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by wyre 5y ago
>I calculated that at a minimum the world economy needs to increase five-fold for global poverty to substantially decline. This is in a scenario in which the world would also achieve a massive reduction in inequality: inequality between
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by wyre 5y ago
I mostly just hated dropping my phone to have the battery pop out and loosing any work I was doing on my phone.
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by wyre 5y ago
> This has now changed as companies are now acting in bad faith I wonder what the major impetus for the change has been. Is it akin to having a million monkeys guided by money on computers, eventually one of them will write code enabling
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by wyre 5y ago
What innovations have Google and Facebook had over the past few years? As far as I’m concerned Facebook could disappear overnight and the world would be a much better place.
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by wyre 5y ago
£99 for a 800x600 monitor is exactly what I mean when I say eink is price prohibitive and not worth it.
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by wyre 5y ago
I want to hook up a small e ink screen to a pi and use it with my mechanical keyboard as a modern typewriter of sorts but the prices on eink are so prohibitive it doesn’t seem worth it.
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by wyre 5y ago
Yes, it was a simple example but regardless I have a hard time believing that the needed changes would happen before powerful people achieve and take advantage of supraphysiological lifespans. Also I’m not sure how simple changing it would
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by wyre 5y ago
I would agree “we” don’t. Whoever “we” is. The problem is the hypothetical billionaires and politicians expanding their power with elongated lifespans. Imagine the ramifications if Supreme Court justices lived 50+ more years, for one exampl
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by wyre 5y ago
Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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by wyre 5y ago
What is the reference to Island and Archipelago? I'm not familiar and my DDG skills aren't helping.
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by wyre 5y ago
Can you share a Wayback Machine link?
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by wyre 5y ago
Just because a platform is not relevant or interesting to you or your circles doesn’t mean it has no value to others. Lots of people got a lot of value out of using Tumblr. When Facebook was limited to people you know in real life, Tumblr a
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by wyre 5y ago
Tumblr teens are now aged around 25-35, I bet.
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by wyre 5y ago
On what basis have you “earned the right to refuse the orthodoxy of arrogant white liberals?” Genuinely intrigued. Cause to me that sounds like ur trying to say you’ve earned the right to be a bigot. Bigotry isn’t a right to earn but a choi
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by wyre 5y ago
1. Unions are a democratic force and it’s important to consider that it’s faults are problems of democracy, not something inherent or restricted to unions. 2. Lots of big words to justify being a bigot here imo. There is nothing cool about
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by wyre 5y ago
So I’m hearing you say unions are bad because there promote anti-racism and bring up moral issues? And that’s bad because?
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by wyre 5y ago
A music blog with affiliate links and ads and SEO is very very different than a conversation with the guy at my local record store. To think they are more similar than different is preposterous.
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by wyre 5y ago
Who are you (or anyone) to say how a wild animal’s end should be? If animals are anything like humans (also an animal), they would most likely want to live as long as possible and prefer a natural death over a shortened human-caused death.
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by wyre 5y ago
This sentiment is thrown out a lot but Apple has some of the best LTS on their hardware in the business. 6 year old iPhones are still getting updates. Someone in this thread mentioned their laptop that Apple describes as vintage is still ge
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by wyre 5y ago
In regards to your loophole I’m reminded of the pretty famous Yellowstone study that showed when wolves are not artificially reduced by hunting their entire environment stabilized. Or is your loophole inferring that animals should be hunted
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by wyre 5y ago
Even if hypnotherapy only brings out incorrect tales if there is improvement in the patients wellness I would view that as a valid treatment, but obviously there are a lot of metrics that are impractical to measure to make valid scientific
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by wyre 5y ago
There were gigantic protests in France recently for basically the same reason and no one was accusing a foreign power of instigating riots in France. Why would these riots in Kazakhstan be any different?
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by wyre 5y ago
“Twitch plays drive an autonomous vehicle”
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by wyre 5y ago
The global 1% cutoff is around $35,000, which is ironically very close to the median income in the US.
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by wyre 5y ago
> drive companies to innovate away your job Good. We need less bullshit jobs. >Why? Because workers have the right to negotiate wages and asking for increased pay is a very fair negotiation during a labor shortage caused by low wages.
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by wyre 5y ago
Internet store =/= algorithmically determined feeds programmed specifically to capture prolonged attention. Traditionally, video games were addictive because the game was good. The gameplay, storyline, art, music, etc have a part in gr
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by wyre 5y ago
This will block sites like OutdoorGearLab which has great content and trustworthy reviews. I think doing a check on the copy on the SEO website and comparing it to other websites might do the trick though.
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by wyre 5y ago
If TikTok has the ability to human moderators then I don’t understand how a search engine couldn’t get away with the same thing.
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by wyre 5y ago
Yes, but what the comments are saying is that DDG has an advantage over other searches because their bangs allow anyone to easily use another websites search function, so by using DuckDuckGo you aren’t limited to Bing and DDGs search.
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by wyre 5y ago
It will be different. Playing Pokémon or Mario is much different than the endless scroll of TikTok, YouTube Kids, or a lot of the games.

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