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by zugi 4y ago
Teslas are safer per mile driven than other cars. NHTSA gives them 5-star safety ratings. Banning this technology by being suckered in by a coordinated smear campaign will result in more deaths if successful. The lives you end may be your
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by zugi 4y ago
Insurance companies and NHTSA have nationwide accident statistics available - see https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings for Tesla safety ratings - but those don't support the Luddite narrative so they engineer videos and fear-
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by zugi 4y ago
I didn't criticize one of his links, I criticized the current organized attack on Tesla that people here are being complicit in, which will lead to many deaths. Check out NHTSA's safety ratings at https://www.nhtsa.gov&
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by zugi 4y ago
> It's complete willful ignorance to mock or dismiss this. It's complete willful ignorance to participate in this well-funded paid fearmongering campaign driven by a Musk opponent who ran for office just so he couldn't be
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by zugi 4y ago
The article says these states "actively" discourage rooftop solar, but "actively" may differ from what most readers think: > They typically make it difficult for homeowners or property owners to install solar and conn
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by zugi 4y ago
> What is A.I.? What is sentience? What is consciousness? In the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", Douglass Hofstadter proposes that prior to Einstein's death, someone scan the complete contents of Einst
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by zugi 4y ago
> I noticed you said in another thread that you might have had enough of life. I doubt a non-sentient AI would say that A non-sentient AI trained on a corpus of text conversations between depressed people would almost certainly say that.
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by zugi 4y ago
Agreed and same here. Now they're spending their money on lobbying the government for rules in their favor, rather than on improving the product. I loved the idea of a mobile browser that supported extensions! But they just haven'
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by zugi 4y ago
> Which in practice means there's literally never enough money in circulation to pay off the 'debt'. I always wondered why so many people were in so much debt, and was really shocked when I came to the understanding that w
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I don't have word count tool on my phone, but does it strike others as strange that there's a 1000+ word wikipedia page about a 4,500-word article?
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by zugi 4y ago
Unexpected Adam Smith - nice! And even apart from questions of economic systems, second-guessing peoples' motives is almost never productive.
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Uh, no I do not, it just seemed like a relevant movie reference...
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Nice, that's a good way to look at it!
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I read the article expecting to see terrible actions by Amazon fighting the union. Instead the article was about the Teamsters union convincing local governments to block Amazon from opening buildings, and Amazon "fighting back" b
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by zugi 4y ago
> "American Economic Liberties Project" It's a name of which Orwell would be proud. The site hosts article after article advocating ending economic liberties.
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by zugi 4y ago
In the article she says "she expressed her frustration" and had been on the job for only 9 days. The specifics of how she "expressed her frustration" are likely quite relevant here...
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This is just the FCC trying to maintain the power and budget they've accumulated under the guise of bringing high speed internet to rural America. But these days mobile terrestrial providers and Starlink are increasingly accomplishing
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by zugi 4y ago
I was the only one who read it that way. And don't call me Shirley.
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by zugi 4y ago
Perhaps you missed the "which allows content to be shared and/or people to communicate with each other" phrase? That seems to be the author's phrasing of the bill's wording "content that is generated by a user
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by zugi 4y ago
> Is there some reason telcos couldn’t block them before? Yes, the FCC normally requires carriers to put all calls through. So the FCC is only now, very belatedly and in very limited circumstances, allowing deviations from the FCC's
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by zugi 4y ago
The title says "ordered" but that doesn't match the article text: > The FCC said it has authorized all U.S.-based voice service providers to stop carrying traffic from... Why is this distinction important? The FCC by defau
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by zugi 4y ago
If the law were serious about medical price transparency, it would just state that no medical bills are valid or enforceable in any court unless the exact price is clearly disclosed to the customer and agreed upon up front. Without relying
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by zugi 4y ago
> Congress won't act Under a legal constitutional system, when Congress "won't act", the laws stay the same as they were. The Executive branch taking unilateral action beyond its authority because the Legislative bran
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by zugi 4y ago
Indeed there is a link but we don't even know the direction of causation. I find it quite plausible that people with as-yet undiagnosed early-onset Alzheimer's forget to get flu shots.
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by zugi 4y ago
Ignore the FUD (even though much of it is from Qt themselves.) If you can comply with the GPL or LGPL, then you can use Qt.
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by zugi 4y ago
Agreed, I love Qt and use it a lot. But they triple license it (GPL, LGPL, Commercial) and then strongly imply that you need a Commercial license to develop any commercial software with it. That's just not the case. You are perfectly
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by zugi 4y ago
I use NoScript and block Google analytics, facebook, etc. It's nice that they use a domain separate from google.com, making it easy to block.
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by zugi 4y ago
Whenever the media hails some great bipartisan agreement, I get briefly optimistic. Then I look into the details. Invariably I find they included the worst things from each side. Most often, our pockets are being picked.
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by zugi 4y ago
Longtime Firefox and Thunderbird user. I can't speak about Apple but in my experience on Android, Windows, and Linux it is trivially easy to install Firefox and make it the default web browser. Just earlier today I was browsing HN on A
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by zugi 4y ago
Can someone summarize what a "fintech" company like Brex or Mercury provides that a bank or credit union does not?

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