ElevenLathe

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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I've recently pulled way back on the amount I read online. It just feels icky, and I'm much more comfortable reading a pre-2022 book which I know was written the old fashioned way. Even supposedly pre-2022 online content is suspec
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
What other candidates were doing this? How many of them had wall-to-wall 24/7 free exposure on every cable news channel for a whole campaign season?
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
The new thing is the secondary sanctions, which penalize those other nations for trading with Cuba, and the threat of phsyically interdicting oil shipments from Mexico or others (though for some reason a Russian one was let through somewhat
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Once they're fully depreciated we can use our ICE gulags to turn them into dog food. A big savings for imperial shareholders!
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Reporting novel facts is expensive. You need a travel budget, a widely-dispersed bureau network, a good research department, highly motivated journalists, and the list goes on. Opinions about existing facts are much cheaper to produce.
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I'm with you on purpose-built disposable tools, but who wants to read a disposable book, or watch a disposable movie?
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
I suppose its possible that all the value to pay back the datacenter construction can be squeezed out of enterprise contracts where your employer can assent on the privacy questions, probably with some kind of complicated contract and insur
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Why would companies want to grow if there is no more demand by consumers? I understand that "b2b" exists, but surely all production and commerce is ultimately about satisfying (or creating) demand for consumption? Why would compan
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
It's a preference. I have been in both situations, and prefer to "love the ones I'm with".
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by ElevenLathe 5mo ago
Better awful friends that no friends at all IMO.
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
"Not really" what?
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
Can't agree more. Given its geography and population, one would expect Poland to be a major economy, but it's been occupied or even completely erased from existence for large stretches of industrial modernity. The period since 1
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
I see variations on this too. It's fascinating that there is a class of people who were uninterested in expressive, natural language communication when it was only a way to speak to other people, but who are now super interested in it
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
Sounds like a straightforward time-space tradeoff: if you have the compressed layers sitting around when you need them, you can avoid the expense and time of compressing them.
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
The VFW is just a stand-in for any community "lodge" type organization, all of which have been in decline for decades. Yes, this is somewhat about the "cool" factor -- young people largely don't want to be seen in a
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
I think what we've shed are more things like chairing a committee for the VFW, selling snacks at little league games, or being active in a lowers voice, looks over shoulder union. These are things that would traditionally take up the
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
We've built a society where our only consistent interaction with community (for many people) is via the labor market. Severing all social connections will make a person deteriorate at any age. This is why solitary confinement is a crue
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
London has been the capitol of capital since before capitalism.
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
It's not totally clear that the gigantic push to run rail lines through undeveloped parts of North America "ahead of demand" for reasons of genocide (aka "white settlement"), especially the transcontinental routes,
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by ElevenLathe 6mo ago
I wonder what the development of git itself has cost in engineer time? Presumably more than $17 million? Assuming a fully loaded engineer is 250k, that only amounts to 68 engineer-years over 20 calendar years, which seems low.
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
I think the point (no idea if this is true, it isn't my domain) is that cheap, infrared imaging seekers are new. Previous generations of heat seekers either used low-resolution infrared sensors or were hellishly expensive on a unit b
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
Has anyone else been having major reliability issues in me-south-1 since the attacks there? I've had to field several inquiries at work where the answer seems to be "sorry, there's a war on -- pick a different region".
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
Maybe we can come up with an atoms-vs-atoms way of making cheap drone interceptors, but IMO the smart money is on lasers. We finally have the technology we only assumed would shortly materialize when we started the Strategic Defense Initi
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
It's hard to say someone is "left wing" unless their main political lens is class. That's really the absolute minimum requirement to be considered "left wing" IMO. That relative who dutifully donates to the SPL
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
I'm no energy markets analyst, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think the next major breakthrough for solar (not the slow, inevitable rollout we're seeing now) will be when somebody figures out an economical way export thi
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
I think its fair to treat things that the Trump administration and the Iranian military agree on as facts. If they were distortions that favored one side, we would see pushback from the other. Maybe there are distortions that somehow bene
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
Organize, organize, organize. With some luck, we can have trials for the crimes of the past few decades and purge our government of hostile actors.
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
Can't believe nobody has ever tried watching the sunset before. Seems nice.
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
This is the exact reason that prices for U.S. benchmarks (e.g. WTI) are diverging from international ones (e.g. Brent). The spread between the two is the largest since 2011 and widening. There is only so much export capacity in the U.S., so
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by ElevenLathe 7mo ago
This is 100% how working people everywhere survive. I'm a middle aged person who grew up lower-middle class in an unassuming town in the US midwest, and this is how everything got done. Our kitchen was remodeled by the guy my Dad knew

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