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by robonerd 4y ago
What would environmental organizations coopted by the fossil fuel industry care about wolves? Their ineffectiveness at anything other than stopping nuclear power plant construction is a symptom of what TrispusAttucks said.
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by robonerd 4y ago
There are currently less than four thousand movies on netflix, and about 1.5 thousand of those are "netflix originals". Maybe that sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. If you're browsing through random movies on IMDB
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by robonerd 4y ago
Some people simply have no sense of community or civic duty. Everything is all about them, all the time. If they stand to profit from antisocial behavior, they won't hesitate.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think you mean Hanlon's razor, but that adage is a farce. Every scoundrel in the world knows the trick of pretending it was all a mistake. Skepticism is warranted.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> When it's the default state of things, what use is pointing it out going to bring? I believe that appeals to math can obscure the role of trust. This is demonstrated by the formation of an industry of scammers exploiting the ph
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The biggest criticism I'm raising is the American (outside of border states like CA, AZ, NM, and TX where they don't put up with that shit) tendency to accept cheaper, filler ingredients as primary to the contents of a burri
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by robonerd 4y ago
In America, hard-shell tacos are simultaneously heretical and popular. It's polarizing, like pineapples on pizza.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's worth a bit, but it doesn't assuage all my concerns. Even with trust in the EFF to be both well informed and earnest, I think there is still reason for doubt. I've read it claimed many times that cryptography is easy
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by robonerd 4y ago
> You have to trust a whole lot of companies to get onto and use the Internet. Obviously, I wouldn't dream of asserting otherwise. My point is that for the vast majority of the population, a paragraph of technogibberish about cry
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by robonerd 4y ago
It seems as though capitalism has little room for craftsmanship as a virtue. The only value becomes the dollar value, people see no shame in shoddy workmanship so long as it's profitable.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Unless you're a mathematician or a cryptographer who's qualified to verify these claims, I think all of this amounts to "trust us."
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Somehow sticks on bricks construction is ok for commercial construction and saves money vs the prefab concrete stuff that was common from the late 90s until a few years ago. You're not a fan of 5-over-1 construction? Besides th
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by robonerd 4y ago
Liking it is beyond the point, it isn't available for me to use unless I replace my phone and computers. But yes I think you're right, Firefox has become so thoroughly marginalized that Safari seems like the last meaningful resis
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by robonerd 4y ago
We're regressing to a state reminiscent of the dark IE years. Except back then when you suggested alternative browsers, people were generally receptive once they saw the practical utility of features like tabs. Now when you suggest a
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool. The problem is people insist on heating their homes far beyond what is strictly necessary. They demand a 25 C / 80 F indoor experience in the dead of winte
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by robonerd 4y ago
I'll say what I like about anything I like. If the book is so great than those of you who've read it should be able to present the arguments from it. It sounds like it left all of you with an impression of having learned somethi
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by robonerd 4y ago
I mean, steel wire baskets are a thing, but I prefer a canvas bag. Glass is better for bottles and can be reusable, not merely recyclable.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The slavers wanted to conquer the west with slaves to stay relevant. Yes, I believe that's why they rejected the Corwin Amendment compromise, which would have allowed them to keep slavery in states that already had it. That dea
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by robonerd 4y ago
Appear noble... to their constituents who were slave owners and racist white southerns? I think that's what he means.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> although It's not clear why you think that. I think I've made that clear. Where else in the world has a hunter-gatherer lifestyle afforded the caloric surplus necessary to do this much manual labor?
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by robonerd 4y ago
The evidence is the stonework and the dietary requirements of doing that sort of labor.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Based on experience with physical labor? Bang some rocks together for an afternoon, see how much progress you've made and take note of how tired it made you. Whig history has nothing to do with it.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I haven't read that book [yet], but I'll say that 'civilization' is not the same thing as carving up tons of rock. That you can form a civilization without agriculture doesn't surprise me. That a civilization cou
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by robonerd 4y ago
I eagerly await the admission from mainstream historians that all these tons of rock were not carved by semi-nomadic hunter gatherers. The scope of the stonework is evidence of agriculture; it's obnoxiously obvious yet still fringe to
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by robonerd 4y ago
$25 billion is about 9 Virginia-class submarines. The US has already built 22 and plans to build 66. Granted, they're very nice and important submarines, but it still makes $25 billion seem like chump change by national project stan
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The simple phrasing of fission as "dirty" really shows the quotee's biases. And I think their failure to really understand fusion power either. The sort of fusion reactors we build first will produce tons of neutron r
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by robonerd 4y ago
> 6. There were tons of ironclads already in European fleets, there had just never been a fight between ironclads! Europeans watched the Monitor v. Merrimack battle & adapted their fleets & battle doctrines accordingly. These w
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. That's great and all, but how did they ass-pull the third trimester restriction? Courts recogniz
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by robonerd 4y ago
We tell these people about "social contracts" then smirk when they raise the common sense objection of never signing such a contract in the first place. Of course a social contract is not at all the same as a real contract, a soci
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by robonerd 4y ago
(I'm skeptical of the very premise of colonizing Mars, but putting that aside..) I expect what forms on Mars, at least initially, will resemble the high seas a lot more than it does any country. You'll have facilities owned and c

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