OneTimePetes

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by OneTimePetes 5y ago
Can conservatives be convinced that individual choices and education matter more? God i hate those dissent-sew-click-bait titles. In feudalism, being poor, is your fault. You are morally suspicious, of lower blood and any theory that fits w
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Is the name a Blindsight reference?
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Sorry, but why does one go through someone elses tweets? Twitter is focused on current events - and they do not age well. So why read up on the past utterances of anyone? This seems.. strange.. sorry, if that offends.
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Yes, but those "previous generations" had oxygen in the tank, as in financial assets stored away from the good times, to survive the bad times. Millenials go pearl diving.
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We already have, its just not visible. Those who had stockpiles of chips (Toyota, many other japanese companies affected by the 2011 tsunami) were able to supply and provide products, thus taking market share - or sell chips at a larger pri
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by OneTimePetes 5y ago
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the dessert. Near them, on the goo, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that
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Every foil wrapped turd in space is in theory a kinetic impactor by value of location and acceleration. There was a scifi short story, were a system was wrecked, aeons after a war, by what was essentially missed shots. This is what makes th
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Reminder that other "low value energy demand" is easy bufferable - one can easy heat water in a isolated ground tank with excess solar and use that storage in winter.
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If there was as supraconducting pipeline for current, could a solar receiving part of the planet, send power to a part that is already in shade?
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Well meaning goals resulting in hell keening outcomes.. Baseload should be handled by nuclear. Excess and spikes- should be renewable and storage.
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In europe i feel anger on the state whos employees failed to rectify a situation i paid and worked hard so nobody has to experience it.
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Nuclear is not ideal, because its civilizational brittle. Meaning it relies on complex society remaining stable and producing all those artifacts to maintain and recreate it. Add to that a complex supply chain and its less then ideal for a
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Oh, oh the ragnarok of systems programming, moores plateau stretches on, parallel is coming to a limit and now its goodbye abstractions & no-skill-lib-glue-code, hello 80s hardware hacks and efficient programming again? Will OSes be pro
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One requirement is to do a "Fürbitte" aka a prayer for the fugger so he can get forgiveness and remain in heaven/ leave purgatory. At least that is what i ve heard.
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I think what we call rationality is the most likely (aka most active path, when some cost timer in the brain runs out), one can restart it and train it for long periods, but usually its attention is fleeting, because attention is expensive
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Could we geocode the lecture-snippets, so the statements persist at location? That way, one could advance at ones own pace. Or map it to a route of ones own design, while keeping the pace..
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Correct Statement: Nice to see someone pretending to do something to curb video game companies slipping gambling into their all-ages games. This is another big announcement, followed by temporary raids with nice photos, while the reality of
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Which is then "sold" by the project lead/sales/pr on some conference/show to great success, unaware that they are the ones trading in project time for publicity. Deadlines of course remain fixed.
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Well it does collapse right now, doesent it? The Tax-idermy, were a society pushes ridiculous amounts of stabilization money into collapsing external peripheral "shell" societies who in return send refugee waves in convulsions, w
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So string theory has become the "Getting high on abstraction"-enterprise software department - of physics?
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Commercialization in that anything goes spirit, would results in Linux just becoming another carbon-copy of they Mac/Win flailing walled in garden ecosystems, everyone wants to escape from. The whole project lifes and breaths because i
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Well, a large percentage of new property owners by now is most likely to be some money laundering organization, pumping there ilicit gains into a new housing bubble. So why should we be concerned with thieves stealing from thieves while a