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burnte

6,426 karmajoined 12 lat temu
Healthcare CIO, web hacker, hardware hacker, deep generalist. Mozilla volunteer, open-web proponent, free-speech advocate.

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burnte
·3 dni temu·discuss
Yeah, it's the third most abundant element on the planet. If that's a contaminant, then so is iron and oxygen and nitrogen. Did you know Dihydrogen Monoxide is found in 100% of cancers?
burnte
·4 dni temu·discuss
The EU is known to be far more conservative with health and safety than other areas. I focused on the risk of aluminum, not leeching because leeching doesn't matter of the aluminum doesn't cause any issues. And from what I'ce seen in the past decade, it doesn't. I was wrong.
burnte
·4 dni temu·discuss
There's no risk to leeching, there's no data proving any link at all between Aluminum and Alzheimer's. I was a huge advocate for staying away from Aluminum cooking stuff for a long time and my mother even wound up with Alzheimer's. Simply put, I was wrong, there's no link.
burnte
·4 dni temu·discuss
> - Then they did not have to give away popular games day one on Game Pass > - And finally, they did not have to raise Game Pass prices to improve the profit margins. Of course, consumers pulled out.

I saw this coming from day one. The instant they did Netflix for Games, it was going to gut their margins. And then the inevitable pullback, either holding new games for months or raising the price, was going to kill the value proposition.

They said "This will make us a mint" and celebrated the victory years too early.
burnte
·4 dni temu·discuss
> and it's the same math our neocortex runs on.

The math is based upon theories of how the brain work, but even if those theories are right, this math is a great simplification and subset of what organic brains do.
burnte
·4 dni temu·discuss
Tidal basins and ocean bottoms are very different from the open ocean surface. Much like tree tops and 3 miles in the air are different. Both are up in the air, but still quite different, just like "ocean" but still different.
burnte
·5 dni temu·discuss
1. If youtube crashed then presumably NO video would be available.

2. If you upload sensitive footage to a public video sharing website, I don't really have any concern for that footage being leaked.
burnte
·9 dni temu·discuss
AFAIK she was saying we were years not decades away which is what made her nervous. We were very close and the risks hadn't been fully explored.
burnte
·10 dni temu·discuss
Interesting that this is led by the same Dr. Kate Adamala who ended the right-handed-proteins experiment a couple of years ago. Given how close she was I'm not surprised she's made this work.
burnte
·11 dni temu·discuss
Billionaries are willing to have us make that sacrifice!
burnte
·11 dni temu·discuss
> you put it right here: > > I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist > this is to say, you believe that Israel should be supported in what it does, and that the inhumane stuff deserves to happen.

Except you purposefully cut off where I said they're doing inhumane things that are not defense. I DO support their right to exist, but not their tactics. They're slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people for every terrorist they get.

> you arent in conflict with the conservative party.

I assure you, I am. In most ways.

> if you said the same about nazi germany - that the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, that would be a very explicit support for the genocide.

Does Germany have a right to exist? Yes. Did Germany have a right to exist in 1918 and in 1939? Yes. Did it have the right to start two major wars and slaughter tens of millions? No.

You CAN support someone's right to exist without also supporting EVERYTHING they might ever do. That's a ridiculously extreme statement.

> the government is doing the things you want it to

Again, no, it's not. You ignored half of what I said and then decided supporting existence equals supporting genocide.

I regret this reply already, this was not a serious attempt at a conversation on your part.
burnte
·11 dni temu·discuss
I can understand most of what our conservative party does but I do not understand their obsession with Israel. I feel the nation should be supported and deserves to exist, but that they're doing a lot of inhumane things right now and saying that in the USA right now gets you called an antisemite incredibly fast.
burnte
·11 dni temu·discuss
My problem is that they told me *I* was buying a license. I didn't know I was actually buying a sublicense that was dependent upon Sony's.

I didn't buy any of the show, but that's the core here. Sony lied.
burnte
·12 dni temu·discuss
I got so caught up in that phrase I went rereading the plot summary of WOTW to check my memory. After than I had no interest in the article, assuming it had been written by AI.
burnte
·14 dni temu·discuss
> Businesses don't generally have the ability to take freedoms, power, etc. and then never relinquish control - their stupidity (in theory) has limited impact on everyone else.

They have those powers when they're allowed to become monopolies. Unregulated capitalism leads to monopolies and slavery as they're the best way to capture all capital. Company towns, company stores, company scrip, etc.
burnte
·15 dni temu·discuss
> 10 Gb/s Ethernet interfaces do not require 20 Gb/s USB ports for reaching maximum performance, they already reach that on 10 Gb/s USB ports, despite of what the writer of TFA believes.

The first half is true, the second half is not. Remember overhead. You don't need 20GB/sec, but you need to take into account the USB overhead.
burnte
·15 dni temu·discuss
> And it isn’t the 1st time they increased it, also PlayStation.

I keep seeing FLOODS of comments from people saying "at least Sony didn't raise prices1" Well, they did a month or two ago, so I have no idea why they say that. Literally everything with RAM is more expensive now.
burnte
·16 dni temu·discuss
That's true, but I literally mentioned the decades of experience we've all lived through, so it's not without data. When the guys who made the bad decisions are still at the company and giving interviews then that's a very strong indicator they're still there and not facing repercussions.
burnte
·16 dni temu·discuss
> Why are you assuming this? Because Bloomberg didn’t report the execs’ performance reviews? Maybe they did face consequences and we just don’t know.

Because we've been alive in America long enough to see this cycle thousands of times. The execs rarely face the music for bad decisions. A round of layoffs looks like a failure to us, but to the investors it was a good idea that didn't work out so there's no punishment for trying to save money.
burnte
·16 dni temu·discuss
I had one of their salesmen harassing me back in 2018 or 2019 when one of their many breeches hit. I said "this is why."