OldWoodFrame

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I paid $100 for a massive 1TB hard drive when they first came out years ago. Thought a TB was essentially unlimited and wasn't sure if it could ever be used.

What a crazy advancement to get to 8TB the size of your pinky nail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But either the government blockchain can get forked/modified by people with enough resources, in which case it's not reliable, or it is certifiably controlled by the government in which case there's no point to it being blockchain.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 months ago (26 children)

Turns out the one thing Blockchain is good at, building out decentralized strings of commonly agreed upon immutable transactions, is actually not that useful. For small items we need an "undo" button because people make sloppy mistakes or get scammed, for large items we want the government to act as enforcer of the property (house, dollars, car) in question so it doesn't actually help us to decentralize.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, might also be good for Firefox to not be 86% funded by the maker of its top rival (Chrome).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apparently it's not the Last Supper but even if it was, what part mocks Christians? Like nothing in the stage direction is mocking, so it must literally just be that they don't like drag queens.

A drag queen performing a Queen song isn't mocking Queen. They just are a drag queen while performing Queen. I wouldn't be offended by that as a Queen fan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

If the Trump campaign paid for it as an ad, I'm not upset by it assuming anyone else could have paid to promote an alternative political candidate.

If it's an in-kind donation to the campaign, that's troublesome.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Damn. Sorry to hear about that emotion a soulless corporation is having.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Do you think there's a real link between furries being gay, like the type of person who is a furry just tends to be disproportionately gay and online?

Or a sociological link like people who are open enough about sexual preferences will tend to be open about all of them?

Or a news bias link like plenty of hackers are gay but you don't hear about it, but if they are

Or is this always just the one gay furry hacker group?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This happened at my work with internal docs as we switched from an ancient intranet to a new service that had a ton more features but no backwards compatibility so all the pages got updated to PDFs with helpful links that went nowhere and it caused chaos for like 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

But Slightly More Rotting Corpse has the better environmental policy which we'll need before the last remnant of Florida is fully swallowed by the sea in the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The "spandrel hypothesis" is the front runner explanation. Essentially we didn't evolve to have chins but rather evolved other things that are helpful, and the chin is a byproduct of that other evolution. Not harmful so it didn't get selected away, but not helpful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I think it's clear he's a fan of Apple and Tesla but he does make negative statements about them, the Cyber truck was not a positive review and he always criticized the fit and finish of Teslas. And he critiques Apple's idiosyncracies like the proprietary charger and lack of calculator app on the iPad.

I guess my point is that he's not a journalist he's a reviewer, we are tuning in for his judgement, his opinion. If he personally likes the products from a certain company, that's not a bias that impacts his capacity to do his job well.

Like movie reviewer giving Pixar a bunch of 10/10 reviews, and then criticizing Cars 2 as a mediocre cash grab. Maybe they are biased for Pixar, or maybe Pixar just puts out a lot of good movies. As long as you're calling out the bad moves, that's what we want from a reviewer.

The fair concern is when he gets exclusive access like this, I don't necessarily care about the puff piece interview but you hope it doesn't influence his future reviews.

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