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by dave333 1y ago
The Connections series by James Burke from around the same time posited that politics is irrelevant and progress is mostly due to science. The consumer society of today is much better than when Crap Towns was written although improvement is
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by dave333 1y ago
Having posted the above a few days ago, last night I (originally from the UK) was in the car with my wife (US born and bred) following and reciting map directions on my phone like "0.8 miles left on San Antonio" which I say as UK
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by dave333 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze-solving_algorithm#Hand_On...
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by dave333 1y ago
I emigrated from the UK to USA in 1980 and my first code review at Bell Labs I spent about 30 mins explaining my code and then asked if there were any final questions and someone hesitantly asked, "What is this variable 'zed'
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by dave333 1y ago
Central planning targets what is good, but inefficiently. Private enterprise targets what is profitable very efficiently. There's a combination of the two that is a happy medium.
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by dave333 2y ago
Why not just ban FALSE or MISLEADING advertising like Europe does? Apparently there is no difficulty in determining what is false there although I can see it might be a problem in the US currently.
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by dave333 2y ago
The elliptical road design is interesting as there is no need for T-junctions or traffic lights. Two large ellipses running in opposite directions connected by semi-circular off/on ramps so you only need to merge and not stop.
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by dave333 2y ago
This illustration is a classic in the style of Tufte's Envisioning Information although I don't remember seeing it in his books. But given the current climate of DOGE cuts and Musk's demand for email reports of what each gov
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Hydrino Samples Available for Analysis(brilliantlightpower.com)
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by dave333 2y ago
Are you aware of Brilliant Light Power and their Suncell (R)? See https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ and scroll down to the February 10, 2023 COMMERCIAL SUNCELL® INITIAL SHAKEDOWN video.
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by dave333 2y ago
Reminds me of the Enron guys labelling themselves the smartest guys in the room right before they went bust.
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by dave333 2y ago
Stopped watching after 10 minutes due to it being a detailed discussion of methodology and not about food. Would like to see a video of "Top 20 Chinese Dishes You've Never Heard Of." And here it is - don't watch this on
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by dave333 2y ago
Like quantitative easing raises the whole market? Govt would dollar cost average at least and can spread out buys to avoid front running. Larger market cap with investors holding for the long term helps increase the R&D spend and timefr
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by dave333 2y ago
Why would it collapse? Can limit govt holdings to say 25% of each company to maintain profit motive. I think this would attract other investment - front running the govt money - and greatly increase the ability to research new drugs. Can al
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by dave333 2y ago
Medicare should spend 1% of its budget each year to buy pharma stocks. Slowly it will become neutral to drug prices since what it pays for expensive drugs will be returned in the stock value.
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by dave333 2y ago
One small point is that AI tools like cursor can greatly speed up any project and will also be required and are probably even higher priority than any new underlying framework. I can see software moving to where the human oversees the busin
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by dave333 2y ago
I was confusing this with Angel of the North https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Angel_of_... They are only 16 miles (20 mins by car) apart so visiting both makes sense.
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by dave333 2y ago
Doing a personal project or contributing to an existing open source project can help you to get up to speed on new tools/frameworks. Maybe even reimplement an existing proj you are familiar with in a new framework. As for time make lea
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by dave333 2y ago
It was pretty rough at first - my background was doing UI in C/Xwindows/Motif, followed by Java/Swing UI which was by far the most glacially slow stack. Javascript was fast taking over the browser but I didn't know it. I
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by dave333 2y ago
This happened to me during the dot com bust and I was what I call self-unemployed from 2001-2007. I tried various things to make a living. Developed some games/puzzles websites that still make several hundred bucks every month like clo
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by dave333 2y ago
Zelensky should have asked Trump if he (Zelensky) need only lick Trump's boots or should he lick Vance's boots also.
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by dave333 2y ago
Putting is about half the game numerically and among the pros there are good and bad putters. Tom Watson was an excellent putter for most of his career by hitting firm putts that got past the hole, but he famously missed a 6 footer to win T
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by dave333 2y ago
No the slow walking of SpaceX approvals is obvious in my opinion. You seem to be an expert at misconstruing what people say.
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by dave333 2y ago
The main point I made was how it indicates what Musk is doing and how he is doing it so you are nitpicking an irrelevance...
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by dave333 2y ago
Lacking a whistleblower this kind of thing is impossible to prove, but is obvious from the public conflict.
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by dave333 2y ago
Under Biden, the FAA was slow walking SpaceX approvals. Now the political wind has reversed, Musk is stretching the limit on what he can get the FAA to do. If the worst that happens is SpaceX gets to crash its rockets faster then no worries
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by dave333 2y ago
While the trip itself is amazing, it could easily be fleshed out with attractions along the way - favourite eateries, boozers, playhouses, gardens etc.
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by dave333 2y ago
The private health companies need to hire these folks en masse to a jointly owned company and provide a contract disease surveillance service to CDC. But they probably make more money if people get sick. The whole reason for public health s
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by dave333 2y ago
As a Brit expat having lived in the USA for 40 years UK has many positives. The coastline - beaches, boating, food, scenery. The stately homes - every 5 miles there is a huge house that now has open gardens and serves tea. The seasons - cou
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by dave333 2y ago
It needs a lot of enhancements to be useful. Firstly it should be a real time video like the simulations in the movie about Capt Sully's water landing in the Hudson. The aircraft lights need to be modeled accurately as well as views bo

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