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by worik 10mo ago
> a book that describes how black people are lesser, and dumber than white people? Which book was that?
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by worik 10mo ago
> Popular banned books like Lolita, mein kampf are not here, but they are also not in U.S. school Honest question: Are those books banned in schools? The books that "require banning" are good children's books. Isn't t
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by worik 10mo ago
> I certainly wouldn’t want my children getting exposed to books that normalise trans ideology, for example. If you had a trans child? Trans yourself?
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by worik 10mo ago
What an outrageous list! Mostly books about young people confronting the problems facing young people A window into the minds of adults. A distorted window, I hope, or there is no hole for those adults Protect children? Stop abusing, punis
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by worik 11mo ago
> “NBC doesn’t have a television business, they have an ad business”. They do broadcast TV, the purpose of which is to display ads. That does make sense. > “Google doesn’t have a search business, they have an ad business.” When Goog
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by worik 11mo ago
> So why should I pay more by €30k to install experimental thing for a decade when my low cost gas heating will last for 3 decades again. Because: It is not experimental (it is no longer 1992) Your gas comes from Russia, and they hate yo
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by worik 11mo ago
This is a very important matter....
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by worik 11mo ago
> Not sure why you're getting downvoted Orion browser is proprietary That would be my guess. That might be OK for you, but I have been burnt, as have many others, by proprietary software If there is a choice, I make it
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by worik 11mo ago
> Linux desktop experience, however, leaves a lot to be desired. No, it does not. It is a wonderful world fill of variety, choice and diversity
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by worik 11mo ago
That is a sweet thought, it would be nice if it were true, it is false. "Customers" are barely holding on in a very precarious position
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Our emotional pain became a product(theguardian.com)
39 points by worik 11mo ago|15 comments
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Development on Apple hardware generally
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by worik 11mo ago
I hate this. Good people in the UK spending their time dreaming up solutions to "problems" far away The people who live "far away" have agency and can solve their own problems, if given the chance. Westerners do not know
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Pop Music Is Getting Darker(nautil.us)
3 points by worik 11mo ago|2 comments
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by worik 11mo ago
> For the last 15 years of his life Yamauchi lived quietly, refusing requests for interviews, Bless Did not owe the media anything.
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by worik 11mo ago
> Any requirements for more modern application patterns that are emerging in the broader web development environment, like idk.... asynchronous I/O, A good article, but there is nothing new about asynchronous I/O This is a good
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by worik 11mo ago
Typical of Cannonical. What a waste of effort. Maybe rewrite broken things. But how many core utilities are broken?
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by worik 11mo ago
I think the (negative) point is the cost of ownership. European cars are very cool, if you can afford to keep them running
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by worik 11mo ago
> Even BMW can't make something that is practical. Hyperbole, but essentially true The Japanese beat everybody when ICE ruled. Their cars were miles ahead on every measure except snob value. In the the of EV it will be the Chinese.
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Because cooperating is better than competing
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by worik 11mo ago
> interference from intense solar radiation, which corrupted data in a computer which controls the aircraft's elevation Has anybody kept count of "fly by wire" failures in aircraft? It fills me with dread that a computer p
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by worik 11mo ago
What are the advantages of this?
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I found it clear
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> the economic pay-off from AI...[may]... arrive more slowly, more unevenly and at a greater cost than implied by the current investment boom This is the point. This is what matters. A revolutionary technology birthed in a bonfire of cas
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by worik 11mo ago
Yea, nah The commitments made to build data centre's defy the laws of physics, but if they cannot be built the revenue will not appear. Meanwhile the Chinese, and a thousand independent developers, are working out how to build, train
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by worik 11mo ago
> Serious question: What exactly do you want to see done? Confiscate their wealth
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by worik 11mo ago
They could use transparent adjustable algorithms I would like to tweak my own feed
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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation(news.ycombinator.com)
3 points by worik 11mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 11mo ago
> So what exactly is New Mexico proposing to provide and what did Quebec provide? I do not know specifically. But I surmise, culture. The things we value, culturally, make themselves apparent
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by worik 11mo ago
A simplification yes, misunderstanding no. Add selling the same square meter many times

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