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by new_realist 5y ago
Is it legal to build your own mattress without treating it with flame retardant chemicals? I presume so.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Not in single core. For multi core it’s probably the SMT, but that’s a security risk.
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by new_realist 5y ago
The current tax situation is like property taxes in California before Prop 19: nobody sells, so ownership and control never changes. This facilitates wealth transfer from generation to generation (in the equity case, though the use of trust
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by new_realist 5y ago
Are there any subsidies or government contracts to be had in geothermal?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Their iCloud photo upload client is what does the scanning, at the time you upload to their service. It just so happens that their client is bundled with the phone. I think the root of angst here is that nobody trusts that the client isn’t
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by new_realist 5y ago
Eventually we’ll see cryptographic attestation of open source binaries on our phones. Until then, all popular phones will run closed source software, and it will be necessary to trust the vendor. Even then, the vendor may also be the chip
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by new_realist 5y ago
It’s their cloud service. If you want to upload to iCloud, you must agree to use their client, and their client implements CSS. If you don’t want to use their client, don’t use their service.
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by new_realist 5y ago
“It’s not perfect yet, so let’s not do it” is not much of an argument, especially from cryptography wonks with no experience in public policy or law enforcement.
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by new_realist 5y ago
A hot laptop can have significant impacts on fertility in men. And in the summer you have to dissipate that heat. A heat pump is more efficient for heating, to boot.
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by new_realist 5y ago
But a heat pump is more than 100% efficient.
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by new_realist 5y ago
They’re not incompatible statements. The easier it is to be homeless, the more homeless you get. That’s different from where they come from.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Lots of things have happened, but some are unrelated, and many have ceased. Extended unemployment benefits ceased last month. The expansion of the money supply remains. We’ll see if these problems resolve once the Fed tightens and asset pri
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by new_realist 5y ago
The last year and a half of pandemic aid has been a large scale experiment in universal basic income. The results seem to be somewhat expected: a labor shortage and high inflation.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Facebook is destroying our pluralistic, tolerant society, as well as our democracy. How long will we let them get away with lining their pockets at our expense?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Can I download Brave’s index and host it myself for truly private search?
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by new_realist 5y ago
We need human time: two dimensional time zones around major metropolitan areas, where time skews automatically a few minutes every morning at 3 a.m. to ensure that sunrise is the same time each day. No daylight savings jumps, and computers
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by new_realist 5y ago
That was 30 years ago in another city. The rioters are 50 years old now.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Housing was costly in Palo Alto well before Tesla decided to make it their headquarters. Elon just hates CA for forcing their factory to close during the pandemic, biting the hand that feeds him.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Facebook is an amplification chamber for freak ideas, and this kind of group-think mind-control is tearing the world apart. It's a technology to manufacture mini-cults at scale.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Tesla is worth almost $800B dollars. This award won’t cause a blip in their culture or working conditions.
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by new_realist 5y ago
They took the cars off-road for hours on Colorado trails. Did you not read the article?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Elon is one of the most litigious CEOs. Fish rots from the head.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Rivian will have an 800+V platform in a few years, too.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Rivian will have an 800V platform in a few years, too.
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by new_realist 5y ago
The selfishness of the species could be its downfall.
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by new_realist 5y ago
The EFF is a modern Chicken Little. I would prefer a less histrionic source.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Valuations everywhere are at an all-time high. That doesn't mean YC is a better value than other VCs.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Wow, this is unhinged.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Does modern hardware require OS-mediated isolation? If not, why should the OS get in the way of apps using the hardware directly?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Is Apple’s sin, here, assuming that when you sign into iCloud, you want to use iCloud?

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