wfhordie

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by wfhordie 4y ago
Either I’m having a stroke or GPT-3 needs some serious work when the topic is human nutrition.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
That number should piss you off. The U.S. was by far the leading global agricultural exporter in 2020 with exports valued at $147.9 billion. [0] And it's not like it's hard to get the food from where it's grown to where it&#
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by wfhordie 4y ago
Ah, I love this game. It's the same one that the super-rich use to convince people barely scraping by -- or anyone who hasn't read Barbara Ehrenreich -- that you should zoom out far enough so that your situation is compared to lit
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by wfhordie 4y ago
At best, you can hope to make surveilling you more expensive or more inconvenient. But if Snowden taught us anything, it's that whatever you needed to do to get yourself tangled up in the 5/14 eyes trip-wire, you've already d
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by wfhordie 4y ago
>As long as we have free and open trade nothing is really going to kill it. I've got some really bad news for you, friend. The free trade era is already over and demographic collapse is coming for almost everyone. https:/&#x2F
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by wfhordie 4y ago
>For whatever reason positive news tends not to play well on HN, even if it’s factual. People on HN are very good and detecting when someone is trying to blow sunshine up their ass. Take, for example, the second part of this tweet: >V
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by wfhordie 4y ago
And it's all downhill from here. With the collapse of globalization, everything will become cheaper, slower, worse quality, and harder to get.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
If your threat model includes nation state intervention, a 5 Euro VPN isn't going to help you. In fact, no VPN is going to help you. The best you can get is probably Tor + Tails, but even then you better be looking over your shoulder.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
100%. Trump should have banned TikTok, and Biden should do it now. Do not wait. Sanction ByteDance. While we're at it -- kill Grindr too. It was sold off for similar reasons, but it should have been killed long ago.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
It already has, in China. China has tons of simple BEVs. Time will tell whether that’s what Americans will want, though.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
> That's not a compelling reason to buy or continue to own a Tesla. Well sure. It’s just the state of the world. I’d expect a Tesla owner to be someone who can handle repairs having to be re-done. They are luxury cars, after all. Fo
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by wfhordie 4y ago
You gotta start somewhere. We’ll have to get used to it. Lots of people are going to be new at their job, given turnovers lately.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
I’m confused. Did they announce they’re not going to do it?
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by wfhordie 4y ago
Does Apple offer “offline” versions of their updates in DMG form?
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by wfhordie 4y ago
It is, and it’s an about face from when the racists were pro-abortion because black mothers were accessing them.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
I don’t think there was ever any doubt. He certainly funded, personally, many abortions throughout his life.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
Most Japanese live in cities. Japanese homes in cities are very small. Most of Japanese night life is lived outside the home.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
> Some might call it inhumane. But, it provides rehabilitation for those willing to seek care, it provides safety for those who've 'fallen on hard times' and makes the difficult decision to socially-isolate the small but d
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by wfhordie 4y ago
Why are you seeing ads? Is your adblocker broken?
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by wfhordie 4y ago
> Any gun control measure that restricts firearms makes it harder to defend yourself. Bump stocks were outlawed. What impact did that have on self-defense? What impact did restricting assault weapons have on self defense? You are making
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by wfhordie 4y ago
> If you remove my ability to protect myself am I not forced to rely on the police to protect me? Gun control does not remove your ability to protect yourself. This is a false premise. Even in a world where the US government institutes m
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by wfhordie 4y ago
Crypto is user hostile then? Got it
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by wfhordie 4y ago
So what exactly is the point of holding BTC if it can be held hostage like this? Crypto continues to fail at its most basic premises.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
So about half the size of the battery in question. That is to say, Australia built a centralized battery almost twice the size. Their population is 25m. California’s is 40m. My point stands: this won’t catch on in the US.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
This article makes me feel sorry for straight people.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
>Why would they be ubiquitous at the household level, not centralized as a "electric grid backup battery", like Australia's "big battery" https://victorianbigbattery.com.au/ For the US, there is
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by wfhordie 4y ago
It’s confusing until you use it, then it’s capabilities and limitations become clear. So I don’t see this as a reason to pull it.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
For the CCP, control is an end in itself.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
It's not about the virus, it's about control.
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by wfhordie 4y ago
The problem you mentioned is already solved using the contracting system.

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