retromario

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by retromario 19d ago
Colinizers?
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by retromario 25d ago
Canada has government-rune liquor stores, they're doing ok. Not exactly a "grocery store", but still PRETTY SHOCKING. UK has co-op (chains). There's Mondragon in Spain - I know it's employee-owned but that's no
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by retromario 4mo ago
In the past 18 months I've seen experienced developers turn out incredible work using llm-assisted tools, over and over again. With the right harnesses, processes and result-oriented testing, you can simply produce so much more high-qu
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by retromario 6mo ago
How do you define "Western people"?
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by retromario 1y ago
It triggers me that there's an obvious typo in 'Oxford' right under the author's name. I wonder if it was originally published like that since 1997 and never caught or changed with all the updates.
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by retromario 2y ago
Geretsried (the town) apparently sits in an ideal location for geothermal power and heat plants, in the same basin as Munich and other surrounding municipalities who have been leveraging geothermal energy to great effect. https:/&#x2F
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by retromario 3y ago
I'm not OP, just explaining how public and private investments are sometimes linked.
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by retromario 3y ago
Some projects are a mix of private and public investments. A freeze on the public portion affects the risk/trade-offs of the private investment portion and therefore on the overall project.
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by retromario 3y ago
Every human being is born with zero ability for self-preservation...
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by retromario 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Victor
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by retromario 4y ago
What about the 4 examples of other electric semis shared at the end of the original thread? https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1600970796159336449
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by retromario 4y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro... 2-3x more energy efficient + the same performance (if not better) than other (Intel) chips ~2 times more expensive. I don't think there&#x2
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by retromario 5y ago
I think it's only a matter of time until the US and Germany stop buying gas from Russia. It's going to cause a lot of pain, especially for us in Germany where nearly a third of gas is imported from Russia. But that's the poin
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by retromario 5y ago
Uh, Germany locked down pretty hard, several times. "Good" organisation and mass testing came later. Source: my last two years with three kids at home
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by retromario 5y ago
The other points are fine, but a 3 or 4-year old does not understand nuance or personal responsibility. I think that in general German society encourages a strong sense of personality responsibility as part of developing healthy children an
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by retromario 5y ago
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/31872/people-with-migra... A few examples as well as general recent trends but also the challenges immigrant founders are facing.
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by retromario 5y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by retromario 6y ago
> None of those deaths were linked back to the Capital building in a meaningful way (including the officer). That is simply false. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-of...
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by retromario 6y ago
How does the Matrix experience compare to Signal, feature-wise? I ran into similar frustrations with Signal's lack of polish in certain areas when trying to move family over. There's something to be said for why WhatsApp is so pop
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by retromario 6y ago
The EU messed up but they are at least publicly owning up to some of the blame (finally): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/ursula-von-der...
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by retromario 6y ago
> eg, having a custom one-touch screen lock button that's always present Do you know that clicking the TouchID button will lock your screen?
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by retromario 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944230517/supreme-court-rejec...
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by retromario 6y ago
Their thinking is pretty much all laid out in the 2015 Zuckerberg memo on VR/AR: https://twitter.com/lucasmtny/status/1095861887588229120?s=2...
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by retromario 6y ago
How does one disable the signature validation?
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by retromario 6y ago
My 99 year old grandma says that the greatest invention in her lifetime was the washing machine, freeing up an incredible number of labor and hours wasted every week in every household (and usually by women) for more productive tasks.
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by retromario 6y ago
I do think it's a level above the competition, thanks to their multi-year head start on the hardware-software integration (a la Apple) and their focus on VR comfort/quality. A year after it's launched, there's still no
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by retromario 6y ago
I haven't tried the Pico but the Vive Focus is not anywhere close to the experience of the Quest, especially when it comes to tracking. The Quest stands out because the tracking is as accurate and consistent as on desktop class VR head
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by retromario 6y ago
Please read these and then decide who's at fault: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b... https://www.salon.com/2016/01/04/teflons_toxic_legacy
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by retromario 6y ago
A few examples which benefit citizens: * Websites are required to clearly present what information they store and track. They are also required to provide an option of functionality without ad tracking technology. The UX problems have been
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by retromario 6y ago
They are few and far between, but there have been a couple efforts by some of the "leaders" above to stop some of the illegal domestic surveillance programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey#NSA_domes

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