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3y ago
> chicken and egg problem, there won't be a need for increased charging infrastructure until there are more EVs on the road. Which we don't have the electricity infrastructure for. The solution is to get rid of cars, period. O
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3y ago
> If they really wanted to cut, emissions bycicles and trains are the way to do it. Exactly, what we really need to do is have a restrictive permitting system for cars like some cities have for guns. If you can't show good cause fo
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3y ago
> My brother is a contractor in the Bay Area and he told me that PG&E will not allow the installation of 220 volt EV charging infrastructure in new construction or a home remodel unless the homeowner can prove they already own an EV.
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3y ago
> Many people, including many people on this site (and, yes, including myself) wouldn't think twice about plugging into an available port if they need a charge. Maybe I don't plug into an unlabeled port in some random location
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3y ago
> Personally I predict that generative AI is going to be the next Metaverse and crypto. A common thread tying those three things together is that, in large part, they're all impressive technologies in search of problems to solve. Te
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3y ago
> What you're experiencing is confirmation bias. You read about one crime, then started noticing all of the stories about crime, formed a theory based on this hyper focusing, and now you believe it's worse than ever despite the
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3y ago
> So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve t
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3y ago
> I think the architecture of Notes/Domino was technically very interesting - a rapid application development environment incorporating a replicated document-oriented database, cross-platform GUI forms designer, and scripting langua
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3y ago
> Notes was pretty horrible for creating all sorts of legacy technical debt. Some handy Joe would create some database that would worm itself into critical business processes but be completely unmaintained. And is the "better"
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3y ago
> That's not title case - you don't capitalize words such as a, the, of, etc. unless they are at the beginning of the title. Exactly. Capitalizing every letter is the lazy, half-ass pseudo title case that I always have to corr
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3y ago
> I wonder what they used instead of outlook Maybe something like Pine? Even into Web 1.0 days, it was still pretty common for people to use. Everyone in my high school accessed their school-provided email account by telnetting into a
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3y ago
> There is _still_ no other word processor I'm aware of that can properly convert to title case. Not to mention Reveal Codes. I... might actually use this, not just play with it. Like this? http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckell
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3y ago
> Neat idea, I bet the intern had fun implementing it, why was it on by default? Total speculation, but Firefox seems to be pushing out a lot of UI gimmicks. Maybe they're trying to drum up interest in the browser that way, since t
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3y ago
> I think this movement will collapse and people will return to traditions/religion. Others part of society that don’t will self extinguish as is already apparent in the birth rate and divorce rate. That will probably take a long ti
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3y ago
> Those who write articles and engage in battles of attrition over article content are not idealists doing it for the sake of humanity. Instead they are marketeers getting paid to polish celebrities biographical articles, authors peddlin
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3y ago
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3y ago
> What's the cheapest wearable or device that can probably tell you if you have apnea? Years ago I was once concerned I might have had sleep apnea. I did see a doctor, who said I almost certainly didn't have it. I also bought
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3y ago
> Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source The use of "hacking" in the title is unfortunate, since it strongly brings to mind software engineers confidently loading up on weird supplement
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3y ago
> The German Wikipedia feels to me like stuck in 2006. Many pages don’t have any of the recent developments, and the information is very outdated. There are a lot of English Wikipedia pages like that, too. Sometimes it's pretty bla
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3y ago
> Sometimes that abuse is relatively easy to identify. In 2019, ArbCom disciplined the two editors most involved in this subject area, instituting a topic ban for their “incivility and inflammatory rhetoric.” But what about the more insi
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3y ago
> I've ordered food from Chipotle online, taken 30-40 minutes to get to the store, and very often it would have been more convenient (I would have gotten my food more quickly) if I had skipped the online order and waited in the in-
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3y ago
I answered your question. How about you answer mine?
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3y ago
> Personally I find the term "intellectual property" to be more messed up. It isn't property, it's a government granted monopoly... So, in other words, it's property. There's nothing that guarantees a partic
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3y ago
> Just saw your edit as well. Yes, people can feel free to file whatever claims they want, but the key thing is that there is a pattern of allegations. It is the very nature of discrimination claims that they are excessively hard to prov
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3y ago
> It absolutely is a problem Apple has, judging by at least three lawsuits which I could find in literally 30 seconds of Googling [1][2][3] - and it isn't just recent claims either, I could find one that went back to 2001 [4]. You&#
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3y ago
> It's not actually a right - it's a privilege. The system is entirely artificial and wouldn't exist without active social and legal enforcement. And if the privilege is abused in ways that don't benefit society, then
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3y ago
Because I suspect that phrase doesn't mean what you think it means.
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3y ago
>> * Tell me, who's going to invest 10-200 million dollars to make a movies or TV shows on a regular basis, without copyright? > We can have a world where: > - Every child has access to humanity's best information >
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3y ago
> The only article referencing those claims that I could find when Googling just now was this very article. Beyond that, there is a Glassdoor page with negative reviews that suggest the same. I'm thinking those accusations are proba
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3y ago
You're missing the point. The question isn't "is it important for someone," it's "is it too big to fail" (i.e. does the government think it's sooo important that it must swoop in and save it). If
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