bombcar

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751.
by bombcar 6mo ago
MS was public at that time, he could have bought some directly.
752.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It’d’ve been a great background for a red mars inspired alternate theme.
753.
by bombcar 6mo ago
You’re a local when you start complaining about the tourists ;)
754.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Saying “the state has a monopoly on violence” is basically saying the state is a state. I’m not sure it ever really provides much real insight.
755.
by bombcar 6mo ago
https://www.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/ Expensive wrapping paper and cutting it wrong may be defacing currency!
756.
by bombcar 6mo ago
I used an em-dash once in 1998 so you can't call all my AI slop out as AI slop. Checkmate.
757.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Thinking more about my "Dino is fine" - I realized I was taking it as a "reaction image" appropriate to a forum thread or twitter or text replies. If you're "taking the time" to write something, adding an
758.
by bombcar 6mo ago
East-1 going down always takes some things from other AZs, because there's always something dependent on East-1.
759.
by bombcar 6mo ago
https://x.com/visakanv/status/1678745111411212290
760.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Directors sound like the Board, the others are Executive Directors (eg, they do the work).
761.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Let's go back to a website! https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite
762.
by bombcar 6mo ago
I think the AI Dino is fine. Just don’t claim it as anything but AI.
763.
by bombcar 6mo ago
We cannot allow a UFO gap to develop. The EU can stay outside GDPRing aliens.
764.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Well it was dollars for dollars so they really were free (except for the AAA membership). International money exchange has always been fun, luckily for us we never really travelled anywhere that you couldn't just use dollars.
765.
by bombcar 6mo ago
“Money transfer” is, at the end, a database transaction. It’s a solved problem - no aspect of what is needed is unsolved. It’s just that there are billion dollar entrenched companies that do not want sending money to be as easy as a click.
766.
by bombcar 6mo ago
We always got traveler’s checks from AAA which were “free”.
767.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Democracy hasn’t even been good at its sole point - preventing violent revolution.
768.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Go to bogleheads and read for awhile - you get an amazing view into the “rich” in various stages and it’s eye-opening in a number of ways. You find those who have saved so much they have no hope of spending it all and yet are still scared t
769.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The public schools are loathe to expel (unless there's an agreement in the district that one school is a dumping ground) - midrange private schools are quick to expel to protect the rest, but the highest end private schools will figure
770.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Look for large BTC moves recently?
771.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Your "minimum sentence so painful" will certainly dissuade foreign nationals, even foreign governments.
772.
by bombcar 6mo ago
> remain private per student last I checked last I checked it appears grades remain private per planet or so ...
773.
by bombcar 6mo ago
How does Canvas compare to things like Moodle? Or is it an entirely different class of beast?
774.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Apple got smart on at least part of it and if you cancel a free trial/bonus for buying a thing, it cancels immediately - not at the end of the trial.
775.
by bombcar 6mo ago
There's one of those "midway" memes with a peasant on one side, saying "God is Love" and Aquinas on the other, saying "God is Love" and the middle is a bunch of Jesuit complications. :)
776.
by bombcar 6mo ago
But if the issue fixed as "make it possible for girls to stay home until older" and paying the families would have had the same result as schooling, it's important to know that. Education can be a good and still not be the fu
777.
by bombcar 6mo ago
One solution is to leave a deposit worth more than anything you could loot. What that means in the computing world is those silly browser-based crypto-solvers.
778.
by bombcar 6mo ago
That’s the secret behind the “mystery” of startups - once you stop looking at what they’re doing you realize it’s all about the team - a good team will become a serial startup group doing all sorts of different things - but since they’re a
779.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Software solves problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. Software solves practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some mean mother H
780.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It’s cheaper to get married now, so I’ve gotten married fifty times!

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