powerhour

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by powerhour 4y ago
They're going to try to stop me from resubscribing? I'm small time but I'll still say it: their loss.
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by powerhour 4y ago
I'm ok with content being spread across competing services. If Netflix was the only game in town (like it pretty much was for a while) we'd see less content. I don't find the pricing of any existing service objectionable. I c
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by powerhour 4y ago
Which car companies aren't ready for this yet? The writing has been on the wall for some time now.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Making driving tests more strict and mandating a refresher every few years would probably go a long ways towards creating more walkable and bikeable cities. Some folks would choose to drive unlicensed, of course, but it'd be silly to l
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by powerhour 4y ago
> I would argue that their hands were somewhat tied because raising the federal gas tax during a recession would have been an extremely unpopular thing to do regardless of the reasoning. Hopefully in the next boom time we'll do the
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by powerhour 4y ago
Mandatory minimum insurance limits sure haven't. They've gone up in some states but are still woefully low.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Except the Borg don't have individuality whereas the people at Oracle do. I'm tired of pretending that, say, individual human SEs are not responsible for their work because they're just doing what a corporation demands.
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by powerhour 4y ago
If a platform is too large to be allowed to self-regulate, maybe it should just be nationalized and the suggestion algorithms deleted. That'd free the platform owners from the personal responsibility of hosting objectionable content (a
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by powerhour 4y ago
I would say that authoritarianism could work two ways: a content platform revoking someone's permission to participate (by choice) or a content platform being forced (by governments) to host content despite rules violations. I think th
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by powerhour 4y ago
I'm out of date, lol. Well, GE, even post-breakup, has a huge energy business that would benefit from increasing nuclear production. Assuming they really can make safe, cost-effective power, anyway.
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by powerhour 4y ago
> I would add: "If you see a big name company give a talk about some cool thing they made, it's probably already been abandoned by that company." Alternatively, the talk should be viewed as the company recruiting someone t
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by powerhour 4y ago
I upvote most questions I come across and downvote many answers -- most of which are incorrect or no longer correct and didn't include version information. If I could, I'd downvote comments that ask for more details and then, upon
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by powerhour 4y ago
Headlights, too. Basically anything that came from the factory in pairs or above.
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by powerhour 4y ago
It seems to me that companies like GE and Westinghouse have tons of money. Add that to the billions pro-nuclear folks have in SV and you've got quite the war chest to fund effective pro-nuke campaigns.
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by powerhour 4y ago
At 5% plus whatever amount they take for profit it seems like they'd be able to get some large investors on board and wouldn't need us plebs at all.
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by powerhour 4y ago
It's also sad that industry completely failed to convince the population that they can provide a safe solution. For all the credit we give BigCo for creating propaganda, it's curious that they were unable to be successful here, gi
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by powerhour 4y ago
I wonder if anyone has successfully used it to create library documentation. Obviously you'd have to tweak whatever output you get but can GPT-3 provide a substantial starting point?
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by powerhour 4y ago
I think they would benefit from having higher quality information than they get from seeing a number and possibly getting a refund check. I mean, just look at how many people report satisfaction in getting a large refund -- that's a si
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by powerhour 4y ago
It's also related to the idea that personal freedom trumps many/most other interests. That's probably good, however it does mean that people may choose to live outside of mainstream society and in our metaphorical faces. What
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by powerhour 4y ago
I think it's more that they think if people don't see it every April they won't appreciate or know to push back on how much money they're paying[0]. It's nonsense promulgated by folks targeting the low-information v
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by powerhour 4y ago
I'm mostly with you in spirit but I'd stop at big fines and jailing the executives. Most of the employees are probably fine and someone better can take the helm without too much disruption to their work. Jailing executives might b
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by powerhour 4y ago
Some folks included ads in npm postinstall scripts, til they were outlawed.
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by powerhour 4y ago
Based on the videos I've seen I'm not even sure I'd call their software beta. It looks like it's in early development, like where you'd be running it exclusively on closed tracks. Definitely nowhere near folks outsi
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by powerhour 4y ago
College is pretty different than grade school. It's a lot easier for adults to understand whether or not they're learning well and to see where people end up following graduation. You'd have a hard time convincing me that the
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by powerhour 4y ago
> competition would force public schools to improve or shut down as every school vied for the vouchers. I don't know how to fairly evaluate a school's performance. I guess we could ask if the students perform better in the job
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by powerhour 4y ago
> Be aware that the photo in the article is not from the site in question but one in France that's much bigger and maintained. I completely overlooked the text below the photo. That's on me, I guess, but it's crazy they do
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by powerhour 4y ago
Remember Hotbot? They had a way to limit searches to those that used JavaScript. ha! https://wikieducator.org/File:Hotbot.gif
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by powerhour 4y ago
A tool that records the sites you visit and makes their content searchable locally would be pretty nifty. It'd be a MITM, which isn't awesome, but if it's not a managed service that might not be so bad.
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by powerhour 4y ago
> For programming questions I don't want to see the sites that just scrape and repackage stackoverflow questions; for a company run by software developers they have to know about this problem lol. This fact alone tells me they'
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by powerhour 4y ago
Interesting. IIRC the only thing that changed before and after was the oven was replaced. Ah well.

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