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Nobody will do anything about it and things will continue to get worse.

> It could be done with a new separate branch of government. Ah, yes. Maybe we could call it The Ministry of Thought.

> cannot be used to infer any sort of near-time It's not meant to, it's meant to dispel the common notion that no progress is being made in this area of research. And the total pow…

Unfortunately people are actively trying to ban nuclear, the safest and cleanest form of energy[1] ever devised. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Before anyone comments "fusion is always 10 years away" I'll just say that we've made significant progress in the last 40 years (energy generated by fusion is on par with moore's l…

What's the industry 'standard' nowadays? I assume SHA-256 would be decent but I don't really keep up with that stuff.

buzzfeed lol

Forgot no humor allowed here

Marijuana taxes are obscene and immoral. I pay 30-40% on a plant that has medicinal properties in Colorado. The whole "sin" tax on marijuana makes no sense. God forbid this gets se…

how does one build arms without arms?

Here's an idea: develop some self-confidence instead of focusing on how offended you can get all the time

>Rust is pretty >Of course, you might feel differently, but one of my biggest takeaways from all of this side-by-side code is that Rust is clear, expressive As someone who doesn't …

> My only hope is that this isn't so successful that they neglect the installer because nobody is using it anymore :-) Wouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, you'd have a tough tim…

Gonna start using this one ( https://www.gnu.org/graphics/I_run_GNU_by_GNUlancer.png ) on my Windows PC at work

>I disagree that voting has become meaningless You literally have better odds of winning the powerball than your vote having any effect on the outcome of a general election. Even i…

> Is this 'hallucination' though? Or just some weird stuff happening in visual processing? Is there a meaningful difference?

Thanks for this!

> If I want to use Facebook to some extent but stop them from selling all my data to everyone This is an unrealistic expectation. You signed a legal contract when you signed up for…

How can you harvest data from your own datacenter?

If you care about your privacy you shouldn't be using facebook. Kind of insane that people need the government to make these decisions for them.

Try this out on the portrait page: r = {}; za = {}; fda = {}; intv = {}; function setH(div){za[div]=Math.floor(Math.random() 100);fda[div]=((za[div]>50)?-1:1);i = setInterval(funct…

> It's still hands-down the best OS out there if you just want a stable, usable computer that respects you, and I still feel really grateful for it every time I boot up my computer…

If your taking the 'protect wildlife' route, then it doesn't make sense to argue against taking trash out of the ocean which directly kills a god-awful lot of animals as it stands.…

I would say a serious attempt at cleaning any amount of the ocean is better than no attempt.

The device is made from recyclable plastic.