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by stretchcat 6y ago
This conversation is jumping around all over the place isn't it? The fact remains people can and do trust produce; the extant food systems we have are working. The extant systems, regulations and all, provide the reliable, safe and
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I disagree, I think it probably would for humans.. but what about other advanced organisms? Maybe they have very long lives. Maybe their biology is more conducive to 'suspended animation' or some other form of hibernation. Mayb
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Every advancing civilization will eventually create an internet. Once they do that, interstellar travel is off the table. Advanced civilizations stay closely packed because they cannot tolerate latency once they get a taste for near insta
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by stretchcat 6y ago
There really isn't much difference, the quality of a frozen white castle burger is about the same as fresh made by humans, and I doubt fresh made by robots would be much better. All three are going to be pretty crap. The robot pizza c
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by stretchcat 6y ago
AFAIK NewPipe does not use youtube-dl.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Not every project will have a sufficiently high profile for the EFF to notice. Relying on the EFF like this doesn't scale, isn't future proof, and doesn't address the long tail of the problem.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
A cost worth paying, because the only alternative is billions of people starving. Whereas if vertical farms disappeared, yuppies would suffer from eating slightly less fresh lettuce but life would otherwise go on.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> When the public doesn’t trust the food they are playing dice with every mouthful of food. That’s just not acceptable. The public do trust lettuce. The current systems work well and billions of people trust their lives to it, with
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Factory produced white castle burgers have been in supermarket freezers for years (and aren't much worse than the 'fresh' ones, which are themselves firmly in the realm of junk food.) Machines making food is nothing new, but
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by stretchcat 6y ago
"commoditization, automation and economies of scale." Traditional farms have the clear and overwhelming advantage in all three of these. And they aren't standing still either, they benefit from the advance of technology to
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Either way, you're not exactly dicing with death when you eat some lettuce. Sometimes there are outbreaks, but the CDC says about 420 die per year from salmonella, with 26k hospitalizations. That's virtually nothing when you con
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by stretchcat 6y ago
One constraint to keep in mind is how quickly and efficiently the field can be harvested. If you're talking about a crop that is harvested by hand then this isn't really a factor. But if you're trying to grow a crop that is
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> Also lookup salmonella outbreaks. How, you might ask, does salmonella get into lettuce? You will probably be grossed out to hear the answer. Spoiler: field workers who don't get bathroom breaks. I think a lot of people don'
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by stretchcat 6y ago
A single truck can ship more food in one trip than one of these containers could produce in a year.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Why would the price of food from a 'vertical farm' (shipping container in a parking lot) go down relative to the price food from regular farms? Even if it made sense to grow using LEDs instead of direct sunlight, that could be do
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Often I think anybody could make it, but only a privileged few have the elite social connections to make a career out of it.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
What a senselessly uncharitable comment. Blockcipher said "as many of us saw coming" ; clearly Trump's nature is not a recent realization for them.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
This whole situation is a bad trap for novices, given how many tutorials, class slides, etc ask students to copy/paste various invocations of pip and python that may or may not work verbatim on their distro.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
If this were any company other than Apple, would half the comments here be underplaying the severity of it?
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by stretchcat 6y ago
When the dictator operates a secular government and the alternative is an ochlocratic theocracy, I don't think the morality of the situation is so clear cut.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I used IA's browser plugin that does this for a while, but unfortunately had to stop because it had too many false positives (sending me to archive pages for sites that were still live.) An extension that does this properly definitely
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by stretchcat 6y ago
I'm not certain, but doesn't a 'read only' reddit page still get changed when a user who was in it deletes their account and posts? Often when a search engine sends me to reddit, the comments that probably contained the
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Did this receive a name change? I could have sworn I saw it before as "This waifu does not exist."
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by stretchcat 6y ago
It was planned for months, openly on Facebook in plain view of everybody. Remember that when politicians call for more intrusive surveillance in response.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Pointing out the error in their reasoning by noting their sum exceeds the RAM their computer actually has usually works well.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Emacs also can display proportional fonts fine. But it's proficiency with fixed-width fonts seems most relevant for crosswords.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Crosswords are grid based word games. A text editor displays text in a grid. It seems like a great fit to me.
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by stretchcat 6y ago
> More likely, they would draw from contemporary symbols that already had positive sentiment associated with them. Yes I think so. In fact, that's precisely what the nazis did with the swastika. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by stretchcat 6y ago
That video shows a cop pointing his gun up a flight of stairs, not at children. You claim he was pointing his gun at children out of frame, but the video doesn't show what was claimed. I've still seen no evidence to support the
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by stretchcat 6y ago
Holy spin. Rob Pike was explicitly talking about young inexperienced programmers who are 'not capable of understanding a brilliant language.' He wasn't talking about experienced developers and made that as clear as he pos

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