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by worik 1y ago
Surrender! to compile Weather the ferocious storm You will find, true bliss
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by worik 1y ago
> “35) Give no second chances to anyone who shows disrespect“ This bit me. I work for a disrespectful person. It is awful.
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by worik 1y ago
1.1 Forgive yourself
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by worik 1y ago
I really hope so. But I do not have much faith in insurance companies. I have seen what they have done to worker safety, made it a minefield for workers, a box ticking exercise for bosses, and done very little for worker safety. What work
845.
by worik 1y ago
People understand cars. Abstract data structures, not so much. There are laws about what goes into a car, strict regulation. Software, not so much. Until my boss can be prosecuted for selling untested bug ridden bad software that is what
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by worik 1y ago
> Suggesting that competition regulators should have blocked this is basically suggesting that the government has veto power over almost any hiring decision by any of the top ~1000 companies by market cap. Ok. I am not suggesting that.
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by worik 1y ago
> it's preinstalled on the operating system. Not on my computers. At home, or at work
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by worik 1y ago
> Stop repeating this lie. It is not a lie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product Wishful thinking on your part
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by worik 1y ago
> Just 1) eliminate advertising, and 2) actually enforce the most basic of antitrust, namely using one product to subsidize another operating at a loss Those are good ideas to consider, too But also very radical We are beyond the point w
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by worik 1y ago
> 4 people that started a company and was "acquired" by google less than a year later. The idea that something like this should be blocked by competition regulators is frankly, totally insane. Why? FOMO? Or another reason?
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by worik 1y ago
> ta. I'm very curious what other companies people would trust more with their data. The problem is one company with all the data.
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by worik 1y ago
Linux?
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by worik 1y ago
> Too big to fail means too big to exist. Google et. al should never have been allowed to get this large I agree But placing limits on private property accumulation is a controversial idea But it is an idea who's time must come, or
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by worik 1y ago
Yes please The existence of none of those services depend on Google, and Google's cross subsidisation distorts the environment dreadfully Worse it puts Google at the centre of so many data flows, and now we realise we do not want a si
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by worik 1y ago
The vast majority of nuclear waste needs to be stored only hundreds of years. But there is still plenty that needs to be stored for hundreds of millennium There is no answer to that, and no amount of arguing by analogy, argumentum ad homine
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by worik 1y ago
I was wondering about the patents. But I think they must be close to expiring But flow batteries can be made with century old technology, so it cannot be the whole answer. It is hard to tell the difference of a "confluence of interest
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by worik 1y ago
Geothermal
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by worik 1y ago
No answer to the problems that: A) The area is not known to be geologically stable over the extraordinarily long time periods necessary. (Nowhere is....) B) There is no containment vessel that can last that long I get tired of the wishful
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by worik 1y ago
> Fwiw this sounds like an aspect of fascism Can you explain that?
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by worik 1y ago
> But a solution would be working to help countries with more friendly government to your own In other countries we are scared of, not friendly too, the USA
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by worik 1y ago
> The US's authoritarian tendencies are not in remotely the same league as China They are different. In the same league * Iraq * Vietnam * Cuba * Panama * Grenada * Gaza That is just recent times, and I missed quite a few The USA i
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by worik 1y ago
> The brightest people in the world want to come here Not any more. Not the women, the queer, poc...
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by worik 1y ago
The USA is 20% of Chinese exports China has been moving the manufacturing to their allies for years, as their labour force climbs the value chain. Here in Aotearoa I am looking forward to continued booming trade with China and it's all
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by worik 1y ago
> bury the actual waste deep underground How deep, to stay put thousands of generations?
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by worik 1y ago
I will bite. There are any problems with fission that are all related to the extraordinary danger of handling the fuel, byproducts, and the sites themselves. The cost of them is huge, some people are hoping that modularity will help with co
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by worik 1y ago
Where are the flow batteries? (fuel cells) Lithium ion batteries are light with a high energy density, so are great for cars. Flow batteries have a low energy density, but increasing the duration means a bigger tank, and the cost of bigger
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by worik 2y ago
> 128 bits will never be bruteforced Famous last words
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by worik 2y ago
> "privacy-preserving" tracking Wow.
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by worik 2y ago
> What are the legitimate use cases for third-party cookies? None, looking at it from a web users' perspective You can make up scenarios that require them, but these are artificial and contrived, and boil down to "I can extract
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by worik 2y ago
> Typescript recently announced a rewrite in Go for an expected 10x performance gain Really? Why use Typescript at all, in that case? I really do not know

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