ehvatum

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by ehvatum 2y ago
Everybody forgets about tardigrades, but they will be here when we are long passed from all memory.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the expectation that it wouldn’t be repaid.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
This is one of those rare times I’ll agree we could use a gulag.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
A dream that pays $35k/yr
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by ehvatum 2y ago
I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about
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by ehvatum 2y ago
I feel the same way about the Barkley Marathons. What was once a soulful, austere and obscure contest against time and nature is now become a Roman orgy of decadence with contestants hauled about on opulent palanquins and all manner of one-
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Some kind of lotto system
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Nuclear power derives its energy from the binding energy of ultra-heavy atomic nuclei, not fossil fuels. This energy can then be used to power electric cars, avoiding fossil fuel consumption. Furthermore, unlike wind and solar energy, nucle
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by ehvatum 2y ago
You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects. You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each best at. Nothing else c
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Yeah, a shelter is only truly a shelter if you don’t pay for it. Paying for a home is the very definition of homelessness, after all.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Very clearly, you haven’t been to a NASCAR race or monster truck rally in at least a decade. Not many oligarchs. Lots of kids.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, there. Notwithstanding grey-market limitations, people have
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by ehvatum 2y ago
What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that causes SMBs to be lean and mean to remain competitive.
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by ehvatum 2y ago
The old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter has no suc
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> All that matters is purchasing committees are ok Large enterprise purchasing committees are foremost concerned with risk, you absolute dolt. The risk that price will jump 12x, requiring all kinds of scrambling, is fucking awful. I don’
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Because monoculture is unhealthy.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
“ That raises the question of how the company would deal with competitors that are armed with its very own technology - and perhaps beating Intel's own internal product teams with better processor designs. While Gelsinger didn't a
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by ehvatum 3y ago
F1’s reasoning is “Andretti won’t be competitive and Andretti’s reputation will benefit more than ours if he has an F1 team” Yeah, just like being a perennial loser did so much good for the Williams legend, right? Or similar to how winning
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Because building planes is an engineering task. Let’s use your argument: Would you hire a lawyer to captain a ship? Why not? It’s not like the captain actually steers the ship or oils the engine. You see? It’s not that hard to think a tiny
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by ehvatum 3y ago
78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, a known narcotic that has cost thousands of lives by inducing mental impairment in situations already fraught with hazard.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Yes, of course, sending your grandmother a text message is basically identical to you pirating Netflix content. Right-o.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
> unless said robot is specifically designed to be almost completely incapable of applying any force to any parts of a human body Be careful, but don’t beat yourself up over it. Many CNC milling shops regularly run jobs that cannot succe
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by ehvatum 3y ago
I hereby demand that Apple stop supporting email interoperability with non iCloud users. The current situation, where the iCloud email users enjoy first class communication with gmail users, is tantamount to theft. That’s reasonable, of cou
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by ehvatum 3y ago
Criticism of the ADL’s politics is no holocaust.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
“Can be bypassed” does not necessarily mean ineffective, when the goal is to change behavior. Do people typically respond to the YouTube anti-blocking threat prompt by disabling their ad blocker entirely, or by enhancing their ad blocking?
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by ehvatum 3y ago
There is a melancholy, defeated aspect to saying someone with such notable imagination and success as Elon is motivated only by insecurity.
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by ehvatum 3y ago
There is no shortage of small towns in cold places that have been devastated by meth and fentanyl where crime is hopelessly rampant. In review, your two glib panaceas of moving somewhere cold or moving somewhere less dense are hopelessly in

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