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by a2tech 8mo ago
Tesla is a meme stock. Its being buoyed up by retail investors (Elon Musk fanbois) and, its been said, by Saudis and others who were trying to curry favor with him (possibly to try and get Trumps ear or other greasy bullshit). The stock is
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by a2tech 8mo ago
Yes, they’re called clean out companies. They’ll swoop in and put everything in a dumpster. You can engage an auction house-+cleanout company if you think they have anything worth selling.
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by a2tech 9mo ago
Between this and Minneapolis I guess the water temperature just keeps on being turned up, and us frogs are just chilling out in our warm baths.
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by a2tech 9mo ago
I mean, they could, but there's no incentive for the builders to sell them. You can make way more money with rentals (if the demand is there) then you can with condos. Condos are a way time hit of money, rentals are smaller profit, but
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by a2tech 9mo ago
The only problem is that in the US, if you let apartments and townhouses to be built, homeowners will get muscled out by large builder concerns and single family homes will be converted into dense housing--which sounds great, until you real
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by a2tech 9mo ago
You're right. It doesn't matter though. People love 'big fixes', the reality of systemic change is hard to present in a 2 minute sound bite or Instagram reel. This is the kind of 'fix' that gets implemented, th
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by a2tech 10mo ago
They’re already straining to truck in enough water for survival now WITH some of the wells still working. If the ability to source water locally stops the people of Tehran will either need to move or die. With aquifers running dry from iran
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by a2tech 10mo ago
In 10 years there won’t be a regime in Iran because Iran won’t exist as it does today. With the collapsing water table people are going to be forced into either death or migration. I don’t want to be a doom and gloom guy, but the climate ch
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by a2tech 11mo ago
It’s because this is a very simplified view of a classroom. What is presented above is the best case scenario, not a realistic one. For example, there’s no consideration of costs associated with any sort of handicapped student, or student w
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by a2tech 11mo ago
Any nation made up of human beings is going to be flawed. The way forward is via incremental change and compromise. Forcing societal change does not, and never has, worked.
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by a2tech 11mo ago
The fallacy is believing the country has ever perfectly embodied the principals of its people. Unlike your and others dismissive talk of my 'bright eyed idealism' I and the people that I interact with fully understand the missteps
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by a2tech 11mo ago
I’m an American and I can safely vouch that myself and most of the people I know deeply believe in the American ideals that have been presented as gospel for decades—fair play, hard work, rule of law, loving our neighbors (regardless of leg
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by a2tech 11mo ago
The drinking water is just part of the issue (as you said). Water is used in countless industrial processes, farming, EVERYTHING. if the water goes, so does everything else. And it’s not just water going away—it’s impingement by salt as wel
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by a2tech 11mo ago
I assume marketing. I’m wondering what will happen when they force the afghan refugees back over the border into Afghanistan since they don’t have the water to give them. Climate change and bad decisions from the last 50 years are starting
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by a2tech 11mo ago
With the amount of time he spends with Trump and Peter Thiel..probably
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by a2tech 11mo ago
My understanding is that the correct plural for a Canadian goose IS Canadian gooses.
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by a2tech 1y ago
People in prison in the US use the same method to boil water for ramen/drinks on 120V household current.
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by a2tech 1y ago
Google is not getting a cut of that sponsorship money. They don't care if it wrecks your deal. They want your ONLY source of income to be Youtube. If you're fully beholden to Youtube, there will be no escape, no way for you to lea
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by a2tech 1y ago
I don’t know if you watched those videos but even if he did commit a crime the marshals are way way over the line when they arrest him.
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by a2tech 1y ago
They're sweet well meaning people. They're very familiar with the realities of working in Africa, but they always assume people will try and do the right thing at the end of the day.
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by a2tech 1y ago
I felt really bad for them. They're super nice people and I don't think the contractors set out to take advantage of them, it ended up being an bad experience for everyone.
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by a2tech 1y ago
The non-profit works in Africa and is all about using local resources when at all possible. They knew some people that worked with a group out of Nairobi that talked a good game and they liked the people they met and the non-profit folks ar
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by a2tech 1y ago
Exactly--bad work can be from anywhere. However working with contractors at this kind of distance, through a language barrier, with different societal norms (for example, the US project manager was a woman, and the programmers just complete
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by a2tech 1y ago
It was running when they accepted it. However they didn't realize that the group was running the Django/Postgres 'backend' on a managed Digital Ocean instance, then there were two different Vercel 'projects'. I
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by a2tech 1y ago
Working with a client just last month that hired an African engineering group to build a tool for them. What they got delivered was a Next.js train wreck that was so coupled to Vercel's hosting that I couldn't make it run successf
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by a2tech 1y ago
They don't make them end to end either. Their jet engines are made up of parts supplied by thousands of suppliers.
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by a2tech 1y ago
Just wanted to watch a relatively recent movie yesterday (Antichrist) and the only place that has it is a streaming service called Mooby. Not signing up for a service to watch one movie. Would have gladly paid 4 bucks to watch it, so had to
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by a2tech 1y ago
This is interesting--do you have a link to the sale or instructions as to how that was working?
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by a2tech 1y ago
What’s the gaming industry look like when you remove mobile gaming from the equation?
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by a2tech 1y ago
This is not helpful, funny, or intelligent. It’s a child’s rant about the world. At the end of the day, the reason more housing isn’t built is that the incentives are greater to not build it. You can build a high rise with shoebox apartment

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