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by smaudet 3y ago
No. Your error is in assuming that all extensions to villages are built as just to villages. There are trains between cities, which presumably have non-zero traffic, or some mix of commercial/pedestrian traffic. That's where you
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I think your math is wildly off... We did this before, so it's not that it can't be done efficiently. A lot of the cost savings comes from the millions of people taking the trains in the cities, and the fact that you were going to
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by smaudet 3y ago
This is why rail systems were/are great. Sure, you had to have a station, but you could service far more small towns, no need to economically support them. If the train didn't have anyone to pick up it simply wouldn't stop, a
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by smaudet 3y ago
> Capitalism seems pretty good at advancing technology. Capitalism is good at providing 'efficiency', nothing more nothing less. It's a dumb (as in not smart not necessarily stupid) filter on economic activity. I think wha
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by smaudet 3y ago
Patches are not necessarily good. This is a massive issue with soft dev today. That being said, the books can still exist - dynamically updated, well versioned books with frequent updates, and low cost distribution methods such as websites
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by smaudet 3y ago
I love the top comment, they point out if the currency is fictional there should be no problem with mods to add currency. "But we lose our money then!" - they cry...thought it wasn't money though, lol.
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by smaudet 3y ago
If we had actually supported legal torrents we could have paid for link access, legally owned the contents of the torrents, and never ever had to worry about the files disappearing. We would have just paid for some encryption key from a dis
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by smaudet 3y ago
> React is a great framework for app dev. But not every site is an app. People detest Word because not every file is a document. Perhaps you are too old to remember, some hopeless folk writing their code in a word document like it was a
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by smaudet 3y ago
This is far worse than the "you can just re-skin safari" on iOS nonsense. Blink is just another tool to force cash cow $$updates$$ onto users they didn't want or need.
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by smaudet 3y ago
> Chrome is actually good I'd like to take issue with this statement...its spyware, and its atrocious to modify. You can't slim down a chrome browser, and it can force you to do whatever it wants to... It's actually really
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by smaudet 3y ago
For this type of case it would be ideal if you could give him a passcode. Couldn't be too difficult to set up a "unknown number" redirect that prompts for a pin, then forwards to a live line if correct.
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by smaudet 3y ago
Medical calls are another, strangers finding your lost stuff is a third. I'm probably forgetting more. Biggest reason - voicemail. Most numbers have a mailbox limit, it's somewhat common to reach a number that has a full mailbox.
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by smaudet 3y ago
> So saying some fundamental properties of the media won't impact the type of message or impact of the message seems a bit unlikely. Exactly. Some properties of the medium are inherent. No amount of "bad actor" excuses cha
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by smaudet 3y ago
Wasn't this about it being a terrible unusable product though? Not a "what has thou wrought" bit at all. I think this has convinced me we need a new technology altogether, not cameras + screens for AR to be feasible. The use
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by smaudet 3y ago
Alcohol is a bad comparison, due to the medium/carrier problem. Its both the medium and the carrier. But to stretch the analogy, drinks are still an issue "because its the people hawking them have the wrong incentives". It co
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by smaudet 3y ago
See also the fallacy "its just technology the real problem is humans and how they use it". When used as an excuse this is disingenuous - the problem is tech - without it, humans were better off in whichever way it caused harm. We&
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by smaudet 3y ago
> "Crypto"=cryptography lost the language war and was completely supplanted by "crypto"=cryptocurrency. On the timescale of the past 4-5 years, you are correct about the popular usage. However, if cryptocurrency conti
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by smaudet 3y ago
I'm echoing others, but the article on rust async/await seems good. You may or may not agree with the conclusions of the post, but its a technical topic with at least some specific exploration of the (performance/code writing
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by smaudet 3y ago
Eh? I'm not pretending digital coins or dubious "tokens" were all particularly useful, but crypto (in the sense of cryptography) has been around for decades and is definitely here to stay... The people who made coins and toke
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by smaudet 3y ago
If you have solid evidence that WFH is worse , then sure maybe you have a point. But if your hypothesis remains unproven, you can't prove it by hand waving and saying that the absence of evidence is proof of its validity...your hypoth
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by smaudet 3y ago
Yes, there are excellent non-"battery" technologies. I'm explicitly talking about the high capacity chemical batteries everyone's crazy for these days.
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by smaudet 3y ago
Indeed. Assuming you have a sustainable source, the next most important thing is distribution and storage. The cleanest candidate (Hydrogen-from-electrolysis) suffers from storage and distribution issues. These can be overcome, but at high
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by smaudet 3y ago
See my updated comment.
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by smaudet 3y ago
Batteries (High capacity chemical) are terrible for long term storage, namely they are toxic: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/dry-cell-ba... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/artic
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by smaudet 3y ago
The bigger issue with "battery" technology is that it is unsustainable/toxic. https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/dry-cell-ba... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41
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by smaudet 3y ago
You provided a nonsensical answer. And have since insisted on spouting nonsense. I have nothing further to say on the matter, clearly I'm conversing with a brick.
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by smaudet 3y ago
> oh look, the internet denizen was able to weave their way through a rationalization, that's certainly never been done before! Yes, I gathered a couple replies ago you weren't interested in meaningful discussion...and probably
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by smaudet 3y ago
Lets hear it for true/false, and triply enforced booleans (variables represented by three or more memory locations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy ) !
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by smaudet 3y ago
> if you think configuration and serialization are the same problem Except that's precisely not the point...rather the formats they are written in are the same, they are indistinguishable. Reductio-ad-absurdum, if all data exchange
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by smaudet 3y ago
> you don't have a configuration format but a serialization format While I better appreciate what you are saying now (you don't have a solution), the only appreciable difference between "config" and "serializatio

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