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by reddog 1y ago
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
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by reddog 2y ago
I’m going to buy a WinRar license with all the money I save.
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by reddog 2y ago
“Apple might be implementing…”. Could you get back with me when you actually know?
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by reddog 2y ago
But even MORE impressive is the current raptor engines cost between $1m to $2m each with a target cost of $500k when in full production. The F-1 cost an inflation adjusted $85m-$100m each. And the raptors are reusable.
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by reddog 2y ago
These weren’t true Marxism. When me and my communist buddies take over next time you will see a real people’s utopia. Not like the last 47 times. I promise. Word of honor. Everyone will get a pony.
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by reddog 2y ago
This is an easy fix for Boeing: budget for more lobbyists and campaign contributions.
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by reddog 2y ago
Exceptions: yelling fire in a crowded theater and TikTok.
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by reddog 2y ago
Two giants of the buggy whip industry join forces to counter the railroads.
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by reddog 2y ago
von Neumann also advocated for an immediate, surprise U.S. nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o’clock, I say why not one o’clock?”. According to game
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by reddog 2y ago
You might enjoy the Tom Wolfe book, From Bauhaus to Our House. In it he tries to explain the observations you make. Very lively, funny writing and you know he is on the right track because he was universally panned by modern architects.
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by reddog 3y ago
"and said that service should be available in a couple of months" Thats telcom speak for "the check is in the mail".
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by reddog 3y ago
Meanwhile, SpaceX valuation has increased about $35 billion over the same time period. At his current net worth, Musk will be able to underwrite Twitter for the next 3 centuries before he starts running out of money.
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by reddog 3y ago
No. Since there is a lot of disagreement about this in the surrounding comments, I just watched 20m of an old Russell Brand YT video. As of a few minutes ago there were no YT ads in the video. That includes the very beginning and the end
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by reddog 3y ago
Siri rarely disappointed me because my expectations were always low and I trained myself on how to talk to it. But now after some remarkable experiences using GPT-4 I find I’ve lost a lot of patience with all the different voice assistants.
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by reddog 3y ago
> including current faves Austin and Miami Austin has 2.57 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters per 100K. Same year, SF has 6.35 per 100K. So SF is twice as bad as Austin. Your right about Miami though. But 6.35 isn't bad. The m
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by reddog 3y ago
When automation, computers and offshoring were hollowing out the jobs of factory workers, miners and the low-to-medium skilled all we heard was "Learn to code!" from the laptop class of knowledge workers. My advice to all the uppe
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by reddog 3y ago
Sorry about this, but I couldn't resist: GTP4, rewrite the above message to be less brusque I hope you don't mind me sharing a different perspective for the sake of discussion. I might be mistaken, and I'm not entirely sure h
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by reddog 3y ago
I agree and have always wondered how people with these extreme views think modern society would function without roads. You can't build (or maintain) a house, a hospital, a factory, a school or an office building without roads to acco
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by reddog 3y ago
From the Wikipedia link at the top of the thread: “The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel" and other short stories by Cla
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by reddog 3y ago
The film — written by Kubrick and Clarke — came first. The book is a novelization of the movie. So watch the movie. It’s unlikely you will be disappointed.
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by reddog 4y ago
Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citizens. The US is 6.3/1000. The US is sandwiched bet
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by reddog 4y ago
Not true — it takes 5 minutes of effort and about 40 cents to make very good bread out of salt, flour, yeast and water. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU
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by reddog 4y ago
I had a lot of trouble cooking on a halogen electic -- pulse on, pulse off -- stove and all those problems went away when I got an induction. For years I thought I was a terrible cook but it was always that terrible electric cooktop. The
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by reddog 4y ago
Except that the space shuttle solid rocket boosters were recovered and reused. From Wikipediea: "Out of 270 SRBs launched over the Shuttle program, all but four were recovered – those from STS-4 (due to a parachute malfunction) and STS
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by reddog 4y ago
Will Prowse did something similar (much smaller scale) on his YouTube channel last year. He set up a 6000 watt ground mount array in about 40 minutes and discusses the trade offs here: https://youtu.be/71vME5k-oiw
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by reddog 4y ago
Most of this thread belongs in the Louis CK's "Everything is amazing & nobody is happy" bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U
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by reddog 4y ago
>it’s an excellent product. Indeed it is. What Alexa can do today was science fiction 20 years ago. I can say "Alexa, order Earl Grey tea" and a package of Earl Grey tea will show up on my front door step tommorow. Yeah, it
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by reddog 4y ago
No, the Enron scandal was much, much bigger. In 2000 Enron had a market cap of over $60 billion and was "reporting" $100 billion in revenue. It ended up losing it's sharholders $74 billion and all 20,000 employees their jo
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by reddog 4y ago
If only. If you had 3, 100w solar panels on top of your ev van it would take about two months of charging to go 200 miles. That’s assuming clear skies and parking in full sun. This is based on current Teslas reportedly getting 100m of ran
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by reddog 4y ago
That’s true. But you’re also $400,000 wealthier. So you got that going for you. Which is nice.

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