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by araes 2y ago
Fell down the rabbit hole of reading about this subject for several hours. Yet a couple of cool architectural applications I found were kind of neat. Bosco Verticale, isn't all that far away in link jumps, yet one of the most applicab
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by araes 2y ago
For context on the Cornell numbers with breakdowns on revenue and expenditure, here's Cornell's page on: Operating Budget: Sources and Uses: https://finance.cornell.edu/financial-guide/operating-budget... Ope
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by araes 2y ago
People kept tossing around the term "banana republic" over on other websites. Wasn't sure what it really meant other than plantations, so I looked it up the other day to see what actually qualified. Kind of surreal how many
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Thanks, term I'd never heard of. Usually think of that in terms of an "oligarchy" or "plutocracy". And as an added benefit it sounds a lot like "corpsocracy" with the "corp" and a country that&#
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Here's the PowerMEMS Project page from the link you're referring to. Unfortunately, seems like the last update was from 2010. Haven't heard much since. [1][2][3] [1] Turbine Overview: https://www.powermems.be&#x2
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Was actually going to post a similar comment re: NASA and the SSME engines for the Space Shuttle. This graphic shows the coolant system circulation that pumps cold fuel through the outer casing to warm it up to proper temperatures before u
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Mostly agree, couple points on a few. > 2: spending their time however they choose Had a friend who read through one of Andrew Carnegie's books (biography) and his take away from it (paraphrase from discussion) was that Carnegie did
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by araes 2y ago
This one from Politico today kinda cemented my view on that subject: "Russian state media enters Oval Office during Zelenskyy meeting": https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/28/tass-oval-office-
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by araes 2y ago
Generally agree for most people. Only caveat is for those with mild amounts of savings (not enough to qualify as wealthy). Enough 401k, mild investments over time with disposable income, or transfers from friends / family / inher
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Bad result for America, as at least the two that I've been familiar with have both been dramatically better website implementations than much of the federal government. GSA, Digital Analytics Program: https://analytics.usa.g
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And making a browser that's actually financially viable enough to pay for your time and effort without pissing off your user base because of paid features is even worse. Especially in a crowded market, where we're arguing extensiv
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We can still steal land from people who were originally on that land, happens all the time in America. - Land Appropriation for "Public Need" with Direct Transfer to Wealthy: https://fastercapital.com/content/
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Mostly a link dump. Mini Games for Ideas on game mechanics - https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ - https://abagames.github.io/action-mini-game-mechanic-tags/in... Gameboy Development on restric
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by araes 2y ago
Adding to @mempko's comment, in the most recent tax filing season data available, there were tax returns of: Top 1% Top 5% Top 10% Top 25% Top 50% Bottom 50% All Taxpa
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> “Survive Until ’25” That was the exact quote in the entire games industry last year. [1][2] The tail end of the 2023 layoffs really hit the industry hard and then it never really recovered afterward. [3] [1] https://www.ign
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I'd actually like to see the Greens and the Libertarians get together and run a candidate. Oliver (Libs) got 650,126, and Stein got 862,049. Put em together and you've got enough voters to actually have a reasonable chance of gra
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by araes 2y ago
Generally agree. Had about the same experience working the last job. Took significant effort to go out and find social activities, or develop regular social appointments each week that encouraged participation. Find a board gaming group,
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Yup, realized after it was posted that a few people ninja'd the story on HN.
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Third of Remaining US Digital Service Employees Resign Rather Than Support DOGE(military.com)
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In areas where the website is still viable, I've found that Meetup is a reasonable way to socialize and find recreational events with limited pressure in a public location. For example, I enjoy board gaming, and used to use Meetup in t
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by araes 2y ago
That was kind of my take on the situation also. Something of unspoken class divide in America. I've seen the same on several discussion forums, where writers talk that way, using terms and self descriptions that are like internalized
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Personally, tend to believe it's iterative (like the iterative method in software). Basically, it has both issues. Your rationalization is valid, and its one side of what's going on. Society de-socializes, the clubs and activiti
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by araes 2y ago
The article in the New York Post, appears to be referencing this article by Daniel Cox of the "Survey Center on American Life". [1] The article itself on americansurveycenter website is far more extensive with a much larger discu
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Weird, interacting with Japan mostly only through video games (and only a limited amount with food) I actually find them almost the opposite most of the time. Import games arrive in tiny boxes with almost no packaging and manuals that have
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That's actually the part about people constantly negging on social sciences [1] that I often find confusing. There's huge amounts of data available (geography, lots and lots of maps; history, huge amount of historical documentatio
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Perhaps that's why Chinese chicken eggs cost: 3,062 CNY/T -> $422/tonne -> $0.287/dozen @ 24 oz / dozen large eggs [1] while US eggs are still nonsensically priced at $8.03 / dozen. [2] Like worldwide lo
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> we've certainly come a long way from what people who didn't really know what they were doing were accomplishing on geocities ( https://geocities.restorativland.org/RainForest/Vines/ ) You may not be c
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Ever notice how much it looks like Lucas directly took the Dune 1984 imagery of the landing on Arrakis and turned it into the Trade Federation landing on Naboo? [1] Above Documentary, 1:23: https://youtu.be/pQG_Gt6-xpE?si=KZ
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Having never actually used this platform before, does anybody know why they named it Kafka, with all the horrible meanings? Per Wiktionary, Kafkaesque: [1] 1. "Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity." 2. &q
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Yup, had not thought to try old.reddit.com. So chalk another up to actually functional without Javascript (long as you know where to look). They're too busy trying lock me out of my email all the time to even care.

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