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by wombatpm 4mo ago
100 years of science fiction clearly shows that unforeseeable consequences are not that unforeseen.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
Screen share on slack or teams gives you the same. I’d routinely work with remote teammates that way, and we’d jump in a control each others machines as needed. We’d do hours of that as a team, breaking into breakout rooms as necessary. Muc
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
Until there is a coordinated effort for every user to demand arbitration. Suddenly a corporation wants to combine all complaints into a single case, because each arbitration has a fixed cost for the corporation.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
SpaceX is now an AI company with a rocket side hustle. At least that’s how the S1 looks.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
And the RTO fad means those Low Cost areas continue to decline.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
They grew out of red light cameras, which everyone saw as a naked cash grab- especially once towns were caught tweaking the yellow light timings. Cops love them, and look longingly at the UK panopticon and how easy it is to solve crimes.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
Mass produced and pre-staged. Think zipcar for guillotines pre positioned in finance districts and rich neighborhoods.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
People say this, but the cash is returned only if you sell. A dividend is cash in pocket plus the stock.
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
Are you going to allow ER’s to refuse patients and let people die on the street? What if the Patient is unconscious with no identification but looks Hispanic? Can they be turned away? Stripping away all wefare because of immigration is a ba
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
So knowledge becomes meta stable. There was an AIDS drug in the 90’s that we stopped being able to make. IIRC Apparently there were two different crystal/folding structures for the compound and the desired one was not the lowest energy
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by wombatpm 4mo ago
I would have thought with all the data centers being built the parts for cooling systems would be standardized with replacements available from Grainger immediately.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
Once you own the company you take out loans to pay a onetime dividend to you to pay off your purchase loans. Same thing perfectly legal
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
If you have a pee-er, the make a pee-pee tee-pee to place over the wenis to protect from errant spays.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
Also, turbines for gas plants are back ordered until 2030
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
Turkey’s main goal is preventing the establishment of a Kurdish state for fear of losing it’s Kurdish region.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
I expect the prices to rise to almost cover the cost savings from layoffs at large companies.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
So why hasn’t someone created a batteries include JS library? I don’t program in JS on the backend so I don’t know how feasible something like that is.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
Those get captured and sold separately.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
As a chemical engineer we study the process for making frozen concentrate orange juice (FCOJ). IIRC you feed the juice into low pressure flash distillation that splits off most of the water. Problem is that many of the volatile compounds go
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
At a minimum they should comment their GOTO’s
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
I’m surprised that they are not dropping thermite on oil refineries. Most things there will burn if hit enough.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
I think supply chain optimization is untenable in a chaotic global trade environment. You don’t need to be an expert to buy from more suppliers and lay in a supply of stock. JIT falls apart when tariffs go from 20% to 120% to 15% based on w
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
The disaster plan says there is a process, but it has never been used and is probably outdated. Chances are the social media strategy requires posting on the Facebook and updating key Circles on Google+
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
We can’t have a death penalty for corporations (because economy and jobs and too big to fail) so there needs to be something to put the fear of god into them. And when CAF is found to be too draconian for rich people maybe there will finall
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
The push for efficiency, global outsourcing, global supply chains and JIT manufacturing have been great for the economy, but they assumed a level of reason and stability that can’t be assumed long term. We went from supply chain shocks due
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
A proto Torment Matrix so to speak.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
Happens with 3letter agencies like NSA and CIA which keep close tabs on current and former employees.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
I’d be ok with civil asset forfeiture for corporate officers
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
We have 4 in our house, plus the kindle software on phones and iPads. I routinely email epub docs to my kindles.
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by wombatpm 5mo ago
But we do have families. I’ve set my wife and kid up with Calibre

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