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by logdap 3y ago
And most patent trolls are just a few jackass lawyers, not large established companies like Nokia.
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by logdap 3y ago
I see jokes here often enough, but they have to be tasteful, original and clever. What doesn't fly here is the lazy reddit style of joking where you just quote some lame meme or movie quip for the millionth time.
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by logdap 3y ago
Are you alluding to some particular hypocrisy in my comment history, or do you consider me a hypocritical merely because I have nuanced opinions on leadership that depend on the stakes and context? Democracy is a fine way to run a nation, b
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by logdap 3y ago
In small groups where decisions must be made in a timely and decisive manner, a mediocre leader is often better than the best democratic committee. Even in programming teams, somebody needs to put their foot down eventually or things will
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by logdap 3y ago
Snowden's only value to the US is satisfying the grudge the government has against him. There's no practical value to everyday Americans in getting Snowden back now, whatever beans he had are spilt years ago.
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by logdap 3y ago
> 13% risk is a number controlling out other factors So is the other figure, so the comparison is valid. Maybe wood dust is more dangerous that you assume? BTW, the asbestos in baby powder had nothing to do with industrial use of asbe
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by logdap 3y ago
Secret courts aren't an accident. "Whoops my hand slipped and I accidentally drafted thousands of pages of legislation!" No, secret courts are deliberate and malicious. Hanlon's razor is for credulous fools.
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by logdap 3y ago
As somebody who sometimes puts slept laptops into bags, No! A laptop ever waking itself from sleep is an abomination.
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by logdap 3y ago
It's a product of sports-teams consumerism. People make affiliation with a sports team or corporate brand into part of their identity. When they fall out with one brand they feel compelled to fill the resulting void in their soul wit
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by logdap 3y ago
Those people also forget or deliberately ignore the existence if MacOS, and generally exaggerate the state of Android. MacOS isn't locked down like iOS yet normal laypeople can use it just fine without shooting themselves in the foot.
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by logdap 3y ago
Self aggrandizing comparison, whole article is a humblebrag about how powerful the author is. You're an insignificant spec compared to the old grand lizard. In your most destructive, you are nothing like him. In your most heroic mom
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by logdap 3y ago
And this kind of thing, trouble with a boss/landlord/etc, is a lot more likely to personally impact the average person than any sort of PV-related scenario. Single party consent is a clear net positive for most people.
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by logdap 3y ago
> I asked them if they are a helicopter or plane pilot, and they replied simply: "A very good customer."
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by logdap 3y ago
Two is better than one. If Dragon were grounded for some reason, an operational Starliner would give NASA a lot more flexibility.
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by logdap 3y ago
Mozilla management are malicious snakes. This isn't the first time they've tried something like this and it won't be the last. Each time they issue noncommittally apologies, if you can call them that, but it keeps on happen
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by logdap 3y ago
Crazy it's taken them this long and they're still having problems. If it weren't for SpaceX, the whole western world would be out of manned spaceflight right now. The Russians and Chinese can fly humans, but NASA is Congres
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by logdap 3y ago
Facebook being banned in the EU has no justifiable bearing on NATO obligations. NATO is not a trade agreement.
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by logdap 3y ago
> The Americans are considering to ban TikTok, do you want EU to adopt the same approach and ban TikTok along with Meta and the rest? Yes, of course.
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by logdap 3y ago
When you add telemetry to a fork of a thing that didn't previously have telemetry, you don't deserve the benefit of doubt. The original didn't need telemetry, so neither does your fork. Anybody who does this should be assum
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by logdap 3y ago
The ones who broke the commons are the ones who abused it by uploading malware and lazy student projects. You shouldn't blame the host for trying to maintain standards in light of this. When you have a tragedy of the commons scenario
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by logdap 3y ago
Why don't they simply use their wonderful AI products to fix this?
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by logdap 3y ago
National security is not a uniquely "wasp" concern, which you would know if you were ever in the military. What an incredibly ignorant and racist thing to suggest.
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by logdap 3y ago
You could very reasonably call it authoritarian, but it objectively isn't total itarian. Words tend to lose meaning in conversations like this.
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by logdap 3y ago
As an American who opposes military adventurism, I think those bases are a net negative to America because they facilitate such wars. Protecting Europe from Soviet/Russian aggression is well and good, but insofar as those bases facili
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by logdap 3y ago
Technically it's the daughters of radon, the decay products, which accumulate. Radon itself has a half life of less than four days, but it decays into all kinds of nasty stuff like Polonium and ultimately Lead.
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by logdap 3y ago
You stopped reading too soon: > Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C) [...] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sell
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by logdap 3y ago
I'm pretty sure regular ballpoint pens work just fine in space. Try writing with one upsidedown in earth gravity; they work fine.
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by logdap 3y ago
That's a myth within a myth. The coffee was industry standard temperature, they still serve coffee that hot today (Wikipedia says as much.) The lawsuit was justified though, because the cup design was defective. It shouldn't
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by logdap 3y ago
I don't know man, custom bespoke anythings probably need to cost a few hundred dollars to make it worth the time of the company, who needs to pay the workers and all the useful and useless management alike, and still turn a profit as w
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by logdap 3y ago
> Breyer found that Walgreens' San Francisco pharmacies had received more than 1.2 million opioid prescriptions with "red flags" from 2006 to 2020, yet performed due diligence on less than 5% before dispensing them Unles

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