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by robnado 1y ago
Software Engineers need to get involved politically and demand regulations that systems that are critical for national security be developed by residents of the US on US soil by actual people with the right qualifications.
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by robnado 2y ago
Evolution has selected animals that, when they have access to foods with high caloric density, will gorge on them. This has been advantageous to their survival, because the history of life has been characterized by famine feast cycles for m
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by robnado 2y ago
Honestly, that wouldn’t be a bad way to fund education: education is free, but the university gets taxation power over you so they can tax you at x% of your income. It aligns incentives better than the current system.
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by robnado 2y ago
What is your modest proposal for convincing people to move away from California when the hole in their pocket is not a big enough incentive?
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by robnado 2y ago
Even if they are only used by family members of cops, this is still nepotism and should be punished. There is no valid reason for these cards to exist. Maybe I am naïve, but I still think that the law should apply equally to everyone.
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by robnado 2y ago
Reforestation is mostly done by tree farms to regenerate the trees they will harvest in the future. They want good sized trees that are optimally packed and easily accessible. I doubt the capability to capture carbon figures anywhere in the
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by robnado 2y ago
Agreed. Only land should be taxed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism .
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by robnado 2y ago
This works for Steam because the Steam Deck is a low margin device they sell to ensure they can’t be shut out of their profitable business of selling games by microsoft and apple. To Steam, having a customer use the same steam deck for 10 y
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by robnado 2y ago
Combining refrigerator, water heater and heat pump implies the need for transferring the fluid used as refrigerant between these components. This is usually a gas that is not trivial to contain, so creating this shared pipeline increases th
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by robnado 2y ago
Last I checked, the XPS 13 inch was still a serious risk of burning your lap if used as an actual laptop.
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by robnado 2y ago
I've had phishing served to me through google ads a few times, so this hardly surprises.
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by robnado 2y ago
Agreed, they should be made an example of. Everyone involved in the fraud of getting this medication approved and then marketed to millions of people should face a fair trial and should be made an example of if found guilty. There is no rea
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by robnado 2y ago
I don't feel any sympathy for the developer either: I feel bad for the trees that had to be cut down, the materials that had to be mined and processed, the heavy machinery that had to be moved to that location and burn gallons of fuel,
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by robnado 2y ago
Reasonable parties would have found a way to come to an amicable agreement that wouldn’t have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars of value, like exchanging lands and offering compensation. Edit: changed dollar value, thanks Ballas fo
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by robnado 2y ago
That's why much of the world is gradually shifting over to renewable energy usage. In a world where energy is renewable, does not generate greenhouse gas and (hopefully) does not produce other externalities, our best way of dealing wit
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by robnado 2y ago
Don’t forget the A pilar in cars that keep getting bigger for heavier cars (like say, electric cars or SUVs). A lot can be obscured to a driver by a particularly thick A pilar.
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by robnado 2y ago
This is an economics problem: if the cost of energy is lower or equal to the benefit of consuming it, the energy will be consumed. As more and more energy is consumed to run these datacenters, price of energy will go up, and datacenters wil
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by robnado 3y ago
You're talking in the order of hundreds of thousands of those things to replace the current electricity production of the world. A conservative number for their cost is in the order of 10 million dollars per unit. Therefore, around 1 t
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by robnado 3y ago
You know what they say: a healthy mind in a healthy body. Focus on eating well and doing regular high intensity exercise and your stamina will increase.
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by robnado 3y ago
We are still deciding between an SUV and a minivan. What might make us choose the SUV is the ground clearance. Where we live there is a lot of snowfall in the winter, and the extra ground clearance can mean the difference between getting be
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by robnado 3y ago
Agreed, instead of addressing any of the problems that push people to buy big gas guzzlers, they leverage those problems to divide the population. If you look, you will see these wedge issues everywhere. We won't get anywhere at addres
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by robnado 3y ago
I feel that all those people who talk about reducing car size and use probably don’t have a family. I have twin 6 month olds and the only cars we currently use is the Toyota Corolla from a local car sharing service. Two car seats in the bac
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by robnado 3y ago
In a world that has gone so far in the direction of hedonism, the opposite message is a centring force that helps people find balance in their lives. As one of my coworkers used to say “always choose the middle way”. I’m honestly more surpr
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by robnado 3y ago
You are describing narcissism or even anti-social personality disorder. I agree that they have little in common with true stoicism.
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by robnado 3y ago
This raises the question of why passion and empathy are so in vogue these days.
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by robnado 3y ago
When i loaded the website, a popup came up that everything there is just their opinion and nothing is to be taken as fact. Why take them seriously when they even say they have no facts supporting their allegations.
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by robnado 3y ago
USB-C is only the connector. I wonder what the rules say about the protocol used. It is quite possible to use a USB-C connector and use a completely different protocol. They could simply implement the 5v, 500mA capacity of USB 2.0 to be ful
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by robnado 3y ago
There is something to be said about the laptop form factor and macOS enabling productivity. That said, I would definitely see the guts of an iPad being put in the frame of a laptop with macOS.
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by robnado 3y ago
They were recently acquired by OpenText, so that probably has something to do with it.
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by robnado 3y ago
If there is plenty of competition in their field, let them do what they want. If they have a monopoly or an oligopoly of a few providers that all conspire or are coerced to censor, then they should be forbidden from censoring.

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