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by wtcactus 2y ago
This might seem far-fetched, but I wonder if all the money used for reactive actions to the fires and the billions lost during those, couldn't instead heavily subsidize a goat grazing industry at large scale. Keeping the forest clean o
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by wtcactus 2y ago
In the old days, where I live (and I'm guessing most of Mediterranean Europe) we had goats. It was a superb utilization of resources really, goats eat almost any vegetation - even hard bramble - so the shepherds would take them to the
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The article mentions some prices but never presents an apples to apples comparison between the price for a similarly configured device with windows and steamOS. I’m curious to know how much Microsoft charges for these licenses
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Of course, that you can also read it as Zuck not having to kneel to the old king anymore.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
You wrote: "I've not seen any examples of the "official" fact-checkers being wrong; have you?". So, you do now admit there are examples of official" fact-checkers being wrong?
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by wtcactus 2y ago
There you go: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/facebook-execs...
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal by heavy censorship of any post about it on Facebook. For instance. There's a high probability that heavily influenced the presidential 2020 election outcome. https://judiciary.hou
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by wtcactus 2y ago
This is a really nice idea. I never thought of using it "the other way around". This is nice for tags, for instance - where we live we have this little tag we should put on our mailboxes so that we don't get publicity.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Well, we’re almost in 2025. I found it preposterously offensive that D&D was trying to tell us that a 25 Kg, 1.10 meter gnome, couldn’t be as good as a fighter as a 150 Kg, 2.20 meter Orc. I’m glad they fixed that obvious shortcoming of
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I never did try that. But I'm figuring out it needs a fairly big model (or several copies) to work properly and for the filament change time to be acceptable. All in all, other than completely changing filament after a specific layer,
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by wtcactus 2y ago
This seems the actual future of color 3D printing. Filament manufacturers will develop increasingly better translucent filaments and 3D printer manufacturers will seamlessly integrate the method on the printers. I have a Bambu P1S with the
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Since I’m 11, I’ve had these horrible migraines. By the time I was 15, I had one almost every week. They were terrible, the pain was unlike anything else I’ve went through in my life. One side of my body went numb, I became dislexic for par
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by wtcactus 2y ago
First they shamelessly out the only engineer that could and wanted to be Intel’s CEO in a moment of crisis before his plan could actually be applied. Now, they go after him because - like he told them right at the beginning - short term pro
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by wtcactus 2y ago
This is the self-described strategy that John Nash [1], the Nobel Prize winner, ended up using in his latter life to face his serious mental condition. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr .
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The idea that competition alone solves this problem ignores that this is an incomplete information system. I really, really want to buy products that work well, hassle-free and last a very long time, and I'm willing to pay premium for
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I'm not understanding if it also filters the outdoor air coming in. I live in a place where supposedly the air is of good quality, and yet, when I open the windows, the all place gets a thin film of black dust on all surfaces - most pr
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I remember that somewhere during my physics degree this idea of the article clicked with me. Entropy is just a simpler way of manifesting properties of a system that we didn’t measure because it is too difficult (when I was still at classic
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I see this as a good measure. I don't call for total abolishing of social "sciences" funding, but we need to stop putting real sciences and social sciences together in the same budget bucket. 1st, because the citizens are mis
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Some of these people receive handouts from my money their entire life. Some of them, are now in the 2nd generation living the same way. They literally receive money from the taxes I pay over my work, for doing nothing their entire life. ht
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by wtcactus 2y ago
> “someone else being rewarded for work that you did” This is the main driver for reducing inequality in the West. I keep paying taxes over what I get from my work to give to people that didn’t do it, under the guise of reducing inequali
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Are you interested in “saving the planet” or in making sure every country gets to pollute the same per capita on a historical basis?
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Europe is willingly self sabotaging their industry and energy production, in the name of some completely irrational environmentalist ideology that states that saving the planet is achieved by making Europe poorer while allowing China, India
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The article is a smear piece. As it was expected coming from Wired.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The moment I'm in a position where I can't say - politely of course, like I do to any other person at work - that I think the direction they are taking is wrong, is the moment I'll start searching for another job.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
By the justice of keeping the planet from going above what its natural resources can replenish. Which, is actually the all excuse being given to take money from some people to give to other: saving the planet. Also, they didn't will th
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by wtcactus 2y ago
If the argument is that we should now pay up for our ancestors not having the foresight to understand that industrializing during the 19th and early 20th century was going to have a negative impact on the environment, then I also expect oth
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The very first thing to do, is to not take money from people on developed countries to give to India. A wealth transfer should only go to developing countries that are improving their environmental impact, never to countries like India that
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Every 1$ that's extorted from the citizens of developed nations to give to most of the developing nations (India one of them), is going to build the single most productive industry regardless of how dirty it is. Giving money to these n
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Well, one of the points is trying to figure out how that constantly used "per capita" argument ever solves environmental problems. Exactly why should we reward India when it comes to pollution just because they have a lot of peopl
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I find it baffling that, for instance, India, one the most polluted and polluting country in the planet on several metrics, is one of the recipient of the money. People in countries that go the extra mile to keep the environment as clean as

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