BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2y ago
I understand your sentiment and share to some extent, but the reason this came into being wasn’t vanity. Having large shrubs or weed areas leads to pests and the spread of disease, while large trees become deadly during storms. In the Ameri
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Even silver, palladium, or cobalt in significant quantities could be sufficient motivation if the craft to harness the rock is cheap enough to make, launch, and operate. SpaceX is just the kind of company that would be able to do such a thi
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by BirAdam 2y ago
A bit of a controversial take, but I think the reason that this won’t get solved is the AGW movement. Rather than addressing things like pollution, waste, strip mining, environmental toxicity, and so on the green movement was hijacked to ca
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Yeah… In 2019, the world wasted more than 59.1 million tons of electronics. That's the equivalent of around 350 large cruise ships that are completely filled with e-waste. Most of it used to be due to slow and/or bloated software,
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The Rapid Rise of eMachines(abortretry.fail)
4 points by BirAdam 2y ago|1 comments
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by BirAdam 2y ago
That’s precisely why people think it died. It became stable and therefore useful. It is therefore not talked about every 3 seconds by startup founders.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
No one chooses to be alive, but to be alive is to struggle to survive. Were it not a market, it would be compulsion. If it were neither of those it’d be hunting and gathering. There is no free lunch. We have and we live by effort.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
“Interfere to preserve free markets” is odd. The entire issue in the USA is regulatory capture and bribery of the government. The government has such tremendous lucre from taxing and such authoritarian power that every entity that can explo
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Space travel is not science fiction. Living somewhere other than Earth permanently is science fiction. Science fiction often becomes reality. There are companies, governments, and NGOs working on extraterrestrial habitation as we discuss th
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by BirAdam 2y ago
You also network with old money, the politically connected, and the global elite. The “top” universities don’t really need to be better, they just need to have the correct names and the prestige to attract those names. You may have the best
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by BirAdam 2y ago
AppleTV, HomePod, a new display. Could be anything. There could also be government or corporate contracts requiring the mass production of a slightly older chip for something.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Dang. I should’ve bought the dip.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Do you have a write up of how you did this?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I think a bigger reason for Oxide using Illumos is that many of the people over there are former Sun folks.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Thank you for clarifying.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I make “okay” pay at a non-profit, and I could make more if I left. However, I would then have more hours, more stress, and less freedom. Why do that?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-birth-of-windows-gaming
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by BirAdam 2y ago
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-itanic-saga
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by BirAdam 2y ago
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166770231506?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid...
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The History of Windows 2000(abortretry.fail)
5 points by BirAdam 2y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 2y ago
The problem is that the ownership of the Fed is by the member banks. A CBDC is therefore a no-go in the USA. It would disintermediate money transfer and banks would lose billions.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Regarding capitalism vs financialism, that’s my own observation of the present vs reading about the past, and having studied economics. Today, there is no saving, and most of the wealthiest people are also the most indebted. This transition
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, this is why I pointed out McKinley and also stated the process did start shortly after the founding. True financialization only after Morgan and his friends met and formed the Fed tho, which was 1913. Once the Fed was in place, they c
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Good charting. But yeah, the dollar has lost over 90% of its value since then, and the disparity between the rich and the poor has widened.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
generally, most laws are overlooked when the situation involves drugs. Cops can search you, your car, whatever on suspicion that drugs may be present.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
No, that’s just when the economy began financialization.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
No one really “let them” destroy things. This is one of the key dangers of majoritarian government. The moment that people can vote for representatives the representatives will be purchased, and later, the votes will purchased. Once this ha
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by BirAdam 2y ago
It’s not an LLM (and if it is, what a waste) but it is a limited scope AI of the sort used to control units in a classic RTS.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, it would appear that Google will be forced to stop paying companies to make Google the default search. This is actually kind of a death for Mozilla as that’s where most of their money comes from.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I always recommend having in house IT and software development. If you don’t, then you are captive to your vendor.

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