ryder9

treesnetwork.com still exists

i'll take the word of a Cardiovascular Physiologist in that reddit thread over some dude on hacker news who really doesn't know what he's talking about

Agreed, Clinton started the "third way" part of the Democratic Party; now known as the neoliberals.

>First, that's not how any of this works,

then how does it work? do you want to explain or just hand wave it away because it contradicts your personal beliefs?

[citation required] for a lot of these ridiculous claims

a lot of people's sense of self-reflection is skewed, i've seen people very close to me with an entirely broken sense of self reflection which usually just manifests as self-victimization

it has dumbfounded me at times because I, as you, thought everyone has some sense of it and if they saw it they might change; but alas not always the case

savings on bandwidth will make up for it

Almost like Netflix has data analysts and experts in the field who have already calculated the cost benefits based on internal metrics unavailable to us and chosen to implement it...

You should do more research on Tritium, it isn't the same as waste from a nuclear fission reactor

A very good video on this subject matter of 4 Engines vs 2 Engines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxSgbNQi-g

so we do nothing? attitudes like this don't help

just because you don't want to accept it doesn't make it not real

well usually a framework minimizes and scaffolds itself down to a few js files, css, and html; front end won't ever see the node_modules; only the backend will and that doesn't matter to the user

Because urls have letters & words in english that I can read and determine if the website is authentic or not as opposed to QR code that no human can read?

Have you never come across phishing scams that looked eerily authentic only to be clued in by the fake url? I can read the URL before going to the website, and unless QR codes have a step where you have to manually confirm going to the url provided by the code (most don't) then that's a security risk

he did, but whatever to make yourself feel better

any figures or citations?

and manufacturing blended wing bodies is very difficult to do

NASA requested $1.4B in increase

for comparison, Military budget increased from $586B in 2015 to $713B in 2019

Odd you call them out for "clickbaiting" yet yourself selectively post quotes

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But as Uber slashed incentives, Raut’s earnings dwindled swiftly. His income dropped to about $540 a month this year and he defaulted on his taxi loan payments. Deciding after an accident that he couldn’t afford to fix the vehicle, he quit Uber and now his monthly income, from a new job driving a truck, has crashed to $200.

“There is no benefit in driving for Uber ... my life was much better just as a cook,” said 26-year-old Raut.

they're prone to making conspiracies, a lot of r/conspiracy type people there

Great video by Vox on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyxG4vTyZ8

You still need to lay fiber for 5G base stations

you should read up on slipper slope fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope