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mnouquet··on Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers
Or ICE powered gas tools.
mnouquet··on Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers
Electric mowers and garden tools are limited to small jobs. Being unable to get more that 1.5HP of mechanical work reserve electric tools to small casual jobs. At 5HP to 10HP, now we're talking, but power cords for 240V, as it's translates to 20A to 40A...
mnouquet··on U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
> 4. This article isn't telling the entire story. Mcafee was also indicted for Tax evasion, which Elon Musk nor Tesla are committing.

They probably are, but neither Tesla or Musk are in the Governments / Deep State crooshair, quite the opposite actually, they the modern times poster Stakhanovites.

mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
Yes it is, but obviously, you only taking these questions at face value.
mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
Merely useful pawns, I wonder what's they have been promised.
mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
> We argue about how it's okay for private companies to censor whatever they feel like, but what if it's the government pressuring them to do so?

Of course, make no mistake, we're about to see plenty of legislation entrenching big tech positions !

Also, it's well-know NYT and other media conspired to sell the war against Iraq. Even though it was a different administration, the same people were in power behind the scene.

mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
> I just don't understand the parent post, the Democrats want MORE people to be able to vote

Including dead people ? </sarcasm>

mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
> If only somehow the government could determine what is true... </sarcasm>

You got the definition backward, Truth is what the Government says it is, not the opposite, cf. historical truth set by law in France and other European countries. Records can always be altered to fit the current narrative.

mnouquet··on Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
> When Trump got elected

Gamergate pre-dates Trump, and was the exact same mentality, which you can probably trace back to the 1970's if not before.

mnouquet··on When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)
> ... but it's the job of the central bank and government to do that

says who ? the central band and governments ? The whole point of crypto is to provide an alternative to arbitrary decisions from unelected officials.

mnouquet··on When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)
> Is BTC really more stupid way to burn resources than making sports cars? F1 racing? Gold mining?

Or the entertainment industry as a whole, it's pointless.

mnouquet··on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)
Wait did you just remove the sound and made it black and white to defeat copyright infringement algorithms ?
mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
We will meet on the battlefield in the looming civil war, then.
mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> If government say you have only one child you hav xr15 rifle not help

What are they gonna do, line me up and execute me and my family ? Kill my children ? Fortunately, Rights are still a thing, including the 2nd.

mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> We only can for truly mitigate climate change with reducing human numbers.

Then you should welcome pandemic, genocide and war.

mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> one-child policy better serve this need

Over my cold dead body [and I won't go without a fight.].

mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> Human energy use that causes climate harms can be replaced with renewables

No, it can't.

mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> It really depends on what you're building. For controlled environments that's fine, but unfortunately I'm not building for controlled environments, ...

Sample size fallacy right here. Just because it's useless to you doesn't mean it's useless. Plenty are doing fine with PLA.

mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
Shred, heat and extrude.
mnouquet··on New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency
> [...] build millions of houses

... slowly leaching endocrine disruptors in the environment for generations to come.

mnouquet··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
> Murder is generally unacceptable, ...

Yet, we give Nobel prizes to murderers.

mnouquet··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
> Yes, that is human nature if we look at anthropological studies. We punish it which creates a disincentive.

Only in some case, in other case, we justify it by naming it something else, like taxes, prison/capital punishment, national interest.

mnouquet··on Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
The biggest hurdle is the morning scrum, I've got two pretty much back to back between 10am and 11am. Other than that, both are relatively flexible and there is not much critical meetings which can't tweaked.
mnouquet··on Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
Yes, though none of my contracts with either company prevent me from doing so.
mnouquet··on Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
> isn't there some level of legal liability

I technically have 3 jobs, two unrelated "full-time" SE roles, and 1 mom&pop store where I handle all but day-to-day operations (handled by the gf).

To be cold bloody honest, unless you are SE for a serie-A start-up a 40h weeks is probably 20h work, 20h bs. If you were SE for a serie-A start-up, a 40h week would probably be 80h-paid-20h anyway.

mnouquet··on Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
Strongly agree !
mnouquet··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Competition to get at the top of the hierarchy, and the fact someone will be willing to compete, coupled with the intrinsic need for control which comes with power, sex just being a tool to an end... Especially in a culture as puritan and easily offended (only "in public") as the North American culture.

All in all, it's human intrinsic nature.

mnouquet··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
It's exactly the same, as long as someone will want to go the extra inch to make anything more than their competitor, this behavior will stay.
mnouquet··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Either conscientiously or inconscientiously, sex is about power.
mnouquet··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Even with asexual people, it's all about sex... or the lack of thereof. Asexuality is a sexuality.
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