FeloniousHam

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by FeloniousHam 7d ago
This is testable. The profits of car insurance companies should rise (let’s say substantially) in real dollars as accident payouts decrease as a result of the inevitable dominance of autonomous vehicles.
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by FeloniousHam 15d ago
I'm just casually familiar with guns, if I saw an AR-15, I'd call it an AK-47. Or a machine gun. Every single human walking the earth has an iPhone or its replicant. It's good to have a fandom.
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by FeloniousHam 20d ago
Before the Glorious and Bloody Revolution, just Dollar Cost Average your way into a tech-investing stock fund. Ugh, capitalism.
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by FeloniousHam 20d ago
"Roughly 58% of American adults own stock" This includes my teenager, who socks away $30/week in a VOO fund account. But yeah, no one can afford to "own (shares in?) the robot factories."
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by FeloniousHam 21d ago
If "capital interests" (ugh, capitalism) controlled democracy, please esplain: - Michael Bloomberg - Hillary Clinton (both in the 2008 primary and 2016 general) - Alex Vindman ... a simple Google search reveals that while there is
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by FeloniousHam 22d ago
I grew up in South Florida (not a native), and my experience of strip malls and ever widening highways is: if there was a state below Florida, that's where the desperate and unrooted migrants would have kept driving to. I spent my chil
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by FeloniousHam 22d ago
In Soviet Russia, prices so low no inventory left!
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by FeloniousHam 23d ago
https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-car-makers-alliance-push... I think Tesla looks for efficiencies wherever possible, and any alignment with aesthetic goals is an easy win.
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
Of course there are bad parents. I'm unlikely to encounter them, and even if I did I would probably not associate with them. But I suspect that you and anyone else on this thread offering thoughtful responses, are not the kind of perso
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
Do you have any examples of art or culture that is unavailable?
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
I'm sorry for you. Genuinely. I've only read of cases like yours (I think Neko Case has a hard story).
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
It's possible to rationalize anything.
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
I've never met anyone who was sorry they had children, but I've met a lot of people who missed the opportunity (to be fair, I've never met the parents of a violent criminal). Kids can be hard, especially if you're not a
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
> And it is a pretty common position that all people should have access to art and culture. Access to _all_ art and "culture"? For free?
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by FeloniousHam 26d ago
Why aren't we storming the Library of Congress? They are the real villains here.
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by FeloniousHam 29d ago
The only distinction in this discussion that matters: public funds are "teh people's money". If an "old boys club" giant Fat Cats Inc. wants to spend their shareholder's money on hookers and blow, that's
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
I loved it at the time, it was one of those shows everyone would be talking about the next day. Having to wait a week to find out what happened next was a delightful frustration. Sadly, did not hold up on a recent rewatch with my wife.
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
> it collapsed into being a mediocre bubble like Twitter, but without the scale. I liked Josh Barro's take: https://www.joshbarro.com/p/bluesky-isnt-a-bubble-its-a-cont...
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Totally agree. I'll add as an aging "woke up sore" guy, side-sleeping with a knee pillow (just a regular pillow to prevent your knees from aching from pressure) was an enormous improvement.
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
> They are also "hotshot cowboy coders" whatever that means. Popular public libraries are exactly the place for Hotshot Cowboy Coders. Boring bespoke software is not. A specific: generic machines taking in untyped data, execut
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Okay: the car "fully" drives itself, everyday on my 35 minute commute through busy traffic on different routes depending on conditions. Obviously, our disagreement is with Tesla branding. I don't care what they call it (I li
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
As I mention below, it's Trump news overwhelming everything. If WaPo was publishing 100% more climate news, no one would notice, because... no one would click those articles! It's not even news! MAGAs I bet are resigned to a war
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Fox News' influence is greater than its (pathetic by historical standards) geriatric audience share, but it far far less influential than its opponents imagine. What changes if they were gone? Another right-leaning organization would
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
The reason your favorite issue is not the cause celebre: Trump has flooded the zone with shit. He holds the microphone, all day, everyday. The World Cup provides a moment's respite, until... Trump grabs the microphone. If the lurch to
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
> Another factor is that rich oil and gas people figured out they could just buy the media. Who is this "media"? Is this the same "media" that Trump and his dullards claim is so corrupt and contrary to The Truth? Ar
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
> Of course they don't literally buy votes, but statistically they very much do. Counterpoint: Haley Stevens Brad Daigle Jon Tester Sherrod Brown Tom Steyer Hillary Clinton Michael Bloomberg (the list is long) You need "some a
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
I can vouch for board games. I play DCC (D&D for grognards) and board games with a group I met through a guy at work. It was a little awkward at first, but we've been doing it every few weeks for years now.
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Since we're into semantics and definitions, "FULL Self Driving" does not appear as a formal, defined standard. It is a brand. What's more, it is not a lie. The vehicle "fully" self drives (for me about 95% o
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Whether it's "true" self-driving, it is unquestionably useful. Everyday, _every_ day, FSD drives me on my commute (down different paths depending on traffic) with the only intervention being a nudge on an unprotected left tu
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by FeloniousHam 1mo ago
Counterpoint: I'm currently employed building many apps for an enterprise you'll never visit. React+Typescript rewrite of our legacy "lean" Javascript has measurably improved the productivity of the team and the mainta

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