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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
According to vginsights, Factorio made $123 million on Steam. Maybe they didn't make the maximum amount of money possible, but they are good a making money. https://vginsights.com/game/427520 Edit: The gross reven
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
> $200 flat screen tvs make it easier to live life. From what I've been reading, those cheap TV's won't last more than 3 years. So those poor people will end up spending more on TV's than if they bought an old-style e
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
The federal government did take over GM somehow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
Managers with spreadsheets are the cause in both cases though?
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
This was before use of the internet was widespread, but I knew a women who worked at a regional airport. She repeatedly reported safety violations to the (politically connected) operator of the airport, but was ignored. Eventually, she repo
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
> they can just produce whole bunch of nukes That might be a bit difficult with no uranium reserves. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
You can also parse the code into an augmented syntax tree or code DOM and then directly interpret that. This approach eliminates the intermediate code and bytecode machine at the cost of slower interpretation. It's slower due to memory
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
Might be off topic, but has Cisco ASA improved much in the past four or five years? The one I had years ago was not much use for anything other than basic access rules.
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
> flying Cybertrucks Ha, yeah now that you mention it. > Tom Cruise was supposed to do a live action adaptation IIRC He already did All You Need Is Kill (Edge of Tomorrow), so I wouldn't be surprised. > I have no idea what’s g
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by GartzenDeHaes 2y ago
Use of contractors allow for outsourcing of blame.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Another cool fictional flying carrier is the Banshee from the anime Yukikaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MBSrqypm2M
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Soylent Red, the for profit recycling of corpses.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
These are more of an analyst tool for detection than blocking.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
As I recall, this type of mine (or a similar one) could target specific types of ships, or even a specific individual ship if enough data was available.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Right, I guess non-continuous sections might be a better description.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I love this project, but their map seems a little optimistic. I'm pretty sure there's a big gap between Washington and Idaho that's closed due to disputes with land owners and maintenance issues.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I don't know, on a lot of projects the last 10% seems to take 90% of the time.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
It uses a bunch of p/invoke native calls and other Windows specific features.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
That would be where private companies, and presumably foreign governments, providing patches come in. I've never worked with any of these companies, so I don't know the details. They say a lot of Win7/8 patches work on XP, po
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware. This is possibly why Putin seems to still use it (a photo of Putin was all over the internet a few months ago https:/&#x2F
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
> and about chaotic systems Surely you mean complex adaptive systems.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Corporate rent seeking would seem to be a more prevalent example, even in the context of government. For example, most of the US defense budget goes directly to the military industrial media complex instead of the uniformed military.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I think the flow of money points to the truth of the mater.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
The people behind this propaganda are pushing for privatization, not a draft. The US Army is dramatically downsizing its uniformed troop strength at the same time its budget is dramatically increasing. "Under end strength levels outlin
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
"China Banished Cryptocurrencies. Now, ‘Mining’ Is Even Dirtier." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/climate/bitcoin-china-ene...
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Somehow, "privacy" has come to mean protecting the spy data collected instead of not spying. It's quite literally newspeak.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Getting their cronies in congress to extend copyright protections from 14 years to 100 years is stealing from the public domain.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Just making the observation that there are more humans and a larger built environment. When there is a natural disaster, there's likely to be more human impacts now than 50 years ago, regardless of the location or cause.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
> they're hitting places that didn't typically get hit in the past The human population is four times larger than it was in the 1970's, so there's more things to hit are they are often built in more marginal locations
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
That report shows an income increase of 9% from 2019 to 2022. There was a 40% currency devaluation during this time that led to the doubling of rents in most places.

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