bobthepanda

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by bobthepanda 11d ago
it also could be one of those things where in this specific context or dialect of English, plasma was generalized away from the term strictly being a technology to a generic term for that general shape and form factor. after all none of us
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by bobthepanda 12d ago
Even that is a bit of an advanced step. We didn’t have paved roads or railroads until relatively recently, and so a good chunk of goods were being damaged on rickety horse drawn wagons on bumpy, muddy dirt roads.
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by bobthepanda 13d ago
It was both storage and transport. The development of international shipping logistics, improved infrastructure and refrigeration were all needed to make this happen. You can grow the food and you can store the food but that doesn’t do much
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by bobthepanda 13d ago
For most of human history calories in was way more important than nutrition since we could barely even manage that. Just the fact that you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables in the middle of a harsh winter is an incredible feat of logistics
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by bobthepanda 15d ago
i did recently see something interesting where if you look at buybacks from the Mag7, they basically almost entirely offset vesting employee RSUs. which kind of makes sense, those RSUs have to come from somewhere or they dilute the curren
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by bobthepanda 15d ago
this is already happening via asset price inflation. where i live (Seattle) small businesses are trapped in a death spiral as their rents are going up, the wages they have to pay are up to even attract workers who also need to pay rent, but
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by bobthepanda 17d ago
Don’t really know what that has to do with my comment
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by bobthepanda 17d ago
Unfortunately the current administration is also weaponizing the justice system and trying to suffocate its opponents in legal fees.
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by bobthepanda 17d ago
Realistically speaking, it is also because the nature of law and society has changed since the Constitution was drafted. Congress is not set up with so many experts in all the fields of society and cannot literally line by line specify all
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by bobthepanda 17d ago
Underground cisterns are generally the way to do it and even the Romans were building them
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by bobthepanda 20d ago
An interesting feature of Trump 2.0 is that his party has essentially entirely keeled over. Presidents are not historically all powerful within their own parties and the nature of the big tent systems means usually it is fairly difficult to
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by bobthepanda 23d ago
you could say the same thing about AWS or Cloudflare hosting anybody and everybody. Spain actually started blocking a bunch of their IP blocks during football matches due to a poorly thought out legal decision.
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by bobthepanda 29d ago
Basque would be truly weird since it is one of a few known language isolates
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by bobthepanda 29d ago
To be fair, restaurants have always had very high failure rates (something like 75% close within the first year.) Keeping a restaurant open is more about managing costs than having good food; many die because of not great inventory and supp
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
while the seven day week is arbitrary, it is also worth noting that the French Revolution had experimented with a metric ten day week, which ended up being a total bust because laborers only got one week in ten of rest rather than one in se
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Unfortunately in most countries the blocker is politics, not the desire of public health officials to do anything. See the current US admin going after vaccines while declaring open season for peptides.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
TEMU also existed because of the de minimis exception. To speed up customs processing and ease business, the US and EU had minimum package values before customs and tariff inspection occurred. TEMU and Shein just kind of took it and ran wit
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Even with mechanical stokers you still needed a dedicated fireman making sure the proper amount of coal was making it in. Nothing like a modern liquid fuel engine where you can just drive yourself without manually adjusting the amount of fu
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
This is actually not the first major energy transition. The world moved from coal to oil for transport and shipping fairly quickly due to the higher energy density and significantly easier handling of liquid vs solid fuels. Using pipes and
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
I think we’ve only got here because social platforms are large and also own advertising auction platforms. I wonder how it would look like as a new antitrust vertical slice to enforce against. Plus you can always self host content and set u
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
I think there is a distinct difference between deplatforming content, and simply not monetizing it. You have the right to shout in the town square but I do not have to put money in your cup when you do it.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Alternatively, cutting out labor just results in mass poverty except for the moneyed few, and a new era of technofeudalism. It seems pretty clear that the current crop of executives strongly prefer the latter scenario.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
IIRC the big push to contactless and Oyster before it is just reducing the cost of handling money. Transit agencies do not really want to be in the business of banking, and physically printing paper tickets and maintaining the machines to a
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
you don't even need all of that to track people. there was a bit of a kerfuffle where a dataset that literally only contained the start, end and time, and some deanonymized data of NYC taxi rides was successfully deanonymized and used
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
to put this in perspective; a lower hood will strike somewhere lower on the body like the legs, and bounce them off the hood (absorbing some impact) a higher hood will strike somewhere closer to the head and torso, causing substantially mor
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
part of the problem, at least in the US, is that the SUVs destroy other cars, so it is quickly becoming a weird safety arms race.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
I think Hong Kong has been enough of a cautionary experience for Taiwan that this is more or less not going to happen willingly.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. As an example, 110v American outlet plugs are almost certainly not the most efficient way to power devices and appliances; but, because they are so standard and are good enough, using them massively eases
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
Japan itself is involved with a lot of the R&D, the factories are there because of that and because of major buyers also being there. It’s not like we’re going to evacuate the hundred million plus of Japan.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
The emerging thing is that the earthquake caused a gas leak which later caused an explosion. Pipes will just go out of alignment during an earthquake, there isn’t a ton you can do to prevent that wholly. My question is why upon calling in a

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