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by ctdonath 5y ago
Recent take on the concept: https://voyagerstation.com/
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Equally bad. Freedom of association is also an enumerated right. Without demonstrable cause, none of the government’s business. Yes, I’ve been protected from such harassment thanks to that right.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Au contraire, seems we're mostly there. It's incredible having watched self-driving, and neural networks, go from new concepts and barely functioning to "order here" and public use (tell me the numerous YouTube FSD video
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by ctdonath 5y ago
US Constitution empowers Congress to issue "Letters of Marque and Reprisal" - to wit grant permission for private entities (people, companies) to wage war on other private entities. Enacted to help shipping companies deal with pir
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The legislature decided more good is done without taxation in some cases.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Yes, using better equipment with greater skill gets better results. I’m suggesting an easy way to begin the path there.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
For good beans: Get beans green from SweetMarias.com or the like. Not expensive ($6-9/pound). Get a cheap hot air popcorn popper. Mine was $3 used from Goodwill. Pour in 1 cup of beans, turn on. After about 8 minutes you’ll hear beans
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Neither had I for >35 years. Now I’m a full-on coffee snob. Come to the dark roast side!
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by ctdonath 5y ago
There were plenty of “won’t happen, can’t happen” arguments against mass takeover by digital cameras, CDs, etc. - then they did, very fast. Megabrand Kodak had a five-year plan to transition; customers switched en masse in about five months
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Capitalism patches such problems, by incentivizing solutions. Got problems with space junk? someone is working on making a buck by solving your problem cheaper than you can, including by making a path to finding value in what would otherwis
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Those who don’t like what Amazon is doing have many other choices. The correct “oversight and regulation” is customers migrating to those who offer better, not financially disinterested third parties compelling financial consequences withou
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Employment laws being overbearing, hiring a script reader may be practically illegal (“living wage”, mandatory health care, ... I just need some words read).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Well, only now is long-range wireless becoming a viable competitor. Kodak didn't see digital photography as meaningful competition, until customers switch en masse within months. Smith-Corona didn't see personal computers as meani
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Smith-Corona was the #1 worldwide most recognized brand. I was contracting there when they shut down, as typewriter purchases practically ended (in favor of personal computers). Kodak was the name in photography, with few viable competito
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by ctdonath 5y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Yeah, Covid vaccination has achieved religious fervor among many.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The broadly-accepted imperative requirement is "vaccinated", as in "do not enter without a mask/etc unless you have been fully vaccinated ". There is never a reference to "inoculated" (to wit vaccinated
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Read the post I replied to. I was answering thayne's "I don't understand..." by drawing out hidden costs. I'm an engineer. I explain things in excruciating detail. That's what I do.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’m old enough to gave seen many such juggernauts collapse when enough individuals decided to change themselves.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Things are so good here (really) that people are freaking out trying to create hobgoblins to fear. “ Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. ... But I believe that as a species, human beings define their
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by ctdonath 5y ago
You’re not powerless. Shut off the anxiety generators, and be the change you want in the world. I dumped Facebook & Twitter, and am reducing HN & other social media. Get news from proper objective sources, choose the category of med
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Or just watch whatever one service provides. My queue on any service is always way longer than what I can get thru. YouTube & others provide a large library for free (with ads). I assume most here are Amazon Prime members anyway, so tha
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Depends on your cost priorities. If you're basically just walking by the box anyway while doing something you'd be doing otherwise, sure it's cheaper to drop $2 for a disc. If you have to make a deliberate trip, you've t
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Timely to note that Tesla is eliminating cobalt from battery production.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Indeed. 1/3 vehicles here are pickups, 1/3 comparably large SUVs & minivans & Jeep Wranglers, 1/3 sedans. Contrast NY having 3/4 sedans. Considering vehicle sizes & speeds here, wife doesn’t feel safe in anyt
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Machismo” might be why Tesla went with the dystopian styling for Cybertruck.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ve been around long enough to see many mega-corps rise and fall. Seemingly unstoppable juggernauts falter and disappear seemingly overnight. None of this is new; you just haven’t lived thru the cycle yet to see giants fall.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Such rhetoric again fails to note why such work is “work”: a significant fraction of the effort isn’t fun & fulfilling, it’s unpleasant and nobody would do it except others will pay to get it done at a price higher than what the workers
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Legal via that EULA y'all clicked "Agree" on without reading. Practical via monitoring network traffic density, and only using a small percentage of that (say, 1%).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The key is getting the behavior normalized in broad distribution. A few specially-arranged mesh networks is interesting, but not ultimately that useful. I've long expected the likes of Linksys to deliver routers with mesh network defau
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by ctdonath 5y ago
While watching the USSR collapse in real time, I noted a reporter say the core of the breakdown was inability to issue paychecks to bureaucrats. No pay = no bureaucracy = no government. I've long wondered if that really was the case, s

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