wizardofdos

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by wizardofdos 4y ago
Yeah maybe check again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG... Considering the rest of your comment picturing Ukraine as some backwater (post)soviet hell hole: You've never been there. You
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by wizardofdos 4y ago
3) you contribute to loss of biodiversity through increased land use for intensive farming (monoculture, high chemical use) 4) co2 balance of those 'biofuels' is way worse than fuels refined from extracted fossil fuels 5) addition
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by wizardofdos 4y ago
Because they are a gutted, disempowered US-regulator. Wrecked by 4 years of Trump and countless other presidents before them. Possibly there is also not the political will to ramp up the regulatory speed and power although I still have hope
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
As common as it is wrong. Why is the constant screaming at me? Why is the fact that it's a constant important enough to be encoded in the styling of the letters, but not important enough to be encoded in the name. Why isn't the ID
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
You just don't frequent the same 'socioculutal strata' ;)
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Windows devs are known to use macbook pros - really tells you all you need to know.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Yeah, this never worked well in windows (I remember switching 'show window content while moving' to 'off' whenever 'on' became the default). Taskbar 'autohide' is still a clusterfuck (I don't re
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Yeah, that trending and content suggestion algorithmic feed idea seems to be at the heart of the problem. Maybe making that illegal would go a long way.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
The emissions of the top 10% richest people globally where 17.60 tCO2 while the bottom poorest 50% globally emitted 1.57 tCO2 (2015). Or in absolute numbers, the top 10% emitted 3x the amount of the whole bottom 50%. And that is without tak
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
>> censorship-resistant As in impossible to influence via regulation. Once you realize that proper regulation is a good thing and a must in a functioning society, you realize something that can not be regulated can't be allowed t
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
You can actually, with Playstation Now or whatever Sony's streaming service is called.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Why don't they use asymmetric keys for everything?
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Scandal at the Heart of the Vintage Video Games Market(sethabramson.substack.com)
2 points by wizardofdos 5y ago|0 comments
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
TLDR: You can't tell by looking (if your rule holds for all or only a small set of numbers). You will need a maths degree for actually telling.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
No we don't. We have to reduce comsumption, and not just a bit but by a lot.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
It's true tho. On a world with limited resources and limits to the amount of pollution our planet can deal with, less people means a longer runway.
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by wizardofdos 5y ago
Yeah, and that makes sense if you know neither Myers nor Briggs was a psychologist.
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by wizardofdos 6y ago
Can't have that in Germany as labour laws require a 30 minutes break if working more than 6 hours and an extra 15 minutes if working more than 9 hours (including the 30 minutes break. So the best your company could do would be 30 minut
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by wizardofdos 6y ago
Yes, i think there is many Einsteins and Mendels that weren't rediscovered after their time. Some because their ideas were wrong, but some also with innovative and correct ideas, many of which were reinvented and some probably even nev
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by wizardofdos 6y ago
I think attacks like this show, that an intervention is very much needed. And if it is to disrupt the technology industry big time, that might just be needed as well. I mean you wouldn't have spared the tobacco industry, just because m