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57,650karma·19,241submissions·June 16, 2015
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Much of the heat from a subway comes from the HVAC in the train. Add more venting to the trains that works with the trains movement and use forced air into the tunnels. Costs more but it can be done…
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Once you go deep enough this is true excluding bacteria because to hell with bacteria.
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If your main machine, your money-making linux computer, were infected with a very sophisticated rootkit and/or bootkit, how would you go about ridding your device of it? Boot off Thumb or iPXE …
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Put all human infrastructure under ground so that one is left with a beautiful mostly untouched planet. Addresses some aspects of global climate change no further need for HVAC . Reduces power load…
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This sounds like a good time for the masses to demand phones that last 10 to 20 years, have removable batteries this does not affect water proof ratings despite popular belief , have software defined…
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Put a simplified and unified UI in front of Usenet with RGB LED's and put it on everyone's refrigerator, car infotainment accident distraction panel, smart watch, smart toilet. Have Carls J…
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Smaller forums and chat servers did that just fine prior to Google shoving them to page 500+ them in favor of the government created platforms and unified narratives. [1] [1] - https://www.…
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Sure get rid of coins but cash is not going away. People have already witnessed what happens when the control of money is centralized. So convenience, hygiene, and theoretically anti-fraud sounds gr…
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Top Secret deserves more love than it gets too. Absolutely. To this day I am still in the market for fake dog poop. Obscure reference from the movie
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That's the idea. I would use disposable things and if they are intrigued by something then they detain the disposable thing and not me.
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I find the promoted YT shorts annoying. It's non-stop boobs and butts and I have never searched for this on YT. There is uBlock code to filter out those promoted videos but it sometimes breaks …
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By low-skilled workers do you mean the working class in general? If so it is my understanding that the overall goal is to help them at the same time as the privileged by shifting taxes at the same ti…
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archive.is blocks most DNS requests coming from Cloudflare. One would either have to hard code one of their IP's in their hosts file or use a different resolver. Here are a few archive.is IP&#…
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Seems pretty pointless, unless I'm missing a key point (perfectly possible) No, you got it. Any case where the keys used for E2EE are not created and managed out of band by the client is not r…