emushack

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by emushack 1y ago
https://public.nrao.edu/ask/can-radio-telescopes-be-used-in-...
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by emushack 1y ago
I think I have a different idea of "valuable". Rural communities need connectivity for sure - but we also need reliable radio astronomy for a whole host of reasons - space weather forcasting, terrestrial weather forecasting, scien
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by emushack 1y ago
Because "POOR PEOPLE" have so much stuff! Why do they have so much stuff if they're poor! https://youtu.be/Al5E3KbIfeo?t=24 I mean they should really be more frugal. Having a refrigerator is clearly a ridicul
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by emushack 1y ago
I'm saying it's blaming the victim to assume the problem is that they aren't frugal enough.
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by emushack 1y ago
So if I don't eat the bones too, I'm leaving nearly a whole dollar on the table? Damn. I can't believe it! I could be saving even more!!! I'm such an idiot.
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by emushack 1y ago
And yet, the very study you linked to concluded that despite 5 years of research on the topic, it still isn't clear what the actual causes are. But you know, I definitely think your arm-chair reasoning probably contains the one true re
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by emushack 1y ago
You know, you make such a good point here. The easiest solve for this is for the fat poor people to simply eat rice & beans. That will surely fix both problems.
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by emushack 1y ago
It's still victim blaming.
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by emushack 1y ago
Did you really just compare human beings to wild animals who hibernate?
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by emushack 1y ago
LoL! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000FF1101 Current price/lb for chicken is $4.23. But of course that's from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, soooo.... can't trust that can we!
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by emushack 1y ago
My childcare + healthcare is nearly 3x my house payment.
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by emushack 1y ago
Wow. I'm at a loss for words with this comment. So, in case you aren't from America, you might not know this: the food that is the cheapest also happens to be the food that is the least nutritious. Americans who are poor cannot af
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by emushack 1y ago
Well clearly the solution here is to eliminate the USDA entirely. 1 in 7 is an outrageous statistic and it will not be tolerated.
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by emushack 1y ago
Yeah! And they could sell their refrigerators too! They use way too much electricity. <eye roll>
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by emushack 1y ago
Yeah that's right! If you simply say that this syncs to all my devices, it papers over, or abstracts if you will, the complexity of: secure enclaves/TPMs, symmetric sync keys wrapping asymmetrically encrypted passkeys, resident ke
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by emushack 1y ago
And then we can compress all of that into a single piece of plastic and call it the Ident-i-eeze.
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by emushack 1y ago
"You lost me the moment you mentioned iCloud". At least that's the way the majority of people I know react to this line of thinking. The "cloud" is still mysterious and complicated to a good number of people. Passwo
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by emushack 1y ago
Good luck convincing commission-based sales people of this.
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by emushack 1y ago
I'm going to just leave this here for those of you who use Macs. https://kagi.com/orion/
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by emushack 1y ago
I was once told by "the architect", and I quote, "put blinders on. I will tell you when to take them off.". The context was I was asking about the why. Looking back on it, yeah it absolutely felt like I was being told to
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by emushack 1y ago
If you want to voice opposition there is a petition here: https://resist.bot/petitions/PXVZXD
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by emushack 1y ago
Yep. And at the same time, it's the residents that are asked to conserve. Meanwhile, we let data centers off the hook when it comes to conservation? When I drive around my town, I can't drive more than a few blocks without seeing
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by emushack 1y ago
What I'm struggling to understand is why so many are working so hard to let big tech off the hook when it comes to developing better technology for power and cooling systems. You're right that it is tangentially connected. But tha
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by emushack 1y ago
My personal experience with suffering from water scarcity: Taking a loss on a crop of corn because the farm at the front of the ditch took more water than they were supposed to take. That same year, a ditch rider was threatened at gunpoint.
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by emushack 1y ago
Cities in my area have to buy their water. The sources of water are limited and finite. Data centers also buy it from the same sources. I'm lost. How is a bigger business unable to tolerate higher opex in a space that is famous for eco
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by emushack 1y ago
Have you ever suffered from water scarcity? Because I've lived it. This is a facile argument. Data centers are standing on the backs of so many others while at the same time using their piles of cash to force them to do more with less.
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by emushack 1y ago
Good thing there are so many investors throwing billions of dollars at AI then! Maybe they should put that money to use coming up with better cooling systems.
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by emushack 1y ago
Putting a price on it does not solve it because the entities that compete for the water with the data centers are out-matched financially. How is a city that has a budget that is constantly dealing with budget cuts supposed to pay more for
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by emushack 1y ago
Exactly this. This is a major issue in my region right now, central Texas. Data centers are going up in some of the most drought stricken areas of Texas, and since it is hot and dry, they want to save money on cooling by misting. This uses
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by emushack 1y ago
I was thinking the opposite actually. https://www.sciencealert.com/swearing-is-a-sign-of-more-inte...

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