prolepunk

Everyone who's downvoting me. Please explain why simply stating this is so controversial?

Hasan Minhaj did a pretty informative episode on the lawsuit against Harvard affirmative action -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm5QVcTI2I8

Its not about absolute numbers, it's about admitting people from historically underrepresented or oppressed groups.

I think the name 'Race Conscious' is not a great description where it actually means race and oppression.

What does 'generate float' mean as a financial term?

Let's also not forget how many seasonal jobs in rural areas this will create.

Costco.

Wait hear me out. I haven't tried jackets or outwear they sell, but they always stock up of decent quality underwear, t-shirts and jeans. Their Levi's last me about 4 years.

Reading comprehension.

Anecdotal evidence.

I remember working for a company about a decade ago where we spent so much time engineering duplicate everything hardware or hot spares everywhere.

Guess what, when switch failed it didn't properly failed over. When router it started sending spurious packets everywhere and had to be taken down manually.

All the effort that went into duplicating hardware and making hot spares could have been save by just... having cold spares, and in the end the amount of downtime would have been the same, or less -- because when one thing fails it's really easy obvious where things stopped working.

I think the quote mischaracterizes static and dynamic load.

Yes, the roof can hold 5 teslas stack one on top of the other, but this doesn't tell you much.

More practical knowledge would be at what speed the car will fall on the roof before the roof collapses? 50km/h 70km/h 100km/h?

The big advancement for micro 4/3 in the last two years has been image stabilization using lens and sensor working in tandem.

A more recent sensor advancement is dual native ISO in GH5s, which make the system's long downside -- low light performance, a much better proposition. I'm hoping this technology will find its way to cheaper offerings.

There are a few fast new lenses that have come out. I particularly like 25mm f/1.7 that's under $200, there are also a few ones on the higher end.

Another selling point for micro 4/3 that they can use virtually any vintage lens with a simple adapter.

Panasonic has really good image stabilization for MFT systems where lens stabilization and sensor stabilization system work in tandem allowing to take shots with up to 1 second exposure handheld. Basically it's like having gimble inside the camera.

Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 (50mm f/3.5 equivalent full frame) is under $200 and is an excellent portrait lens.

With initial release of GH5 autofocus was pretty bad, but with the last firmware upgrade apparently it's quite good now.

I however cant yet justify upgrade from GH4, which doesn't have sensor stabilization.

I think this argument is more true for personal vehicles that sit idle for 99% of the time -- they don't consume gas when they don't move.

For commercial vehicle that spend most of their life on the road, energy savings from running a more efficient vehicle recoup the energy used in making that vehicle pretty quickly.

It doesn't matter where the rockets land, your job is only to launch them. /s

You answer your own question.

Making any kind of public statement doesn't matter if an organization takes money from a monster.

What kind of science is produced by this money? In the past few weeks we've seen the consequence of that -- many women were pushed out of the field, because the behavior that was enabled by accepting the money.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Bidet disrupts big toiled paper roll.

Even with diagnosis this is a cop out.

Being autistic does not automatically make a person act shitty towards others and statements like that do a great disservice to autistic community.

> Your inflammatory pseudo-counter-argument doesn't change the fact that abortion in cases of non-life-threatening births remains morally problematic.

Says the person who has the need to argue about what women can and can't do with their bodies while not having a uterus himself.

Maybe more appropriate topic of discussion should be how climate change affects the people of France and what can be done about it, instead of chastising them for not having Dallas housing codes.

Flooding, especially when building hydro in flat areas.

Earthquakes -- there is some causality

Destruction of fish habitat -- salmon in Columbia river

In general, making water go slow when it used to go fast has a lot more negative consequence for the environment than one might expect.

I find this episode of 99 percent invisible to be really informative -- https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fish-cannon/

Firefox temporary containers are pretty good -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

This is such an asinine argument because it implies the following:

* Let's not examine root causes of anything because freedom

* Freedom by itself is good no matter of consequences

* This is a very US-centric view as no other country has first or second amendment

* How preventing mass shootings is a scary thing, and in which way limiting second amendment is scary?

* Same argument applies to the question you raise about first amendment. What is the use of free speech if all it does is exploit people who are vulnerable to committing suicide?

* Your comment about lonely/sad/broken people is not constructive. There are no actionable items. Instead of academic research you are proposing hearsay and a bet.

Yes, but you will end up with a used BMW 3-series.

Yes, but I feel cheated that Canon put their name on such a terrible product.

I would be fine with no-name Chinese camera for the same amount of money, which by the way would have 4K and a hotshoe mount.

I'm a bit interested in making DSLR videos. May I present some anecdotal evidence.

I bought a Canon consumer camcorder (Vixia HF R800) for about $200 last year and it was dismal:

- Tiny sensor -- Terrible performance indoor

- Lacks viewfinder -- terrible performance outdoor

- No 4K, 1080p max

- Abysmal bitrate 25Mbps for 60FPS 1080p

- Connecting power supply when recording introduces 60Hz hum on line in audio.

- Electronics and firmware haven't really been updated since 2014

This seemed like a great little camera, but it let me down on every front.

I ended up upgrading to Panasonic GH4 that cost 5x more, and I'm actually happy with it.

Given how poorly EOS R and EOS RP were reviewed about 6 months ago, I'm not surprised.

Hmmm, almost exactly half the specs of OnePlus 3, way more expensive than OnePlus 3 when it came out 3 years ago.

How this is better than installing lineage Os on oneplus 3? -- https://download.lineageos.org/oneplus3

I understand anyone who wants privacy need to pay extra, but is it really justifiable to pay this much for that?

Governments can solve this.

Thus far governments have been unwilling to solve it. They need to be pressured though political activism and mass protests until the problem for them becomes too inconvenient to ignore.

Have you tried to tell them that they are constantly being watched? How receptive were they about recent articles on data breaches in facebook? What would happen if you only reply to them over SMS or Telegram?

I'm also struggling with this issue and I've been contemplating about either moving all of my interactions on a mailing list or a mastodon instance. I don't know how to move the network of my friends into that space.

That's how platform would eventually make money. First hook the users on original content then serve the ads until everyone gets tired of that and stops using the app.

I believe that non-comercial social networks like Mastodon are then only places that can consistently show original content without eventually turning bad.

Unfortunately there is not a lot of people hanging out there, personally it's been hard for me to pull my friends away from twitter.

I'm going into nitpicking rabbit hole, but the definition of 'censorship' is government censorship. The word comes from Roman republic position of 'censor'.

"The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_censor

When its not government censorship it's called self-censorship or something entirely different.

Please provide evidence of your assumptions to back up your very strongly stated assertion.

Not being able to dump fuel seems like a pretty serious design flaw.