nmeagent

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by nmeagent 3y ago
> a psychologic twin, assistant, advisor, and sparring partner and snitch. > It'd need to be only personally accessible and safe/private. IMO there's very little chance that such a thing won't report or sell every
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by nmeagent 3y ago
This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer... Jenny: "Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?" Giles: "The smell." Jenny: "Computer
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by nmeagent 3y ago
> In the US you do not have the right to walk or bicycle on an interstate freeway. Not even in the shoulder or outside of the lane. This depends on the state, e.g. in Montana you can legally ride on all interstates. See https:/&#x
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by nmeagent 3y ago
$1000/t with a goal of $100/t? According to the article, humans currently emit 38 Gt/year. So that's $38 trillion/year with a goal of $3.8 trillion/year to cover current emissions. Probably doable as a coope
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by nmeagent 3y ago
I always think of this quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri when these issues come up: "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once
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by nmeagent 3y ago
Ocean temperatures can reach the mid 80's F in tropical regions. Do you mean 75 C?
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by nmeagent 3y ago
I think an attacker would find that many streamers with high quality audio have properly setup their mics with noise gate filters to remove their relatively quiet keystrokes.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
0 C is 273.15K, so room temperature is around 295 K. 300 K is a decent approximation to make back-of-the-envelope calculations easier, but I don't know anybody that actually keeps their room at 80 F.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
IIRC the people in the world of Idiocracy were all tattooed with some kind of barcode, or were chipped, or something else along those lines.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
If their presence is revealed and approximately simultaneously we develop some new fantastically high Isp rocket-engine technology, I for one am going to start to wonder if this is evidence of some kind of squid pro quo.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
I just logged into Twitch with a fresh session in Firefox on a Linux system as well. No problems.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
That's not true in at least one case: if you work for the US federal government, all of your works are automatically in the public domain. Of course, they may also be barred from disclosure for other reasons. https://en.m.w
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by nmeagent 3y ago
I've been doing a bit of this as well. Unfortunately, it seems that Google hides the 'Cached' link on mobile devices (at least in Safari) unless you 'request' the desktop version of the search results page. I don&
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by nmeagent 3y ago
Hey, we can have both huge waste and 80 years of global(ish) peace with safe(ish) international trade.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
If we ever want customers to have a fighting chance at protecting their rights against the interests of corporations, we must drastically narrow what rights can be 'waived' in an EULA. It's absurd that today you can buy a ph
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by nmeagent 3y ago
I bought a license over a decade ago and refuse to migrate anything to a Microsoft account on general principle. I don't care what IP they bought, I shouldn't have to have any relationship with that company when I didn't buy
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Well, we still have physical access at least. Let's see these weasel devices try to connect without a functioning antenna.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Considering many (most?) talk radio stations broadcast on both AM and FM, I think many (most?) instances of your hyperbolic self will be fine.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Right. IMO copyright in general seriously conflicts with the very concepts of free expression and ownership. As corporations eat the world and are able to push to maximize copyright to protect their profits, our rights of expression and o
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Chicago, the third-largest metro area in the US, is a midwestern city. Insinuating that Chicago is somehow part of or defers to one of these 'factions' and is not a 600-pound gorilla of an entity unto itself is frankly hilarious.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
> Basically, money as we know it is going to go away, we won't be a society of limited resources anymore. I doubt it. There will probably always be some scarcity. Even if we remove (or effectively remove) scarcity of physical reso
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by nmeagent 4y ago
The hardware must still obey the laws of physics. New cars will have a hard time connecting wirelessly without a functioning antenna.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
> but when it comes to its citizens, they are properly taken care [of] to move forward Except for Uyghur citizens apparently, unless of course they have drastically mangled the meaning of 'taken care of' beyond all recognition.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
I don't think the process will ever be fine until lobbyists have nothing to offer legislators besides the merits of their arguments. As long as corporations can make financial contributions to legislators' campaigns, the system i
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by nmeagent 4y ago
What about the rights of the (using your fraction) 10% that aren't bottom feeders?
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by nmeagent 4y ago
An ouroboros of BS!
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by nmeagent 4y ago
> How isn't it clear that nukes are what stopped us from getting into WWIII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls We've been lucky.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
I was in a KTV place in Shanghai several years ago and decided to tip the guy who was doing an excellent job at keeping our little room very well stocked with ice cold beer. I think I gave the guy like 100 RMB. A little later I had to exp
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by nmeagent 4y ago
IMO Dragonrealms was great in the late 90s and early 2000s, but when I tried to get back into it in 2020 I found that rampant AFK scripting for skill progression killed my desire to put much time into it. It was supposedly still against th
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by nmeagent 4y ago
I imagine we'll eventually just have to start removing antennas.

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