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  • metastasis

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  • Absolutely it didn't just get lit on fire.

    But that amount of money is enough to end world hunger for a decade. (According to the WHO, ~$7-8 billion a year.)

    Instead of being the next Carnegie but with food instead of libraries, and worldwide, Zuckerberg went for a moon shot pet project that an undergrad MBA student would've been laughed out of the room for presenting. Diverting time, money, and resources from anything actually productive.

    While paying basically no taxes.

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • The worst thing about Voyager going forward is it's never going to get the kind of remaster TOS/TNG/DS9 got.

    It was filmed in the transitional period between film and digital and all the effects weren't done on film like those series. The masters were done digitally, at broadcast quality.

    From interviews/behind the scenes stuff someone would basically have to redo all the editing and effects work from scratch if they got their hands on the raw film. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if someone is crazy enough to do that. But that's a ton of work with basically no financial incentive.

  • This is not okay

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  • Verified by providing well sourced and reasoned answers. There are PhD contributors but mostly it's down to providing consistently providing context to an answer and not going off on some fringe tangent. It's easily the most heavily moderated subreddit.

    "Why on reddit" comes up often and the answer has consistently (historically anyway) been that there isn't really a better long-form public outreach platform at the moment. Blogs are close don't have the same opportunity for followup questions and definitely don't have the same "drive-by" effect of just seeing it on the front page.

  • This is not okay

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  • AskHistorians discussion

    The short version is, while the meaning/intent is fascist as hell. The attribution of the phrase is "highly unlikely".

  • Minneapolis hotel worker fired over 'doxxing' of ICE agents

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  • Wasn't the height of Nazi popularity (at least vote wise) something like 30%? They got a plurality of the vote and steamrolled from there because of how the Wiemar Republic system worked but they weren't the majority, at least until it was actively detrimental to not be part of the party.

    If that's some remnant of Clean Wehrmacht or similar mythology bouncing around in my head I apologize.

    It's also just a very different environment. It was very cumbersome to take a picture in the 1930s. Now we have movie theater quality video with stereo audio disseminated worldwide within minutes of a thing happening, if it's not live.

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • Tiles and the metro interface in general were a really good idea. Kind of a shame everything's consolidated around iPhone's icon system instead. I remember being impressed with my mom's, but it was such a flash in the pan and had so little 3rd party app support I never ended up getting one.

    You could do something similar with widgets I suppose.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • A solid third of US citizens don't have the literacy to know what those words mean. They think it's okay for people in power to "just do stuff" because it's "their" party.

  • genius

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  • Thankfully this one is built of many redundant layers instead of just one layer of metal.

  • Trump admin says it’s cutting welfare funds to blue states over alleged Minnesota fraud

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  • You're talking about State laws being different.

    They're asking about the Federal government applying federal laws differently to select States.

    Which is very not normal.

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • Very clear.

    Secondary examples include:

    Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (also considered tertiary);

    Tertiary examples include:

    Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);

    They do have a handy table later though:

    | Primary | diaries - world war |

    | Secondary | biography - world war |

    | Tertiary | encyclopedia - world war |

  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • You shouldn't cite wikipedia in a paper because it's a tertiary source. Somehow that got lost in translation sometime in the 90s.

    You shouldn't cite any other encyclopedia either, because they're "some guy" writing a paragraph or so about a thing. I think it was Britannica that Tolkein wrote a lot of the "W"'s for. I'm sure he did a great job, but it's not exactly easy to fact check him either.

  • DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship

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  • At least in my state, it explicitly means proof of citizenship. Permanent residents have a slightly different ID. The documents required to get one are what you would use to prove citizenship. Passport, birth certificate, etc. and it's all verified by relevant agencies. That's kind of the whole point.

    Frankly even if they're "just" lawfully present and that's not differentiated on the ID, that should be enough reason for DHS to not detain them if any remotely reasonable policy were being followed instead of rounding up people based on skin color.

  • DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship

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  • proof of citizenship or lawful presence. Which is supposed to be indicated on the card. Which is supposed to be validated by DHS.

    One of the ways REAL ID doesn't matter for voting is that putting a ballot in a box is only the very first step in counting a vote, and there are multiple checks whether it's valid and from person that is allowed to vote afterwards. After several centuries of practice paper voting is pretty thoroughly stress tested. Even if most people have no idea how.

  • Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

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  • I can't imagine it's a single physical server anymore but a server instance across many blades / VMs / whatever. But absolutely there are many games where "600+" on a server would be considered a sign of a dying population.

  • Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

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  • Are 600 player servers impressive? I'm sure they have plenty of hardware and engineering involved but that doesn't sound exceptional as much as expected for the scope they're aiming for.

    WoW is a simpler game, in that it's effectively 2 dimensions and doesn't involve physics, but that would be a fairly low server population, especially back in it's heyday. Ditto for many other big MMOs.

    EvE has 600+ player battles on a fairly regular basis, much less on a server instance in general.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • No those are links between two separate systems. I just want to use my phone screen and the car's speakers / power.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • why we started adding computer operating systems to our vehicles to begin with.

    Because fuel injection operates better than even the most high tech carburetors across a wider range of environments. And if you have more sensors and active feedback you can better control everything from emissions to warm up time. Everything trickles down from racing / luxury vehicles. Once you have processors involved, might as well do fancy things with them inside the cabin too.

    A lot of the dash / center console nonsense is consumer cost cutting, but frankly it should've been separate from the start. Any budget phone is a better GPS / media platform than a half-baked system by a vehicle manufacturer. At this point it should just be a USB-C or bluetooth connection so the device without the bargain basement processor can do the heavy lifting for a user interface.

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • They break this down on their page, but while that's certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • On their torrent page it's explained more but it's broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you're willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded "blob".

    I don't really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.