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by mullen 4y ago
The Republican party is a Fascist party (Support for a Fascist President and supported a failed Coup) and Elon has voiced support for the Republican party, thus, Elon is a Fascist (AKA, Super Villain). It's does not take much to draw a
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by mullen 4y ago
This is why we can't have nice things in this country. It's always comes down to some rhetorical discussion about edge cases and possibilities of how a tiny fraction of people might be negatively impacted, so let's not do it.
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by mullen 4y ago
If your job is small enough and not ran too often, AWS is literally free.
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by mullen 4y ago
The problem is not the tech that is in the hydro-generators but the dams, themselves, silt up. They hold a lot less water and thus, less energy to drive hydro-generators. To restore a silted up dam, you would have to clean it out, which is
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by mullen 4y ago
COVID-19 is not the Flu. Also, the Flu has been around for at least 1500 years, so humanity would have observed "Flu Brain" or "Long Flu" a long time ago. To say that the Flu has not been under the same level of scrutiny
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by mullen 4y ago
Everyone is against government security until a bunch of guys fly airplanes into buildings.
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by mullen 4y ago
> If the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of a drunk driver should alcohol be banned? Bad example. We do limit the consumption of Alcohol and also Driving because of the possibility of Drunk Drivers.
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by mullen 4y ago
No. First off, most dams silt up, not only not of being use in storing water but also not in creating power. Second, once they silt up, whatever ecosystem there is also destroyed and artificially created ecosystems are never natural and usu
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by mullen 4y ago
Agreed. I don't know what she is complaining about. For Tech people, we don't understand that getting a new job only takes a couple of weeks at the most. In some fields, it can take 6 months or a year to get another job. People ge
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by mullen 4y ago
That is also not true either. My 80 year old mother uses Signal because she talks property management and money related issues to people. She does not trust WhatsApp because it is owned by Facebook (Which is weird because she uses Facebook
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by mullen 4y ago
Due to Earthquakes, California asks that you have at least 3 days of supplies on hand at all times, with 7 days of supplies being prefered and 14 days of supplies being the best. Same thing from my county and city. They all know that when &
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by mullen 4y ago
Florida could be a real option vs SF but not with Fascists in charge.
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by mullen 4y ago
Why not just draw heat from the person and convert it to electricity?
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by mullen 4y ago
The best part about Adguard is that there is nothing to really get. You just start using the DNS servers and it just works. Some stuff slips through here and there but not for long as the DNS servers catch up on blocking new Ad Serving serv
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by mullen 4y ago
If there is a Subpoena or Search Warrant for FB messages, FB has no choice to hand them over. However, FB should have fought like hell in the courts to not hand those messages over.
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by mullen 4y ago
> Deglobalization -- In the US, we're about to be forced to rebuild all the manufacturing we outsourced since the 1970s. It's not going to go well for those countries dependent on imported food or energy Hogwash. Globalization
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by mullen 4y ago
> This is entirely without evidence. To make it clear, the Chinese government blocks any investigation by outside parties that they don't control or have influence over.
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by mullen 4y ago
> ignored scientific evidence Any "scientific evidence" that can be touched by the Chinese government will be corrupted. Any influence they have over "scientific evidence" is not scientific evidence.
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by mullen 4y ago
> ...well, yes, of course they do. But they would also strongly deny the story if they thought it was untrue. Then why would block any investigation from outside the Chinese government? If anything, if the Lab Leak theory is provable fal
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by mullen 4y ago
The one thing that makes me think the Lab Leak theory is true is that the Chinese government very very strongly denies the story and does anything it can to deflect or redirect the discussion to some other theory. For anyone reading these k
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by mullen 4y ago
And here is the really shocking part, if the local government wanted to clean it up and fix the problem, it could but it just does not have the willpower to do do. This is not the Apocalypse, it just local government sucking at its job.
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by mullen 4y ago
> Are we going to see a future where every country/economic block has their own separate social media/search engines like China and Russia? You are way too late to this part of the discussion.
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by mullen 4y ago
I call bullshit on statements like this. You think corporations would love authoritarianism until the corporations realize that one day someone who is really close to the head authoritarian could just demand 10% of their corporation and the
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by mullen 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057717 You might want to give me a really good price.
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by mullen 4y ago
He really did try to have someone killed. Ulbricht is exactly the kind of person who should be in prison.
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by mullen 4y ago
I catch people using cut and paste code all the time. If there is a spelling error in code (Especially if it is in a code comment), I can guarantee you that someone copied and pasted it from StackOverflow.
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by mullen 4y ago
And make sure to explain the story to the Bank/Credit Card company as accurately as possible. You paid X for Y amount of service but want to cancel after Y amount of service and instead Dropbox just cancelled you right away and won&#x2
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by mullen 4y ago
The "Holy Roman Empire" was neither Holy, Roman or an Empire.
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by mullen 4y ago
I would not compare anything that happened in the West to what happened in the USSR. I don't recall anyone in the West being sent to a work camp or shot because someone accused them of something they were not.
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by mullen 5y ago
The Chinese "Spies" are not what you think of as Spies. They are Chinese foreign college students in Australia who report back to China if any of their classmates do something that the Chinese government would not approve of. They

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