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by seoaeu 5y ago
Wow, a lot of the copy on that page is pretty bad... "Parents: You will love the Librem 5 because it will allow you to communicate with your child, ..." -- Um, in 2021 people know what a phone is. Maybe skip to the part about why
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yes, the ‘ipmitool power status’ command lets you query a server over the network to see if it is on
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Is it any more of a "magic incantation" than the linux-image-XYZ package which controls which OS kernel is installed? Or the linux-firmware package which controls what firmware gets loaded on various devices? If you want to see wh
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this (and a bunch of other similar blocks) seem pretty intentional... # Do no recommend non-Free microcode update. announce X86_LOCAL_APIC - Undocumented clean_blob arch/x86/kernel/apic/
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers. The maintainers doing the backporting are affiliated with the distro rather than being developers of the software they&#x
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The question is why proprietary microcode that ships with your CPU is fine, but microcode patches released later are non-free? According to the FSF, you should never apply a vendor's microcode patch and instead you should buy a newer p
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Forgive me for not thinking that some unflattering books are a suitable consequence for the "negative impacts" that Kissinger has had on millions of people across the globe
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It sounds like you're saying that new scientific ideas replacing old ones can be good, but new cultural ideas replacing olds ones is always bad? That's a position, but I don't quite see why I should agree with it. There are
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> There aren’t any actual Marxists in the Dean’s Office. Certainly not in the Bursar's Office!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> ideas which were once countercultural and revolutionary have become the mainstream orthodoxy In the abstract, isn't this a good thing? Like this true of lots of scientific advances. Germ theory or whatever initially being seen as
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by seoaeu 5y ago
When the symptom is having too much money to spend, it isn't clear that you want to "treat" the cause in the first place!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
No, Hamas is committing war crimes by deliberately launching rockets from an area packed with civilians, knowing that some of them will be killed by the return fire. And doubly so if you consider that the rockets Hamas is launching are targ
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by seoaeu 5y ago
And vice versa. At the moment, Hamas' desired strategy seems to be to launch a salvo of rockets and then demand a ceasefire until they can reload for the next salvo
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Israel bankrolled Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin even prior to the founding of Hamas Yes, prior to the founding of Hamas, Israel was fighting secular terrorist groups and gave support to other (less violent) Palestinian factions in hope
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by seoaeu 5y ago
How does that compare to other conflicts? Tossing around numbers without any context doesn't do anyone any good. There are four ongoing "Major Wars" with 10,000+ fatalities in the last year, which undoubtedly displaced orders
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A quick google search reveals that the US launched 2800000 ground attack missions during the Vietnam war, dropping 15000000000 pounds of bombs. That works out to an average of several hundred attacks per day for two decades. I also encourag
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Wait, you're just outright saying that you are OK with the Taliban to committing human human rights abuses?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> ultimately embracing the nuance leads to a more useful harmony (synthesis) that helps society grow and expand Conversely, derailing conversation with calls for nuance is a good way to maintain the status quo. (Though without seeing the
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That's a long way from the claim that started this chain: > in a slightly more dystopian reality -e.g. when we are forced to use CBDCs- the government might choose to block you from using your hard earned money because you posted a
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yes, cryptocurrencies are good if you want to finance illegal activity. However, since the vast majority of people are unable or unwilling to become international fugitives like Snowden, cryptocurrencies aren't especially useful as a w
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You can't solve a housing shortage by charging landlords more taxes any more than you can solve a famine by charging farmers more taxes. If there aren't enough homes for everyone who wants to live in a city, then part of the solut
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"70-80% market correction for 2-3 years" is a contradiction. A correction brings asset prices back in line with their true values. That a coinbase exec thinks the cryptocurrency is 3-5x overvalued is wild, but if that is true I do
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> the government might choose to block you from using your hard earned money because you posted a criticism of the president on twitter Um, I don't really see how cryptocurrencies are going to help you much when that same government
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Which is pretty clear evidence that those crashes weren't "catastrophic". That doesn't provide any proof that a future crash won't be substantially worse
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The apartment vacancy rate in London is apparently only 3.4% [0] right now! That's not even the 4.5-6% rate that it takes to cause rents to stop growing. I would hardly consider that a large number of empty housing. [0]: https:/&
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Not profitably. Renting out apartments is profitable, but paying property tax and maintenance costs on a bunch of housing that you hold empty isn't. And to artificially control the supply the housing needs to be empty. (This is actuall
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> politicians have publicly stated they wouldn’t stand housing market going down This statement is equivalent to saying that rents will never go down. And that's the core problem. Fiddling with interest rates or whatever is fine, bu
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You really think that owner occupiers haven't pushed for policies that inflate the value of their investments at the cost of young people and renters? Having been to community meetings about creating more housing in my area, I'll
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> What city councils refuse to acknowledge is that once you close a city airport, you can never build another one. Is that a bad thing? A substantial fraction of the population uses the local highway on a daily basis, whereas very very f
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> You don't tax the dead. Why not? If someone owes a bunch of taxes when they die, their estate should still be on the hook for it. I don't see any reason that money owed to the government should go to someone's heirs inst

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