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by quickthrowman 27d ago
For some insane reason I am unable to comprehend, the UK government still allows Fujitsu to bid on government software contracts, despite being responsible for all of the false imprisonments, trauma, and tragedy you laid you in your post.
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
The only thing my watch displays is the time, any three-hand watch is exclusively dedicated to timekeeping.
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
+/- 10 seconds a year for a quartz watch isn’t cheap. A Grand Seiko or Citizen high-accuracy quartz watch costs around $3,000 for the most basic models. A cheap quartz watch is an order of magnitude less accurate, which is still more a
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
There are Japanese companies that focus on quality, Grand Seiko and Credor (Seiko) watches are finished to a high degree by hand. They have used urushi lacquer, hand polishing, hand enameled dials, and all kinds of other high end finishing
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
“We’re going to eliminate half of white collar jobs” is a pretty terrible sales pitch. Sure, it gets investors all hot and bothered but for some odd reason, the average person isn’t quite as excited by the same pitch.
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
Restaurant food prices are set mostly on how much rent they’re paying their landlord and local labor costs. Places with higher rent and labor costs charge more for food.
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by quickthrowman 28d ago
> Copper shortage threatens green revolution No it doesn’t. Aluminum exists and is a decent electrical conductor. I suspect this article was written by an LLM and prompted by someone who doesn’t know as much as they think they do. All
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
If he didn’t say “Because I wanted to have sex with her,” he is lying. He wanted to have sex with her so he stalked her. I bet this is several orders of magnitude more common than hat is reported among police with access to databases.
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
It was priced in, the share price prior to the news being released was taking into account a probability measurement of the trial succeeding or failing. You can’t price in both options of a binary outcome simultaneously, so part of the equi
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
> We act like people in the past were ignorant but people in the 50s and 60s were just a very special type of arrogant, I’d be curious to know if tetraethyllead in gasoline has anything to do with people from that time being cavalier abo
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
I’m confused. Rejecting one GW of heat to the building exterior with heat exchangers is going to heat up the area around the heat exchangers. If you had a hypothetical 1 GW generator and used a hypothetical 1 GW loadbank with 1 GW of resist
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
Millions of acre-feet of water, far more than all of the data centers use in the United States combined for evaporative cooling, are used to flood irrigate alfalfa crops in California and Arizona to feed cows. 5% of this is exported. It’s o
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
I don’t even know if they need to maintain political influence, they own water rights which are worth a ridiculous amount of money which entitles them to a share of water based on when the water usage began. It’s complicated: https:/&
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
It’s just a big tip-up warehouse with precast walls. If you stripped out all of the extra electrical distribution and cooling equipment, you’re left with a giant warehouse which can easily be repurposed.
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by quickthrowman 29d ago
> This is just the latest popular panic, isn't it? Yes, but most people will tell you otherwise. Using fossil aquifer for evaporative cooling is bad . Using groundwater in a place that gets 40” of precipitation a year for evaporati
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
There has been a distinct lack of QE the past few years, here is the Fed’s balance sheet charted: https://www.macrotrends.net/3003/fed-balance-sheet
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
I’m perplexed too, but I used to study the Hudson’s map book for my metro area for fun before I could drive and have been driving for 25 years, and I didn’t have a phone with GPS until 2015 or so. I don’t use active navigation, if I don’t k
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
I’ve heard this idea referred to as “rain follows the plow”, which as they found out in the 19th century, does not hold true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
You have that backwards. The market sets the long end of the curve via supply and demand,the Fed controls the short end of the curve (federal funds rate) If the Fed hiked the (short-term) FFR, long term inflation expectations would go down,
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
So was damming the Strait of Gibraltar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa Both ideas are equally as likely to be implemented.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> If he gave you that flier, would you scoff and trash it talking about how you can't be bothered to read it if he didn't write it? Or would you look it over? I would crumple up the flyer, throw it on the ground, and then ask f
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Not even close. I’d rather be alive now than in the eastern Mediterranean circa 530-550 AD, to name but one awful period in human history. Riots over chariot races burned or destroyed half of Constantinople in 532: https://en.wik
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
CME is launching GPU compute futures in October: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/power/compute-future...
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
You can buy natural gas powered chillers and heat pumps, there are many ways to run a compressor pump.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
You can just say “upper middle class”, PMC means ‘private military contractor.’
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
It’s a good thing war never escalates, otherwise you’d have to take the artillery and rockets pointed at Seoul and NK’s nuclear weapons into account. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/why-north-koreas-artillery-threat-... https:&#
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Why would you believe the institution that granted the PhD? They’re never going to admit they screwed up in granting the degree, how do you think that would affect their reputation? You can examine his writing and the writing he stole from,
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> Laguna Seca, a fairly famous California race track, was opened in 1957 built out in the middle of nowhere. In 2024, people that moved near the racetrack sued to get it shut down. “I swear, the race track just materialized out of nowher
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> Ratio of max power to average power is very low on the list of reasons why a gas turbine engined plane needs maintenance more frequently than a piston engined car. I meant for the comparison to be between an internal combustion engine
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Admiral Cloudberg’s analyses of airliner incidents are the the best in every case: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/crisis-over-the-atlantic...

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