MechEStudent

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by MechEStudent 8y ago
Teens have been a monetized commodity since the birth of MTV. This isn't a surprise. After 40 years, this qualifies as a 'murican cultural value.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
China has more. They have enough that this is a drop in the bucket. While they might be as blatant and ineffective as Russia by interfering with an election, they want a low profile and to maximize capture of revenue, so they are more abo
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
They are already applying this to foreigners when selecting possible people to track, monitor, or engage.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
So apple is paying the maker of android to stay in business. Cute.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Hydrogen has hard risks, and high costs. Density. Corrosion. Tunneling/leaking. A new trillion-dollar distribution infrastructure to replace the fluid-version we use for petrol. What about methanol? We can convert hydrogen to hydr
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Welfare is engineered to fail, and it fails. You can't build a system by American political committee and expect it to actually work. There are known good solutions for poverty that work reliably and consistently well. That isn't
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
The goal is to open the inner solar system for human habitation and resourcing. I'm betting there is a robot on the craft, and its aiming for Ceres. Lets see if the mounting pedestal comes back with enough Iridium to pay for the devel
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
...how well do we use our freedom to choose the illusions we create? -Timbuk 3 Oscar Wilde says: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Does the soul change? It is a vast orga
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
They could be saved, but I will not speak their rescue here. There is nobody who would ask or hear it. They could have been saved, and still might. I gave them more than they deserved, better than they could have asked and they turned it t
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Paywalled?
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Paywalled.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
The US is moving that direction too.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
I disagree. Disney has money, and all politicians spend at least half of their working hours soliciting money in exchange for the promise of writing laws. It will be extended. The founders idea of patent and copyright as being meant to la
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
This has been on the menu for a long time. At least 3 years. Who is surprised at this?
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
I see these at a cadence that works with price engineering. I don't believe it. I think it is like "ham supply is constrained this easter" and then they mark up the prices and there are the same number of hams. They were e
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Only 1%? My eye. This has smell of Yahoo to it. I bet within 6 months, this goes up toward 10%. I bet they lost their entire data.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
The important question: How much money was it worth to Comcast? They have a population of ~136k, comprising 60,503 households. If each currently pays $100/mo for a cable bundle and all abandon them for fiber (a gross over-estimate), t
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Wars on poverty often become wars on poor people. I was there when Clinton reduced max coverage to 2 years. It was a sentence of lifetime poverty for people who had no option, and that was strongly enhanced by the "human glue".
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Link is auto-blocked by security software. Is this a known-misbehaving domain?
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Paywalled.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
It looked like a way to make a closed ecosystem where there were only a few entrants (users) and the cost of entry was high both economically and in terms of the learning curve. It is nice to see that I'm not entirely wrong.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
So, they want the password off the list, instead of changing it to something (much much much) more secure? Some variant of "battery horse staple and correct", right?
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
I wish parents raised children because they love their children, instead of treating them like human cattle. I wish that in-laws were looking to maximize lifelong success of their grandchildren by the selection of the character, aptitudes,
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
This has implications for the economy of prostitution, and pornography.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Says "terms of service violation", no article. Is there a second source?
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Absolutely inexcusable.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
Yes. The universe has a "Johari" window, that is an implication of Godel's incompleteness theorem.
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
My 2 year old wanted just one Christmas present. I think that if I had not been a "dumb American" and if I had played with her and the toy instead of urging her to open another present, she would have been happy with one toy for
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
I like the change over time part. I think in the last election the "lesser of two evils" dominated, and many people who would have liked to vote Democrat but deeply didn't like Hillary had to make a horrible choice. Two sta
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by MechEStudent 9y ago
I think that was using a cliche phrase that has come to mean the opposite of the literal meaning. Who is wealthy enough to own a Bentley? The 1%? The 0.1%? Not me.

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