lgleason

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by lgleason 27d ago
Everyone is under the illusion that the US is still a democracy. It is not. It is a plutocracy. The rich control everything and the rest are modern day serfs.
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by lgleason 2mo ago
Interesting that the total removal flights have not really gone up by much compared with the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration.
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by lgleason 4mo ago
If this happened in the US or Europe it would be an interesting story. In South Africa, this is just par for the course and the quality of the work may not have been any better had it been written by the current people staffing home affairs
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by lgleason 5mo ago
this ^^^^ not to mention modern fertilizers
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by lgleason 5mo ago
Got to love that golden age.
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by lgleason 6mo ago
So much for that golden age.
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by lgleason 6mo ago
So the only golden age is the gaudy gold he added to the white house and the profits for all of his oligarch friends/defense contractors etc. while everybody else suffers. Let them eat cake.
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by lgleason 7mo ago
For that base display, it is essentially the same as the previous monitor with the addition of Thunderbolt 5.
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by lgleason 7mo ago
The the smaller xdr has better brightness and thunderbolt 5, so it depends on what you are looking for.
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by lgleason 7mo ago
If you create an economic incentive to go into math an science you will have no trouble attracting good people. But, for years, it has been a race to the bottom where the US over-produced researchers, scientists etc.. But then to put salt i
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by lgleason 7mo ago
If only that was to translate to cheaper hotel room prices in the US. Currently they are sky high.
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by lgleason 7mo ago
Only a golden age for the uber wealthy.
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by lgleason 7mo ago
Repairability would help as well. Many times the only viable option to fix something is to swap a board, or replace the entire item, instead of replacing the one failed component that caused the board to fail, or reflowing the board etc.. M
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by lgleason 7mo ago
repairability would help quite a bit. How many times do you have to replace an entire board in something when replacing just a component would actually fix things?
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by lgleason 8mo ago
You have a tree that is full of monkeys that you want to get out of the tree. So you shake the hell out of the tree to get rid of them. How many are left when you are done? Same number, just in different branches.
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by lgleason 8mo ago
and yet their revenues are not even 1 billion.
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by lgleason 8mo ago
The political dance of NVIDIA: 1. Offshore jobs, maximize profits and take advantage of incentives to offshore. 2. Political winds shift. 3. Talk a good game about needing to onshore, make some token moves to move a small token amount of ma
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by lgleason 10mo ago
It would be interesting to see if the job prospects of American students and perception of the value of the degrees were to change if they were to eliminate the 15% discount that employers get for hiring foreign graduates (via OPT) by not h
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by lgleason 10mo ago
Assuming that one is in favor of the use of these cameras, the security issues seem like they are a big problem. The leaking of police officer personal data and locations was pretty egregious. Would love to hear from one of the founders on
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by lgleason 11mo ago
Most places went off grid because of how unreliable the national grid is. The cost of that electricity is also significantly higher than it would have been with well run central grid using fossil fuel. The lloyds numbers you shared show a s
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by lgleason 11mo ago
Back before digital became really high res I was into small, medium and large format silver halide cameras balancing cost with high quality optics. You could get Exackta's, Speed Graphics and Roleiflexes relatively inexpensively and ta
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by lgleason 11mo ago
Actually, electricity production has gone down, while the price continues to outstrip inflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_South_Africa Because of this many companies are reducing staff or pulling out. h
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by lgleason 11mo ago
Manufacturing and the economy are in trouble and have been for a number of years. https://currencynews.co.za/manufacturing-meltdown-south-afri... It sounds like you prefer communism over capitalism. Sadly, South Africa is h
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by lgleason 11mo ago
The country is in decline. I have spent a lot of time there, have family who live there and can easily counter this: - Many communities still rely on water trucks instead of water pipe infrastructure. The government loots the funds for it,
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by lgleason 11mo ago
What almost nobody in SV wants to talk about it the gutting of STEM in the early 90's when real wages for STEM began it's decline in the US via labor arbitrage. Of course Blank and most of Silicon Valley benefited from this, becau
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by lgleason 11mo ago
Reading the tea leaves, I think this incident may have more to do with politics than it being a real incident per se. For the past 10 years the Ruby community had been co-opted by political activists. Things like COC's and the Contribu
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by lgleason 1y ago
I don't think tariffs affected the numbers for the entire year that drastically since Trump had only been in office for 2 months out of the entire years period that this was looking at.
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by lgleason 1y ago
Boring lineup, Lack of recent innovation, poor repairability and a CEO who has alienated people on both sides of the political isle. The 1 trillion dollar package the board is offering Musk is a joke. They need to find a new CEO.
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by lgleason 1y ago
The goal is to encourage people to make things in the US and they are plugging the large hole first. It will be interesting to see if they also apply more customs scrutiny to checked luggage for air travel when returning to the United State
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by lgleason 1y ago
If this was to be implemented, you would see a large lobbying effort by the tech companies around how unemployment is calculated and these numbers would end up being under-reported to keep the supply of cheap labor coming in. You will also

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