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readflaggedcomm··on Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020)
For me, size of American groceries isn't a problem. Heat is the main problem.

But when rarely it's cool, stores along heavy foot-trafficked routes are extremely hostile to carrying bags, which makes it inefficient to bother.

readflaggedcomm··on People in 150 cities globally standing up to authoritarian controls on freedoms
It does pose risks to others when it depletes social health resources.
readflaggedcomm··on Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?
Prices will rise, except lumber. Politicians will philander.
readflaggedcomm··on It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing
Rokus do that for any of their channels that supports it, which are a whole lot.

You can use it on the web, too, and it shows which channels require a subscription: https://www.roku.com/whats-on/search I assume it's accurate for those services across other platforms than just Roku.

readflaggedcomm··on It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing
That's not my experience with decades of different Comcast subscriptions in one city.
readflaggedcomm··on Premature Blogging Death Notice
>This will be news to all the bloggers out there still successfully publishing things and getting read on the internet.

"Died off" simply means the author doesn't use it. RSS and Firefox are widely reported as dead, and surely buried somewhere near the BSDs.

When you change the people around you to be more like you, those who differ no longer exist. So any voice that disagrees can not be human like you. This is the power of social media. Not a reaper of stale software and stuffy practices, but a surgical scythe on the user's sympathy for others.

readflaggedcomm··on I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)
It is. Specifically, IQ is assumed or asserted to follow the normal distribution, where mean equals median and mode.

By definition, half are below the median. The normal distribution's median is equal to the mean, so half are below mean.

readflaggedcomm··on Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox
It makes perfect sense because people already implement it that way. As the document says:

>Use this new feature wherever services already have a ‘none’ checkbox.

readflaggedcomm··on Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox
>Use this new feature wherever services already have a ‘none’ checkbox.

So I guess this is mostly about standardization in the toolkit, which makes the whole thing easier to work on and modify (or translate into a different front end) in the long run.

readflaggedcomm··on Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design
>Try recycling gasoline.

Hydrocarbons can come from wood and other biomass, too. Woodgas is not unheard of. Plants feed on the bulk of emissions, if you need the cycle completed for you.

readflaggedcomm··on Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
Just integrate a basic uMatrix into the browser, as it should have, and none of this matters.

Why is it impossible to view the origins of resources in one simple interactive panel? That's simpler than the major browsers' dev tools' features, in fact. Except then, the user would have a dashboard of control, which they can not be trusted with.

readflaggedcomm··on My NFT was 'removed' without warning or explanation
The opensea link in the first tweet works, so I guess it was restored some time in the intervening month.

But there is no evident log or explanation, and the replies don't mention it. Just like any capricious centralized platform which buries its history.

readflaggedcomm··on Libertarianism as a Programmatically Incoherent Social Philosophy
>Libertarianism boasts a very tightly reasoned and ostensibly compelling account of how social life should be ordered.

I thought it was the opposite of this. My preconception is reinforced by their description of the importance of the philosophy of self-ownership.

The whole "rectification" argument seems to be based on a misunderstanding of the concept of "justice", which is some kind of dog whistle. The author uses it to justify absurdities, whereas Nozick likely clarified its scope. But I haven't read his book, though I have it on my shelf, and the author deliberately obscures how close their conceptions of justice match, so I'm not sure how far off this is.

readflaggedcomm··on ASCII Video Player
Is there a canonical way to find the source to these types of github links? The broken link to durian.blender.org doesn't show anything, and the user page https://github.com/Pessimistress doesn't have any obvious ascii-art or video projects. Neither does the home page linked from github. And bundle.js is just obfuscated.

It looks like libcaca, but I would have to recompile mpv to see how similar it is.

readflaggedcomm··on Toxic Positivity Is Real, and Annoying
You're wrong, and that's why anybody helping you will fall on deaf ears.

Humans are irrational. Irrationality can be managed, understood, and harnessed. Don't pretend that grief is an impenetrable weapon against rational thought.

readflaggedcomm··on Reflections on E-Bikes
I'd be surprised if it makes that much of a difference on impact, since the differential with a car doesn't change much.

What will hurt is whether the brakes are sufficient to stop that mass, which naive conversions have. That makes the difference between stopping in time or not.

readflaggedcomm··on Toxic Positivity Is Real, and Annoying
>my advice is rational, you aren’t in a rational state of mind

That's not just a problem with teaching, it's the entire problem. Understanding both these things will be true at the same time requires maturation or emotional discipline, which it's not yet taboo to describe as learned behaviors.

readflaggedcomm··on Toxic Positivity Is Real, and Annoying
>Telling someone who is in emotional pain to buck up is invalidating and dismissive. Not only are you diminishing their feelings, you’re telling them that these feelings are part of their problem.

Or it's the result of a lifetime of learning about your own emotional reactions. If teaching is toxic, who can learn?

readflaggedcomm··on NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS
It's really that the people who can't stand them get them kicked off Youtube. That's the definition of legitimate use.
readflaggedcomm··on Ask HN: Why bother sponsoring YouTube creators? Why not just pay YouTube?
Giving enthusiasts products lends enthusiasm to it, at the risk of a bad review. Advertising beside enthusiasts only makes products visible (to those who don't block ads).

Maybe they think they've run out of new enthusiasts with sizable audiences, so follow up by supplementing with ads to remind viewers of what they saw before.

readflaggedcomm··on Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
If the insulation manufacturer is lying about that, it's just to get raw materials for his operation cheaper, like harvesting from piles in the desert. He doesn't want it going to the landfill in the first place.
readflaggedcomm··on Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
>“The problem is that the clothing is not biodegradable and has chemical products, so it is not accepted in the municipal landfills,”

I assume this has to do with coatings like scotchguard, as opposed to the composition, which isn't much different from packing materials and other household trash.

But do they deny landfilling entire types clothing because of the coatings of very few of them?

readflaggedcomm··on What Happens When You Eat Mostly Ultra-Processed Foods for a Month
>an assortment of chemicals like monosodium glutamate

So the same things normal food like mushrooms have, okay.

I wonder how much of this effect does not correlate with sugars, though.

readflaggedcomm··on Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
Power network neutrality is inequitable.
readflaggedcomm··on Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
California bans the sale, not the use. Discrimination of how we use power is like discrimination of how we use internet service.

What happened to power network neutrality?

readflaggedcomm··on My life without a smartphone is getting harder and harder
Wrong analogy. ISPs also complain if we use too much data.

Steel Corp and Google have no right to snoop and sell what they find, but Google found a way.

readflaggedcomm··on Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
Same argument as against network neutrality.

The provenance (or "color") of energy use, the "social benefit" of it, somehow becomes criteria for discrimination of utilities and human rights.

readflaggedcomm··on My life without a smartphone is getting harder and harder
My pipes don't call back to their manufacturer to report how I use the water.
readflaggedcomm··on Investor-Owned Health Care: The Hidden Blight on America’s “System”
>not a privilege based on ability to pay.

Hospitals mostly negotiate with other investors in the form of insurance. Maybe insurance is the actual problem, and codifying it in various ways just makes it worse.

readflaggedcomm··on Creators Only Get Badges
Maybe participants receive value from code they consume freely, so they return value the same way.

Maybe these platforms will end up on peer-to-peer content-hash networks instead of "hub" and "stack" silos. Then the platforms won't retain much value. So I guess it's opportune to monetize them soon before that can happen.

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