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by adolph 5y ago
In the Gervais Principle sense: Loser: principles are Orwellian doublespeak Clueless: believe the principles Sociopath: principles as needed for my advantage https://philosophyinhell.substack.com/p/sociopaths-clueless-.
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by adolph 5y ago
Agreed. In the weeks of no electricity after TS Ike I regretted taking my window plywood off. I had waited a few days and during those days the house was reasonably not cool thru the day but comfy. Without the plywood things got stuffy quic
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by adolph 5y ago
Well, it is unavailable on Amazon... https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp...
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by adolph 5y ago
> Employers only care what you actually know and can do. That seems to fly in the face of "who you know is more important that what you know" conventional wisdom.
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by adolph 5y ago
It has subsequently been discovered that another group of crustaceans, the mantis shrimp, contains species whose club-like forelimbs can strike so quickly and with such force as to induce sonoluminescent cavitation bubbles upon impact. Mo
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by adolph 5y ago
If he lives 30 years past IRA checkout time, that's 30 * 365 = 10950 days. $5B / 10950 is $456,621. Spending 456k a day seems like hard work. MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6 Billion Last Year. It's Not As Easy As It Sounds http
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MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6B Last Year. It's Not as Easy as It Sounds(time.com)
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by adolph 5y ago
> Think of it like musical chairs. Thiel just took one of the chairs away (put it in the closet) and someone has to lose the game unless more chairs are added to the game. 1. The chair Thiel "took" has been subsequently loaned
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by adolph 5y ago
5 days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616090
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by adolph 5y ago
Why not just shield everyone's phone and email records? Is Sen. Wyden going to start a journalist registry so the domestic spies know who is shielded? The Protect Reporters from Excessive State Suppression (PRESS) Act ensures reporter
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by adolph 5y ago
Yes, what is an OS but an accretion of utilities around a kernel intermediating access to compute and various backing services?
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by adolph 5y ago
I just used the parent comment numbers converted to same unit with the first DDGed population result. Comparing pct land forested seemed an odd ratio to me. Population seemed to be a better proxy for housing demand. Pop density and other fa
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by adolph 5y ago
Different multiverse. Y.T. notices a black Town Car that has been sitting there for a while. She doesn't have to see the plates to know it is Mafia. Only the Mafia drives cars like that. The windows are blackened, but she knows someon
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“ the NASA history office directed us to your web site..” – Nat Geo(astronautix.com)
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by adolph 5y ago
US: 818,814,000 acres (3,313,622 square kilometers). EU: 161,000,000 ha ha = ac / 2.4711 818,814,000 / 2.4711 = 331,356,076 Ok, the US has roughly double the forested surface area. EU pop is 448m compared to US' 328m. So with
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by adolph 5y ago
Just don't touch Uncle Enzo's Deliverator
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by adolph 5y ago
In most cases, a single process app sending data to a file and a small HTTP server serving it will perform much better with less downtime. As I understand it, this is where Redpanda enters the picture. Maybe others here disagree? https:&
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by adolph 5y ago
Betweeen this and the various awesome lists GitHub has spawned a distributed version of old school Yahoo. Jerry and David should be proud.
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by adolph 5y ago
Blaming a poor user experience on “being terribly written” seems to be nearly a tautology except that I’m sure there’s been beautifully written software that was otherwise as bad as Vogon poetry. Teams tries to do a lot of functions. Maybe
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by adolph 5y ago
A counterintuitive finding Reich brings up in the book, iirc, is that the Neanderthal genes in current Europeans comes from Asian Neanderthals and not from European.
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by adolph 5y ago
Ring, ring. Revenue team, call for you from Cambridge Analytica on line one!
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by adolph 5y ago
Given the love for VSCode, is Electron a real problem for Teams?
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by adolph 5y ago
I think “vetocracy” may be related to Taleb’s idea that “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority” https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by adolph 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm glad the spellin was close enough for you to get the point.
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by adolph 5y ago
Maybe this product is an April fools joke gone Theranos? The first thing I noticed was the overhead water sprayer, which is a SFG anti-pattern. Avoid overhead watering with automatic sprinkler systems. Those systems are designed for large
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by adolph 5y ago
You know people still on the board of ERCOT? http://www.ercot.com/committee/board Contact Information Chair: Vacant Vice Chair: Vacant
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by adolph 5y ago
Or is Tesla an integrated HW/SW company where batteries are just part of the physical implementation of transportation that be improved? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTlaiu_vWE&t=100s
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by adolph 5y ago
> proprietary standard ???
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by adolph 5y ago
Kyle Connor, from the Out of Spec Motoring YouTube Channel, took a Porsche Taycan across the country on December 31 and set a new electric Cannonball record with a time of 44:26. This beats the previous record set by Connor and his team in
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by adolph 5y ago
True, a small computer running an Internet connected general purpose operating system should have a prominently labeled expiration date of some short time after the last patch. Use after that date is not recommended and potentially dangerou

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