Throwawayaerlei

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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Apply the Willie Sutton principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton )? "Because that's where the money is" frequently works, even if the quote is apocryphal.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
This refers to proposed legislation in the Senate "to ban the use of Chinese semiconductors by US government agencies and their contractors," not the Executive's very severe action against making them in the PRC.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
The problem with Xi is that his demonstrated domain experience is in becoming powerful in the CCP, not in anything else I'm aware of; no reason strategy there will translate into good results for the country including its power; see Ma
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Absent something more serious, it'll take a long while for the PRC to get hurt in the way you outline, there's just too much it and it's large number of people do compared to much smaller Vietnam with I think on average less
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
I'll take your whataboutism which doesn't even pretend to answer the OP's question and just point out the government isn't harvesting people for their organs, especially from religious dissidents. Last time I checked ha
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"Dr Who. This was the era of Tom Baker as the Doctor. Honestly, it was amazing. But there were other shows that were just plain goofy like The Goodies and Monkey. On the sci-fi front you had Blake's Seven, which was way ahead of i
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Is there some new way Prime is "going down the toilet" as opposed to Amazon's retail arm in general?
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
My understanding is that Pleroma was first and foremost designed to have a small memory footprint for small instances. As an Elixir program running on the BEAM (Erlang) runtime it ought to scale a lot better, but serious work had to be p
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Still a grave failure in the victim selection process.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Nowadays "the cynic in me immediately thinks" the funds are going to be allocated to hire more administrators. They've generally taken over running universities from the faculty, and as I recall they're where the vast bu
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
There's going to be more to the "EU-U.S." situation, like if you're doing anything energy intensive, need petrochemical feed stocks or natural gas to make fertilizer, you might do like BASF started some time ago and expa
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a Nixon-Brezhnev 1972 thing, albeit ratified by a Democratic Senate in the same year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
And just why it is unlikely the PRC would attack the US first? Today they don't want to destroy a big customer and part of their supply chain, but that price could be deemed low enough in all sorts of circumstances. The very high like
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
We have technology to address the problem in that Fail Safe movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link And that's one reason manned bombers are a very important part of the nuclear triad, they c
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"The company can call him at any time, and say 'get to XXX, your train will be there.'" That another part of the problem with bombcar's concept from the viewpoint of the railroad companies, they'd need a lot mo
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
This is why "Precision" is Newspeak in so called Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR). All but a few engineers and conductors for whom trains can be reliability scheduled are on-call as a train is built up to the arbitrary numbe
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Do the math on the raw numbers, 5 Democrats simply did not vote on these measures, Manchin voted against, 6 Republicans voted for it. The question is why did Team Pelosi not first try a bill with both measures, that's how you get somet
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
As p0pcult notes you could not be better named to make such a comment. You're correct, but that still doesn't address the quality control issue for things like metal bending, unless you add intense $$$ inspection to the process.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Team Blue could in theory end the filibuster today if they dragged in the five MIA Senate Democrats who have not been voting on these measures and got Harris to break the tie. As you say, they have their reasons for keeping it.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
With only 43 votes against, that is 1 Democrat voting against (Manchin for some reason I can't imagine) and 6 Republicans voting for it, we have a deficit of 5 Democrats just not voting. We also see the same deficit in the 26-69 again
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
You know this how? And somehow the House couldn't have first tried a bill with both, then split them out? Your claim would be more useful if you pointed out the vote was 52-43; with no great effort six Republicans voted for it, five D
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
I'm not sure your staffing problem can solve the whole problem, because there's domain knowledge in how to handle trains in particular sections of track. Speed maximums are probably easy although they do get screwed up in notorio
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
How convenient Team Pelosi split the issues into two bills. This result is to no credit of either party; as I've been commenting elsewhere, both hate this segment of the population.
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"this is going to let team Red claim to be the pro-worker team" Nobody sane will believe them; while I believe the start of this was when the New Left captured "Team Blue" in the 1970s and blue collar workers famously be
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Do they not have the option of forcing the railroads to give in on the sick leave issue? Did not "Team Blue" as in the Biden administration arrange this set of trade offs in the first place in the agreement which some of the most
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
You are correct. COVID is different from other respiratory illness I'm aware of (not a doctor) in that when it gets serious that way it interferes with oxygen intake but not getting rid of CO2. Which drives the breathing reflex so yo
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Which politicians will do that? The Democrats are over blue collar labor, have been since the 1970s when the New Left captured the party, and the GOP establishment hates that part of their base. A great deal of Trump's otherwise ine
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
The problem is that the opposite of JIT can also "completely fall apart" with potentially even longer delays, plus loss of money. One thing people don't generally know is that as developed in Japan it's a quality control
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
IBM's promises, largely delivered to this day, that their System/360 computer hardware and future generations would be compatible, as was that line of computers except for the lowest end special case? All the effort IBM put into
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by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
Aren't there a whole lot more people who are wondering what this crypto is and whether they should invest in it?

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