BirAdam

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by BirAdam 1y ago
Whether or not you are religious, channeling the human impulse to worship into something singular, immaterial, eternal, without form, and with very precise rules to not murder, lie, covet, etc… is quite useful for human organization.
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Farmers in the Great Plains have been making wind shields for their lands with trees for a long time.
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I’ve been to that one many times, and Union Terminal alone is worth the trip.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Maybe? If anyone has better knowledge on whether or not this is legitimate, that would be cool to know. https://www.businessinsider.com/helion-energy-fusion-company...
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Life. All life. Though, mosquitos, bacteria, and parasites are a struggle. Also, I try constantly to be a better father and husband. This too is challenging.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Although, Cheatos are the wrong shade of orange. I feel like the Orange Immigration Man is something more like a Kraft Single.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
So, the government would do what, lean on Russia with whom the USA is currently engaged in a proxy war? Also, for Boeing or Blue Origin, the cost would currently be higher per launch, and as far as I know, no one has the kind of satellite n
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by BirAdam 1y ago
In general, people being people, it is always safe to assume that some will use a thing for its best purpose and others for its worst possible purpose.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
5 years? You’re a genius. I can’t make sense of stuff I wrote last week.
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Nah. As more people are rendered unemployed the buying market and therefore aggregate demand will fall. Fewer sales hurts the bottom line. At some point, revenues across the entire economy fall, and companies cannot afford the massive datac
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by BirAdam 1y ago
By the time AI hype dies down and hurts the bottom line, AI systems might be good enough to do the jobs. “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” — Warren Buffett
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by BirAdam 1y ago
This is fun to think about. I used to think that all software was largely garbage, and at one point, I think this _was_ true. Sometime over the last 20 years, I believe this ceased to be the case. Most software these days actually works. Im
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by BirAdam 1y ago
After VisiCalc, there were plenty of computer users who were not hobbyists.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
I suppose that’s true. I don’t have social media other than Substack and HN, and I silence almost all alerts (I find them annoying af). I do, however, compulsively check HN, so you are not alone in your guilt.
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It sounds like people just hate social media. One needn’t have a social media account to have a smartphone.
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Sufficient tax breaks would likely do it.
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Yeah. So, in the West, Rome proper didn’t allow Hebrew numbers. However, in Constantinople, all accounting had to be done in Greek or Latin and Arabic numerals were forbidden. One can cite all kinds of reasons: tax assessors not wanting to
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by BirAdam 1y ago
It was, sort of, the sequel to Civ2 where one could launch a space ship to the Centauri system.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Money was traditionally a way to store value, and not all things decay at a rate that matters. Roman roads still exist. The Parthenon still exists. Roman coins still exist. In any inflationary currency value erodes, and it also encourages t
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by BirAdam 1y ago
In a perpetually inflationary environment it functions that way. Stocks become a universal savings account. Everyone pouring money in raises values whether or not the company being bought has any real value.
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Many Romans were grecophiles, and it showed. Not only did many feel Latin wasn’t a suitable language for philosophy, but also for mathematics. Of course, they also distrusted Arabic numerals.
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Yeah, it was Glide that made the Voodoo3 my target at the time. Now that I do have one, I love it :-)
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My wife and I were perfectly capable of paying for her transplant operation after some fund raising, and both the hospital and the insurance company knew this as for her to qualify for transplant they examined our finances. We also make mor
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by BirAdam 1y ago
The effects of inflation are felt. For example, the deterioration in product quality, packaging, and even product size are attempts of companies to prevent raising product prices. Where people absolutely see it are in those things usually f
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by BirAdam 1y ago
The current state of AI doesn’t fit Apple at all. This was hinted at in the article multiple times, but Apple likes to ship stuff that’s elegant and proven. Recent models run well for me in LM Studio and produce compelling results, but they
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by BirAdam 1y ago
My teen dream machine was a Pentium 3 with a Voodoo 3. Luckily, this is a machine I now own.
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Research, roads, and schools do not make up a meaningful percentage of the federal budget at all. Healthcare makes a decent chuck with Medicare and Medicaid, and those badly need reform as many people receive aid who are fully capable of pa
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No one is insulated. If it isn’t taken from people directly, then people feel the spending in price inflation. Every time the government spends, they issue a treasury. That treasury is then used as the backing for loans from the FedRes to m
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by BirAdam 1y ago
Well, the cartels have more power as you get away from the Valley of Mexico. Much of the power distribution in Mexico is related to geography afaik. When terrain is difficult to cross, enforcing a monopoly on power is difficult. For another
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Yeah, it would make more sense to put some DCs in Patagonia.

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