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wizardofdos

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    Comment #32837287

    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 h…

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    Comment #32437180

    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 fue…

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    Comment #31013502

    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 …

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    Comment #30427910

    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 …

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    Comment #30427200

    You just don't frequent the same 'socioculutal strata' ;)

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    Comment #30414615

    Windows devs are known to use macbook pros - really tells you all you need to know.

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    Comment #30414610

    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 clusterfu…

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    Comment #30343834

    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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    Comment #30071159

    Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.

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    Comment #29576422

    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…

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    Comment #29331552

    >> 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 somet…

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    Comment #29159855

    You can actually, with Playstation Now or whatever Sony's streaming service is called.

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    Comment #29147315

    Why don't they use asymmetric keys for everything?

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    Comment #28166652

    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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    Comment #28127228

    No we don't. We have to reduce comsumption, and not just a bit but by a lot.

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    Comment #28115656

    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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    Comment #27891569

    Yeah, and that makes sense if you know neither Myers nor Briggs was a psychologist.

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    Comment #26464316

    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 bre…

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    Comment #26142097

    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, m…

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    Comment #26141550

    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 wo…