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by blamazon 4y ago
I kinda thought the Napoleon attribution was enough to show I don't think it's a universal truism across all time and scenarios :)
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by blamazon 4y ago
It's a Big Island. (The island is referred to colloquially as 'The Big Island' - it's also quite sparse)
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by blamazon 4y ago
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" -- commonly attributed to Napoleon
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by blamazon 4y ago
I actually stood on the Mauna Loa caldera once when there was no activity, there was an officially marked trail that goes down right to the edge of it and there were signs that say something like "you can stand here at the edge for a s
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by blamazon 4y ago
If you want to devote your life to goat business, come to Georgia! We have a top tier agricultural university, an affordable cost of living, and a strong local economy.
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by blamazon 4y ago
You're saying the recipients of anti-CCP information would be implicated? I don't love this take because I think it's the other way around - it's removing common plausible deniability of "oh, that image? Some hoodlu
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by blamazon 4y ago
If it's an unalloyed good, why implement only in China right after protests arranged by airdrop?
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by blamazon 4y ago
I appreciate your willingness to discuss! :)
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by blamazon 4y ago
Okay. Let's make it more concrete. Imagine theres a bus full of people and you want to invite them to a protest, discreetly. Before state: some of them have airdrop set to open always and you can just airdrop to them. Move on to the ne
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by blamazon 4y ago
Imagine you want to invite a lot of people you don't know, to a protest. This is generally really difficult to do in China without being spotted for re-education. In contrast, Airdrop was previously a good way to do this discreetly. No
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by blamazon 4y ago
It's pretty simple: sometimes people do want to receive airdrops from anybody in a state approved way - when someone is not your contact, but you want them to send you something. Your distant uncle took a photo at a family gathering, f
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by blamazon 4y ago
Goats work. Where I am in Georgia (US) there's a local service where they bring temporary fencing and some goats and plop them in your property to chow down. Once you decide they're done, they pull them out. The operators have exp
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by blamazon 4y ago
In Georgia, where weather conditions are optimal for kudzu nearly year round, it is an unstoppable menace. After society falls it will envelop everything we have built. Haven't seen The Walking Dead, did they get that right?
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by blamazon 4y ago
Before jaywalking, cars were demonized as rampant killers in USA. There were efforts to ban them in cities entirely. Certain interests didn't want that, so 'jaywalking' was invented - suddenly cars were not the invader in the
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by blamazon 4y ago
Ah yes, diversity, equity and inclusion, concepts obviously opposed to the principle of a peacekeeping mission. Remember that war is not the goal, but a tool for peace. I'm just not with you here. The fact that DEI and climate change a
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by blamazon 4y ago
Consider reading on how the Bronze Age ended. That international economy was brought down by local instability that might have been kicked off by migrants from a minor climate event that sent economic effects cascading all over the known wo
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by blamazon 4y ago
I recall the 'pandemic hiring spree' on my team did not start until Jan-Feb 2021. After that it took basically the whole year to complete. That company was famous for its speed and scale of pandemic hiring sprees. To anyone who is
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by blamazon 4y ago
I don't disagree with you philosophically but the fact is that this is a solution with an obvious problem: how to make gobs of money. By the way, by your argument that cool whip is sludge, wouldn't making something better than it,
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by blamazon 4y ago
To be fair, that werewolf or vampire thing was the most cogent part of the campaign so far.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Making and selling TVs is similarly an afterthought for TV manufacturers now that smart TVs have been commodified, the money is in the analytics platforms.
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by blamazon 4y ago
For the unfamiliar, gridfinity is a project kicked off by Zack Freedman, who makes awesome YouTube videos with his life partner: https://youtu.be/ra_9zU-mnl8 (Yes, that is a monocular HUD on his face, it's his teleprom
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by blamazon 4y ago
Perhaps it is a bit like setting your mobile phone to grayscale, to try to make it less addictive. Less charitably, you can't patent the saturated fat in regular whipped cream, but you can patent a lack of it, and make a lifetime of re
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by blamazon 4y ago
In the United States, Cool Whip[1] is the most popular 'whipped topping', demonstrating an incredibly high demand for imitation whipped cream. Possibly higher than real whipped cream. 130 million consumers in 2020 of Cool Whip. [2
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by blamazon 4y ago
I wonder what could be incentivizing all these groups to rush to publish copy pasta articles so they can run salacious headlines of killer robots. Oh, I've got it, it's journalism!
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by blamazon 4y ago
Note that under discussion is only remote controlled electromechanical devices. They are not requesting permission for autonomous killer robots. (yet) Surprisingly, there is already precedent for this in US policing. All the way back in 2
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by blamazon 4y ago
Tangential, but one of my favorite types of signs reads as follows: "No solicitation - except tamale lady " Could also say empanada or burrito or whichever local food item is available informally door to door by someone that prob
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by blamazon 4y ago
I laid myself off recently so that I can play Satisfactory full time.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Interesting, I didn't notice despite reading the article start too finish. The brain is so mysterious!
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by blamazon 4y ago
I get it - it implies that they're not just signing checks, they are engineering sophisticated ad campaigns. That is a relevant detail to set up the story, and changing one word is an efficient way to convey that.
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by blamazon 4y ago
Such annoyances seem to be table stakes for modern media conglomerate sites these days. It's profoundly embarrassing to our species that even a publication like Fast Company purporting to be at the front edge of tech, business, and des

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