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Well then, take it from me. They're assholes.

Definitely needs a better camera before I could consider it. A jump to 20MP, and then perhaps forking OpenCamera rather than developing one directly for Pine might be a good way forward.

Does Pine have any recommendations for auto-cloud backup of photos, to replace Google Photos? (Photos is one of the killer apps for me - I could live without the cloud features, but the seamless cloud sync is a major feature.)

Is Plasma Mobile up to running on tablets now? I got an MS Surface Go 10 months ago and at the time Plasma Mobile didn't support auto screen rotation, so for now I'm running Gnome. (I'd like to switch.)

Genuinely curious - are you seriously a fan of the Kochs? What do you find admirable about them?

Do you dispute the figure?

He's 85, his brother died recently, and he's very likely concerned about "legacy". According to Greenpeace, these assholes have poured $145,555,197 into groups that worked counter to climate policy changes being enacted (from 1997 to 2018). _Partisanship_ should be the least of his worries - he'll be remembered as a key figure who spurred inaction at the exact time that we should have been taking drastic action.

for the most part over age 70.

CDC categories don't line up to "70" that well, but there are plenty of younger deaths.

51% are 74 or younger.

33% are 64 or younger.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-...

It's a little hugged to death at the moment, but https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ is a useful tool to show relatives who are thinking about social gatherings for the holidays.

Reaper is also worth checking out too - but it doesn't have clips/scenes, which Bitwig does. Bitwig is well thought through, though they have some improvements to be made around the ergonomics of integrating with hardware instruments.

It's works well for arranging, but doesn't have a scene/clip/looping workflow (yet).

Bah, I think that's a perfectly fair response. Arguing against drug trials is simply answered by history.

Thalidomide.

The evidence gathered in the last decades

Source?

Does the cognitive sophistication of the animals (their ability to feel emotions, form long term memories, etc) factor into that? Pigs are highly sophisticated. Minks probably less so.

That's called "different timezones", which we know how to deal with. (Although there is a certain attraction to everybody observing UTC.)

Yes of course - the context of the thread is "why stay in the US"? Please don't be so pedantic.

The IRS is going to come after you for taxes anyway (post first 105k) so you might as well earn it in USD, bank it in the US, and transfer what you need to whereever you are.

The good news is that some countries won't bother taxing you if you're working for a US company remotely - they're just happy to have expats spending in the local economy.

What's your problem with NetworkManager? It's generally good, and certainly much better than what came before.

We don't have a solution for flying without oil based fuels (yet). We might get there, but it makes sense to try to develop much faster ground based transportation in parallel. If they efficiently can hit 600mph without risk of obstruction on the tracks, it becomes a contender. Money will become available to develop the infrastructure if flying becomes prohibitively expensive due to carbon offsets and/or dwindling reserves. As a 25-50 year plan it's fine.

We need easier/more integrated app sandboxing. Last time I tried firejail it was a pain in the ass, but looking at the docs it seems like it may have gotten better. Regardless, distributions could actively promote it (or something like it) as a default way of running apps, with some convenience features.

Coffee is space inefficient and (cheap) labor intensive to produce. Greenhouses wouldn't be viable.

Check out this video to get a sense of what goes into producing the beans we all consume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCILcuWChM

GEM desktop, digger, ribbit, and all the rest?

Did you have dual floppy drives or one?

No harm in having a recruiter or two feed you opportunities on a regular basis to interview at (just be up front with them that you're holding out for a solid fit for your criteria). Better to have a job while interviewing than be under pressure to accept the first half decent thing that comes along.

Tempting to believe, but it would be good to see some examples of B2B companies who succeeded via this route. Posthog were founded this year, according to Crunchbase, so this is a very young company to be giving concrete strategy advice.

"Everything in moderation" isn't actually great diet advice. There's a paper floating around somewhere showing that people with a limited diet of healthy things fare better than people with a very wide diet that included unhealthy things.

My take is that "everything in moderation" is a mental crutch that people adopt when there's some part of their diet that they know isn't _good_ but that they don't want to give up completely. It is true that we can sneak in unhealthy food here and there without hugely detrimental effects, but that doesn't mean it's a good baseline practice.

The one scenario where it might be useful advice is with somebody whose diet is terrible, and you want to ease them towards a somewhat nutritionally positive diet; even in this circumstance, a more direct approach of "eat less crap and more good stuff" would be more accurate.

The point is that Amazon's listings are overwhelmed by cheap / no-brand items. As a consumer it's basically impossible to know what items in a category are of reasonable quality or not. My guess is that the eventual competitor who disrupts Amazon will figure out a way to curate listings to make it possible for customers to buy something in a category with confidence that it'll work to stated spec.

Here's an example for anybody who doubts this; go search for:

a) an Oximeter

b) a medical thermometer

c) a blood pressure cuff

These are all fairly relevant devices. Spend 10 minutes really researching the categories, and actually read the reviews (in particular the 5* and the 1* reviews). Can you find a combination fo devices that you're actually confident buying? It shouldn't be this hard.

Just because the blockchain is public doesn't mean that the identity of voters is public. You know which one your vote is; that information isn't otherwise public.

When you vote right now, your vote is (theoretically) tied to your identity, because every ballot has an id tied to it, so it's not like you'd be giving up any more anonymity than you had. I don't know of any practical fully anonymous election systems that are post-hoc verifiable, but maybe somebody does.

From what I've read (and there's no shortage of opinion and new facts floating around), indoor transmission is the bigger issue. The explosion in cases in the south is linked to reopenings of bars, restaurants, etc, and indoor crowds; whereas the protests (outdoors) caused relatively little movement in case numbers in those states.

This is consistent with recent findings of the virus being "airborne" (for various definitions of the word airborne) - indoor, poorly ventilated spaces are much worse than outdoor spaces, which have both UV and circulating air.

Otherwise, I agree with you about the window being slammed shut. Turning it around now would require political willpower and coordination that the US simply doesn't have.

Oh, not mine. Hardware issue then. Only the "bottom" speaker works.