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by mulmen 1y ago
Exchanging money for something implies you believe it has a monetary value. That is the opposite of thinking something is too important to have a monetary value.
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by mulmen 1y ago
There are a lot of ways to group countries and form a majority of the global population. You left it open to interpretation. It’s still unclear to me why Africa, the Middle East, much (which part?) of Asia, and parts of Eastern Europe are
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by mulmen 1y ago
Honesty doesn’t mean much when leadership doesn’t understand or respect the business. I can say “I don’t know how to do brain surgery and furthermore I have no interest to learn.” You may correctly determine I am being honest but this in n
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by mulmen 1y ago
I can find no evidence that Osama Bin Laden was radicalized in the USA. When and how do you believe that happened?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Is it better that the child of a despot learns at home or in the United States where ideas rule all?
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by mulmen 1y ago
I think this is the right idea but I also think measuring the harm is a really hard problem. Polluters should pay for cleanup. But how much does that cost really? How do we decide? Sure we can put smart people on the problem but what so
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by mulmen 1y ago
…Yes? This is the foundational concept underlying free speech and liberal education. In a liberal society ideas live and die by their merits and we all benefit by the best ideas floating to the top.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Then you should be more specific instead of using weasel words like “much of the world”.
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by mulmen 1y ago
I have been using Fedora Sway as my desktop operating system for a couple years now and I am very happy. It’s definitely worth a try. I have access to flatpak when I need it for apps like steam but the system is still managed by rpm/
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by mulmen 1y ago
I’m not sure I would say the exhaust is wasted just because it doesn’t go into the main combustion chamber. The exhaust of the turbo fuel pump on one Saturn V F-1 engine provides more thrust than an F-16 in afterburner. The Raptor is the f
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by mulmen 1y ago
> We’ve been evolutionarily divergent for at least a hundred million years so it seems slim, but not zero. But how much has our mitochondria differed in that time?
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by mulmen 1y ago
I agree in principle. How do we set the price on emissions? Is there a market based approach? Maybe some form of credits that directly fund carbon capture?
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by mulmen 1y ago
> Batteries and EVs are the production side. That’s what I said? > Reducing demand is e.g. requiring you to drive fewer miles. Demand can be reduced by increasing fuel prices. Either at the pump through consumption tax or at producti
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by mulmen 1y ago
While I agree in principle how does this work for fossil fuels? Is the idea that we should make extraction prohibitively expensive? Scaling up battery production makes EVs more appealing on the demand side. How do you disincentivize fossi
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by mulmen 1y ago
And yet people drive with suspended licenses every day.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Yes I agree. I was replying to the suggestion to put the proceeds from fines into a general slush fund. Doing that creates an incentive to use speeding tickets to pay for police overtime and radar guns instead of traffic calming infrastru
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by mulmen 1y ago
The idea of fines as a revenue stream has never sat well with me. Fines are meant to be a disincentive. The ideal collection amount is zero. Treating them as a revenue stream creates a perverse incentive to enforce the penalty without di
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by mulmen 1y ago
> gpu (games etc) are the only thing holding windows relevant at this point. I actually switched to Linux full-time when Starfield wouldn’t run on Windows but worked in Proton. We are now in a world where Valve provides a more sable Win
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by mulmen 1y ago
I love some perl on Monday morning but how does this work when you don’t know the locale?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Columbia was doomed before it reached orbit. It wasn’t lost to a flaw in the landing process.
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by mulmen 1y ago
I think this is an unfair characterization of the comment. Nobody is dismissing the shuttle crews. The “oopsie” was in reference to the Mars Climate Orbiter mishap that did not involve loss of human life.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> except for Columbia, of course And Challenger.
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by mulmen 1y ago
I completely agree with you. NASA consistently does amazing things. Unfortunately I just can’t leave this whole “Imperial vs Metric” thing alone so here comes a tangent. > "we made an oopsie converting metric to imperial" US C
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by mulmen 1y ago
Agree that the transparency is nice but the limitation it mentions disqualifies the product for me.
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by mulmen 1y ago
It doesn’t require Apple deliberately breaking this product. They could change the required functionality for an unrelated reason.
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by mulmen 1y ago
The AirTag is specifically designed to not be used to track people without their knowledge.
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by mulmen 1y ago
No. The product in this case relies on unintended functionality in a specific firmware version of an Apple device that is specifically designed to not be suitable for this application. In this case it is the add-on device that is not offe
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by mulmen 1y ago
I think you have your priorities wrong. Why should an unsustainable business be prioritized over consumer benefit? Nobody has a right to a successful business but when consumers can trust their purchases they are more likely to make additi
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by mulmen 1y ago
> why should protecting my belongings from thieves be illegal? A concealed tracker doesn’t protect you at all. It only aids in recovery. > you can also send the police to the thieves if you know where they are No, you can’t. The pol
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by mulmen 1y ago
AirTags aren’t meant to get stolen items back. That just isn’t the use case. How does this compare to actual GPS trackers like https://monimoto.com/ ?

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