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by qball 7y ago
Sure, but wall timers (for lamps) have a garbage user experience, and for the price of one wired-in fixture timer (where a wall switch would go) + new bulbs you might as well have bought a smart hub. The problem is badly designed interfaces
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by qball 7y ago
You can use the various colors for atmosphere, but it's useful when it's late at night and you either need to focus on something (so you shift to white/blue), or you want to slow down and get ready for bed (shift to red- F.lu
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by qball 7y ago
Because smart bulbs are the cheapest and best option for making the following possible: * Wake timers. I can wake up with light shining in my face even with the curtains drawn, which makes it easier for my body to sense that it's time
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by qball 7y ago
>If a car mfg forced driving lights remotely and killed your ability to run and operate the car without the driving lights I feel like this issue would get more clear resistance. This actually already happens: case in point, Tesla ( http
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by qball 7y ago
>Sounds like an administration completely out of control. This isn't an administration completely out of control. This is a society completely out of control. The administration simply reflects the prevailing social attitude, and
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by qball 7y ago
>I wonder if they ever factor in societial factors like these. Radioactive releases like this are endemic to every coal-burning power station, which while a problem for public health certainly isn't publicized like this is. Remember
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by qball 7y ago
Heat waves are not personal comfort matters. That's why they're a big deal. If they were, they wouldn't be heat waves. For those with compromised thermoregulation systems, primarily the elderly and the sick, and espec
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by qball 7y ago
>Strangely, I saw more units with central A/C in Toronto than in San Francisco. I guess they're used to hot summers there. A home in San Francisco doesn't need central heating at all, but a home in Toronto (where it remain
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by qball 7y ago
I'm tempted to say this is true (most newer developers are unlikely to have a deep understanding of older, faster languages like C++, especially in the age of Javascript and glorified IRC clients that consume more resources than the O
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by qball 7y ago
>The same argument could be used to ban any videos showing weapons being used That has actually already happened, to a certain extent (depends on the weapon). This is just the next step.
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by qball 7y ago
>And this doesn't even touch the fact that normalizing children to surveillance is objectively a bad thing if you give a rat's ass about the future of this planet and peoples' ability to be individual. Yes, but the powers
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by qball 7y ago
Who cares what unpersons think?
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by qball 7y ago
>There seems to have been some disconnect where we’ve just decided that young people have no longer got any rights. Segregation happened. Much like racial divides, it's easier to see people you aren't exposed to on a daily bas
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by qball 7y ago
Sure, but missiles have to propel themselves, are very large compared to railgun projectiles, and are easier to break apart by putting a heavy wall of lead in the air. Railgun projectiles have none of these disadvantages. They don't n
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by qball 7y ago
A railgun, while its mechanism is electromagnetic, works on a base level by causing a massive high-current electrical short. As a side effect (as in most electrical shorts), both the rails and some of the projectile are vaporized when the g
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by qball 7y ago
>Schools do not exhibit any of these characteristics. This isn't a metaphor. Schools exhibit all of those characteristics. By your own definitions: * People are placed there involuntarily. Private and homeschooling is an edge ca
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by qball 7y ago
Of course, the fact that we make sure that they don't do anything, and discriminate against them when they try to break that expectation, has absolutely nothing to do with that.
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by qball 7y ago
>Gab is a business and, as such, is not required to adhere to the first amendment. Why shouldn't businesses be required to adhere to the First Amendment if they function as the modern public square? The only reason they get out o
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by qball 7y ago
>Why did fail? He himself says social media bans were the reason. Politician blames everything but his own politics for his failure to get elected. News at 11. >For decades US Nazis and other loons were justifiably obscure. But the r
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by qball 7y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by qball 7y ago
>Let's just examine the governments currently signed to it. The interesting thing is that this really doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things. Consider weapons treaties, like the UN ones banning the use of land m
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by qball 7y ago
>Aka, remove Section 230. If the platform was to be charged for posting dangerous content, the platform would magically be able to largely prevent it overnight. That's not actually what Section 230 does. It prevents the platform fr
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by qball 7y ago
>Here in Germany it's very popular to talk about, chastise and silence "Nazis" (be it real or assumed), which sort of makes sense knowing Germany's history. And yet it doesn't even prevent the core of the problem
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by qball 7y ago
To be fair, they technically already do when you take it with yours with you somewhere. As long as the mounting plate is sufficiently isolated from the rest of the car's movement, they shouldn't need to suffer any vibration in exc
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by qball 7y ago
>I wonder what else was ignored or mismanaged and might kill someone one day. https://i.redd.it/kv4y1j3gjut21.jpg This WILL kill someone. It's not a question of if , it's a question of when , and it&#x27
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by qball 7y ago
>well beyond what was ever countenanced by Carmack and Romero. Do you recall the first FPS that id software produced? It's a game ostensibly set during a certain war in which you shoot at decidedly human figures. Doom benefits from
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by qball 8y ago
>The tech company have so much power and reach that politicians can only dream to ever attain. Not in Australia they don't. In a nation of 16 million voters the number of people working for a company that would lose its ability to
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by qball 8y ago
>Regarding the car itself, shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner? The first thing I do before selling a phone or laptop is wipe or factory reset it. Sure, but considering that most users don't even know how
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by qball 8y ago
I'm skeptical about the conclusions this article draws. If you eliminate Section 230, the implication is that major sites don't get to moderate their content if they don't want to be responsible for it , but that certainly
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by qball 8y ago
>When free expression enables disinformation campaigns, when false rumors get amplified into mob violence, when stochastic terror organizes online Society (and humanity) at large doesn't actually need the internet to do this. You a

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