CookieOfFortune @ CookieOfFortune @lemmy.world

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Do they actually value life? Most of it is feudal which means most individuals don’t have great lives.

Yeah The Federation has a surprising lack of Space OSHA?

Who are these so called people? The command line is the default, a GUI requires extra effort.

If it’s someone’s hobby project then there are no requirements.

If it’s commercial software, then yes if there’s customer demand a GUI is often provided.

But nobody said they’d build a house. They said they’d setup the plumbing and then you expected the walls all on your own.

Yeah it would be nice if we could simplify instead of add a bunch of special cases.

However it’s easier said than done. In your example for carbon tax, how do you determine the cost of removing carbon? Does creating a new solar/wind power plant count? Does increasing efficiency in an existing home count? What’s the difference between that and just paying for carbon capture? This is what the carbon offset economy was supposed to be about but it’s ultimately difficult to implement correctly and inherently full of complexities. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try, but it’s really hard to simplify some things.

I think there’s evidence to show that even though punishments may be heavy, if the chance of getting caught is low people will still do it. So that means you’d need to increase surveillance and enforcement which comes with it’s own issues.

I’d like to think most democracies would enact some socialist policies if there was less money involved in politics… but I’m not sure what the best way to prevent that is.

You can craft laws but the legal system is also profit driven. And you’d need some way to either prevent corruption or get the motivations to line up correctly. But I can’t think of any practical solutions that also align with freedoms.

Capitalism isn’t a form of government the way democratic socialism is? But to your point, even Adam Smith realized the problems with a legal and governmental system that is controlled by corporations to be a terrible idea. He was well aware that profit motives without limit leads to mistreatment of individuals.

Did you just… make up this conversion?

Yeah I mean you’d have to consider the practical factors such as how quickly or evenly they can heat up a room rather than worry so much about the raw efficiency.

It depends on what you consider the room: Both a light bulb and a bomb would deliver all their energy around a fully enclosed room. Incandescent bulbs are indeed effective heaters, LEDs just deliver much less energy. And a bomb, by design, is hard to contain in a room.

If it’s in a room the visible radiation will still just heat up the room. If you’re using it outdoors and point it away then yeah you’ll have some waste.

Does your PC do full power to those chargers? Eg. full wattage from USB-C is 240W. Times 8 that would be 2000W.

You can mine hydrogen. They recently found some pretty large reserves of pure-ish hydrogen underground.

Is this an event for the next version of the Apple Vision Pro?

Used to go to monoprice but I’m not sure about their quality anymore.

Some of us have PTSD from losing work back in the day. Now it’s just habit.

No mention of Pathfinder? I was playing Wrath of the Righteous right before BG3 and it makes BG3 seem so tiny(mechanics wise) in comparison.

If there’s no air, wouldn’t it ruin a bunch of stuff you put in? Any liquids would evaporate, wood could deteriorate, etc. Is it also cold? That also causes changes to a bunch of stuff.

Aren’t brackets hard to type in Swiss layout? Most of my Swiss coworkers switch to US.

My old iPhone took a swim but it mostly came back. The face sensor and NFC stopped working immediately but after a few months the NFC started working again. Eventually however parts of the touchscreen started failing in vertical strips. At first it was still usable but at some point too much of the screen became unresponsive I had a get a Bluetooth remote to use the phone.

I was stubborn about getting a new phone as I knew the iPhone 15 would get USB C and wanted to wait hot that.