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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
You’re welcome to start OpenSpigot yourself, and see how investors feel about you giving away your technical / IP / market advantage on launch day.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
New research indicates proprietary software may be less toxic than scientists previously believed, in mice.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
Was not the space race, and the cold war context it happened it, a driving force in pushing technological advances forward?
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
Old cheap phone is not the same as modern low end.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
That’s not an argument against the comment you responded to. If I just took any random 20 creators I’m subscribed to on YouTube, the premium membership fee, which includes YT Music, is more valuable than any of the other streaming services.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
The same applies at the low end, the grand parent comment even agrees. You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that. I don’t use my
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
What, so ants, bees, wasps… they’re allowed to built shelter from the elements. But when humans do it’s unnatural? And besides, if you saw how hairy I am you’d probably reconsidered your opinion.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
Just because one thing happened after another thing, doesn’t mean the first thing caused the second thing. Happy now? However, sometimes it is true that the first thing caused the second thing. Therefore, it’s only a fallacy when it’s fal
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
No, what’s that? QED
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
It’s not the anti-space crowd. You’re arguing against the misanthrops. To them, nothing humans could do would be good enough. We could end slavery in the West and they’d accuse us of not ending slavery enough.
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by nandomrumber 6mo ago
It’s only a fallacy if the purported facts are fallacious. And in the case of lifting most of humanity out of poverty, two things are responsible: capitalism and technology. You can argue that China is a communist state, but it’s the alloca
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
As an Australian living in Australia.. I was at a wildlife sanctuary in Tasmania, about 50 minutes drive from where I live. The tour guide said something like: every year 250,000 native animals are killed every year on Tasmanian roads. And
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
more developed frontal cortexes And smaller brains Aren’t mutually exclusive
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
How do you go sleeping under the stars when it’s below zero, blowing its guts out, and snowing.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
Is there somewhere rabbits aren’t a problem for humans? They’ll devastate anything farmers intend to do. They’re public enemy number one here in Australia.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
> My feeling is that predation by domesticated outdoor cats is overblown. It’s just something we’ve all been told all our lives, with the people doing the telling never point to any evidence to back it up. Even when cats are wild and nat
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
It’s entirely ordinary to carry on a business as a sole trader. That is you, for tax and legal purposes in the jurisdictions within which you reside, an individual, operating a business by yourself as yourself.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
> Window navigation within open programs Isn’t table cmd + ~
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
I don’t see any not tolerating it in practice. A lot of invective, but nothing in practice that really indicates not tolerating .
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
If any of what you just said was true in practice, Australia would be a gleaming example of how democracies with strong civil society organisations can be run. Instead, Australia is best described as pigs at the slops trough. A nation that
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
You’re worried about the Right-ists. When it has been the Left that has largely governed Europe for the previous few decades to bring it to the point where it is now where the economics and defence capabilities of nations that once ruled th
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
No. You are wrong. There are Apple laptops, and other devices, that were relatively easy to service and were lauded for their build quality.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
> In Australia gas stations are out of diesel. This is incorrect.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
For a sobering look at the reality of electric vehicle fires, including his involvement in some original research, you can’t go passed StacheD: https://youtube.com/@stachedtraining?si=rMfvXq_GFa1hT5ra
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
If we’ve got data, let’s go with the data. If all we’ve got is opinions, let’s go with yours.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
Amusingly, $20 to $30 per kilogram is about what we pay for groceries here in Australia from the supermarkets when averaged over a few bags of mixed items.
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
>> low-mid-complexity stuff > metal One of these things is a manufacturing input (metal), where as the other (stuff) is a manufacturing output. Steel mills are on a different scale altogether. And anyway, the wholesale price of ste
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
People just don’t realise how energy intensive a manufacturing economy is. Which is fine if your fantasy includes offshoring all of that and shipping the finished products in to the local market. Which, no matter how you slice it, has to be
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
As a result of this and the child comments… As an Australian. I often find myself saying things like “the wiring hardness, or loom, or cable, or whatever were calling it this week”. Exasperated by living in a state other than the one I grew
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by nandomrumber 7mo ago
If I recall correctly, a fully charged lead acid battery has an open circuit voltage of 13.6V. So the alternator has to put out at least something higher than if it’s planning on recharging the battery after 500 to 700 amps have been pulled

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