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by VLM 5y ago
If three people with an agenda can't force their political beliefs upon half of an unwilling population, maybe that's actually a good thing? Reddit certainly has a strong authoritarian / fascist streak. Good riddance to redd
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by VLM 5y ago
The global reaction to COVID is highly relevant to this discussion. As with covid the secondary and tertiary effects will be vastly greater than the primary effects. There is a fascinating logistics and timing feature to this whole topic.
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by VLM 5y ago
nukes have a peculiar "famous" double flash Also don't forget the EMP effects of a large nuke. Just because a large nuke on the surface doesn't "vaporize all global electronics magically" doesn't mean it
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by VLM 5y ago
You would have liked BASIC09 on motorola 6809 CPUs running OS9 in the early 80s.
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by VLM 5y ago
It was an era of 80s software (msdos, etc) being run on 90s hardware, and the 90s hardware provided capabilities generations beyond what the software typically used. So you'd boot single task single user non-networked msdos to run a t
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by VLM 5y ago
"Because of the general bugginess of SLS" I was there, and I don't recall that. It all "just worked" in the summer of 93 which was mere months after this article. On a 40 mhz 386dx, a kernel recompile took about a
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by VLM 5y ago
NNTP does not equal Usenet. Some of the most interesting applications of NNTP would never connect to the legacy usenet network, which as you mention is/was a mess.
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by VLM 5y ago
> There are extraction jobs going unfilled that start at $800/day. They're long days and hard work, but none of them require you to bench 450lbs. Have you ever seen the work done on an oil drilling rig? Its a bit "upper b
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> Did they really all need 3 years of full-time education? Higher ed has become extremely top heavy with administration, and those people DO need the women to take those classes. Consider: The more women whom graduate with K-12 degrees,
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I'm not OP but I am 16 years post graduation and here's the classes I found useless over the last 16 years: It had a different title but was "provide helpdesk support for Excel 2003 to businesspeople". What are the exac
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> irrelevant paper Their only purpose is authoritarian filtering. Will this applicant unquestioningly jump thru arbitrary crazy and irrelevant hoops with no talking back about about the local dogma and complete subservience to their mast
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How would we generate the identical cog factory workers that 1921 requires if we customize education? The problem with education in the USA is its even more backwards focused than what happens with military strategy. "Better education
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Outcomes don't matter as much as expectations WRT planning and higher ed is all about planning far in the future. There's no "just in time" higher education economic model LOL. In my state, where $20/hr buys you a
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by VLM 5y ago
Its a site for collecting karma updoots for the sake of collecting karma updoots according to irrational site traditions. I agree, its definitely not a site to request any knowledge from strangers, as I don't want to play their karma c
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by VLM 5y ago
Two cool topics to wikipedia/google for are achromatic lens and achromatic tech in general and chromatic aberration. Turns out to be VERY difficult to manufacture optics that focus correctly even across that one octave. I just think it
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by VLM 5y ago
This stack exchange question shows everything wrong with SE and why I no longer use it. 99% of the answers are sophistry. Along the lines of "I'm authoritative" "You need to respect my job title" "I mentioned
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> This is also called the Aloha model The history of HF packet radio going back almost 40 years now, shows it stomps things pretty bad. RTTY and PSK31 ops simply cannot operate nearby HF packet channels. Aloha DOES work really well for
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by VLM 5y ago
Yeah there's no anonymity. As for community policing the FCC itself polices some, and the official observer program has been replaced by the volunteer monitor program which is mostly the same thing. I think you can assume much like on
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by VLM 5y ago
> Not allowing encryption makes amateur radio of very little use in emergencies. I can't even imagine what would require encryption ... maybe PII medical traffic under some peculiar artificial scenario and most pessimistic possible
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That example is fine its not a regular basis. Note you can run a business on a cell phone or do financial transactions or speak swear words or all kinds of things common carriers supposedly don't care about but would be banned on ham r
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by VLM 5y ago
There are some content regulations so transmitting "in the clear" for all to read is generally demanded by the .gov. Groundwave HF paths technologically don't have much of a symbol rate limit. You could talk from ND to SD us
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by VLM 5y ago
Bandwidth negotiation - Uh, no. Human in the loop with ears can hear a complaint of interference and stop or adjust. Autonegotiation just turns up the power until the victim can't use the service anymore. RF is not a phone line. No
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by VLM 5y ago
Fcc part 97.101 "General Standards" (d): "No amateur operator shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communication or signal." Pitiful we have to encode "the golden rule&quo
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> substitute for cell service 47 CFR 97.113 Prohibited transmissions, (a) No amateur station shall transmit: (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services. The FCC
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"bandwidth negotiation" - HF paths are often unidirectional in the sense that you can interfere with station A without station B being able to hear. You can easily interfere with people you can't hear and autonegotiation mea
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by VLM 5y ago
You can manipulate surveys to generate any requested outrage. Generally you can assume any mention of a survey is propaganda and can be ignored. Its pretty trivial to imagine how this desired result was produced: "Would you be angry i
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Hilariously there is a motivation to provide low value receipts for estate executors. "That old bookcase? It was only worth a dollar so I sent it to Goodwill after his death, it wasn't in the will and nobody wanted it". Now
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by VLM 5y ago
I suspect on a large scale over time, post death donations exceed annual donations by quite a bit. So, old uncle X dies, state fund stops paying his nursing home room in 3 days, after everything of value or mentioned in the will is picked o
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In the old days class meant where your money came from. The poor got their money from church, government poor houses. They do what they want when they want. The working class was the manual labor class. Their nose is to the grindstone whe
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by VLM 5y ago
Pew research data seems to imply it would be more like $150K

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