[–] 9 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

You can complain about this on any other day but today. It doesn't matter how bad you think the democrats are. Currently they are the only way to limit Trump's power.

This sort of stuff discourages people to vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It was a joke I assumed you'd be okay with given your username, which signalled an appreciation of self deprecating humor :)

    To be frank, I didn't think you were friendly enough in previous comment that I wanted to engage with you, but I had something useful to say. So I referred to your username as hook for the other discussion. I think the person I responded to did a good job explaining why the PWM comment was technically correct, so I had nothing to add to that.

    But other than the comment you made I thought could have been friendlier, I have nothing against you. I'm not making any inferences about you as a person based on one comment. I dont actually you're stupid, you're still the stranger on the internet you were before.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The username was a bit of a giveaway.

    Their claim about Noctua is also not correct, or at least not generalisable to all coolers. I upgraded my CPU recently to a Ryzen 9 5950X, so needed to upgrade my cooler. The NH-D15 came out as one of the best options (that were also available second hand) when looking at cooling performance per dB. That ratio is what matters.

    I ended up spending about $45. It ended up not having all fan clips with it, but Noctua sent those to me for free.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Due process is also a system that can make things like racism, sexism, nepotism harder. Also outside of universities people often feel like the legal system protects offenders, but it in a well functioning system it also protects them. After all, without due process, rape victims themselves can also be expelled by universities.

    And when a legal system doesn't work, it needs fixing. People fought hard for legal protections to put in place in the first place.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn't look like it, but if 90% of silicon valley would get VERY upset if it didn't and move their AI business abroad, you can be pretty sure that some kind of solution will get bipartisan support. Money money

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    It's going to 30km/h (20mph) in many more countries now as a result of the Stockholm Declaration on Road Safety in 2020 (later endorsed by the UN) which puts a lot of emphasis on specifically 20lm/h speed limits. In the UK there is a big push for 20mph; in Wales most roads have been made 20mph.

    There are still 3,558 pedestrian deaths per year in the EU, while there are 7,080 per year in the US.

    The Stockholm Declaration aims for 50% fewer road deaths in 2030 compared to 2020.

    A pedestrian hit at 30 km/h has about a 90% chance of surviving, but at 50 km/h, survival drops to about 20%. So while I get the appeal of driving fast, I think it's a very reasonable measure. 1000s of deaths per year to shave minutes off arrival times is not acceptable.

    Source: am cycling campaigner in the UK

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I really doubt that. It depends a bit on which country you're talking about, even if a court rules that way, there is way too much money involved for the Supreme Court to uphold it. And even in the very unlikely event the supreme court would do that, I'd imagine this would be one of these rare moments of bipartisanship where some kind of way is found to allow for AI generated code. The US isn't willing to lose the 'AI race' due to principles, ethics or law.

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