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Joakal commented on Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine   404media.co/voters-overwh... · Posted by u/maxwell
openopenopen · 2 years ago
The network connection is an excellent point, yesterday Optus, a large telecommunications and Internet provider, suffered a nationwide outage that affected at least 10 million Australians.

Imagine if millions of cars failed to function properly because they were linked to network. If there was a natural disaster, this may have terrible consequences.

Joakal · 2 years ago
Maybe they might make a Black Mirror episode titled "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Joakal commented on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/lalaland1125
missedthecue · 4 years ago
Who is renting all the apartments in Seoul if every smart person with a perfect GPA and 52 hour a week job can't afford it?
Joakal · 4 years ago
That's assuming it's being rented out. It could be investor or developer sitting and waiting to sell or get a high rent tenant.
Joakal commented on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thazework
Joakal · 4 years ago
Are foreigners responsible for house price increases? Is it companies? Is it locals?

Who make up the buyers? Is there a breakdown? Ie foreign companies?

I would also like to know for Australia too.

Joakal commented on Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/kettunen
krageon · 4 years ago
> Aren't there warrant canaries set up to prevent this?

No, because the police will tell you to not tell anyone about the court order. If you do so (for example using a warrant canary), you will be in big trouble. Those canaries were always a convenient fiction, almost to the point of it being entirely in question whether or not this fiction was created in good faith.

Joakal · 4 years ago
Can those warrant canaries holders who follow police/court orders, be sued for false advertising?

Seems like a catch 22 that it's a lose-lose.

Joakal commented on World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate   reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/hhs
KerryJones · 4 years ago
I've had several people in my life tell me after more intense studies of octopi they refuse to eat them.

While I've seen a couple of documentaries on the subject, I won't profess to know as much, but the essential argument has been that they're extremely intelligent, emotional animals. It's akin to eating a dog or cat (which might be acceptable in some parts of the world, but pretty shunned in the west).

It's convincing enough for me, I also stopped eating octopus.

A soft start if you want to research, Netflix currently has "My Octopus Teacher" streaming.

Joakal · 4 years ago
Here's a quicker soft start, a woman is best friends with an octopus (about 4 minutes) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1twqEn8iHsk
Joakal commented on You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting   mastodon.technology/@rysi... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
chrisrogers · 4 years ago
Don't forget the far more common access barrier. The White House press room and its analogues only hold so many people.
Joakal · 4 years ago
There needs to be a politician-journalist. Elected in second place who:

- Keeps the 1st place winner on their toes

- Reports to the losing voters

- Can do local news

- Can talk to people

Otherwise, all those hopeful candidates go back to focusing on their living and leaving those "losing" voters without any representation (seriously, how can there be no representation for the leftover votes and assuming they're not rich).

Joakal commented on New research highlights the damage caused by processed food   levelshealth.com/blog/new... · Posted by u/jseliger
IX-103 · 4 years ago
Can we stop using the term "processed foods"? It's a term so broad as to lose all meaning. Processed foods include anything cooked using any method and processes such as pasteurization and fermentation.

Other than fruits and an occasional salad, everything I eat is "processed" (cooked). When I see a headline like this, it literally tells me nothing. (Seriously it groups yogurt the same as root beer)

Even what people tend to think of when they think of processed foods, such as ready-to-eat foods, tend to be high in preservatives such as salt, sugar, vitamins, and other food-grade additives--but all of these have different nutritional effects.

Joakal · 4 years ago
Welcome to the same issue with organic, natural and even junk food that all have loose definitions.

What word do you like and your definition of it?

Joakal commented on Flexible device could treat hearing loss without batteries   acs.org/content/acs/en/pr... · Posted by u/clouddrover
jonathanlb · 4 years ago
I'm curious what alternative you suggest to amplification. What, in your opinion, is a better non-bandaid solution?
Joakal · 4 years ago
Hearing aids are designed to increase sound where the person can't hear as well. Sounds are faint? Hearing aid is a good choice. No therapy needed. Downsides is it that it amplifies noise too, requires batteries, maintenance.

Cochlear implant are designed with electrical signals directly to nerves but needs therapy to understand. Its akin to a legless person learning to walk again with new metal legs. Has similar issues as above with noise, etc, but the nerves are stimulated directly which allows more accurate hearing but not 100%. A major downside is that you lose 100% natural hearing in that ear as the nerve stimulation wires go inside the cochlear, effectively blocking any sound from going in. So imagine you lose a foot, and they offer you a metal leg to walk again and that requires therapy. Its a tough choice for some: some natural hearing or accurate but stimulated hearing.

Then the ear implant. Or really a natural cochlear implant is akin to attaching a new human leg to a legless person. Still, there's therapy needed. However, the cochlear is around the skull. So it's not as simple as taking it out and reattaching it. A lot of research is being done with promising results.

Later, the bionic cochlear, a complete electrical replacement of cochlear where you hear as well as a dog, but that's a dream.

Joakal commented on Pay Transparency Is Coming   businessinsider.com/pay-t... · Posted by u/walterbell
sschueller · 5 years ago
Doesn't make it better. Look at what gitlab and many others that already have transparent wages do.

They justify paying you less for the same work because of your location. So you are as qualified as someone else but make way less.

On the other side their products cost the same globally.

Joakal · 5 years ago
Was gitlab going to pay more if there wasn't any transparency?
Joakal commented on UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy   justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
blibble · 5 years ago
> Which Allegedly Caused Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses

so how many uploaded movies is that? 3?

Joakal · 5 years ago
$500k for first offence and $1m for each next offence. At "tens", we're talking about $20-90m?

So, that means 21-91 DVDs.

In other news, if you wilfully share a copyrighted picture of an American citizen, that's a $500,000 fine and USA will extradite and jail you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_...

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