valaramech

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[–] valaramech@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure where that part of the post comes from. The source says "The judge said he will apppoint(sic) an independent receiver to manage the dissolution of the corporations whose business certificates he canceled." Which I can only take to mean that the judge is doing the appointing, not Trump.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, it has a picture where it specifies a "polypropylene container".

There's also this bit from near the end of the abstract:

Additionally, the polyethylene-based food pouch released more particles than polypropylene-based plastic containers. Exposure modeling results suggested that the highest estimated daily intake was 20.3 ng/kg·day for infants drinking microwaved water and 22.1 ng/kg·day for toddlers consuming microwaved dairy products from polypropylene containers.

So, they're, at least, discussing polypropylene and polyethylene.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put simply, yes. Without explicit help to those that have less now, future generations simply lack the means to access those opportunities.

Take, for example, the situation ultimately presented in the article: if the person/people that are doling out the money have even a small amount of bias against a class of people, the result is that - outside of forcing investors to make what they see as bad investments - they will categorically invest less in that class of people. It doesn't actually matter what class it is.

These laws might prevent us from codifying our biases into contract or other law, but they do absolutely nothing to solve the problem the bias itself causes.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is how it works. Lockheed Martin isn't a governmental body within the United States and is not bound by our Constitution in any way.

Regardless of our opinions on the matter, those are both private companies with their own rights that are not bound like a government under our current laws. People forget that because "corporations are people" they also get Constitutional protections. Our rights end where their rights start and vice versa.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My (limited) understanding of ActivityPub is that it functions on a publish-subscribe model. If you and I both ran instances and federated with each other, every time a message was posted to my instance I'd send a message to you and vice-versa. Now, let's say a new person comes along with their own instance and they want to federate with us, but they have 1000x more users than we do. If we federate with this new instance, we now both have to handle 1000x more traffic.

This is effectively a Denial Of Service attack.

Threads currently (supposedly) has 70 million users. If only 0.001% of those users are interacting with federated content every second, that's still 1000 messages every second. Smaller instances are likely not configured or tuned to handle this level of traffic on top of their existing traffic.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, I feel like the bigger issue is the immense flood of content that's going to pour out of Threads. I'm not sure if many of the self-hosted instances will be able to federate with it and continue to function.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's far more likely that Google, AWS, and Microsoft are using tape for high-volume, long-term storage.

According to diskprices.com, these are the approximate cost of a few different storage media (assuming one is attempting to optimize for cost):

  • Tape $0.004 - $0.006 / GB
  • HDD $0.009 - $0.012 / GB
  • BluRay $0.02 - $0.04 / GB
  • SSD $0.035 - $0.04 / GB
  • microSD $0.065 - $0.075 / GB
[–] valaramech@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pro tip: Don't consume caffeine within about 1 hour of waking up. Waiting a bit gives your body time to clean up the sleep chemicals and get started on the being awake chemicals before you start adding to the mix.

There are a lot of articles about this out there (here's one), but they all say more or less the same thing, as far as I've been able to tell.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

This is the expected behavior on Reddit when you delete your account. None of your posts go anywhere. You have to manually, before you delete your account, edit them to remove their contents. Requests for deletion under GDPR may function differently.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I do. I'm not sure how much of an issue it is in other countries, but most (if not all) lawn grasses grown in the States are actually non-native (yes, even "Kentucky Bluegrass", which is actually native to Europe). I wouldn't really mind lawns as much if it was normal to use native ground cover.

[–] valaramech@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't a native mobile app, but this website is what's known as a "progressive web application". This means that you can just add it directly to your home screen and it will act app-like. See this thread for exact iOS instructions. Android is similar but does depend on which browser you're using.

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