energywut

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by energywut 1y ago
Oh, Roblox by far and away is worse than Apple. But also, Facebook is pretty clearly implicated in a genocide in Myanmar. It's difficult for me to put any genocide in a bucket less important than some kids being put into out-groups.
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by energywut 1y ago
> Apple walling off iMessage, giving the impression that Apple phones were high technology, and interacting with peasant androids is what made group chats fragment and pictures and videos look like trash. Which lawsuit PDF related specif
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by energywut 1y ago
> That's pretty evil & predatory to me. That's not what the parent is asking. The OP said it was the most evil ever done. Big Tech does predatory and evil stuff all the time. That's not what's being claimed. The O
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by energywut 1y ago
> I don't think any big tech company has ever done anything as evil and predatory as Apple walling off iMessage I think you might be living in a bubble, if this is the "most evil" thing you have heard of a big tech company
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by energywut 1y ago
> the claim that the internet descended into surveillance capitalism because of the walled garden approach of the App Store I did not read this claim. I read the claim that Apple's approach unevenly benefits companies that engage
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by energywut 1y ago
Ideally we want all companies to be champions again authoritarianism, surely?
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by energywut 1y ago
This was my intuitive read too. I thought it was about to say something about the socialists, anarchists, and communists I know. Nope, just the left handed people I know.
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by energywut 1y ago
Exactly this. It's not that it's a difficult problem, but it is a high mass-budget problem. Which makes it an expensive problem. Which makes it a difficult problem.
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by energywut 1y ago
Depends on your orbit, but you need to be prepared to rotate into Earth's shadow seamlessly.
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by energywut 1y ago
Putting a datacenter in space is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. Reliable energy? Possible, but difficult -- need plenty of batteries Cooling? Very difficult. Where does the heat transfer to? Latency? Highly variable. Equ
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by energywut 1y ago
> Are you saying that, irrespective of the chance of being caught and convicted, and of the severity of the likely punishment, the likelihood of someone committing a crime is constant? I'm saying that prison sentences are not a dete
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by energywut 1y ago
Look back further - https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/F... In the 80s and 90s, violent crime rates were well above 1000/100k residents, and property crimes 12k/100k.
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by energywut 1y ago
> Prisons make people less likely to become criminals. Here is a study supporting the assertion that prisons increase (or do not reduce) the likelihood of someone reoffending in the future. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu&#x
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by energywut 1y ago
We pay. We pay to house inmates. It costs us a TON of money to house prison populations.
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by energywut 1y ago
Don't be facile. Police reports aren't the only source of data. If this was a widespread impact then there would be other sources of data that could be used to build this case. Additionally, we cannot make policy decisions on &quo
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by energywut 1y ago
Steam favorability percentages are famously vulnerable to review bombing. HW3 got swept up in culture war nonsense around LGBTQ representation. I'm a hardcore Homeworld fan. I've run campaigns of their TTRPG, modeled their ships
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by energywut 1y ago
Putting poor, desperate people in jail isn't going to solve the systemic issues that create poor, desperate people. Locking up people for petty theft is almost certainly FAR more expensive than the cost of the materials being stolen. I
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by energywut 1y ago
You have any data to support that? I've lived in Seattle for 40 years, and crime here is way less of a concern now than it ever has been. Especially violent crime. My experience also seems to match statistics. So, it would seem that yo
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by energywut 1y ago
I most certainly cannot deduct housing, food, entertainment, vacations, or large purchases. > The problem is that we obviously can't let you deduct everything, because if you can deduct everything there would be nothing to tax, asid
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by energywut 1y ago
Scriptable Objects are exactly what I would use in this case. There's even a whole host of fancy tools to work with them and import/export to csv or other file formats.
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by energywut 1y ago
Alcohol is harmful, but I have a glass of wine or whiskey from time to time. HN is my glass of whiskey. I create an account, and delete it once I start feeling invested. If I can downvote people, I've probably ridden that account too l
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by energywut 1y ago
Yes. The energy in a vehicle increases with the square of the velocity. A car going 40 has nearly DOUBLE the kinetic energy of a car going 30 and the braking time required to stop a car is therefore also significantly increased. That lower
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by energywut 1y ago
Watching one of the videos, the car went 38/39 in a 30, and was the only car nearby. It was not keeping pace with other vehicles in its lane. It seemed like a lot of the roads it was driving on were signed 35 or 40 (it was a lot of str
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by energywut 1y ago
I think too many people are too enamored with their "team" to really dig into the policy proposals of presidents and senators. Like, for so many people being a Democrat is purely about being Not A Republican (or vice versa). I wan
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by energywut 1y ago
Quickly? This has been the path we have been on for at least 30 years, probably longer. Plenty of folks have been calling this out for longer. When you have two parties in control, and they are both staunchly pro-capital, anti-worker part
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by energywut 1y ago
If you openly criticize genocide and settler colonialism by Israel, you are probably the kind of person who might openly criticize the imperial efforts of the US. Especially once they become even more oppressive. They know exactly what th
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by energywut 1y ago
I'd go further. Discrimination against some people is axiomatically part of having a nation and a border. There are no nations, to my knowledge, that permit every person residing within their borders to vote and permit any person who w
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by energywut 1y ago
I create and delete HN accounts every... 80-200 karma. I don't have a youtube account. I don't have a reddit account. Why is it so difficult to believe that there are people here who view social media as a harmful thing they try t
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by energywut 1y ago
> FOSS is a flexible term but carries the connotation of community ownership, and therefore independence from for-profit interests. That's certainly not true. Unless Red Hat, MongoDB, Chef, etc. are not open source. While I love to
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by energywut 1y ago
I would argue UI that doesn't work for people with low vision is also broken UI. There's no distinction in my mind between "broken for many people" and "broken for people with disabilities". It's broken.

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