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by ctdonath 5y ago
Employer wants as much done as possible ASAP. Physical & biological & social realities mean one person can be expected to produce 40 hours per week, 60 on occasion. There isn't an endless supply of quality knowledge workers, so
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by ctdonath 5y ago
No. I'd rather work 6 days a week for >120% salary. I like my work. I contribute to society by working - that's why I get paid, my work is worth something. Given more $, I can better provide for family (which includes freeing w
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Sure. You with oxygen, me with gas ... and the striker omnipresent on my keychain. You're goin' down in flames. :-)
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Crude insult. Akin to criticizing someone for "aligning with protecting his oxygen supply".
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Solved” in the way that a mathematician views a bucket of water and a hotel room fire as “solved”.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
[blinks in paradigm shift] "Gravity" is the curvature of spacetime. An inertial "straight line" follows that curvature, like going "straight" on the Earth's surface draws a spatial curve. Remove what&#x2
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Agreed. It was an attempt to take the issue as raised and see what the consequential ballpark numbers are.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Additional napkin math: If we’re going to take the “precious resource” argument seriously, let’s. One Starlink satellite can earn ~$25M/year, setting the value of that slot. This seems a reasonable value for LEO “homesteading”; if some
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Sorry about the mess, that comment was dripping with sarcasm. 1. There's a lot of room up there, and actually claiming & using it is a normal process for civilizing frontiers. 1b. Handwaving about "underappreciated precious re
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by ctdonath 5y ago
And cheap. $99/mo for competitive data service literally anywhere is amazingly cheap.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Right, it's not about taking a major share & expansion of a trillion-dollar industry with payout starting immediately, it's about staking out a thin fraction of (literally) empty space and waiting decades for others to start n
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Bravo. 5031 was a brilliant read. (“Salt”, OMG.) First encountered SCP by chance, absolutely baffling - so much fictional detail. Favorite is the self-filling whiskey tumbler.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Apology? It’s time for Congress to “issue letters of marque and reprisal”.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Odds of Xcode for iPad arriving right around then?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
If I step off a bridge, why does the distance between me and the very large nearby spherical mass begin decreasing at an, umm, accelerating rate?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
If those jobs don’t produce >$15/hr, they don’t happen.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Like many technologies, FSD is a long hard road of complex technological development; alas, customers think it should work perfectly out of the box right now to meet lofty flippant expectations. Your $10k got you the hardware needed to self
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’d like to see such discussion/analysis in context of objective baseline of an individual eliciting sustenance out of raw nature, such as John Plant’s “Primitive Technology” series - hard work for mundane results, the base starting po
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Groundwork research for developing the Infinite Improbability Drive?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Those were compiled into a physical book. The online content stopped shortly after; pity.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Sounds like a good reason to dump LIDAR. if vision is good enough to always defer to, why bother with something contradicting?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Most TV customers can’t articulate the difference. Many may state a preference but only because such numbers are prevalent and associated. Were the numbers not advertised, most wouldn’t ask.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Vanishingly few people buy phones based on screen resolution, RAM, bandwidth, etc. Ditto computers used mostly for mundane email, web browsing, games (not hardcore), and such. Few buy cars based on horsepower, range, etc. Insofar as people
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by ctdonath 5y ago
What’s magical: it can observe, decide, and act with zero energy (or at least less energy than real-world thermodynamics requires).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Good summary. Bought, you’re able to download and keep a copy. Only issue then is DRM and knowing where that file is (and being able to relocate it).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Apple’s goal is to eliminate technical specifications from marketing: tech specs are an excuse - make it good enough that few care what those specs are.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
As said: speculation. A study would have found a meaningful number expressing hesitation to discuss but doing so anyway, plus those who won’t but clearly experienced trauma - pointing to a percentage actually quiet about the incident.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
My next car’s battery will be glued in place, permanently affixed to the frame. When it dies after a million+ miles, I’m sure both battery and steel body will be quite ready for recycling.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
At what point can we acknowledge the harsh reality of “adapt, move, or perish”? If your choices and circumstances can’t add up to a positive cash flow, there is no obligation for others to sacrifice their net productive choices so others ca
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Does nobody consider the carrying capacity of an area, that only so many people can live in an area under given zoning regulations, and that further increase of population density necessarily causes fundamental change to living conditions?

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