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by idrathernot 1y ago
I think the main counter example to this in the case of Intel is Global Foundries success after splitting from AMD. However GF had to find their own niche downmarket to the cutting edge nodes that AMD requires. So in the case of RR, it’d be
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by idrathernot 1y ago
I purchased a suppressor for my 9mm handgun that I use for recreational target shooting. It isn’t as quiet as the movies, but the suppressor paired with a higher mass bullet makes a world of difference compared to unsuppressed. The tone of
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by idrathernot 1y ago
So why doesn’t he lower the interest rates? Money is fiat and the reserve requirement is 0.
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by idrathernot 1y ago
Intuit is a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with the western status quo. Complete disregard for their customers, corporate focus on regulatory capture and other forms of rent seeking, product updates that reduce functionality from pri
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by idrathernot 2y ago
How many deaths would there have been if people did not have access to the technologies that create air pollution? If every CO2/pollution emitting device (cars, power plants, metal production, food processing, coal mines, etc) were all
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Europe has plenty of “Kangaroo courts” of their own and partnerships like five eyes encourages authorities to share information. The UK’s NSA equivalent doesn’t need to worry about infringing on an American’s 4th amendment right and technic
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by idrathernot 2y ago
It’s not even that they have to “break in.” The government allows big tech companies to basically do whatever they want as long as big tech provides the government with an easy way to move forward with the parallel construction needed to br
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by idrathernot 2y ago
I had multiple videos popping up in my feed of people dying in various accidents yesterday. Honestly people deserve more of an explanation than “oopsie”. That type of stuff is traumatizing.
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by idrathernot 2y ago
There is also an overlooked “tail risk” with cloud services that can end up costing you more than a a few entire on-premise rigs if you don’t correctly configure services or forget to shut down a high end vm instance. Yeah you can implement
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by idrathernot 2y ago
It’s not that it’s cheaper overseas, rather it’s often not available domestically at any price. People don’t realize just how absolutely gutted America’s commodity/heavy industrial production capacity really is and the whole system mak
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by idrathernot 2y ago
As a buyer of low volume metal castings from both domestic and foreign foundries that my company finishes and sells to the energy industry in the US, our customers often tout that they’ll pay any mark-up for a domestic casting. We then have
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by idrathernot 2y ago
This is the problem with the software industry generally. At the end of the day it’s the hardware manufacturers that hold all of the power aka “the means of production” and America has largely gutted it’s manufacturing capacity opting to ma
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by idrathernot 2y ago
I think “metadata” is meant as an example of Barnum statement in the context of the original comment. It is very common for courts to reinterpret language as a means of getting to a specific end. Same reason that “Interstate Commerce” actua
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Plausible deniability is key pillar of ensuring National Security
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by idrathernot 2y ago
And having a log of every conversation and keystroke that any outspoken judge has ever made gives you all sorts of ways to align their opinions with the above all importance of “National Security”
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Even if congress ends their blatantly unconstitutional endorsement of Section 702 spying, I still don’t see why anyone would believe that the government is going to do anything other than massively expand their ability surveil every living
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Why are Educational Institutions so resistant to anything that veers from the traditional lecturing from the textbook. You could replace references to ChatGPT with “Internet Search Engines have no place in the classroom” or “computers have
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Higher free cash flow bolsters the upside case for the next raise
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by idrathernot 2y ago
It will IPO once the “accredited investor” class have an inkling that the company has ~2 years of good growth left so they can make it past the lockup period and ride off into the sunset. Rinse and repeat. There is so much private capital o
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Everyone I don’t like is a potential terrorist.
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by idrathernot 2y ago
How many people are currently sitting in prison as a result of evidence provided to the prosecution by “big tech?” Or at least what are the stats on the frequency that such data is used by law enforcement or prosecutors in their proceedings
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Scare-mongering with the goal of manufacturing consent for “next gen 911 tech” which is really just just spy ware that simplifies the process for law enforcement to tap into a persons mobile camera and microphone in real time. I’d prefer to
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Without empirical evidence we basically have no evidence at all.
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by idrathernot 2y ago
How is it depressing? If we waited for scientist's to fully understand the outcomes of their experiments prior to experimenting we’d still be living in caves. As long as the experimentation happens at a small enough scale, the “worst c
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by idrathernot 2y ago
So now they’ll just import the meat from places with even less environmental concern. Not that it matters as the people who support these types of broad punitive measures are mostly just virtue seeking idiots who only care about complex iss
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Pyrolysis is dumb. It’s relatively easy to recycle Polyethylene using compression molding (google CTC Plastics)
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Not a good look for OpenAI. Shows a lack of confidence in their internal prospects to push the needle if they’re already considering inorganic growth alternatives.
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by idrathernot 2y ago
The problem with tech (especially software) is that spyware is often a core component of the business model. Apple spies on its users in the same way as these 3rd party tools. It’s almost worse because in Apple’s case, the users “consented”
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by idrathernot 2y ago
I will not entertain this nonsense catastrophism until these “political influencers” lead by example and first stop using all forms of “high emission” materials and manufactured goods from their own lives. No metals, no plastic, no transpo
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by idrathernot 2y ago
Let’s just ban all manufacturing, commerce and transportation in western countries while we all try to breathe less. That’s the only way win the war on carbon.

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