5 (really, it was amazing), I wanted small text with lots of information on the screen so I could do more without context switching. Now that my vi
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by mortify 3y ago
When municipalities share problems, it's possible that many of them are experiencing them for the same reasons. It certainly doesn't mean the problems don't exist.
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by mortify 3y ago
Land ownership must be enforced by court of law, and that's true of all property. Yet land ownership is the easiest to maintain. While my neighbor might take my lawnmower and claim it as his own and the courts would have difficulty pro
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by mortify 3y ago
That's part of it. Many people upgraded early 3 years ago. Combine that with inflation eating away at disposable income and people are extending the usable life of... everything.
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by mortify 3y ago
The lack of updates beyond 2-3 years on Android is pitiful. If the manufacturer will not certify new updates after a period of time, they should support moving to another version of the OS that supports updates. Repair costs are ludicrous.
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by mortify 3y ago
Something like Kagi is going to have to make its case strongly before making $120/year sound appealing. Google's only advantage over other search engines is its ability to search forums more deeply. The build-in feature of diving
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by mortify 3y ago
It would be interesting to see data showing how often some symptoms are "all in their head." If certain symptoms are commonly presented by people who are drug seeking or have bonafide psychological problems, it creates a large amo
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by mortify 3y ago
We have already seen the privacy implications of this at the private and government level at the same time. There is data that the government isn't allowed to collect, but it is allowed to purchases that data from 3rd parties. If the g
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by mortify 3y ago
The determination of whether a job is useless is largely left to the person responding to these surveys. If a person thinks their job is useless, then it is. They may be right, but it's also possible that there is a disconnect between
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by mortify 3y ago
> it was already done and paid for. It's a trashcan, it doesn't require specialized tooling The government doesn't spec "a trashcan." They create size specs, water-tightness ratings, material durability, etc. The
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by mortify 3y ago
If the viewing software was provided, the support would be included and that will cost money in the long term. That is something that the company didn't agree to provide nor the government to pay for. In this case, the adversary wasn&#
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by mortify 3y ago
The courts seem to place little to no value on privacy. Within simple interaction I agree, but disagree when it comes to aggregate data. Maybe I tell Amazon some info, Wayfair different info, and Vitacost something else. A 3rd party can agg
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by mortify 3y ago
The CDC plan is still available online as a PDF (see below). It was targeted toward influenza as that was the pandemic they anticipated. When Covid hit, due to it being a novel coronavirus, there was no plan in place. There was no data. Unt
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by mortify 3y ago
Organic Maps is very good at showing where 'restaurants' are. It's just not very good at showing their hours or including links to their web site or menu.
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by mortify 3y ago
Sound insulation in older homes is much better than in new. Thicker and heavier materials are much better at absorbing or reflecting sound, especially low frequency. Fire resistance seems to be a wash. I've seen the aftermath of new an
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by mortify 3y ago
When COVID hit, the WHO had a pandemic plan in place (written in 2016). Organizations often do this so that when an emergency happens, they can use the decisions made with cooler heads rather than trying to react to a rapidly changing lands
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by mortify 3y ago
Single sign on to a host of boards is Reddit's power. The ability to share a variety of interests in one place is fantastic, but it assumes the site owner will be open to your interests forever. They aren't and cannot be. Federate

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