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by ctdonath 9y ago
Wanted: Amazon Custody Chain - assurance that the product in question was in fact purchased by Amazon directly from the manufacturer, or otherwise Amazon vouches for the authenticity of the product. Ditto eBay.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Equivalent to 64 then-$40M supercomputers in my pocket for 1/6th the price of my first bare-bones IBM PC.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Largely because "50.1%", living hundreds or thousands of miles away, took to bossing the "49.9%" secessionists around. It also involved imposing a massive moral change with enormous economic consequences, which people un
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by ctdonath 9y ago
The US constitution has worked quite well (despite our penchant for drama) for a couple centuries. Oversimplified: recognize states as semi-autonomous, localize governance as much as possible, balance voting power to prevent "tyranny o
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Most of the experts enlisted to do this have not concluded the same. Do you know these "experts" personally? I do know ones who have tried it and deemed it a not unreasonable shot. I have to suspect naysaying "experts"
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by ctdonath 9y ago
As a trained long range shooter, may I observe: such incredible precision shooting? this was an incredible, astonishing feat of marksmanship It's not incredible. With some decent practice, it's not hard. The limo was hardly mo
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by ctdonath 9y ago
If they're not paid enough to invest, they probably need that extra compensation in cash. If they're smart enough to work at Tesla, they're smart enough to invest as they see fit.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Which cause? Employees are free to convert their paycheck into stocks. The better they (as a whole) do, the more profit each gets.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Ponzi schemes don't produce major technological advancement. SpaceX made reusable rockets a thing. Tesla made great cars with bleeding-edge EV technology. SolarCity made "solar roof" a viable & aesthetic product. All thre
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Recall that Musk has been begging Congress to end the subsidies (broadly defined), which are distorting the market.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
What's the mass consumption/ejection rate for this thing? What's the power consumption rate? Wondering if a non-solar power source (batteries, nuclear, etc) could cannibalize its waste fuel as ejection material.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Seems the only plausible explanation of the recent "Las Vegas massacre": described by friends & family as a perfect nice guy (rich even), the few records revealed so far indicate he led a possibly violent double life - culmina
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Photos of genitalia are typically grounds for deletion/suspension in most social circles.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Killing a cumulative 100,000,000 hardly constitutes "minor crimes".
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Once the 15" retina display arrived, I instantly abandoned any notion of working on a desktop system. Far superior visuals than any big monitor I could afford, and I can work anywhere anytime.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Instrumental music, or songs I've heard a million times before? Just noise. That's why I listen to techno/trance music. High energy, but intended as pure background, always changing but never distractingly so. Enhances an e
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by ctdonath 9y ago
The only reason to stop shrinking laptops is that the physical UI can only get so small before UX suffers - and that includes making it thick enough to hold onto. Leverage that limit by continuing to shrink components so we can fill the rem
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by ctdonath 9y ago
The problem is that you can't viably sell an autonomous vehicle that large, heavy, fast, and operating so close to other vehicles & unprotected pedestrians when it has been deliberately programmed to violate known laws. The makin
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by ctdonath 9y ago
But if you can't show that "100% solar & vegetarian" is a viable & desirable choice, you're not going to convince others to. Imposition under threat of police action will only invoke shifting bad choices, strain
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by ctdonath 9y ago
But if you're pushing for "take shorter showers" legislation imposed on all, I expect you to take shorter showers now .
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Cognitive dissonance is unbecoming. Spewing tons of CO2 en route to a CO2 control conference, when the same ends could be met via teleconference, is hypocrisy. You can live well while reducing your impact on the environment. They certainly
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by ctdonath 9y ago
yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip This. Every single person who claims they believe global climate change is a very serious, and man-made, problem absolutely should be taking per
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Video recorded at night. Probably normal residual burn, normally not noticeable in bright sunlight.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
It is a problem for sites facing censorship (gov't or corporate or social).
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by ctdonath 9y ago
While I actively help the poor, it frequently appalls me how many of them choose to live that way. Basic needs met, a significant percentage find no reason to do more than watch TV, eat, and reproduce. Hence my comment elsewhere on this t
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by ctdonath 9y ago
We went thru "displacing the human workforce" in the Industrial Revolution. Don't worry, we'll create more low-skill jobs - just like we did back then. ...unless legislators continue prohibiting people from working if th
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by ctdonath 9y ago
There does indeed come a point where taxation reaches high enough levels that people (and groups of them a la corporations) lose interest in exerting greater effort. The popular actor Ronald Regan famously noted that he would have produced
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by ctdonath 9y ago
The same "displace the workforce" arguments abounded during the Industrial Revolution. Most everyone is still employed (biggest impediment isn't lack of jobs per se, it's oppressive regulation making employment of low-pr
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by ctdonath 9y ago
I did, and found your arguments wanting. You're conflating local with national behaviors, and conflating high-value goods/services with low. Take a low-income area and give everyone $1000/mo for no reason (they're not tr
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by ctdonath 9y ago
My taxes are already pushing oppressive. Raise them further, and I'll seriously consider "going Galt" - cash in my investments, buy real estate & capital equipment outright, and live quite comfortably on $4000/mo ($U

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