beamatronic

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by beamatronic 5y ago
Once one realizes this, one sees the value of paying for goods and services. Being the customer and not the product. The next step is seeking out the best service providers and rewarding them with dollars.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
If this is not already a Black Mirror episode, it should be.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
What would impress me is if each of the devices knew spatially it’s own position and that of all of the other devices. A local 3-D model of local radio emitters.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
How much does the ad-free version cost?
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by beamatronic 5y ago
That would require an educated populace and a functioning government, which we don’t have.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
I want to feel the way I felt when I was about 13 years old and got my first modem, calling my first BBS with my Commodore 64 in the dead of night and seeing those colorful characters slowly scroll across the screen…
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by beamatronic 5y ago
>> secret undocumented APIs There's precedent in the US for going to jail for doing this
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Because of the reputation. I've bought two cars without driving them first.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Because no one is incentivized to prevent and clean up spills
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by beamatronic 5y ago
They're trying to rip out rail lines right now in Santa Cruz
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by beamatronic 5y ago
I'm looking forward to the first "reality tv" shows produced on other planets (including the moon). You can probably fund a moon colony just on tourism and entertainment.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
I don't know why they can't just be happy with all those blessings
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by beamatronic 5y ago
What "game" is lost? Nobody is threatening to invade them. Why don't they create better future for their people the peaceful way - pursue math, education, science, even encourage tourism.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Love my Tesla, but a yoke is a deal-breaker for me.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
You could use waste water as propellant
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by beamatronic 5y ago
But the demand is still there. And many buyers powered by stock market returns.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
As someone in my 40's, it's too late for me to be a cool, popular guy in my 20's.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
I would like a job using Motif to create GUI apps for UNIX workstations using plain C. edit: messed up some words
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Wikipedia?
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Not to mention it's all deployed with Terraform now. You can stand up and configure thousands of servers without the command line
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by beamatronic 5y ago
It’s not just the 3 is it?
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Nobody I want to communicate with uses Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. All of those people use iPhones, so we use iMessage.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Correction: VOTERS are suffering because of their own voting choices.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
God forbid, we help 10 truly needful people at the cost of 1 person taking advantage.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
It's the will of the voters.
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Are the Tongans okay?
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Barbapapa’s Ark is remarkably similar to Wall-E
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by beamatronic 5y ago
Their discipline was insufficient
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by beamatronic 5y ago
I'm willing to wear a mask indoors, whenever I am around people outside my household, forever. I'm also willing to get booster vaccines every 6 months forever. I'm pretty ok with giving up indoor dining in restaurants as we
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by beamatronic 5y ago
That's an unproductive, defeatist attitude. With proper discipline, it is straightforward to avoid it.

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