acdha

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by acdha 15d ago
Here’s an exact quote: > When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation. Here’s another, re
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by acdha 15d ago
I think Wilhoit’s law[1] is also a major factor: these guys appear to have taken things like codes of conduct as a personal affront because in many cases it was the first time penalties started being applied to people they identified with a
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by acdha 15d ago
It’s definitely noticeable and he has ties to politically-aligned tech billionaires - for example, when about a third of Basecamp employees resigned, Marc Andressen kept them solvent: https://x.com/davidsenra/status&#x2
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by acdha 15d ago
White nationalism: I highly recommend reading these posts by people in the Rails community: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-communi
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by acdha 24d ago
I don’t think you can approach it from a rational economic perspective because that’s not how it started: it’s a dominance power play and what we’ve seen with China and the EU is that standing up to a bully is the only thing which causes th
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by acdha 24d ago
Note the use of “Republican” in the comment you’re replying to: they are trying to walk a fine line between protecting the guy who gave them the votes needed to do things like Roberts’ career-long goal of rolling back the VRA while protecti
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by acdha 25d ago
The Roberts court is nakedly partisan and makes rulings as necessary to expand and protect Republican power (e.g. they protected Trump’s reelection with rulings with carveouts allowing them to decide the other way if a Democratic president
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by acdha 25d ago
That’s repeating the misunderstanding: the conviction rate is high because the government voluntarily drops or reduces charges when their case is weak. You have to think of it as “80% of the cases the government thought it would win” rather
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by acdha 25d ago
It is that simple for most people. Millions of people do this every time they buy a new iPhone and in practice it means waiting a bit while things download and logging into their banking app. It’s harder for people who don’t use cloud servi
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by acdha 28d ago
There’s a massive confound around vehicle size, too: EV buyers are less likely to get massive trucks and SUVs because that extra bulk drives cost up and range down, and when you’re comparing tire particulates the numbers will be more favora
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by acdha 28d ago
EVs aren’t a panacea but they’re a lot better than a 10% improvement. You still have tires but losing engine particulates, fumes, noise, and heat is a huge win in a city - bike or walk near one and you can feel the difference.
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by acdha 28d ago
Does anyone use one of foldables for more than a year? I know a couple of people who have them and the massive creases seem like they’d be really hard to get used to.
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by acdha 1mo ago
> No, the copyright issue is nonsense This is wishful thinking for any project of Debian’s size. You not wanting to deal with it doesn’t mean that people won’t get sued.
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by acdha 1mo ago
That still seems better than saying that we have a right to use other people’s work on our terms. People used to subscribe to multiple magazines and that paid for a lot of journalists.
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by acdha 1mo ago
Defenders have to think about multiple threats. Explosives are harder to get, conceal from certain types of scans, and are more overtly deliberate. Neither of these is a common threat but that doesn’t mean people don’t harden against low pr
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by acdha 1mo ago
There used to be journalists in every town or city working for local newspapers back when ad revenue stayed local. Don’t confuse the success of a handful of top journals with the health of the field. > In 1990 we had one daily news(paper
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by acdha 1mo ago
> Just as with computers, as the saying goes, if you have physical access to the device then all bets are off This is far less true than it used to be, though, and it seems reasonable to expect that aircraft become as secure as Macs.
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by acdha 1mo ago
2023: https://www.energy-storage.news/australias-first-grid-scale-... 2024: https://www.indexbox.io/blog/australias-battery-storage-flee... https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-11&#
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by acdha 1mo ago
Maybe, although nuclear construction and mining aren’t safer and there’s a probability issue over time but more importantly, nuclear is too slow to be what we bank on. Solar and wind can produce in months as opposed to decades and we should
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by acdha 1mo ago
So several years ago. There’s grid scale storage in use around the world. This is not alien tech, just a matter of engineering.
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by acdha 1mo ago
Can you show your math explaining how my solar panels change production or retroactively cost more after a war on the other side of the planet? Short of nuclear winter, you can reliably predict what they’ll generate years out with far less
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by acdha 1mo ago
Neither of those are caused by your power system whereas large-scale pollution is unavoidable with fossil fuels.
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by acdha 1mo ago
That’s not external, though: what we’re seeing now are a ton of people struggling because two countries they have no control over are at war. If they used solar and their local government changed the pricing, they’d have some outlet for rel
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by acdha 1mo ago
I guess you could see it that way but I don’t think that quite fits because the extra heat retention isn’t due to a failure in the solar power system, and was happening before those even existed. Maybe if there was something like a brushfir
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by acdha 1mo ago
> The price of solar power is governed by the events happening in China. Events in China do not retroactively change your solar panels or wind farm. You might choose to buy from a different supplier but there’s no equivalent of all of th
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by acdha 1mo ago
Yes, but if we took the enormous amount used for power generation and transportation away we’d buy a lot more runway to migrate aviation and industrial chemistry.
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by acdha 1mo ago
In addition to being cheaper, you never hear about a massive sun or wind spill and the prices never change due to events thousands of miles away.
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by acdha 1mo ago
> If you don't see it, it is because you have closed your eyes. It is across countries and reported in main stream media all the time. Rap music is a core part of ongoing gang conflicts in many countries, apart from the general viol
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by acdha 1mo ago
It’s complicated, yes, but my point is essentially just that someone saying “<ethnicity> are stealing our country! Force them out!” is specifically calling for violence directed against that group in a way that, say, a movie full of m
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by acdha 1mo ago
> If you truly deny the effect that gangster rap has, then I can't take your comment as honest I’m not denying anything, I’m asking you to support your claim. In particular, if an entire genre loved by millions of people causes this

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