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by prolepunk 8y ago
Uber is not a business. It's a dumping attack on the service sector. http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2017/05/01/wooden-shoes-as-a-ser... Putting aside about how good this investment from economic standp
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Earbud holder is a strange place to put a wireless charging dock -- I always thought there are two prongs that get magnetically attached to charging ports. Inductive charging is only about 60% efficient, so in theory you only get 398*0.6=23
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I'm guessing burka ban bill got finally struck down, so Parti Québécois is at it again. CBC source, no paywall, actually explains what's in the bill -- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-
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by prolepunk 8y ago
From what I understand is that the comparison between cruise control and MCAS breaks down when it comes to how quickly the potential catastrophic situation may happen. When driver steps on the brakes -- the system disengages and car slows d
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I wonder what would happen with the apps like KDE Connect? I use the app to download photos, backup my phone, and generally avoid connecting to google shenanigans.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I've been using ack ( https://beyondgrep.com/ ) for a while and it seems to be better suited for my specific purpose -- looking into source files and avoiding things like data dumps and VCS. It may be slower than grep, b
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Last week tonight released an episode on exact this issue a few days ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0iG_P0P6M John Oliver should increase the frequency of robocalls to FCC chairs.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Thank you for your paper. It was a worthwhile read and it filled in a lot of details I didn't notice about the crash also affirming the criticism I hold of the process of software development -- where all of the decisions are deferred
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Now that shutting down backpage made the hardline stance on the issue mainstream, this lawsuit is one consequence of that.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
What are the hiring practices? Is everyone salary disclosed? What is percentage of women occupying technical positions? This might sound controversial for some, but the answers to these three questions would tell you pretty quickly what kin
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I believe that it's not up to individual consumers to fix that problem. Manufacturers made plastic bags, plastic cutlery, plastic packaging and then push the responsibility to the consumers to recycle. Also this lobby would prevent any
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by prolepunk 8y ago
When I'm on windows I'm always puzzled about how Adobe Reader is slow and has tons of features I will never going to use. Just let me get to duplex printing dialog, adobe!!! I mostly use Okular for navigation and printing, but it
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I would appreciate some handholding when jumping into a new language or framework, so I don't have to waste countless hours in frustration, and I am a man. I don't understand why handholding is bad and why it should be used as an
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Yes, like Cobalt, Ontario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt,_Ontario Silver boom town at the begging of 20th century turned into ghost town when the mines have run out of silver, now might turn into boom town again
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I started reading article hoping for something interesting from Apple, but then I compare Mac Mini specs to the mini-itx system I've built back in February. - AMD Ryzen 2400g (4cores 8 threads) - 16 GB DDR4 Ram - 256GB M.2 Nvme - 1TB 2
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Keep our ad-hominem attacks to yourself.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
What you have wrote is an unnecessary distraction. The behaviour of Linus was a big problem that's been turning off a lot of people from linux and open source communities. Now that's being addressed, and you are complaining for wh
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Also the interviewee needs to have exactly the same assumptions about the world as interviewer (or whoever come up with the brainteaser) and the knowledge of the same basic facts. I mean how do you even approach questions like -- how many s
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Except we're talking about Nazis and not nudists. As a society we are re-examining those beliefs and something that used to be considered normal (i.e. slavery) is now considered grossly unjust. Just because someone is old, that person
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by prolepunk 8y ago
> The answer to bad speech is good speech, not censorship. Good luck wasting your precious time arguing with Nazis while Reichstag is burning.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
This is not wholly surprising, this site is full of hot takes of devil's advocates. This arguments ignore a ton of details most importantly the relationship between oppressed and oppressors. When Nazis are calling for extermination of
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I just outlined the criteria in the comment above -- if you believe people who don't look like you aren't people, and don't deserve the same rights and shouldn't exist, you're a Nazi. Yes "whatever world view i
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by prolepunk 8y ago
How about we start with whoever is calling for extermination of people with identifiable characteristics such race/religion/etc or using a number of well known dog whistles against those groups, should be banned. The sarcasm/
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Because when people like this aren't silenced and laughed at, from some angles they seem like normal people and not the ones promoting monstrous ideas. No everyone have well informed world view.
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Not to mention that coal plants are way more efficient than ICE engine. The average efficiency at the wheel of a car is 18%. Coal plants with secondary steam turbines can be as efficient as 50% extracting energy from the same amount of hydr
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by prolepunk 8y ago
I wanted to write about how the article misses the point of the argument of putting free speech above other rights, but then I look at the website post history and turns out this is a right-wing rag, with greatest hits from a guy who quit L
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RPi Motor Lib – A Ppython library for various motors and servos(github.com)
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Here's pie-in-the-sky idea, what about building high-voltage transmission lines across the continent? In the case of US, New York at 8PM would get electricity from California at 4PM. There would be some losses from transmitting power f
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by prolepunk 8y ago
Ironically enough the malls were envisioned to be that by the person who came up with the idea, the devil's bargain here was letting cars be the part of the equation. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-grue
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by prolepunk 8y ago
There's also a good article in the Atlantic on the causes of this crisis and why Maduro clings to power and has no way of comfortable exit like tinpot dictators of 1980s had. https://www.theatlantic.com/international&#x

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