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by radlad 2y ago
I re-read your comment, but I still disagree that the evidence provided by myself and others in response, as well as evident near-term future advancements, are irrelevant to the comment you responded to. > a powerful prosthetic limb or e
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by radlad 2y ago
It's hard to know how many people are getting away with cheating. I'm more familiar with it in the context of cycling, where performance-enhancing drugs have long been a thorny issue. > In 2004, 4.6% of the anti-doping samples
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by radlad 2y ago
As was mentioned in another comment, breast augmentation and other forms of body modification in the context of influencers, broadcasters, actors, models, etc. Prosthetics may not quite be there yet, but do you seriously think they won&#x27
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by radlad 2y ago
Implants, prosthetics, and exo-skeletons?
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by radlad 2y ago
Gimp is really not great for photo editing IMO - it really shines at photo manipulation . (i.e. it is Photoshop, not Lightroom.) For RAW development (a la Lightroom), DarkTable and RawTherapee exist. I've only tried the former, and fo
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by radlad 2y ago
Remember the reason that offices are empty is because people are working from home. So there is no "commute to work." Social and shopping needs would still be met inside the city.
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by radlad 2y ago
I think there is a huge difference between the government blocking access to a media outlet versus hotels choosing to no longer display said media outlet on their televisions. AFAIK, there has been no ban. It would probably face some backla
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by radlad 2y ago
> That point is that with clean drinking water chlorine is unneccessary as evidenced by all developed countries except the US, Sinagpore and Canada. And once again, whether necessary or unnecessary, the original question was whether the
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by radlad 2y ago
> The disaster was that harmful substances ended up in citizens body's. Veolia had very well a responsibility in that outcome, evidenced by the fact that they paid huge damages to the victims. Once again: Veolia's role was in
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by radlad 2y ago
The TLV you cherry picked refers to concentration in breathable air, not drinking water. Most health authorities agree that chlorine is safe at 4 mg/l. Ultimately proactive and reactive approaches both have pros and cons. But implying
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by radlad 2y ago
Once again - they were not in any way responsible for the disaster. They did fail to improve it. The pipes are owned and operated by and the responsibility of the city. I don't know how to engage when you're making things up. Let
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by radlad 3y ago
Ok, you win. Germans are infallible and there have never been issues with tap water. > Here privatization begins at the location where the water pipe enters the building. As far as I am aware, the same is true in Flint. I do not understa
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by radlad 3y ago
No, the question is very much why you are against it when your claim is apparently that the water is not safe to drink because of it.
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by radlad 3y ago
If you read The Intercept article, you'll see that the company was hired to test the water after the Flint water crisis began, in response to citizen complaints. This is entirely separate from the federally mandated requirements around
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by radlad 3y ago
From your first link, Table 1, I see that the United States EPA regulates chlorine to 0.2-4 mg/L. The upper bound is lower than the rest of countries with regulations. Some countries - including the European Union, United Kingdom, and
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by radlad 3y ago
> No, water supply in Germany is closely monitored at the source, at the water works and even close to the user in apartment buildings and rental properties. Also, our water supply is not privatized, like in the US. A disaster like Flint
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by radlad 3y ago
I'm not sure your argument has the moral superiority you think it has. Nobody is "creating outrage where none exists" nor are they bringing "politics into something that is not political." We're discussing publ
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> It always smells like chlorine and from what I googled apparently up to 4 milligrams per liter are regularly allowed in the US. Why is this a problem? Flavor? This is certainly different than places like Mexico, where the tap water isn
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by radlad 3y ago
Living in/near Michigan all my life and water conservation has never really been a concern, except when it comes to uproars over things like Nestle sourcing water from the Great Lakes.
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by radlad 3y ago
I do not understand how you could say "I don’t think any mature, temperate, and healthy human being desires to use or abuse drugs, and even if they have a genetic predisposition to abuse" followed by "Having some chamomile te
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by radlad 3y ago
> [...] remove consistently polarized components of the image (as specular reflections from glass are). It was my understanding that reflections in glass can be either polarized or non-polarized, or a mix of both. If you use a polarizing
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by radlad 3y ago
I think this discounts the rest of the work required in converting a technological solution into a product. That is, marketing, sales, support, strategy, operations, and oftentimes, UI/UX work. But in general, yes, I feel that the bigg
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by radlad 3y ago
You've piqued my interest. Can you share more? Do you have a blog post about your product and how you sell it?
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by radlad 3y ago
There are many reasons people prefer open source software other than wanting to do their own development: Security auditing, the ability to reverse engineer protocols / serialization formats, or simply to better understand a product&#x
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by radlad 3y ago
I believe the parent is responding primarily to this point: > The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and neve
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by radlad 3y ago
You can add nginx to the list as well.
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by radlad 3y ago
There are other issues with Dollar General too. For one thing, profits don't stay in the local community as they would if you were shopping at a mom and pop. And, just like Walmart, they can easily undermine competition by lowering the
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by radlad 3y ago
A Walmart is larger and requires far more resourcing than a Dollar General.
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iOS can only run on Apple hardware. Google famously made Android "open source" and allows third party manufacturers to run it.
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by radlad 3y ago
What does unapproved mean in this context? That it didn't pass by Musk's desk?

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