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by thmsths 1y ago
The older devs have zero upsides if they use a different JDK, but plenty of downsides if it introduces any issues. Is it really surprising then that they want to maintain the status quo?
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by thmsths 1y ago
They do get to vote on any bill regardless of committee membership though. Maybe we should just abolish the general vote, allow for the number of reps to keep up with the population increase and only have (larger) committees that have final
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by thmsths 1y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I have been frustrated about the lack of chip and pin for IDs for years. We have had digital IDs in the form of debit/credit card since the 90s, and yet the governments have been agonizingly slow to adopt th
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by thmsths 1y ago
I absolutely agree. You are just moving the lack of representation to the next level if you increase the size of the house. House members need to know each others and works with each others to be effective. And this is where math says thing
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by thmsths 1y ago
Makes me wonder: why do we not have a government provided service? IDing people has, traditionally been a responsibility of the government. Even the private verification services ultimately rely on you showing your government issued ID at s
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by thmsths 1y ago
I also strongly value privacy and honestly this kind of scheme always rubs me wrong. In the physical world, we have IDs, provided by the government, a business is only required to do a brief check and often does not have to retain informati
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by thmsths 1y ago
Looks like cotton has a self ignition temperature almost twice as high as paper. Considering it is already in use for dollar bills, we know that it already has a paper like feeling. So maybe this could be achieved with this material?
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by thmsths 1y ago
Don't forget Incogni, I was tempted to subscribe but as you point out, when you see the other kind of services/products youtubers tend to peddle, it gives me pause.
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am surprised they would pick 0 for the latitude, it seems that most of Europe, whether it's the land or the people is east of that. Maybe some important weather systems develop over the Atlantic and they want to track that?
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am not sure if I agree with the conclusion about the Windows 8 UI unification, I still believe it could have made sense. It's just that as is often the case with MS, they let a good idea go to waste by doing a half assed implementati
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by thmsths 1y ago
I feel like that makes sense actually. One core tenet of the "free market" is the need for competition, otherwise complacency and rent seeking happen and things get bad. If that apply for corporations, why not economic systems too
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am very conflicted on this. On one hand I absolutely despise that hating the children attitude and I believe we are reaping what we are sowing. On the other hand there are serial offenders that are not being dealt appropriately. My naive
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by thmsths 1y ago
I feel the real danger of back feeding is not that american line workers can't be bothered to check if the line is truly dead before starting to work. It's that the line could be reenergized at any time.
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by thmsths 1y ago
We already require juniors to go through a 4 years university degree. It takes a fair bit of time of real world work to get to the senior level. So unless we expect people to do another 5 years of schooling, I am not sure how this will happ
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by thmsths 1y ago
Which is why, ideally your access to the court system should NOT be dependent on your wealth.
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by thmsths 1y ago
Because you "technically" agreed to it in the 5000 words long terms and conditions, you also agreed to the clause that says they can change at anytime.
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by thmsths 1y ago
I understand this, but the economics of software in general is that you have high upfront costs and then the marginal costs are minimal. Better tooling has helped keep these upfront costs from growing too much (developing a game in 2025 is
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by thmsths 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons: no one being able to buy stuff is a problem for everyone, but being able to save just a bit more by getting rid of your workforce is a huge advantage for your business.
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by thmsths 1y ago
I believe high voltage DC also does not suffer from skin effect. Meaning that the current is transmitted through the whole conductor, not just the surface, leading to less material needed for the same current rating.
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by thmsths 1y ago
How is that not treated as fraud? As you pointed out, with a little bit of detective work (which is well beyond the means and motivation of a casual internet user, but well within reach of a consumer protection agency) it's fairly easy
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by thmsths 1y ago
That's an interesting tidbit. Every time there is a suggestion we switch to reusable glass bottles instead of plastic, someone raises the issue of the extra weight of the bottle which will lead to greater carbon emissions during transp
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by thmsths 1y ago
Sounds good to me. I am not too dogmatic about the exact implementation of who does the work and your system seems to align incentives properly while also avoiding the too many cooks in the pot/too much dilution of the money into small
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by thmsths 1y ago
I am not advocating for central planning. As I underscored in my comment, I advocate for something closer to the defense procurement model: where the market is failing to provide an appropriate off the shelf product and the state contracts
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by thmsths 1y ago
Sounds like we need a European software agency then. While these projects are technically independent of the EU, Ariane and the A400M are great examples of European collaboration. We need the same for software: create a company/agency&
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by thmsths 1y ago
This is basically the central theme of one of Asimov's short stories. In the story a giant computer called the multivac selects one person that it deems statistically representative of the entire nation, asks them a couple of questions
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by thmsths 1y ago
Perhaps companies should go back to promoting their job openings at in person events? I remember a couple years ago when I went to a job faire, it was typical for recruiters to politely refuse your printed resume and instead suggest you app
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by thmsths 2y ago
From my non expert understanding, we already do kinda. The masks used for photolithography are made using an electron beam, allowing for a much greater resolution than what the underlying photolithography allows. But this is far too slow fo
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by thmsths 2y ago
Which is still amazing. An issue with high power LED is cooling. If this can be turned into a product, it solves the issue in the best possible way.
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by thmsths 2y ago
Unlike the FDK module, this module requires an external crystal oscillator, which makes me think that the total footprint ends up being larger.
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by thmsths 2y ago
We need to enforce minimum warranty periods per product category. We already have a detailed classification of every single product for import duty purposes, let's reuse that and apply specific warranties. For instance, a car or an app

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