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by readams 6y ago
Headline is misleading. This is a small-scale experiment. There have been various attempts to make wave energy work but so far it's proved to be elusive. This does seem like a new angle which maybe avoids some of the biggest challenges
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by readams 6y ago
Derek is a smart guy but here again we see the utter lack of the ability to think big in the drug community. It would have been worth it to spend a trillion dollars and speculatively build out capacity and manufacturing for every vaccine ca
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by readams 6y ago
Running a cloud infrastructure is something Google is good at. Making AAA games is not. It is entirely consistent with a deep belief in the product for them to reallocate resources toward partnerships rather than trying to spin up a AAA gam
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by readams 6y ago
Google isn't cancelling Stadia; they're just not making their own games.
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by readams 6y ago
Of course the alternative is that you get the same shitty version of the Ford infotainment software that is never updated from the day you buy your car. So there at least things are actually improving in that respect. But really the model o
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by readams 6y ago
The reason every TV is a smart TV is not because they think you actually want that, but because they make money by selling telemetry on what you watch and serving ads. The margins are TVs are very low and this is where the profit comes from
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by readams 6y ago
Blue Origin hasn't actually delivered anything.
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by readams 6y ago
There's a new variant of panama disease that can infect cavendish called TR4. Likely that is only fixable by genetically engineering resistant cavendish.
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by readams 6y ago
Protected classes were defined in the law only because we decided they should be. Nothing says it can't include more or fewer things as the winds of opinion blow in a different direction. A religion isn't really much different fro
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by readams 6y ago
You can ask the question of whether you think in general that marginalized voices should be allowed to exist. Obviously, you don't like these particular people (and neither do I) so you don't see any problem with eradicating their
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by readams 6y ago
You can definitely still get a workout, and I get probably about as much exercise now as I did before. But I don't have anything like the same strength training equipment so I think I've definitely lost a lot of strength as I can&
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by readams 6y ago
It's not about the minimalism. It's a design aesthetic and I don't really have any issues with that. But the quality of the materials, the fit and finish, the subtle design touches are all missing. It feels like the interior
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by readams 6y ago
The interior quality is the main thing in my mind that Tesla it's missing. My model 3 performance drives like nothing else and requires no maintenance. But I still miss how much nicer inside my previous Audi was. At that price point I&
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by readams 6y ago
Solution: don't buy locked down Apple hardware. Yes, the chips look nice but it's just really unfortunate that they're from Apple and so come with all the Apple baggage. Just wait a couple years for competing chips that won&#
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by readams 6y ago
In this case it would be me against a group of employee activists with goals I don't agree with plus the executive leadership. So now I'm powerless against two groups. Even from their announcement post it sounds like they're
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by readams 6y ago
Google is already being ruined by this tiny minority of sanctimonious blowhards. This is just a move to give more power to themselves to push their own political agenda in Google. Personally I want nothing to do with them, and I'd pref
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by readams 6y ago
You could be like Peter Roberts, who invented the quick release on wrenches: https://apnews.com/article/aed4a37bc719aba52db82cb96029fded#... . He did eventually win his lawsuit though. 20 YEARS later.
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by readams 6y ago
I wonder if the people fleeing California will end up voting for the same bad policies that are the reason they had to leave in the first place. That is, do they connect the bad policies to the bad outcomes, or will they still favor the bad
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by readams 6y ago
The problem here -- and perhaps the main problem in all our politics -- is that large swaths of the electorate do not understand the concept of second order effects. Regulations are always good because they consider only the first order eff
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by readams 6y ago
In general Red Hat is good at infiltrating and taking control of open source projects even without hiring the main developers. The open source foundations are generally pretty vulnerable to this approach.
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by readams 6y ago
Seeing sharing in a social graph is easy. Defining what is "propaganda" is all but impossible.
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by readams 6y ago
This is why he sold all his properties. He undoubtedly has good tax attorneys and is doing everything required to be a nonresident. I wouldn't be that surprised if he decided to just never set foot in California again.
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by readams 6y ago
Other press describes protests of tens of thousands. 250M is far-fetched.
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by readams 6y ago
That doesn't help at all. It would just be a long list of the issues that a particular party espouses, and just as toxic.
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by readams 6y ago
Are you proposing that the EU government should murder all Google employees in the EU in order to consolidate its own power and control?
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by readams 6y ago
It is only very very slightly less concerning than sending the app hashes. Coming to the conclusion that this is all great and fine is really absurd.
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by readams 6y ago
But not the renderer. All browsers are Safari skins.
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by readams 6y ago
Reading between the lines of their announcement, it seems that they'll do well in performance per watt and battery life, which is where ARM is traditionally good. They will not do well in raw performance for workstations or workstation
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by readams 6y ago
It's a misleading headline, since it's really saying that the US exports plastic and the places where it's exported manage to get it into the ocean.
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by readams 6y ago
People are going crazy over deepfakes but we've had Photoshop for a long time and the world hasn't ended. We find ways to verify the content of photos through other means, such as their provenance.

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