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by zanny 8y ago
I'd advise never telling mankind they can't make something worse . Humanity will surprise you.
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by zanny 8y ago
So you fix the government. Fully automated farming seems an inevitability at this point, and the materials costs to build denser instead of wider will be prohibitve so long as we have perfectly arable land to throw combines at. It sure can
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by zanny 8y ago
> why not store in a write only sql database? Probably because the project wouldn't have seen funding without "blockchain" in the proposal title.
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by zanny 8y ago
1. Lets its citizens die destitute of curable illness. 2. Condemns children at birth to poverty and / or crime due to their birth parents as a result of how the public education system is structured. 3. Ten year wait list for housing i
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by zanny 8y ago
Its the only choice available because the previous means of survival was at best subsistence farming. And it isn't guaranteed to happen, but impoverished countries will never enter modern society if they are just isolated from it for l
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by zanny 8y ago
At least in the theoretical example it depends on whether its more economical to build the machines closer to the farms in exchange for sacrificing farmland to do so. Even if the world isn't so cut and dry to turn all of Iowa into one
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by zanny 8y ago
This only happens in unique context, though. If you were in a theoretical environment where there wasn't any demand for beautified neighborhoods the value of the housing wouldn't rise if you beautified it. The circumstance though
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by zanny 8y ago
I a more generalist sense just things like using Electron vs native toolkits matter. The desktop Discord app is going to use substantially more power to run day to day than if it were a native code app that just used something like C++, and
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by zanny 8y ago
Reddit is a centralized proprietary product, Mastodon is not. The worst that can happen to a user in terms of censorship is: * Your instance banning you, which means you can just join another instance. The hardest thing about Mastodon is ch
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by zanny 8y ago
Of course you can't use Youtube? Its a Google product. Its built ground up to depend on Play Services. That being said Youtubes mobile site isn't abysmal and I'm not a fan of how the last decade saw the open web replaced by p
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by zanny 8y ago
You can use Android without Google. Just get Lineage and don't install gapps.
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by zanny 8y ago
Bluetooth radios generally operate at an order of magnitude lower power than wifi or cellular radios, especially in LE mode. Really the Bluetooth protocol is mostly just a ultra low power 802.11. It has more channels but they are thinner
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by zanny 8y ago
> come close to being workable in adverse conditions Given how people drive in the rain and snow in the Northeast, I would argue human drivers have not even come close to being workable in adverse conditions. We drive in them anyway, des
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by zanny 8y ago
Its turtles all the way down. US debt isn't just money the US owes some guy sitting on a pile of money. The debtors owe debtors owe debtors - nobody has a Scrooge style money pit sitting around. It is a house of cards, but it isn'
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by zanny 8y ago
Its also a bit optimistic to think the death and despair will even lead to something better. Romes fall was the Churches rise, the poor beheaded the monarchy in France to replace them with Emperor Napoleon. I for one think that the systemic
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by zanny 8y ago
I'm not convinced you need those published details to begin with, especially to the degree to justify the enormous legal apparatus necessary to perpetuate the patent system. Its become much easier to reverse engineer almost any physica
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by zanny 8y ago
Until there is legitimate competition in these spaces you will keep getting "up to X mbps" and "for the first 50GB, subject to change" in every providers terms. It doesn't help that actually pricing out Internet acc
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by zanny 8y ago
Easy to say from the position of thinking you can't lose your license or have the financial means to deal with such a loss. For a majority of those living in the US the places they live and work have been so fundamentally designed arou
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by zanny 8y ago
Amazon is the first trillion dollar company at the same time I went out of my way to order shirts and guac mix from walmart.com because I have way more faith in products I find in the page or two of results I get there than from the thousan
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by zanny 8y ago
Is there any hardware that supports only DX12 and not Vulkan? My understanding is the only extant device is the Xbox One, which doesn't support Vulkan not because the hardware lacks the ability or drivers (since its an AMD SoC shared w
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by zanny 8y ago
I was worried my S5 was doomed to Lineage 14.1 forever, but some saint dev ported it to 15.1 last month. LTE doesn't work, but hey, 15.1. Whats really scary is that the official Samsung Touchwiz ROM stopped getting updates two years ag
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by zanny 8y ago
At the end of the day we still have the third party me_cleaner to disable the proprietary secret coprocessor on Intel chips while AMD chips still have their equivalent PSP With no first or third party means to disable it. Until such a time
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by zanny 8y ago
The real means to fix that is to make the popular browsers redirect rss feeds to readers. You should be able to pick one, but if you don't set a reader it should default to something reasonable like feedly. The main barrier to adoption
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by zanny 8y ago
Users shouldn't have needed to know the name. They should have just seen the logo, clicked it, and been magically subscribed through whatever their reader of choice is. In most cases that is and was how it worked... works. The problem
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by zanny 8y ago
Additionally there are only three major memory hogs in KDE: Akonadi, purely associated with the KDEPim stuff. You can just uninstall it all without a fuss. Baloo, the file scanner. You can disable this outright. Plasmashell, which is the de
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by zanny 8y ago
I must say, despite what I imagine is a good bit of traffic the instant load times on your site were a joy to behold. I never get to experience that kind of speed on the "modern" web. Even HN loads orders of magnitude slower than
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by zanny 8y ago
Any store worth caring about is already too big for your one program to influence its success. That's the only reason a Foss advocate would want to avoid such platforms in the first place. The potential visibility and revenue from usin
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by zanny 8y ago
I've always wanted to just use an old junk PC as a router instead of paying for what is basically an overpriced Pi with a 4 jack ethernet card attached. But the problem then is that getting enough ethernet ports in the thing to equal t
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by zanny 8y ago
Additionally podcast revenue is heavily centralized, which warps the kind of programming around the whims of the sponsors - who are often Amazon or a subsidiary company of another Fortune 500. Within a margin of error I'd imagine virtu
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by zanny 8y ago
All it takes to build air packages is makepkg from the core pacman package. With gut you can grab aur packages from the terminal, and hit is also core. Every Arch install must have pacman and hit is in base-devel, a package group in core al

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