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Grim-444

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    Comment #34404697

    I agree, but it also interestingly at the same time gives me a conflicting thought - how can we be so confident that we know what's going on in/around our planet if such a huge per…

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    Comment #34390544

    Well both of your complaints were already addressed. Android introduced the scoped storage system to remove and fix abuse of "full" disk access, and they also added the foreground …

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    Comment #34334021

    There's a difference between funding research and funding development and manufacturing. No company would develop and manufacture a drug if they wouldn't make profit of it, no matt…

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    Comment #34265586

    I'm pretty sure there's already FCC rules requiring deorbit of satellites within a certain number of years of their mission completion. [Edit] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adop…

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    Comment #34265301

    Well I give them props for at least having a facade of a "what went wrong" section, which most RN articles leave out, although it doesn't feel like an honest analysis of the negati…

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    Comment #34219831

    The title claims "behind every self-made millionaire", then the article subtitle claims "behind most self-made millionaires", then the article body just points at a grand total of …

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    Comment #34192382

    Whether or not any of the post is accurate, it really just comes off as a begrudged ex-employee trying to throw dirt. As a supposedly former "senior software engineer", their entir…

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    Comment #34039395

    At even colder temps than that EV batteries start having even more problems, for example they become permanently damaged if charged at freezing temps or below, so even more energy …

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    Comment #34009659

    Not trying to be snarky here, but I'm curious what percentage of the people complaining in this thread also complained about the constant censorship and deplatforming by Twitter pr…

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    Comment #33923159

    Well they start by listing out the advantages of stuff like Robux: "Parental controls implemented in recent years mean out-of-control spending by children is less of a concern than…

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    Comment #33849979

    The title claims that a four-day week trail shows that working less increases productivity. The article provides two data points for this. 1) The author's personal research, in whi…

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    Comment #33848128

    This comment is pretty much the definition of a straw-man argument. You're presenting an extreme opinion as the opinion of hundreds of millions of human beings. Just adding to the …

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    Comment #33847419

    Calmly and rationally? "It was relatively easy for most of us to condemn the allergic-to-truth rantings of former President Donald Trump. His lies were so transparent and prodigiou…

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    Comment #33631052

    How are we computing something we can't yet even define?

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    Comment #33600517

    Weren't we already in that same situation every year/decade prior to covid when between 20,000 and 50,000 would die from the flu each year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta…

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    Comment #33600450

    Flu shots also use a vaccine mechanism that's been known/used for decades and is not a first of its kind in history mRNA treatment. I feel like this difference would lead towards o…

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    Comment #33541483

    "can charge itself 40 miles a day in optimal conditions." Using random numbers from Google for a Tesla 3 for an example, it has a 50kWh battery and 305 miles of range. That's 164Wh…

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    Comment #33526254

    Well, since this is from CNN, how about this fun game: I'll pay $10,000 to anyone that finds me a positive headline about Trump that CNN has ever at any point run. Heck, not even a…

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    Comment #33523668

    Are you seriously making the claim that nearly 100% of motorists run stop signs, and using a less than one minute long video of one specific intersection with less than 10 vehicles…

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    Comment #33426006

    "I work at Google and they've told me to work 125 hours weeks". In that statement I provided just as much evidence for my claim as the article does their claim. In fact, there's mo…

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    Comment #33377280

    > But, some amount of free speech without being a pure hellscape is close to what Twitter is right now. That's not a plan for the future, that's an observation of how things are at…

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    Comment #33217567

    "Maintaining cross platform compatibility has helped prevent potential bugs because each architecture and compiler set expose different sets of issues. The tools available for each…

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    Comment #33207671

    Well, you're doing a really great job reducing polarization and helping to improve the country by adding your partisan political hate into the mix and denouncing half of your fello…

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    Comment #32929942

    To be fair, that's only according to what he himself has admitted, which doesn't rule out more cheating than that.

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    Comment #32906517

    Imagine how much impact we could have if we used all the effort gong to develop Rust and port everything over to Rust to instead just improve the wrinkles that exist in C++.