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by surge 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure decent ones run about 50-80 dollars, a very good one.
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by surge 11mo ago
I always called him a Bush-lite too, such a disappointment. Did everything I disliked about Bush and nothing about the things he said he'd do. If anything some of the things he did were worse, like executing a US Citizen with a drone w
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by surge 1y ago
I've threat modeled this myself, and as I understand it the Bitwarden client side decrypts/encrypts everything locally. So even if backend was entirely compromised, it's never getting anything without the master password, and
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by surge 1y ago
I saw a report from another guy who couches it as not a homeless problem but a mental health and addiction problem. Everyone thinks its just people down on their luck and a home will solve it. He showed one person who had been given housing
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by surge 1y ago
This is just rubberducking into a private channel. It's really not that new. I actually do this, but into a personal google doc.
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by surge 1y ago
All the progressive solutions seem to only not work, but exacerbate the problem and expose the public to more risk. Not to mention all the sympathy and gentle parenting the problem under the masquerade of tolerance just keeps the homeless i
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by surge 1y ago
It didn't specify if fresh water meant non-salt water from a natural water source, or treated drinkable water. I'd need to see the rainfall averages for the region the data center is in, susceptibility to drought to know how much
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by surge 1y ago
Engadget often has sensationalist, inaccurate headlines. I stopped reading them when I was intimately with the actual details of an article vs the way they framed/presented it. Also, what kind of water? Pure clean water, untreated wat
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by surge 1y ago
That commentary was far less prevalent and met a lot of resistance from the same people here. Few people imagine something like a Department of Mis/Disinformation not being such a good thing if its their person in charge and don't
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by surge 1y ago
Reminds me of this piece: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-intellectual-dark-web-is... tldr; Public discussions carry too much risk if you discuss anything honestly, you get brigaded or doxed, or things are taken ou
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by surge 1y ago
Sorry, just I thought anyone lurking here for a while was pretty familiar with the whole model of "offer service for free to gain user adoption, then sell out or pivot". Most of these services that we enjoy simply aren't sust
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by surge 1y ago
TBF Skype wasn't profitable when MS bought it, it every much was in the line of make something everyone wants to use and figure out how to make money later. Skype was more or less free to use and it didn't make enough from paid se
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by surge 1y ago
This is what I don't get, the FTC is suing because the FTC allowed something to happen, when the platforms had even more dominance than they do now? Kind of stinks of less than valid motivations based on the timing of bringing this up
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by surge 1y ago
The point is we have laws in place to prevent it, unless you're being trafficked and forced to pay off gangs that transported you over the border, and no rights to ability to deal with an abusive situation. The fact that you are okay w
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by surge 1y ago
Bernie Sanders put it best: "open borders is a Koch Bros scheme" You saturate the labor market with workers, it depresses wages, plain and simple. It's in the interests of shareholders to saturate the labor market to increase
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by surge 1y ago
I remember when this happened, it was in the news then, except the conversation was everyone in SV was doing it, including Google. They decided not to. We don't convict for thinking about robbing a bank, you actually have to attempt it
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by surge 1y ago
>Authoritarianism is fundamentally right wing. Go look at a political compass. Authoritarianism is when you use force to push your ideals, whether they be radical/liberal (left) or orthodox/conservative)(right) ideals on a popu
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by surge 1y ago
Marx is like a doctor who diagnoses a disease then offers a cure that is worse than the disease itself. It's a bit like removing a leg to fix a broken toe. I figured this out in college thinking about it for 10 minutes, I don't ge
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by surge 1y ago
So did Usenet, no one cares. They simply require you go to 18 different sites to follow what friends are up to. Tumblr would just be the ad tech company instead, or the blog hosting company, for a while it was MySpace. It's either free
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by surge 2y ago
This is a political bubble view if I've ever seen one. Evangelical Christians (those that are practicing and going to church regularly and very zealous in their beliefs) make up a tiny minority of those currently aligning with the righ
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by surge 2y ago
Because PLA is made from sugar, funny enough, if use PLA from Europe to 3D print it smells like cotton candy (cause made from cane sugars) whereas PLA in the US smells like popcorn (because made from corn syrup). It's also why its comp
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by surge 2y ago
First Amendment doesn't cover things that cause direct harm or speech to minors. In this case, you can draw a straight line between social media usage and an increase in teen suicides, and keeping them on it for long periods is detrime
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by surge 2y ago
You can get addicted to anything that gives you little dopamine hits and stimulating reward centers the same way gambling, etc does. Dark patterns are well documented. Medical science and multiple studies involving brain scans during social
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by surge 2y ago
You can lie on your birth date in your profile.
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by surge 2y ago
You'd have to do the math, but similar to boots theory, if you're spending 2-3 times as much for something that lasts 5-10 times as long (50k hours for a good LED vs 1.2k hours for incandescent) you will save a lot more money in t
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by surge 2y ago
The rule of thumb I've found with light bulbs is similar to the Boots Theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory ), which is you need to spend at least $8-$10 on a bulb to get something that will actually
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by surge 2y ago
Now if only Buttigieg was a more than a do nothing position and the FAA/FDA, etc stopped acting like captured agencies and do their jobs. Boeing is like what, our one major airline manufacturer and because they're part of the mili
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by surge 2y ago
The FTC chair and this honestly is the best reason to vote for the Biden Administration (I feel like at this point whose in office largely doesn't matter 98% of the time, they're too old and or self absorbed to be heavily involved
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by surge 2y ago
Not at Google, they skew towards new projects for performance reviews. Not improving or maintaining existing projects. Which is why they have 3 different versions of hangouts/Meet, play music being replaced by YT Music which does the s
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by surge 2y ago
>In practice, OpenCL became a giant mess. Some vendors put speed bumps by not supporting the transition from 2 to 3, or having shitty drivers for it. Well, Nvidia's stock price in the age of AI indicates how bad of a screw up that w

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