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by prvc 5y ago
>Jony Ive worked on the 2021 iMac before leaving Apple in 2019 The article specifically states that it is unclear when he worked on it. >Jony Ive was involved in the design of this new iMac, despite having left Apple back in 2019. Har
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by prvc 5y ago
Gates, at least, purchases carbon offsets.
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by prvc 5y ago
>Subsidize food If the goal is reducing carbon emissions, this is one of the most counterproductive policies imaginable.
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by prvc 5y ago
In almost all countries in the global North, the pop. growth rate is already far below replacement. There's nothing nefarious, contrary to your insinuation, about focusing on populations that are actually increasing.
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by prvc 5y ago
Fighting climate change is an uphill battle (steeper).
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by prvc 5y ago
>The price is about 37 times MGM’s 2021 estimated EBITDA - or almost triple the enterprise value-to-EBITDA multiple that Discovery’s deal implied for AT&T’s content assets - according to Reuters Breakingviews. Was there another offer
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by prvc 5y ago
The flaw in this survey is that they do not specify what type of average they are referring to.
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by prvc 5y ago
Or, just a run-of the-mill Apple fan.
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by prvc 5y ago
I am referring to formalized standards here. There is exactly no literature that I care about which has been written in some English variant other than British or American. Why force students and professionals to buy special dictionaries an
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by prvc 5y ago
As a Commonwealth inhabitant, having to deal with a multitude of formalized language variants, each with a small number of differences in orthography and vocabulary, strikes me as a useless waste of energy. Difference and local particularit
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by prvc 5y ago
Bit of a lazy question, but: is there a pre-made option available for general consumers to buy?
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by prvc 5y ago
Gonna stick my neck out here to say that I think that that comment got to the heart of the matter, and your enumerated cliches are in fact apropos, in that TFA is actually positing a conspiracy, and if it were true, then there is an untap
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by prvc 5y ago
>So women, we’ve got a right to be upset. The data proves it. This is one of the dangers of scientism. Without widespread memes about taking "data", "peer-reviewed studies", and long articles presented in a magazine-s
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by prvc 5y ago
Thank you for the summary. We know we're deep in the weeds when heart disease and cancer are the afterthoughts among candidate diseases to treat.
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by prvc 5y ago
+ it's "Green" (but not really) + an understanding of advanced stochastic memetics, a.k.a. multidimensional hype
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by prvc 5y ago
>With Chia, anyone can farm with minimal electricity cost (after plotting). Having a low barrier to entry probably increases negative externalities overall. Not sure what your point is.
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by prvc 5y ago
Uselessly filling storage devices incurs a needless and wasteful environmental cost, just the same as computing hashes does. At least Filecoin provides distributed storage, which allows the storage devices to be put to something resembling
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by prvc 5y ago
Borders on fraud, when such a strong unproven assumption gets transformed into a "guideline", which will then be disseminated and reported to a wider audience which isn't inclined to look into the details.
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by prvc 5y ago
What was mentioned in the article seem like very basic, obvious considerations. Meanwhile, Youtube has custom ASICs which efficiently produce multiple formats simultaneously.
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Google supercharges YouTube with a custom video chip(cnet.com)
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by prvc 5y ago
Any pictures of the power adaptor?
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by prvc 5y ago
Is this one of those "conspiracy theories", about which I have been hearing so much lately?
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by prvc 5y ago
In that particular case, because people will pay money for them, and in the other cases in the article, because people agree with the political messages or like the appearance of the approved graffiti better. More to the point, though, the
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by prvc 6y ago
Ugly and obnoxious.
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by prvc 6y ago
I was surprised and pleased to see that they include piano roll scans in their archive. The perfect candidate for inclusion in this section of the archive would be the works of Conlon Nancarrow, whose works for player piano were composed di
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by prvc 6y ago
To clarify, regarding crankhood: it is the lack of details presented in the "theory", combined with his inaccurate view of how science is conducted ("others not doing all the work for me" == "it's being suppres
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by prvc 6y ago
Like it or not, ideally, there ought to be a slight bias in favor of the status quo in terms of revolutionary knowledge claims. That friction counteracts the unknown, unexamined, potential deficiencies of the new theory. Furthermore, a &q
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by prvc 6y ago
>nor does one's attitude have any bearing on ones' truth claims. Newton was famously an asshat I never said that it would. I have nothing bad to say about Newton, either--- either personally or otherwise. I'm not sure abou
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by prvc 6y ago
I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until hearing this admission of his: https://youtu.be/l1jTUhwWJYA?t=802 In a technical field such as physics or mathematics, "the technical details" are at minimu
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by prvc 6y ago
Would love to see benchmarks of Firefox vs Chrome, both with their respective versions of uBO.

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