snarf21

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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree with others, there is no one thing that is going to change your life. You get there via experience. Experiencing the consequences at 30 of something may feel profound despite the fact your parents told you the same thing 100 times a
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by snarf21 5y ago
My guess it that it is like a refinery, building the factory takes too long with a large capital outlay. For instance, it may take a year or two to build and cost (let's guess) $500M. Now in that time, let's say all the existing
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, this is the same as Wi-Fi routers all being admin/password. They finally started assigning them random pwds. Why isn't secure by default chosen?
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of sources out there on this subject. It generally takes 10-14 days for your body to adjust to burning fat instead of storing excess sugar. People also tend to be hangry and have bad headaches during the transition. IF
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, nothing makes sense except cost. Even for these kind of level 2 system, they should be forced to have camera + lidar + radar. There is no reason to not use as many data sources as possible. If it is to expensive, work on that. Batteri
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by snarf21 5y ago
I'm against this change from Apple but weren't they already doing this scanning in iCloud? Couldn't someone use it the same way against a "political rival and enemies of powerful people"?
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by snarf21 5y ago
I disagree completely. If we were satisfied with a lower standard of living, one parent could stay home to take care of the kids. Keynes predicted 15 hour work weeks but he missed that we would increase our standard of living faster than th
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree that we need a carbon tax. However, mega ships are super carbon efficient. You driving to the store to buy the shirt burned added more carbon than the amount of carbon to ship it from Asia. Our personal vehicles are not efficient. L
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by snarf21 5y ago
Agreed. The world is too complicated. There is too much noise. It might be possible to become fairly knowledgeable about a single issue but it would need to amount to an obsession. This is why we are so keen to belong. We've always t
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree Apple is giving in just like they did in China. However, they were already doing this on the server. Wasn't that already the thin edge of the wedge?
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by snarf21 5y ago
Apparently he has never heard of Goodhart's Law.
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree and my first statement was this is bad. My point was why has no one been complaining about it already being very bad and reacting with "I'm selling all iDevices" when it gets worse?
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by snarf21 5y ago
I think this is a bad move by Apple even if the point is to set up E2EE later. However, one thing that everyone seems to forget is that all these pictures were already being sent un-encrypted to iCloud. ALL of the same issues already co
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by snarf21 5y ago
Agreed, I am strongly for a VAT on all digital advertising revenue . Let's make ads more expensive so people have a real choice to pay or not. Plus, we can use the money to fund something that helps people.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly. I've always said that in the US people don't really care. Even for "important" things like the million woman march, it is fun to do something for 1 day/weekend and then get back to life, all things forgotte
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by snarf21 5y ago
This is the problem, all pension systems are pyramid schemes. Plus you add extra overhead to administer over direct benefit contributions. You can claw some back by keeping the shares of those who die early but it isn't enough. Additio
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by snarf21 5y ago
The one thing that occurred to me is that this is almost seems like this is a cya, Section 230 protection in disguise. There has been more discussions about Big Tech and 230, and this is one way to say "Look, we are compliant on our pl
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by snarf21 5y ago
I think the biggest challenge is a lack of consumer choice. Part of this is the complete failure of the FTC and the SEC in the 21st century. Maybe Pinephone will be compelling some day in the future but it isn't now. I don't want
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by snarf21 5y ago
Because we use inflation (and unemployment) numbers as bellwethers and markers for policy, we have changed how they are calculated over time. If you look at the formulas used in the 70s, 80s and now you'll find that they are not the sa
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree with you but I don't think it is generational. We have always been a greedy species. We just finally built the technology to amplify our greed x2 each generation. It is harder to destroy the world when each person spends all th
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by snarf21 5y ago
I don't see it as political at all. It is simply NIMBYism. Everyone wants trash pick-up but not a landfill near them. They want sewer that always flushes but no water treatment near them. They don't want new malls because of traff
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by snarf21 5y ago
Great, so what's the solution? What are you doing to fix it? Do you roll your own silicon? Do you grow your own food (we have no idea what someone could be putting in it)? Are you completely off-grid? Or are you as completely depende
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by snarf21 5y ago
Agreed. The thing that irritates me so much in all these studies is how they conflate correlation and causation. Studies to truly isolate just one ingredient would be both time and cost prohibitive. We are better served by just eating as va
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by snarf21 5y ago
There is a big difference between have to and get to . Most people are better served with a strict work/life balance that pays the maximum they can find and get all their fulfillment from their hobbies/dreams/etc. Work bec
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by snarf21 5y ago
Agreed, there is zero use cases outside of currency and unfortunately, most of the currencies are little more than gambling, pump/dump and pyramid schemes. The cryptos always crow about it being so censorship resistant. I guess we&#x27
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by snarf21 5y ago
Well said. For argument's sake, let's say there is a PBS run Twitter clone? Who gets to decide what is allowed or not? So much of the social media space is built on using fomo and outrage to push agendas. These are the things that
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree with you but humans are selfish and destructive. It is always down-voted but the only true solution is less humans. Of course, we could change but history has shown we have no desire to do so and worse, are accelerating our greedi
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by snarf21 5y ago
As much as I prefer iOS to Android, this is my biggest pet peave. They way they are so aggressive with bluetooth and wifi is annoying. I hate that they don't even go through DHCP most of the time and just assume that last known IP is s
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by snarf21 5y ago
The only people who think farming sounds great are people who have never farmed. Having all your income depend on the weather or random government policies/tariffs is heart breaking. You need tremendous scale to weather the storm. Go w
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by snarf21 5y ago
I'm sorry but no one has yet to explain to me how humans are going to treat Mars so much better than we have the Earth. Earth has near unlimited resources and Mars doesn't. The human species will only ever live on Earth on a perma

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