Mountain_Skies

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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Even rural Georgia has double roundabouts now. Not sure why people on the internet can't contain their glee at stating the US is "allergic" to them when the frequency of roundabouts has grown significantly in recent decades.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
A recent case in the Netherlands involved six children being off the radar of the government their entire childhoods. Not sure if homeschooling is legal in the Netherlands or not but in this case, it wasn't relevant. https:/&#x2F
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
What about doing more to retain employees? Maybe don't layoff employees each time someone on CNBC makes a comment about the company's overhead looking a fraction of a percent too high? Perhaps even train people? Instead, everyone
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
It also kept the HCF, Halt and Catch Fire, opcode.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Maybe he wants to go down in history as the first trillionaire. His wealth exploded during the pandemic, from about $25 billion to over $700 billion today. The trillion-dollar mark is in sight. He might be willing to sacrifice some long-ter
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
The United States has a labor pool of over 170 million people. If you can't find Amazon workers in a country of that size, it's due to one thing and one thing only: you're a bigot who hates Americans. We can dance around it a
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Wonder if it will be able to work with the Slate pickup when that comes out. Seems like it would be a perfect pairing if the Slate has enough control exposed to it.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Those customers are problematic so their preferences aren't considered.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
I'm far less worried about the consequences of automation than I am about the consequences of the chase for automation.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
If the means of production are taken from the billionaires and given to the government, how long would their wealth last? Not sure handing the means of production to a government would be a viable solution as politicians and bureaucrats are
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Show me the working code and the working product. Anything less is just another blob of PR nonsense, human or LLM generated.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
16% is a huge number. Really hope this doesn't end up being one of those cases where a hidden negative isn't known until years later because that's a really large chunk of the population that would be impacted. That said, lot
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
And yet the current administration, like every other administration since the mid 90s, still sets labor immigration policy on the testimony of the tech industry that there is still a critical shortage of tech labor so the doors must be rema
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Pepsi probably also has had access to Coke's supply chain and long ago acquired samples of various inputs before mixing, which would make analysis easier. The two companies know they're competing mostly on production management an
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Starlink was sold to investors as being politically neutral and almost immediately became a US military asset. It was just a matter of time before China wanted their own version. No doubt some other countries will want their own systems fre
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Can we stop with the implicit agism that always pops up in Linux threads? I know it's meant to be positive for Linux but it's still agism that diminishes people whose only crime is that they're of advanced age.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Not relevant for UC schools but flagship tier state schools love being able to say they have students from all 50 states so if you're from Wyoming, getting a scholarship to somewhere like South Carolina or Maine is going to be relative
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
Resources are mainly property taxes. Unless they're building a new house whose value is significantly greater than the median for the area, families gaming the system aren't likely to have much of a lasting impact on the district.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
It's not unusual for families to change their school district so their kid can play for a better sports program and of course it's extremely common for families to want to live in the best district for education quality, but maybe
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
It would be great during the cold months, but Michigan does have four seasons and summers do get hot.
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by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
An investor friend once told me that the US needs to always be in debt because treasuries give investors a risk-free place to park their money between investments. The sense of entitlement was astounding.
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
When people say that SNAP (food stamps) should "only be able to buy healthy foods", they have to be reminded what the government considers to be healthy and just importantly, what the government considers to be unhealthy. Since SN
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
The food pyramid also seemed like pretty reasonable dietary advice until it wasn't. The skepticism expressed by other posters about where the guidelines originated from is well founded.
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." There is nothing you can post that will change this. The people openly abusing the intent of the
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Because the excesses are well documented and the proponents of it are constantly disingenuous about the issues that make it widely hated everywhere except in SV and in C-suites. It's at risk of being eliminated completely because those
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Another reason why the public hates AI is because it has developed a cult around it of people who deny its fallibility and insist, with unshakable faith, that it will make their socially destructive fantasies come true.
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
That's an interesting angle. Wonder if that part of the movie could be rescored with something in the public domain so the rescored version could be distributed freely. It also reminds of the Commodore 64 game for 'Blade Runner&#x
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Where is China importing labor from?
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Cool. Time for the government to seize Amazon.
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by Mountain_Skies 10mo ago
Given where we are posting, the motive is obvious: to socialize the riskiest part of AI while the investors retain all the potential upside. These people have no sense of shame so they'll loudly advocate for endless public risk and pri

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