donkyrf

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by donkyrf 4mo ago
The percent of the US population that is foreign-born is about the same as it was before 1920. To use your vocabulary, it is a pernicious lie to pretend that America's success from WWI through the WWII recoveries was due to immigration
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world. There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
I still have a personal Touch Bar MBP, and I find it annoying. My problem is that I lightly rest my hands on the keyboard (including the f keys), and this habit is harmless on most Macs, but inadvertently activates the Touch Bar functions.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Obviously so. You're either responding to an LLM or a badly malfunctioning human.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
China already bans crypto. If America and Europe followed suit, the market for crypto would quickly collapse
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Oakland California has about 200,000 cameras if we include public and private cameras, substantially more than other cities. It also has substantially more robberies than the average city. What evidence do you have that these cameras are pr
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
those groups have a lot in common, when you look at historical implementation. Both create an unaccountable set of elites who control the populace.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Your statement is not only false, it's nonsensical.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Good. Flock cameras appeal to weak communist attitudes, where there is a desire for a "good" authoritarian government that tracks everyone... for "their own good".
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
It's very much on purpose. To do it with a modern diesel truck you need to remove the DPF, and reprogram the ECU to run rich and to ignore the missing DPF.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
> I don't think it's so much aggression as it is really really terrible infrastructure. These are separate issues. Both are real.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
"I won't sell at any price" reads as an invitation to make a much higher bid. It seems silly at best to take that as a literal statement.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
This article might catch you up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
China would probably be very confused that you're asserting they're not on par with Taiwan.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Yes. Obviously.
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
Your response is _almost_ funny. I asserted that there is very little left-wing media today, because it is far more profitable to make media intended to enrich specific individuals. And your counter-argument was that... there is very little
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
right-wing ideologies are meant to augment concentrated wealth and power, which means there are incentives for the rich and powerful to create right-wing propaganda machines. left-wing ideologies are meant to create diffuse wealth and power
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
America's right-wing has never wanted competitive free markets, and has never been represented by Adam Smith, the man who said: "the disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at l
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by donkyrf 4mo ago
BYD is, by far, the largest EV manufacturer in the world. And they've been making semis for ages. It is not newsworthy that BYD shipped another one. They do that every 15 minutes. So not only do I repeat that this article is not news
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
They have ADAS systems. And Volvo is already working with Aurora which is doing live tests of actual self driving, similar to Waymo. There's no news here. Self-driving is no longer the future of Tesla. That stock pump has largely run
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
It's not newsworthy. There are more than a dozen companies shipping electric semis in low quantities, and at least three who have been shipping and supporting them for years. Anybody who thinks this the Tesla Semi is notable should g
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
meanwhile Freightliner, Volvo, and BYD already have active fleets.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
Tesla historically focused on what marketers refer to as "earned media" rather than "paid media", but it was still marketing. Those Musk and Tesla headlines that happened around the world didn't occur by accident.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
I've had to give up drinking trenta-sized Starbucks entirely.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
It's a little odd to think that 100 kWh battery packs would have the lifecycle as integrated .01 kWh components. The value prop for recycling is, obviously, incomparable.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
My 992.2 has AA/CarPlay, and an outstanding user interface, with a nice mix of configurable displays and physical buttons. Fairly certain it is a top 100 product in it's market.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
It is bizarre that you are citing a project that was planned in the 90s, broke ground in 2006 and ended in 2015 as a recent development.
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
Sri Lanka has only one coal power plant (construction began 2006), and the later coal project was canceled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Sri_...
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by donkyrf 5mo ago
It's easier to understand if you live in America. Your reference to Democrat "elites" shows you have a hint of it... in this country that term never applies to a Republican -- even if they were born rich, went to Ivy League s
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by donkyrf 6mo ago
There's the whole "billionaire bubble" thing, where they get surrounded by folks who have an economic interest in keeping the billionaire happy... but I'd posit there's another big change -- tech billionaires didn&

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