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masstransience t1_jed2n7a wrote

Reply to comment by soad2237 in Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America by vriska1

Then you’d be happy to know that that’s all rumor and not mentioned at all in the bill.

Ironically, the spread of that rumor shows precisely the undue influence TikTok and unchecked social media can have over a populace.

Don’t get me wrong, the bill is shit and gives too many broad powers to the executive branch, but you don’t have to make fear mongering accusations to say so.

The real problem is data protection and Congress should be passing something akin to the GDPR in Europe or the CCPA in California to get closer to solving the actual problem.

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SandAndAlum t1_jed240z wrote

Reply to comment by ddr1ver in The New Light Is Bad: There’s something off about LED bulbs — which will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy. by newzee1

http://i.stack.imgur.com/6kuZf.png

Blue LEDs are much more efficient than most other colours and having three sets of voltage control or three seperate circuits is more expensive. Plus "single wavelength" is only even approximately true of a laser. Those spectra you linked to are still a fairly broad range (to the point where red and green can even be somewhat distinct under an orange LED even if both are very orange-ish).

Additionally your source describes a modern white LED

> The other method of creating white light is known as spectrum adjustment.

> Spectrum adjustment happens when light is absorbed and then re-emitted again. By doing so, the color and appearance of the light can be altered. There is a caveat, however, that the light can only be shifted to larger wavelengths. If a material were able to absorb a long wavelength of light and emit the same amount of a shorter wavelength, this would violate the conservation of energy. This is why it was not possible to generate blue light from other diodes. However, the reverse process does in fact work: if a blue diode is passed thorough a yellow phosphor, the blue and yellow combine into a white light well suited for everyday tasks.

RGB LEDs are at least three (and sometimes four) LEDs though.

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macgruff t1_jed0kfn wrote

Reply to CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow by ethereal3xp

All these corporate spinsters trying resolve issues of their own making. For many, working from home makes fiscal sense for all. There is no definitive proof that commuting, sitting in an office, and then having to again clog freeways, pollute the air and ruin our own work-life balance, has any positive effect on productivity. In fact, many of us have proven exactly the opposite argument; many of us are MORE productive working from home.

Facilities managers were warned (anecdotally by me to our Facilities Managers, and) en masse, for multitudes of workers, management, senior management and even CEOs, that if they did not plan for increased vacancies, they would be left holding bag on poorly negotiated contracts, commercial real estate mortgages and more often, leasing, of office space.

“Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”.

The rest, like the authors of these puff pieces, are merely shills for property managers who are losing out to those who DID plan well enough to expect a reduction of the in-person workforce. Enough! of these puff pieces… they’re just lies, contorted stories and innuendo designed to reset us all back into our Kafka-esque cubicle spaces.

Do not fall for this bullshit.

*Understand, this is not to say that many, many “jobs” are not only fit, but are better suited for in-person office work, but that should not preclude the millions and millions of jobs that have no reason to be forced back into cubicles.

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