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by qball 1y ago
>If the goal is energy independence, renewables will provide that more cheaply The only cheap renewable infrastructure comes from an enemy country and PV solar panels start degrading the moment you install them. If you think "energy
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by qball 1y ago
Garbage software in automotive is guaranteed because it's a cost center. Why bother hiring the best when good enough will do? It's not like the customer has any choice, right? The only company that doesn't treat it like t
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by qball 1y ago
All screens (that aren't OLED ones, which aren't generally suitable for cars due to their shorter lifespan) still glow when displaying black. So it's still a glowing thing in your field of vision. Of course, you're alre
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by qball 1y ago
Boxing out the next generation with environmentalism as the excuse. This is also a massive problem in BC; the ALR exists to do exactly this. There's lots of land available, it's just illegal to build anything other than a farm on
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by qball 1y ago
They're all in France, whose construction began under a military dictatorship to ensure energy security whenever the US starts a war in a place supplying it with energy. This strategy was proven decisively correct in 2022, and also app
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by qball 1y ago
Humans haven't had agriculture for twenty thousand years yet. Also, this line of inquiry is still just tilting at windmills; "somehow, future Fred Flintstone manages to get a hold of equipment capable of digging out a mile of co
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by qball 1y ago
Not in this case. There are many different kinds of safeties, and they aren't magic off switches. Consider a computer program (with a UI mated to underlying mechanics) that talks to a database. In this case, just because the frontend
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by qball 1y ago
>Do we have a right to object to speech that promotes and normalizes violence against us? If men don't, then neither should women, who are murdered at 1/10th the rate men are.
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by qball 1y ago
Why not? Payment processors have done it to guns just as much as they've done it to porn, both under the Obama administration.
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by qball 1y ago
>the CFO whispering in the board's ear about chargebacks. Lies: these transactions don't get charged back at a higher rate.
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by qball 1y ago
>and will be solved by innovations riiight aroung the corner Yes, this is what the solar/wind people keep claiming about energy storage. >the West is unable to build them fast enough No, the West is unwilling to build them fast
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by qball 1y ago
>by the time when Y has been added to the Latin alphabet Note also that the letter 'Y' is explicitly named 'Greek I' [literal translation] in Latin-descended languages; and then other languages borrowed that name
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by qball 1y ago
Yes, but it turns out that when you stop building stuff (and intentionally hamstring other kinds of building for other reasons) you have to spend a bunch more treasure to figure out how to do it again. We could have always just not stopped
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by qball 1y ago
>Canadian troops marching Of the few Canadian troops that exist, most of them are sourced from the West (just like the US, for that matter). It's difficult to prosecute a war without any soldiers.
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by qball 1y ago
No; it's actually made the division worse. Look at the election map: the elected party has near-zero representation west of Ontario (even in the cities where you'd expect it to be, with the exception of Vancouver which is its own
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by qball 1y ago
Because we need baseload, reliable power that isn't dependent on foreign goodwill for cost-effective maintenance (which is the problem with solar- Chinese dumping makes the uneducated believe it's cost-effective, but not in a geop
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by qball 2y ago
Because it's the one green solution that actually works as base load (other than hydroelectricity, but that's terrain-dependent), works 24/7 without any other affordances, and doesn't open you up to dependence on other n
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by qball 2y ago
>people who have concerns different than mine "Trying to abduct my child either directly or by proxy" is not merely a question of polite differing concerns.
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by qball 2y ago
That does not mean attempts to defeat them should not be made. Sometimes they even succeed. Karen delenda est.
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by qball 2y ago
The exact same people calling CPS on kids walking down the street claiming it's too dangerous are the people who advocate for turning communities into low-trust economic zones. The reason it's more dangerous now is because of th
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by qball 2y ago
>That wouldn't work in US until the whole culture changes. This is one of those things laws are great at. Delete the power of idiot Karens and the culture will return to normal. It works for Utah (and to a point, Texas); it can wor
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by qball 2y ago
Early '00s was the peak of computer UX, too.
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by qball 2y ago
Littering degrades the commons.
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by qball 2y ago
>Adults Only by default. Just like public spaces. This is the attitude that led us to this problem in the first place. >Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended? They're at much higher risk of being arrest
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by qball 2y ago
>People always talk about gpus being overpriced. This is true, but only if you're exclusively considering the lower-end or comparing with consoles (which, let's be honest, most people are). The 3060/4060 are 400USD GPUs
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by qball 2y ago
All RTX xx60 cards are really bad value propositions, though (especially in comparison to the xx80 series cards). If the 4060 was the 3080-for-400USD that everyone actually wants, that'd be a different story. Fortunately, its nonexi
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by qball 2y ago
The Agricultural Land Reserve prohibits farmland from being sold for housing development. It's one of the oldest modern NIMBY policies. Most of the land in BC is classified in this way.
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by qball 2y ago
>for Vancouver/BC especially The ALR bans any and all significant development in BC. Land is not scarce in BC; land that it's legal to build on is.
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by qball 2y ago
New development was made illegal in the places people want to live. It's that simple. Now, you may agree with the given reasons for making that development illegal (and/or very expensive), or you may not, but that is the undenia
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by qball 2y ago
The main problem with FreeCAD is that editing a dependency tends to break the entire rest of the model. So, if you want to edit a dimension or add geometry in a part made very early in the "stack", you're generally better of

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