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by VLM 4y ago
"We never claimed the vaccine would prevent or slow the spread" We live in a civilization where there is propaganda, and only propaganda. Given that, ChatGPT will do just fine.
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a pity the data is so out of date in the article. Remember, things start, but they also stop. Sounds dumb but in context its insightful. Lets take the hypothesis as true that as as smart phone use goes up 10% per year, the "Z&quo
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by VLM 4y ago
Most likely situation is being cancelled for political reasons. Some guy you didn't vote for decides to start a war with another guy you didn't vote for, so you get shut down.
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by VLM 4y ago
The tactile quality of the keys is extremely low, the screen is too small, we left the social era years ago and entered the notification era so its too spammy. Latency is usually extremely high compared to dedicated hardware. I've tri
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by VLM 4y ago
Its more like the sector fund argument. If money can move faster than business, weird things happen. On the micro level everyone should invest all their capital in the stock sector that provided the highest returns last decade / year &
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a chaotic tipping point. The analogy for the market for lemons isn't as good as an analogy with 80s junk bonds. Groupthink is incredibly strong so if there's an underserved market, well, tough cookies for them, until the unde
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by VLM 4y ago
It was an initially very profitable but thin market, so returns went hard negative very fast once the market was cleared. So the usual behavior, the first entrants make a ton of money, then the rest of wall street piles in behind them, alth
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by VLM 4y ago
That would be a fun CLI for retro/tiny computers. Imagine something like that for a Z80 or 68hc11 vs the typical boot rom.
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by VLM 4y ago
Three other things to think about: 1980s memory models especially dos-era PC was a nightmare but you could at great effort work around it. The C / unix memory model is actually quite luxurious compared to programming on dos 3.3. In th
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem is we already have that. The market has spoken and if you get that English degree from Yale you'll be permitted to get one of the few jobs in the field with decent pay, but if you get the same degree from the same curricul
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by VLM 4y ago
It's the hidden implication that only financially unviable jobs can teach people to communicate and think deeply. I'm sure your average psychiatrist graduate can communicate and think logically, despite having a high paying job.
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem is those are pyramid fields. In OPs example almost anyone with a physiotherapy degree is doing well economically; probably not wealthy unless they open their own chain of clinics but that's going into business major territ
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by VLM 4y ago
Really the "hidden story" is the pimoroni board is like "ten bucks" whereas two years ago the exact same application was available from Adafruit for "fifty bucks". I have two of the adafruit variety and it work
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by VLM 4y ago
It'll be a net profit loss because its expensive to implement, the lawsuits when it kidnaps children in car seats and whatever will be expensive. But we will be stuck with it anyway, because of risk aversion. Any car that could have b
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by VLM 4y ago
Park in front of the billboard until you read the ad text out loud, or pay the toll.
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by VLM 4y ago
Most of the costs of manufacture are fixed or at most scale linear with mass, so the range of costs to mfgr the smallest commuter car vs the hugest truck are, at most, perhaps 3 to 1 but more realistically 2 to 1. "The market will bear
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by VLM 4y ago
Any user interface will be misused, so "click to repo" will mostly be used accidentally in error. The vast majority of cars are not repo'd and as such the vast majority of clicks on the "repo" button will be in err
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by VLM 4y ago
A journalism trope since at least the 80s, probably further.
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by VLM 4y ago
Cars are mostly plastic by weight. Remember every extra pound means burning an extra Y gallons of fuel over the life of the car. Replacing plastic with steel would likely be a net loss environmentally speaking.
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm an old enough gen-Xer to remember using paper grocery bags as a kid. There is a "standard" rectangular kitchen trash can size that used to fit grocery paper bags perfectly. Toss the bag in the galvanized steel trash can
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by VLM 4y ago
Someone in the old days was playing around with VERY small RSS feeds in DNS TXT records. The slides mention blogging but at a UI level whereas this was "what if we put actual RSS feeds in DNS?" There was some sort of multiline p
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by VLM 4y ago
covid related loss of smell perhaps?
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by VLM 4y ago
GUI means slow and high latency Terminal means fast and low latency
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem with trademarks and marketing slogans is "kiin thai" more or less translates to "come here to eat thai" more or less. I think the problem with most of the discussion about this "event" is most of t
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by VLM 4y ago
I was unimpressed by the arguments in the article. Focus implies that Alphabet cannot avoid being over controlling (why? Any evidence other than idle speculation?) whereas devotion to increasing quarterly shareholder value would somehow be
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by VLM 4y ago
I think what would surprise younger people is how in the very old days it was unclear that RAM would win over all other forms of access and there was quite a bit of non-random access hardware available such as "bubble memory" and
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by VLM 4y ago
Somehow I don't think abolishment of the Johnson Amendment would result in less religious involvement in politics. It's a very large interconnected system. The main effect of eliminating the tax free status for religious instituti
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by VLM 4y ago
Filing a 13F is essentially a tax upon all market participants, it provides zero benefit to the public. Filing has a financial cost. If the SEC settlement were less than the cost of filing over multiple years, then all rational actors wou
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm sure discussion will rapidly turn into only the most correct opinions about religion or capitalism in general. However, specifically, a form 13-F is a mandatory report for (mostly) mutual funds and similar institutional investors t
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by VLM 4y ago
I look forward to infinite user tickets reporting "Apache Guacamole server has crashed" because they lose their session, and closing them with "user advised to upgrade to Edge browser"

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