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by trainsplanes 5y ago
They’re entirely separate governments ruling over different countries. There’s no reason for people outside of politics to pretend otherwise. It always comes off as childish, really.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
What’s with people calling governments they don’t like illegitimate? People do the same with North Korea all the time. Those governments may be distasteful and do things you don’t like, but they’re very real and have been for nearly a centu
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Free energy isn’t a thing. There’s a cost to building it. Mining absolutely wrecks environments. And just dumping billions of tons of salt on a mountainside is no different from what humanity has been doing for centuries now. Destroying an
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Then what do you do with the salt when you have exponentially desalinated amounts of water? Managing it is already a problem with our limited amounts of desalination. Growth has consequences. People who optimize for economic gain are paid i
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
As someone who was stuck on a 26 hour schedule for years, I just... grew out of it. One day around age 26 it just went away after having been a problem since early high school. No clue why. If you're still young, your "problem&quo
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
More motivation for another company to swoop in and completely crush your business by offering stable supply. If China goes hard on chip manufacturing, they could economically crush Taiwan.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Then the term there is Latin Americans
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Not just Australia. It seems to be everywhere in the anglosphere.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I’m American and most certainly not pro-Trump. That said, I’ve thought Make America Great Again hats were hilarious since day one. I’ve wanted to get one and wear it, but I know that doing that is taken as a strong sign of endorsement for h
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Yeah. When there was a hinge crack issue with Macbooks way out of warranty, Apple swapped it for free. This was maybe 7 years ago.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
The GI Bill directly pays tuition and gives you a stipend meant to be used to rent and any living expenses you may have. And it's transferable to other people.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Feels strange to say 1991 was the heyday. I don't know of a single person with a home PC in 1991, much less internet. Mid-90s to very early 2000s was nonstop AOL commercials and CDs in the mail. Chat rooms were booming and you couldn&#
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Or it's some misguided attempt at increasing "user engagement." Same as those awful nagging newsletter signup popups that every site decided to add one day.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
You really may be waiting a good while. And if a desirable used model is ever a decent price, it’ll be a unit burnt out from mining fake money that’s only used to buy real money or a mail order of LSD.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
I experienced this for the first time, coincidentally, when traveling around France. Sometimes the battery would suddenly drop 20% or more and then shut off.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Yep. This and the fact that each arcade has maybe 5 flavor of the month games, none of them remotely appealing to me, with the rest being countless floors of crane games, makes it kind of hard to care. Like, I get it, they’re going for the
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Assuming it’s using some sort of ML to detect the bugs, that’s a matter of just inputting a new set of data. Easier to update a set of training images than find new poisons that don’t kill absolutely everything.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
>Removing pests, such as aphids, thrips and lygus bugs, is a next step for FarmWise This would be great. Poisons become ineffective against their intended targets pretty quickly after a few generations, but evolving resistance against be
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Vietnam ultimately became a pretty nice country a few years after the US government finally gave up on trying to turn it into hell on earth, and it’s only getting better. If this really is Saigon 2.0, 20 years from now Afghanistan will be a
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Children and abolitionists weren’t masters and were still killed. There’s a big difference between being angry at slave owners and carrying out genocide. The latter is what happened in Haiti and people in the US actively feared that for dec
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Are you proposing some inverse scale or what? When it comes to emissions, poor countries are generally way lower than wealthy countries per capita. If we readjusted these charts to be plastic pollution per dollar, the Philippines would be s
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
> President of the United States Thomas Jefferson – fearing that slaves gaining their independence would spread to the United States – stopped sending aid that began under his predecessor John Adams and pursued international isolation of
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
It’s silly to think the US government hasn’t been twisting their arm to do this for years.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Raw cash figures really don’t mean much. When you consider cost of living, wealth distribution, money controlled by trillion dollar corporations (mostly in the US), infrastructure, health care, etc, dollars become an unequal scale. The bott
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Replace Chinese with absolutely any government and that's what'll happen. We're pretty much at a point where any hacker/leaker anywhere on earth is "found" to have committed sex crimes or have 300 gigabytes of
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
>The wealthy spend relatively little of their wealth on discretionary spending. So they have unnecessary wealth just sitting around that they don't need.
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
>I got stuck because I couldn't get over the lack of AAA graphics That's an artist problem. Not a programmer problem. I've used Lua for gamedev before. I've also used C#, C++, Python, and Javascript. Nothing was more
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
What percent of wealth does the top 1% possess vs the bottom 90 percent combined? Wikipedia says the top 1% possesses precisely 38.5% of the country's wealth, so it's more than reasonable that they shoulder at least 38.5% of the t
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Having private devices randomly snooped for forbidden materials is fine, okay. So why limit this to phones? There are kidnapped children being locked inside homes. If you don't open your doors and accept weekly full home inspections, I
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by trainsplanes 5y ago
Is hacker news banned in China? I've always used it as a way of testing my internet connection there since HN loads quickly and has been ignored by basically every filter everywhere. I haven't been to China since borders were shut

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