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by cbozeman 6y ago
> Is untrue for a very specific subset of issue: nation-wide infrastructure. W/o central planning, not nuclear plants, no French/Japanese/Italian/Chinese trains. Electricity: the bigger you network is, the easier it i
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by cbozeman 6y ago
I think the massive collection of data from more and more Teslas is going to eventually allow them to produce the best self-driving vehicle. Its been a maxim of history that those with the most data generally win, whether that's milita
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by cbozeman 6y ago
LOL, I love it... an actress with no higher education has to explain antigen tests to the world's richest man. We really are in the best possible timeline for general lulz and nonsense.
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by cbozeman 6y ago
I'm not much of a programmer, so I don't follow this statement. Could you break this down a bit for someone with little programming knowledge?
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by cbozeman 6y ago
If Michael Crichton's Timeline is to be believed, I should be worried about disease, at least for the past... although there's no reason I couldn't contract COVID-2519 and die...
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> Now I'm curious. The world you describe seems quite hostile to someone with your beliefs That's because I don't have beliefs, I have data. I'm not interested in "beliefs". I'm interested in being able
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by cbozeman 6y ago
I would like to skip the clock ahead about 500 years, but I'm afraid of arriving in a desolate tomb world. I feel like it wouldn't be that hard for a person from today, especially someone who keeps up with scientific and techn
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by cbozeman 6y ago
By Jove, Northington! Look yonder at yon contraption! A beast of iron and stream that can pull yet more buttloads [0] than a team of a hundred horses doth speed along tracks at a brisk pace of 80 miles every hour! Yes, yes... quite right, W
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by cbozeman 6y ago
Sorry, I meant 3-in-4 are female, not 1-in-4. > A very confused sexism. To an uncritical thinker, it might definitely seem that way. To address the "liberal arts college" aspect, I mean specifically they're insulated from
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Because of this: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath
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by cbozeman 6y ago
What's weird about software engineering is you can literally be on all three ladders. That high-paid 60 year old man working for his state's labor department keeping the COBOL churning out unemployment checks? High-skill labor. Th
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by cbozeman 6y ago
It doesn't mean "Just NYT opinion writers". It means all the people who think they're leading culture around on a leash by pushing their articles in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , Mother Jones etc. and so forth. And
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by cbozeman 6y ago
America has a long tradition of being vocal and offensive in its communications. At the very founding of our nation, you could find political cartoons of George Washington on a donkey, with the caption, "An ass being led to Washington.
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by cbozeman 6y ago
"It offends people, but good. They should be offended." - Paul Mooney, from Know Your History: Jesus Is Black; So Was Cleopatra
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That tells me they're not being challenged enough at work. :)
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Fantastic points. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
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cont'd $1billion I am going to exclude the $10b+ crowd, because they live a head-of-state life. But at $1b, life changes. You can buy anything. ANYTHING. In broad terms, this is what you can buy: Access. You now can just ask your sta
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by cbozeman 6y ago
This is an excellent breakdown. There was a reddit post some years back that I saved as a text file along with the original poster's name, I think it might be a good analogue to this post. As originally posted by a1988eli on Reddit, a
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by cbozeman 6y ago
Scale does indeed matter. The life you can live at $35,000 a year is going to be dramatically less pleasant than the life you can live at $350,000 a year, just as the life you can live at $35,000,000 a year is going to be dramatically mor
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by cbozeman 6y ago
Its automation / systemization / manufacturing vs. limited throughput. Cars can be built on assembly lines, mostly by machines, with very few humans doing the labor, and thanks to the speed of manufacturing, many millions can be b
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by cbozeman 6y ago
I explicitly refrained from mentioning the Uyghurs here because inevitably someone mentions the "violent bomb attacks" that they're conducting against the Chinese government. I mean, I can't imagine why someone would act
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I drive a 10 year old vehicle and I feel like it has all the technology I really need or want. I might upgrade to something electric in the future, but I don't feel 'compelled' for any reason. My vehicle's primary purpos
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by cbozeman 6y ago
Michael Crichton wasn't a denialist of climate change, he doubted that humans were the leading cause of climate change. He was also a physician (a medical doctor), not a physicist.
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by cbozeman 6y ago
> There are a lot of people on the internet with infinite free time This is what we have to fix. We need to find employment for these people. When you're busy working on something, you don't have time for shitposting.
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by cbozeman 6y ago
> You need to have a thick skin Actually we need the rest of social media to have this, and then we don't need these alternative platforms. There are simply too many people who have grown up without having any meaningful opposition
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by cbozeman 6y ago
I'm not sure how much you know or don't know, so it might be hard to know where to start. Over the past few years as China's economic growth has slowed for everyone (but less so for the upper middle class and the wealthy), th
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The point of modern Western education was to create factory and low-level office workers.
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> One could argue that everyone having the same religion is worth it because now everyone has more in common to agree on LOL, yeah right. "WHAT?!There are still BITS OF PLANT IN THIS HOLY MUSTARD ! BLASPHEMER! Knights of Lord Frenc
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by cbozeman 6y ago
The only people downvoting you are people who haven't spent any time there. I was there for over a year, and most Americans can't pick up on the racism initially because its subtle, but like every Oz behind a curtain, once you slo
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by cbozeman 6y ago
Japan is extremely racist, but generally in that "clueless Uncle" kind of way, not the "actual malicious dislike" way of say, China right now. Societal acceptance is an enormous aspect of Japanese society. It isn't

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