ahje

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by ahje 7y ago
According to https://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-researc... I could read War and Peace in a little over 24 hours, and English is my third language. That should be quite doable over a period o
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by ahje 7y ago
The idea is that the fines as supposed to act as a deterrent, but unfortunately there's been a shitload of really bad practices stemming from the fact that many consultants have drawn the erroneous conclusion that pre-ticked opt-in box
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by ahje 7y ago
The LGBTQ-movement, for example, is extremely vocal about any technique that could potentially be used to determine the sexual orientation of a person. They've spent a huge amount of time and resources in order to get society to redefi
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by ahje 7y ago
But not all good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Ecotox...
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by ahje 7y ago
You're right, there are definitely people who choose a specific lifestyle willingly and by all means let them do so. We shouldn't assume it applies to anyone just because it applies to some indivuduals though.
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by ahje 7y ago
I get what you mean and I do sympathize somewhat. The fact is, however, that modern society doesn't fit everyone. Since we won't allow people to withdraw from society that means we're actively forcing people to live a specifi
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by ahje 7y ago
So increased inequality on a local level is good as long as the global average goes down? I thought the idea was to make _everyone's_ lives better.
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by ahje 7y ago
I'm hopeful that the research might bear fruit at some point, so I am glad to see it continue. We definitely shouldn't put all eggs in one basket, though. We don't have a finished design yet, so who knows what parts are neede
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by ahje 7y ago
That's indeed a big if, but even if it ends up being cheaper to use solar for most applications I can imagine fusion power would be a nice thing to have locally around major production centres where the power demand is much higher. Sol
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by ahje 7y ago
> If you build a house on rotten stilts, and some neighborhood kid comes and kicks one of them, it's not the kid's fault when the house collapses. If you build a house that isn't fire proofed properly and a pyromaniac sets
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by ahje 7y ago
Yes, and yes. I saw some video of it once, so it can be done.
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by ahje 7y ago
> how was it solved in 18th century Paris? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
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by ahje 7y ago
It sounds more like it's akin to wage slavery rather than blindly following orders. Assuming there aren't other jobs for those workers then they most likely have to chose between that job and a meagre existence based on government
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by ahje 7y ago
My first thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallocain
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by ahje 7y ago
> Both are really good plans if you want to get 0wned. It is wise to point that out; running an old OS on old equipment or in a VM is perfectly viable, but one should NEVER connect those machines to the open Internet.
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by ahje 7y ago
I still have a very old USB key with Puppy Linux on it from, back a darker time when I didn't have my own computer. I've booted quite a few very old systems with it, probably down to Pentium-era machines, and things usually ran we
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by ahje 7y ago
As most who's ever worked with web hosting can confirm, small business customers often have no idea of what they're doing, and I've talked to many people who switched providers after seeing an ad for cheap hosting, without
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by ahje 7y ago
Fair enough! Link to the rant, just for the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419274
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by ahje 7y ago
I doubt the methane concentration is high enough for that. The seas tend to be quite windy.
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by ahje 7y ago
If you truly want to prepare for an apocalyptic event then you need to start building a community, acquiring survival skills, learning how to produce food and to communicate with other members of your local community without using modern me
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by ahje 7y ago
No, a strong state ensures that the regulations are in place. A _nation_ is an identity assumed by a group of people.
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by ahje 7y ago
If we'd be talking about any category other than "the old Internet", I'd say you were absolutely right. In this case, though, we are specifically talking old-school web sites and I therefore maintain that RSS should be i
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by ahje 7y ago
This. Also, make sure you have an RSS feed on your site. RSS helps people get back to your site for new content later on.
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by ahje 7y ago
The ones that have come true can pretty much be summed up by "shitty weather". Shitty weather is quite capable of wreaking havoc upon human food production and infrastructure though, so the future could be quite scary even if the
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by ahje 7y ago
I've never encountered an Android device that didn't allow me to install an APK. Is that an actual thing?
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by ahje 7y ago
> can the app really be spreading that fast, if people are having to download it from github, and override their devices security settings to install it? I suspect widespread public dissent does require quite a lot of motivation. Sending
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by ahje 7y ago
I doubt we'll ever get the full story of what happened, and how much Nokia told Microsoft of the state of the business that changed hands. But you are, of course, right; it could just as well have been a really, really bad business dea
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by ahje 7y ago
Meta data from regular operation, combined with data from apps, and OS telemetry is probably be such a treasure trove that backdooring the baseband processor is probably overkill in most cases, and while I suspect there are phones backdoore
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by ahje 7y ago
> a belief that Nokia scammed Microsoft in that sale That's what I've heard too -- They knew they were going down and simply took the opportunity to dump the handset business on Microsoft while securing funding to allow the net
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by ahje 7y ago
Where I live, cheap cassette players where _everywhere_ in the 80's. Most people had record players too, and getting the sounds to a tape would be the easy part. C64's on the other hand, was much less common, but if someone had a

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