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CapstanRoller

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    Comment #44306227

    Reconsider using that NanoKVM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I

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    Comment #42664762

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42011957

    Please don't troll.

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    Comment #41769924

    >Let’s say we can get people to 200 by keeping them immobile and cold and nearly starving them of calories and oxygen—dramatically suppressing their metabolism. Who would want that…

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    Comment #41769271

    >I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever died from bisphenol-A poisoning. That's like talking about cigarettes and claiming people don't die from nicotine, therefore smoking…

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    Comment #41188419

    They're synonyms, per your link. Also check out Wikipedia >Quantum Jump >Redirected from Quantum leap (physics)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general

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    Comment #41188299

    A quantum leap is actually a tiny event e.g. an electron energy level transition

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    Comment #41188280

    There are always downsides: your personal card can get fraud-flagged, which is a huge pain to fix. It can also get banned by Stripe/Braintree/etc, which will really mess things up …

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    Comment #41188025

    It is wrong and definitely illegal in California: >Here in the state of California, labor laws define that an employer cannot require a team member to take on expenses that are an …

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    Comment #41187993

    Any job that asks you to buy your own equipment, especially a computer, is a scam (unless you are a freelancer, in which case you should already have equipment)

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    Comment #41183464

    >Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk. Why? This doesn't seem natural (or ethical) >In today's world, farmers need…

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    Comment #41183377

    >Ask (pressure) the developers into buying some cheap stuff from your shop with their own credit cards This is illegal. I've always refused such "requests" and asked for a company …

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    Comment #41183307

    Anarchism isn't a belief, but rather a political-philosophical framework with some very specifically-defined foundational aspects. Imagine discussing math and programming with some…

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    Comment #41183272

    It is possible to decrease entropy locally, but not globally. You can only push entropy somewhere else, and that pushing creates even more entropy. This is why refrigerators keep f…

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    Comment #41182525

    >For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there. Doesn't this require leaving the computer unlocked?

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    Comment #41165644

    It "says nothing whatsoever" only if you fell off the turnip truck yesterday, or have a vested interest in defending a massive corporation.

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    Comment #41165603

    >The decentralization proposed in the technological field is closer to anarchist ideals Anarchist ideals? From right-wing billionaires like Musk and Thiel? Or by centrist billionai…

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    Comment #41153366

    You're probably not allowed to discuss it here because the people who own this website are currently making a lot of money from content stolen by bots, to be ingested by other bots…

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    Comment #41153168

    You didn't really make any points worth addressing. If you want to drink Soylent, go ahead. But even the predominant ingredient, soy, comes from agriculture.

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    Comment #41153131

    >I can't envision a decentralized technological and scientific world that wouldn't set us back 300 years. And yet you are here arguing for more capitalist market-based solutions, w…

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    Comment #41152455

    How many actual farmers are involved with this project, or were at least consulted? This thing looks like an out-of-touch nerd hobby project, not a real tool one would use in the r…

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    Comment #41152389

    >Having watched Clarkson's Farm, I can't help but feel that farming is extremely antiquated. That's like saying you watched The Bachelor and now have Opinions about marriage.

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    Comment #41152360

    www.deere.com

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    Comment #41140505

    >This technology and science must necessarily be funded by the market. Why?

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    Comment #41129987

    >the best chance to get out of it is to make carbon capture economically viable Same energy as "yeah we got addicted to heroin, and the best way of getting out of this mess is to s…