starspangled

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by starspangled 2y ago
> I respond in good faith until the other party shows themselves not to be, That was my first comment. > and his glib rhetoric of "what do you mean, cost-gated?" while in the next sentence demonstrating he knows exactly what
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by starspangled 2y ago
> Apparently the US spends twice on healthcare for the same outcomes compared to comparable nations with universal healthcare. Sure, but I was talking about costs in other developed countries, not USA. Healthcare in Australia is about 1&
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by starspangled 2y ago
This is a fairly unhinged reply to my quite specific question and comment. Pretty rude saying things like this > Drastic, brazen or glib misunderstanding of history and politics while pretending you weren't just spouting on about me
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by starspangled 2y ago
Can communities choose to permit murder or ban people of certain races? Is America not free because they cannot choose to vote for a government that would prohibit women from voting or jail people for expressing political opinions? You&#x27
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by starspangled 2y ago
What do you mean by "without cost-gating"? Public healthcare systems in other countries have procedures they don't cover, and significant wait periods (i.e., shortages) to see doctors and specialists and have procedures done.
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by starspangled 2y ago
I'm friends with somebody who seems to suffer from this. I'm not talking mouth open lip smacking eating or slurping, just noise of using cutlery and chewing something not crunchy and swallowing seems to set them off at times. The
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by starspangled 2y ago
This should be a very good introspective learning experience for people who blindly trusted governments and their "experts", social media and "news" corporations, "fact checkers", etc., and who believed that al
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by starspangled 2y ago
> You can take it a step further: No, that is essentially what Linux does in this article (and by the looks of it also ffmpeg). struct file does not have a bunch of pointers to functions, it has a pointer to a struct file_operations,
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by starspangled 2y ago
> I have a model 3 (from 2023), that is rated 270 miles. I can get at max 120 miles, more like 90 miles from it. My drive to work involves going steeply uphill, not very cold. The only reason I don’t care is I have free office charging.
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by starspangled 2y ago
Easy to assume you could only respond with that because you are incapable of providing a coherent response to the quoted point or any of the others.
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by starspangled 2y ago
My print workload is very bursty but also low volume at the best of times. When my printer died I decided not to replace it because document printing services cost on the order of 10 cents per page (non-bulk) for basic printing. I'd ha
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by starspangled 2y ago
There are places in the tropics where a lot of the houses aren't kept closed up with AC running constantly. A lot of South-East Asia, for example.
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by starspangled 2y ago
Contaminants in fuel can cause damage to cars. I don't know if retailers tend to carry insurance for this but typically they are responsible, although proving it may not be easy. I imagine the risk would be quite rare and fairly well h
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by starspangled 2y ago
What are you talking about? You think I'm a westerner bragging about blocking something that isn't even blocked and I'm an intruder? All I said was that China is terrified of naval blockade, which it is. You're the one b
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by starspangled 2y ago
> How would you bock China's access to the sea along it's 14000 km coastline? With missiles and submarines presumably. > That woulde be a heck of a blockade, with or without Taiwan. Of course, due to China's military bu
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by starspangled 2y ago
> TSMC is the only card Taiwan has, No it isn't. > But, I think I see where you’re going: the US preemptively destroying Taiwan’s fab capacity… I'm not going anywhere. China would bomb TSMCs factories itself and spend hund
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by starspangled 2y ago
No I don't, and anyway US-aligned semiconductor design and fabrication is still superior to Chinese if TSMC did not exist.
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by starspangled 2y ago
TSMC factories on Taiwan are small fry in the scheme of things and won't really move the needle much, in terms of strategy. Samsung and Intel are pretty comparable in manufacturing capability, within a couple of years really. And most
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by starspangled 2y ago
China now emits almost 2x the carbon per capita than the UK, and alone emits more than all western countries combined including the US. The UK can't solve climate change at the margin or anywhere else with domestic energy policy. China
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by starspangled 2y ago
TSMC, Samsung, or Intel might be able to build a 3nm fab for about that price (maybe it's more like $30 billion though). You or I? No.
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by starspangled 2y ago
Looks like the old "they're a private company, they can do what they want" chestnut is coming back around. Whoever could possibly have foreseen this?
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by starspangled 2y ago
No that's just basic control and domination of resources that exised eons before humans did. Lots of animals have and guard their "territory" and don't farm. Plenty of human tribes did the same before they had developed
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by starspangled 2y ago
> Germany leads in engineering and automotive tech (Siemens, BMW, Bosch). Sweden produces global tech giants like Spotify and Klarna. Denmark is a leader in renewable energy (Vestas, Ørsted). Japan? It revolutionized robotics, semiconduc
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by starspangled 2y ago
Denouncing and accusing people as fascists who must not be tolerated for the transgression of discussing social and political issues in a manner deemed verboten seems like something a fascist might do.
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by starspangled 2y ago
Seems too simplistic and centric to one particular country / system / ideology. Laws and courts can be and are made oppressive and used against the people by a tyrannical government. Taking power away from [government] is not nece
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by starspangled 2y ago
You're very intolerant of people discussing this subject.
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by starspangled 2y ago
There's n except about it. It was previously on the verge of becoming the governments's de facto censorship and propaganda platform. But apparently it was a private company and could do what it wanted. People really should have th
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by starspangled 2y ago
I didn't create a false equivalence.
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by starspangled 2y ago
I didn't say it wasn't.
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by starspangled 2y ago
No I haven't.

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