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by codexb 2y ago
I mean, the Voyager probes are completely proprietary. They’re completely custom, built for a unary purpose. Building long lasting hardware makes a lot of sense when you expect to use that technology for a long time. I’m sure there was a ti
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by codexb 2y ago
Large, charismatic megafauna have many uses. Their coats, their tusks, their meat can be extremely valuable. It's debatable whether humans are responsible for the deaths of most of the large megafauna that died out over the past millio
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by codexb 2y ago
There were a large number of “herded” polls that basically all predicted the exact same results as 2016 and 2020 (Trump +5/+8). So, not really even within the margin of error. There weren’t any predicting +15. And the high quality poll
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by codexb 2y ago
Iowa was polling at +3 Harris. Trump won it +13. Not even close to margin of error.
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by codexb 2y ago
The last poll for Iowa, from the highest rated pollster for Nate Silver, had Harris +3 and Trump won Iowa +13. The polls were better but still consistently underestimated Trumps support by a lot. Basically, the weighting they do for the pol
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by codexb 2y ago
Also learned that massive numbers of latinos supported Trump precisely for those issues. Destroys the argument that supporting illegal immigration is a way to win over American latinos for Democrats
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by codexb 2y ago
cool story bro
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by codexb 2y ago
The FCC interference requirements are designed to prevent your usage from interfering with others . It's perfectly acceptable to interfere with radio signals for yourself. Anyone who grew up in the 90's and had a car without a bu
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by codexb 2y ago
Yes. WaPo didn’t post the contents of the laptop. They reported on the fbi report that hunters laptop was turned in with incriminating information. It’s the difference between reporting on a hack (though Hunters laptop wasn’t hacked) and re
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by codexb 2y ago
He attacked them for censoring opposing viewpoints for political and ideological reasons. That's a far cry from hacked personal information. I admit, it is a bit of a grey line, but neither of these cases are particularly close to the
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by codexb 2y ago
The journalist here is not being entirely truthful. While much of the information that the campaign used to vet JD Vance was public, not all of it was, and the internal comments are definitely not public information. It's a bit like sa
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by codexb 2y ago
You can make the same argument for developers of encryption. There are legitimate reasons for privacy. The fact that criminals want privacy, too, doesn't mean privacy should be illegal.
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by codexb 2y ago
Relevant [XKCD]( https://xkcd.com/2347/ )
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by codexb 2y ago
It’s market inefficiency for sure. Besides price, there’s also just a failure to provide a service that people want. This is what happened to games and prime time television. Gamers wanted to be able to download games instead of dealing wit
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by codexb 2y ago
It's also worth pointing out that, historically, a very small percentage of artists live off the income from recordings or reproductions of their works. This is true for musicians, painters, authors, actors, or any other creative artis
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by codexb 2y ago
> "That path turns out to be streaming, a neat compromise between letting consumers listen to whatever they want online and collecting just enough money for it that big record labels are satisfied with their cut." I think it&#x
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by codexb 2y ago
You also have to look at much of the impetus behind how long held religious morals were devised. Millenia of human suffering. Wars. Oppression. Exploitation.
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by codexb 2y ago
And yet, there were generations of children who were raised by fathers and had two-parent households. Access to birth control has increased at the same time that single parent households have increased. It doesn't seem to be having an
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by codexb 2y ago
I'm not sure what issue this is trying to solve either. It looks like it could be used to vendor dependencies but also publish them to an index? I don't understand the purpose of including a hash in the package name.
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by codexb 2y ago
It's pictures like this that seem to make Dark Matter not all that mysterious. It's clear that the galaxy is surrounded by a lot of dust, and you can clearly see that even as you extend outward and the light drops off, there is
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by codexb 2y ago
I'm an American. My thoughts are that I'd prefer to spend as little time as possible in an elevator and would rather spend that time doing other things. If I don't feel the elevator moving, then it's moving too slowly an
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by codexb 2y ago
Statics, dynamics, and two semesters of physics are required courses for every engineer. None of them incorporate the teaching of jerk or snap.
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by codexb 2y ago
I've also found this to be the case. That being said, I like being able to create dashboards for myself, but the interface for every tool to make these queries tries to be too clever and it ends up being painful to use -- cough JIRA c
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by codexb 2y ago
Wait, if other cultures don't use sofas, what do they sit on? Are their houses all full of single chairs?
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by codexb 2y ago
Yeah, Americans just have more space, and America is just far larger, and Americans often do relatively long road trips to places where other modes of transportation are not possible or prohibitively expensive. I don't think that is ev
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by codexb 2y ago
Maybe if you're under 25 and have always lived in a dense city this seems like a valid take. Taxis aren't new, they have always existed. Just because they're driven by computers now isn't going to magically change all th
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by codexb 2y ago
I generally agree with you, but there’s a difference between a closed platform, and a platform that prevents you from using any other platforms.
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by codexb 2y ago
See this post that talks about how hosting email yourself doesn't really work anymore, despite it being an open internet standard -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437 Not sure about people never hearing abo
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by codexb 2y ago
It wasn't so much centralized control as just spending gobs and gobs of money. If the federal government just started handing out money to produce consumable goods and machinery today, you can bet every company in the world would be al
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by codexb 2y ago
I'm talking more about permitted usage. In the US, public land is public, but you can't just use it however you'd like. Things like, can you camp overnight? Can you camp anywhere or just in specific locations? Can you use a h

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