And increase the number of users which cause substantial problems on its own - crime, addiction, disease, various family issues.
These problems are caused by criminalization.
Readit Newskirstenbirgit commented on Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America washingtonpost.com/invest... · Posted by u/ajay-d
kirstenbirgit commented on Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America washingtonpost.com/invest... · Posted by u/ajay-d
Your argument is intriguing but you haven’t explained why this would help keep people from dying of fentanyl overdoses?
I don't think very many users want Fentanyl at all; short high, little to no euphoria. What users really want is diamorphine or similar, which is way less dangerous, but fentanyl is commonly used because it's cheaper to produce. Pure, consistent drugs would allow users to dose correctly and avoid overdoses.
kirstenbirgit commented on Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? sahba-sanai.medium.com/wh... · Posted by u/_donteven
What about a kettle with a giant battery pack that charges when idle and boils at 10kW when you press the button.
At that point one might as well get an instant boiling water tap system.
kirstenbirgit commented on Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? sahba-sanai.medium.com/wh... · Posted by u/_donteven
I'm looking at that limescale filter pictured: and I don't think it helps with hard water at all.
It looks like the point of the limescale filter in the picture is for keeping the limescale IN the kettle, and preventing chunks of limescale from pouring out of the kettle and into your teacups. Anything else, it'd be utterly useless for.
A tiny metal mesh won't do anything to pull limescale out of hard water. For that, you need Reverse Osmosis and/or demineralizer. Much larger activated carbon-filters (aka: Brita) barely helps with hard water in my experience (and Youtube tests suggest it doesn't change ppm counts much at all).
(Brita clearly makes a different taste: so its filtering something out of the water. But its just not limestone / scale / the stuff that makes hard water)
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Descaling with vinegar (or citric acid tablets, or some other acid) seems to be the easiest solution, short of a more expensive, dedicated filter (like Reverse Osmosis).
You're just not going to soften hard water with a reusable mesh. That's just not how hard water works.
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IMO: That's why we don't see limescale filters on electric kettles. Physics / chemistry simply doesn't work the way the parent post expects.
Just trying to understand your thought process here - did you think that the parent thought that the filter would somehow remove lime out of thin air? I'm honestly amazed how you didn't immediately come to the conclusion that it's just for filtering lime out before pouring.
kirstenbirgit commented on Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) nohello.net/... · Posted by u/talhof8
you... never just say "hi" to people ?
Not on Slack, no.
kirstenbirgit commented on Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again pagely.com/blog/whitehous... · Posted by u/gmays
it's SO easy for anyone to stand up a quality, functional website
And its also really easy for it to be left without updates or security patches, with an insecure admin account password, and with a set of plugins that open up more security problems.
It might be a bit harder to get up and running with a static site generator but the fact that it's essentially unhackable (through the site itself; the host server has the same issues as any website) is a massive advantage.
WordPress has automatic updates, and you actually have to enter a hard to guess password when creating an account.
The plugin issue is not specific to WordPress.
kirstenbirgit commented on Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again pagely.com/blog/whitehous... · Posted by u/gmays
That's one problem with Wordpress' default renders; it sends developers down those relatively narrow paths of customizing existing output. It's easy if requirements are flexible enough to allow that, but not the right CMS for truly customized content architecture and presentation.
> truly customized content architecture and presentation
Can you give an example of something like that which is not possible with WordPress?
kirstenbirgit commented on Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again pagely.com/blog/whitehous... · Posted by u/gmays
> Page caching in WordPress is usually (always?) serving up the pre-rendered HTML direct from disk
I'd be very curious how a WP plugin is managing this.
Third party hosting building in caching, normal in-line caches (like Varnish), nginx/apache caching, sure - I get those, and they behave how you say. But a WP plugin? I'm curious how that would bypass PHP & WP entirely.
>I'd be very curious how a WP plugin is managing this.
If you don't know how the cache plugins do this, it's pretty obvious you are not very knowledgable about WordPress site operations. Please stop spouting falsehoods here.
kirstenbirgit commented on Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) nohello.net/... · Posted by u/talhof8
am I the only one to think that in the
> Keith
hi
> Tim
...?
One could also argue that it's utterly rude and disrespectful to the other persons' time to just type "hi".
I can make my own decisions about which platforms and software to use, thank you very much. I don’t need or want EU to force companies to build software and products a certain way for some pipe-dream goal of making everything "interoperable."
And if anything, given that EU has repeatedly failed to implement sensible tech regulation, why should the same institution have the authority to dictate how tech businesses build their products?