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by blippage 3y ago
I've come to the conclusion that vertical farming is uneconomic. It requires lighting, which costs money. The infrastructure is elaborate, too. I don't see how that is going to beat traditional farming.
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by blippage 3y ago
When people asked how Buffett made money in investing, his usual response is "start with the A's" (referring to the Value Line manual). I have found that an unsatisfactory answer, though, because unless you have some idea of
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by blippage 3y ago
As the saying goes, a long-term investment is a short-term one that went wrong.
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by blippage 3y ago
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice. -- Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
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by blippage 3y ago
I was talking to a guy who was into drug counselling. He laid out some pretty shocking facts, like children as young as 12 take drugs. This made me absolutely convinced that we should not legalise drugs, except in the case where there legi
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by blippage 3y ago
> David P. Goldman[: ] «the transformation of disruptive tech companies into rent-seeking monopolies» I have been thinking along those lines. Economies have thrived under capitalism because they have produced something of value to consum
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by blippage 4y ago
> Verbal contracts can be binding. Furthermore, contracts can be implied. IANAL, and I can't quote the UK case, but IIRC correctly it boils to whether there was "an intent to create legal relationships". The case involved
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by blippage 4y ago
IANAL, and apropos of nothing in particular, there is a fun English case Everet v Williams [1725] (also known as the "Highwayman's Case"). They were highwaymen who agreed to share the loot. A dispute arose between them, and E
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by blippage 4y ago
#embed is what I really want. And separators. > Standard C advances slowly They're not joking, either. C is conservative to a fault, I think.
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by blippage 4y ago
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by blippage 4y ago
No silver bullet. If there was One True Way we would have applied it by now. Instead, we just argue about policies, meaning that we don't actually know the answer. Post 2008, interest rates were held at historically low figures, and fo
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by blippage 4y ago
I'm not keen on the whole US model of "mandated psychopathy". From what little I hear, the Germans seem to have found as good a balance as ever is likely to happen. There is good worker protection whilst industry is still bei
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by blippage 4y ago
Yeah, that's the one. Thanks for that! I hadn't actually seen the film, only the clip. My memory was vague on it.
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by blippage 4y ago
You don't give a conman your confidence, he gives you his. I saw a clip of a film some time ago (anyone idea of its name?). It has Chazz Palminteri in it. He played a conman. Him and a woman were waiting in a Western union (?) office.
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by blippage 4y ago
"The banks could have bought insurance against rising interest rates, but they didn't. " See, this always worried me. How do you buy insurance against rising interest rates? Or more precisely, WHERE to you buy insurance again
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by blippage 4y ago
I poked around with Smalltalk recently. The language fits of a postcard. Great, but so what? How do I input and output from files, and all the other stuff that I want to do? I also think Racket suffers from the same problem. The libraries a
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by blippage 4y ago
As one carer put it, "You can't fix crazy." There's basically just no reasoning with them. I saw an interesting vid on YouTube about a man who was relatively young, IIRC. He was in the C-suite of of a biotech company, bu
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by blippage 4y ago
The big tip-off that all is not as it seems is that he calls himself "Uncle Bob" Martin. Functions should do only one thing. Sure, but what does that actually /mean/? If a function calls two other functions, then surely,
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by blippage 4y ago
Thatcher is what I like to call a "Marmite politician": either you absolutely loved her, or absolutely hated her. She was a politician of her time, by which I mean she was exactly the politician we needed at the time that we neede
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by blippage 4y ago
One thing I noticed is that political thinking tends to come in waves. Not just for countries individually, but globally. Sure, there are plenty of exceptions, but each age seems to have its own zeitgeist in the world's collective cons
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by blippage 4y ago
I can't remember who said it, but someone argued that banks are inherently bankrupt. Their business model is to borrow short and lend long. The reason is that if you're a sensible business then you'll have cash reserves to sm
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by blippage 4y ago
I have to say that this is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a long time. Like "you have to be dropped on your head as a baby" dumb. Let's say the cable is 5000 miles long. How much power dissipation is there going
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by blippage 4y ago
THEOREM: All numbers are interesting. PROOF BY CONTRADICTION: If there are boring numbers, then there must be a minimum absolute boring one; which makes it an interesting number. QED
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by blippage 4y ago
I futzed around with AROS a year or so ago, and even played with it in 2005 on a hosted Slackware, if memory serves. The installation process was highly confusing. No doubt it works for the developers, but for those that just want to kick t
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by blippage 4y ago
My go-to language is C++, although I know and have admired Python for a long time. I had a BMP file which I wanted to transpose and turn into raw RGB 5-8-5 values. Using the Python Image Library made things absurdly easy. That's Pytho
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by blippage 4y ago
Having read the article, it struck me that the projects seemed to involve daft ideas, solutionism, or fad-chasing. For example, I knew right from the outset that delivering packages via drones was a dumb idea. A moment's thought would
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by blippage 4y ago
It took over a decade to produce. After all that, it was pretty damn slow, and I suspect that many people thought it was too slow to be worth using.
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by blippage 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I think Unix was originally written in assembler, which isn't portable. Unix first appeared on a PDP-7 (not PDP-11). PDP-7 was pretty old even by the standards of the time. "Originally, UNIX was written in PD
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by blippage 4y ago
MVP: Minimal Viable Product. The greatest example of this is Unix. Multics was a huge produce that failed (initially). Bell Labs washed their hands of it, and didn't want anything to do with Operating Systems again. Ken Thompson wrote
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by blippage 4y ago
That's pretty much what I expected. "Delusions of exceptionalism". When a company becomes large and successful (I've heard similar stories about Microsoft), delusions of exceptionalism inevitably occur. There's a fe

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