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by bashinator 5y ago
The government would not be able to bring that pressure to bear if YouTube, g-suite, and Google cloud weren’t all the same company, and if there were a competitive market for internet video distribution.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Not at all. Google is a private concern with the right to publish or not any content they see fit. That they can defacto censor opinions they don’t approve of is a failure of the market.
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by bashinator 5y ago
I'm hopeful that the new originalist makeup of the SCOTUS means no longer unconstitutionally limiting what's meant by "arms". ICBMs for billionaires! /s
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by bashinator 5y ago
On the contrary, JWST is mostly focused on the near infrared. Good for seeing through dust and for capturing highly red-shifted faraway objects.
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by bashinator 5y ago
You’re welcome! Incidentally, there’s no FTL in the story.
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by bashinator 5y ago
As of very recently, like within the past month, same here. They rolled out just a simple blurred background slightly earlier. Running latest Pop! OS.
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by bashinator 5y ago
What is it about doctors, lawyers, and really really basic computer proficiency?
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by bashinator 5y ago
Now I'm curious about what software is used in actual ink-on-dead-trees book publishing.
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by bashinator 5y ago
> simply skip some of the distance My understanding as a lay person of the physics that allow for things like this, is that they require starting conditions that wouldn't produce a universe anything like what we actually live in, or
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by bashinator 5y ago
To answer the second question, so that I can be the bad guys from the end of that Cixin Liu trilogy. Exponential growth is infinite and resources are not, so take any available advantage. Short answer to the first, because the speed of lig
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by bashinator 5y ago
Quantum mechanics _fixed_ physics. Newtonian physics predicts that an electron will spiral into the nucleus of an atom within a few nanoseconds of the atom’s creation.
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by bashinator 5y ago
If FTL were possible, don’t you think there’d already be evidence of the time travel? First thing I’d do with FTL is travel back to the earliest habitable epoch in the Universe and start building galaxy-sized Dyson spheres.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Absolutely love my Thinkpad X1 for running linux; it's pretty much the same design but without the awful number pad. The fingerprint scanner even got support recently!
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by bashinator 5y ago
The packaging system is what originally brought me to debian and ubuntu; RPM caught up a while back, but apt was better for decades. Stability and easy access to good tooling is what I like about Ubuntu; how is Fedora better?
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by bashinator 5y ago
I think you're talking about the artistic _product_, and the ethernet bridge is talking about artistic _process_. Like, you don't care what kind of paintbrush a painter uses, but it matters a lot to them.
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by bashinator 5y ago
And has excellent support for custom domains. I like that I can switch providers without changing my email addresses.
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by bashinator 5y ago
> Natural eruption would considerably reduce man made CO2 emmisions in near future. I imagine this is technically accurate, as an eruption of for example Yellowstone would utterly destroy most human civilization in North America.
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by bashinator 5y ago
We could use telegraph relays instead of vacuum tubes - might be better reliability and repairability.
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by bashinator 5y ago
This is something I’ve thought about quite a bit. IMO, emotions are probably the drivers for “instinct”; are nature’s way of getting organisms to do things.
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by bashinator 5y ago
I just thought of it. Kind of terrific crossword clues.
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by bashinator 5y ago
I think what it does with real words is almost more interesting. The definition it picked for the word "real" was accurate, but kind of odd. If I recall correctly, "real" was defined as, "committed", or &quot
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Help Discover Hidden Worlds with the Next-Generation Transit Survey(zooniverse.org)
1 points by bashinator 5y ago|0 comments
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Google de-indexes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice(wheelsjoint.com)
182 points by bashinator 5y ago|47 comments
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by bashinator 5y ago
More cores for running k8s locally.
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by bashinator 5y ago
My ThinkPad X1 has no number pad, and puts pgup/pgdn on either side of the up-arrow key, which works quite nicely for me. I picked that laptop specifically for the keyboard.
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by bashinator 5y ago
IMO, Facebook (or YT, or any big media company) even being in a position to “shut down free speech” is a predictable outcome of the total failure of net neutrality in the U.S. If everyone had sufficient bandwidth to host their own content f
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by bashinator 5y ago
You’re conflating “correct” and “persuasive”.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Now I’m imagining monetizing an ad-blocker by selling CAPTCHA services based on users training an AI to recognize Facebook ads.
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by bashinator 5y ago
On top of that, there's a pretty strong argument to be made that Fortnite is as much about socialization and open-ended interaction as it is a game. Apple banning what's potentially a next-generation social network from their pla
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by bashinator 5y ago
> Following an investigation prompted by an inquiry from the BBC, we conducted a proactive review of our platform. That's pretty much the opposite of "proactive".

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