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by EricE 3y ago
Desert ground is hard and mostly impervious. That 1" of rain will mostly run off from the surrounding area into the now not so dry lakebed. There's a dry lakebed not far from me a little smaller than up there and an inch of rain
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by EricE 3y ago
I tried the iPad only lifestyle with the original iPad Pro - stuck with it for almost a full year. In the end the abysmal text editing and extreme restrictions when multitasking drove me to distraction. Thankfully the M1 MacBooks fixed the
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by EricE 3y ago
Not content on just driving residents out of the city, it's time to wage war on the tourists too. These idiots do realize if no one comes to the city that there is no one to pay their ridiculous taxes? Apparently not!
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by EricE 3y ago
Turns out people really don't like cities after all - as is being demonstrated when people have real choice. NYC tax deficit is over a billion now; just nuts!
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by EricE 3y ago
What's the new flavor of the moment? I liked gatsby for a project a year or so back - seemed to be a very flexible and capable system.
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by EricE 3y ago
The mismanagement continues :(
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by EricE 3y ago
AI has been "the next big thing" since the 30's. The problem with AI is they still haven't found out how to actually deliver on that second word - intelligence. Until then, it's nothing more than an interesting to
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by EricE 3y ago
Good for them and I hope they smack Apple good. Google, Facebook and the rest of the tech bros aren't far behind in their similar malfeasance.
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by EricE 3y ago
They also selectively archive - which I find more problematic. Just check out the special treatment internet mean girl and professional crybaby Taylor Lorenz got through familial connections. If they are willing to censor for such a banal
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by EricE 3y ago
Man I miss WriteNow
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by EricE 3y ago
Yes, we had months of replacing hundreds of motherboards one summer. At least Dell stood behind their machines and coughed them up readily enough.
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by EricE 3y ago
Much of the salts come from decades of excessive agricultural runoff from beyond wasteful irrigation practices that still continue to this day. Mainly because Colorado river water rates were way under market value in the 30's when the
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by EricE 3y ago
It absolutely wasn't intentional - a flood destroyed the diversion works, funneling the entire Colorado river into the valley. It took two years for them to force the Colorado river back into its original channel. It was the impetus
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by EricE 3y ago
If you think he's just an investor then you are grossly ignorant into the roles Elon has at his companies - he is the epitome of hands on. You don't will multiple, entirely new industries into existence by sitting on ass throwing
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by EricE 3y ago
Amazing that people are so willing to dismiss economics to be technically correct. Hilariously, that kind of thinking is why we no longer use the shuttle.
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by EricE 3y ago
Yes, before the founders sold out, Paypal was very novel and unique. Now they seem to be more interested in tying up people's money to use for float as their primary business model, rather than providing value as a transaction clearin
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by EricE 3y ago
lol - SpaceX didn't surpass Blue Origin or NASAs contractors because of hype! How can people be this sincerely deluded?
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by EricE 3y ago
The shuttle might as well have been disposable for all the inefficiencies in its design. If it was really reusable and cost effective we'd still be using it. Guess what - we aren't.
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by EricE 3y ago
So what if he did? What were they doing before he got involved? If it was so easy to bring this kind of stuff to market then why aren't more people as wildly successful? This kind of "Musk didn't do do anything or have the
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by EricE 3y ago
I never understood this obsession with who founded what. How is founding something useful if it doesn't grow? Elon has a *demonstrated* talent for taking good ideas and making them wildly successful. Granted he seems to be off on a
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by EricE 3y ago
It's just pining for the fjords
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by EricE 3y ago
Stupid people are easier to control.
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by EricE 3y ago
Will be interesting to see if electric car charging at night screws up their current economic model.
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by EricE 3y ago
And on the rare occasion a turkey sneaks through, you can take it back to Costco with no fuss or questions asked.
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by EricE 3y ago
Whoever wrote the bigger check. Damn that Elon to hell for standardizing the price for everyone.
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by EricE 3y ago
Two party consent only protects the politicians - frankly I'm shocked it hasn't been forced in more states.
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by EricE 3y ago
lol - investments in renewables suck the oxygen for investing in baseload generation out of the room, then get credit for saving a problem they promulgated? What a time to be alive!
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by EricE 3y ago
When Musk starts ranting about not hiring 50 year old white guys but instead hiring younger people to encourage innovation, I'll be concerned about his logical reasoning capabilities. Thankfully he hasn't gone anywhere near that
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by EricE 3y ago
The focus on "renewable" energy has tanked investment in base load for well over a decade now - congratulations, solar helped solve a problem it indirectly caused? And that's supposed to be a good thing?
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by EricE 3y ago
So I wasn't the only one that was unimpressed with the flowery anecdotes either?

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