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Instead of price controls to prevent gouging, why doesn't the government build up reserves and stockpiles?
  • The Soviets tried that and it is the root cause of some of the most serious famines ever seen. Not a good idea. Government, by its nature, is an inefficiency engine. You want the government in the picture as little as possible. This increases that and will cause more inequality not less.

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    Instead of price controls to prevent gouging, why doesn't the government build up reserves and stockpiles?
  • So you spend taxes for product at market rate and then depress the price using your money? The government doesn't make anything so it would need to acquire the materials with some kind of cost that will always come from the tax base 100% of the time.

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    Why is it impossible to reverse-engineer closed source software?
  • It's not. I believe lowlevellearning has a tutorial on tearing down binaries. If not him, john hammond does for sure. Both are on youtube. That skill set is usually employed in security research since it pays more than reverse engineering old software with problematic licensing and uncertain ownership.

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    If the IBM PC used an ARM (or related) CPU instead of the Intel 8088, would smartphones ultimately have sucked less?
  • If memory serves, arm was developed several decades after the 8088. Arm was intended to be a low power low cost cpu for simple devices that intel had no product to service. Arm and the 8088 were not contemporaneous.

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    The world just ended.
  • Both substations feed in parallel. Demand exceeded the capacity of station 2 to supply demand and it tripped the cutout. Only rural connections are radial. Electrical utility starts at the point of demarcation to the generators that make the power.

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    A simpler time
  • Doge is older than philosaraptor, forced meme and was a bannable offense on just about every *chan site for 10 years

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    is there any program to force a linux based OS or a mac to only use outlet power and not battery power, even if I cannot physically remove the battery?
  • You are not wasting charge cycles by leaving the battery plugged in. it is not being held at optimal charge for storage but it will last a lot longer plugged in.

    It would be the worlds stupidest engineer that would design a power circuit attached to a potential class d fire hazard that had access from anything other that possibly contact pads on the controller itself. If i were a bad actor and the os has a way to access the charging circuit i would firebomb your house by telling the controller the battery is empty and have it over charge. This would be bad.

    Note: I see that apple may have done the dumb and i am facepalming

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    Why does incest result in birth defects?
  • It is possible, but genetics is far more complicated than this. There are also the epigenetic factors for gene expression that is a field of ongoing research. Nothing is ever actually as simple as the example but it is a good example for illustration of the concept.

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    Bing AI performing at its peak once again...
  • I was thinking of this as a realistic way to solve the alignment problem using this https://www.emotiv.com/epoc-x/ and mapping tokens to my personal patterns and using it as training data for my own assistant. It will be as aligned as i am. hahahahahahahahahaha

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