firebat45

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by firebat45 2y ago
I wouldn't even say a common goal. There's plenty of opinions on what the ideal Earth's climate would be like. Some people strive for what they view as "natural", vs other people who aim to reduce natural disaster
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by firebat45 2y ago
You're right to an extent, but personal use electric vehicles are still a step in the right direction. Even if all the power generated for them comes from coal, which is another argument people make against them. I would wager that E
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by firebat45 2y ago
Plenty of artists make art for commercial purposes. In fact, that's kind of the dividing line between "professional" and "amateur" artist.
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by firebat45 2y ago
I understand that there is an entire culture surrounding these machines and that people enjoy collecting and restoring them. Hell, I would even like to build a cabinet myself one day. But there's a reason they are disappearing. They&
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by firebat45 2y ago
It's interesting how advocating for backdoors into consumer products (like the US wanted DJI to do) suddenly makes you uneasy that there are other backdoors into those products. I don't like Apple, but this was exactly their argum
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by firebat45 3y ago
Exactly this! Replace "novel" with "nude pictures" and the moral side of this becomes much more obvious. It doesn't matter if he had dementia. It doesn't matter if people appreciate the novel or if his kids fe
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by firebat45 3y ago
He's almost as good as the guy that killed Hitler. Really doing the world a favor.
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by firebat45 3y ago
'It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?' I bet it will be marketed as "more affordable prices for people struggling, offset by higher prices for the rich".
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by firebat45 3y ago
It really has nothing to do with Democracy or Capitalism. It has everything to do with suppressing the votes of certain demographics.
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by firebat45 3y ago
He only said there is no legal "right", not that gun ownership was completely illegal. The point being, reasonable countries view gun ownership as a privilege that can be lost, instead of a right that cannot.
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by firebat45 3y ago
And the Constitution is immutable, right? What would you even call a ratified change to the Constitution?
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by firebat45 3y ago
OTOH, how many children got Kinder Eggs ~without~ knowing that there was a small plastic toy inside? That was kind of the whole gimmick. Also, there have been 9 reported deaths worldwide that have been linked to choking on the toy inside a
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by firebat45 3y ago
Have you ever tried running a gas furnace off of a solar panel? "Accelerating a transition" != "this has been 100% accomplished"
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by firebat45 3y ago
Just a nitpick - The main character in Snow Crash is named Hiro, not Hero.
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by firebat45 3y ago
Would you buy a rental car for only a 10-20% discount?
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by firebat45 3y ago
Children may not be able to make good decisions with their money, but many adults aren't either, especially when it is someone else's money (ie, their kids). A child should retain full control of their own money up to a certain va
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by firebat45 3y ago
You could just as easily claim that since AI are not human artists that copyright does not apply to them.
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by firebat45 3y ago
So in your world, we make no attempt to improve anything unless we can achieve 100% perfection? Sounds like a terrible plan.
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by firebat45 3y ago
There's shorter, handier terms for those two types of people: "naive", and "realistic", respectively.
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by firebat45 3y ago
>she emailed me in the morning and I responded in the afternoon Real question: How long should she sit at her desk and twiddle her thumbs, waiting for your reply, before she moves on to emailing/phoning/interviewing a differen
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by firebat45 3y ago
Well, at least you got the first part right. That is a truly stupid idea.
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by firebat45 3y ago
In the olden days, people took time to apply for each job. Nowadays, they spam out applications to hundreds of places in a day. The problem is on both ends and stems from rewarding quantity over quality.
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by firebat45 3y ago
>Cellophane is called Cellophane. This floor is made of floor
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by firebat45 3y ago
Going by the Velcro website, you should be saying "Adobe Brand Photoshop Brand Elements software". Ridiculous.
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by firebat45 3y ago
Virtually every product is made by killing animals. I'd say vegetarians/vegans only really care about products that ~require~ the killing of an animal, and care very little about the products that only kill animals incidentally.
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by firebat45 3y ago
I'd argue that 2 entities taking turns vocalizing (or similar) with each other with the intent of the other responding back is the base definition of a conversation. No, they didn't discuss the finer points of Hume's philosop
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by firebat45 3y ago
You mean nineteen eighty-fourteen.
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by firebat45 3y ago
If it's difficult to tell, does it really matter?
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by firebat45 3y ago
>Isn't windows 11 forcing an annual prescription? Freudian slip ftw
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by firebat45 3y ago
If all some companies are doing is throwing a flashy control panel onto FOSS and reselling it, perhaps FOSS should refocus a bit more on the user experience and provide the control panel themselves?

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