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Indeed, we are complicit. Something to reflect on.
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One can think of many better ways to engineer this protection, starting with the most common: lie to the user and never discharge the last 10%, shutting down early.
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by w0de0 4y ago
My Bose QC 45s have the most annoying low battery warning I've ever experienced. Beginning at 10% battery, every 5 minutes all input media is paused so a computer generated voice can inform me "BATTERY LOW, PLEASE CHARGE NOW.&quot
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Straw men are among the most insightful constructions; they expose the crow’s idiocy.
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https://www.mcmaster.com/content/time-clocks
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With Prometheus. Or: our cult of Hephaestus. And why shouldn’t they be - What other proof is there of our wisdom’s worth? Tools are the most of our humanity; the all of it, for what is not a tool? A shirt, a city: all not animal is the a
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by w0de0 4y ago
> No billboards or tv spends, that's for the mass market Neither the billboards for Brex on the drive to Mission from SFO, nor those for Boeing in the Washington, D.C. metro, nor those “for your consideration” on the Sunset Strip co
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by w0de0 4y ago
Australia has roughly a tenth America’s population and GDP. America has the premiere televisual media production center in the anglosphere. High bandwidth communications are essentially instant and free. Travel is short, and affordable for
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by w0de0 4y ago
Luxury brands have always made low end products for the petite bourgeoisie. Their products offerings are deliberate pyramids of increasing artificial scarcity which many clever people have wasted lives designing. ‘Just charge for the check
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by w0de0 4y ago
A fair question. I feel much of the mourning of lost trust in media comes down to crocodile tears (“concern trolling” - though I don’t cast that label on any comment here). The well meant and often needed pedantry of the informed serves the
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by w0de0 4y ago
I don’t believe so. Few games take on the challenge of modeling battlefield tactics (as opposed to geo-strategy). In my view those of highest quality are a few of the Total War series and WARNO. These still far fall short for reasons of fan
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by w0de0 4y ago
At their best, I’ve found Paradox games are indeed this - but one is waiting on the outcomes of an emergent system one has had only a part in guiding. This opposed to managing a holistic (modulo some rng variation) system, as in Factorio.
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Ironically it is extremely bourgeoisie to have sensibilities which can be offended by a luxury consumable.
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It’s sad, but we will simply never get past the point of rearranging the furniture while we argue about the accuracy of estimates of the iceberg’s size. Why is this the font of your passion, rather than the desperate situation of our planet
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by w0de0 4y ago
Though I agree with you that the US would not do such a thing, such assertions - even if written into state policy - cannot reassure an adversary. The US is, in fact, the only state which has used nuclear weapons in combat - it was the very
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by w0de0 4y ago
> it's still largely populated by well educated, intelligent individuals who are skilled orators and debaters. Real ill luck then to find the one educated fool who is skilled in obfuscatory rhetoric for the latest PM. Reassuring to
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by w0de0 4y ago
> Forcing technology innovators adopt open standards is also potentially problematic. And also, you know, the foundation of the internet and all it has bred.
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> There are no experienced manufacturing workers… This isn't a matter of the price of labor. Nonetheless the shortage may be addressed by increasing the price. Witness the proliferation of software boot camps. I find myself confused
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Constructive dismissal issimpky convincing someone to leave without the burden to your cowardice and the company’s revenue that firing entails. You are playing semantic games - your described practice is not something different. It is disho
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Strikingly absent from the piece, and in my experience from similar memoirs generally, is an explicit attempt at constructing general or specific theories of mind. Much may be relieved by turning one's conceptual skill to the task of m
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by w0de0 4y ago
You set the bar, not him, by inviting the comparison. Moreover, the poster makes the point that freedom of association, a component of free speech, requires private censorship - a feature, not a bug.
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Books. Christ.
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> one thing to fire employees who breach contract & another to tell them what they can do when they are not working. Those can definitely be the same thing (in America).
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No, they suggest one be aware that neutral metrics can none-the-less have an impact which may result in a violation of the law and that therefore other - not made up, just other - metrics be used. I take no position here on this law or the
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Why would one work for a company evil enough to commit such a crime? Surely if it would be wiser to ponder the unethical acts you have helped such a company commit against the public, not which unethical acts it is capable of committing aga
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The Russian armed forces do not have control of or indeed the ability to control Kyiv’s airspace. They spectacularly failed to take the city in their first assault and even at that time were unable to gain air superiority. Since then they h
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Apps for Adults Are Spying on Them
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Don’t work at Amazon. It remains true the you only live the once.
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Is there any solution to be found through analogy with established fields' relationship between engineering and research disciplines? How, for instance, do physicists share formal models which rocket engineers might apply? Certainly th
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This ingenuity is why schemes to encode civil or god forbid criminal law in a blockchain are misguided.

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