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by donw 6y ago
I love these sorts of projects. I love the creativity, and better still, from an ecological perspective, it is nominally far better to reuse components or repurpose entire products, than it is to throw them away and buy something new.
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by donw 6y ago
Not all of it. As a shareholder, you get access to shareholder meetings (not public), can vote on certain issues raised by the board, etc.
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by donw 6y ago
Imagine that Alice's net worth is an even billion dollars. Alice buys a tiny stake, $1000 or so, in ACME Industries. This is financially immaterial to Alice. It's 0.0001% of her net worth. But the purchase gives her access to all
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by donw 6y ago
> He sounds like a highly detestable human being. That is over-the-top harsh. I disagree with the choices the author of XPDF made. I would have made different ones. Neither of us fully understands his mental state, or why he made those c
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by donw 6y ago
> Of course, plane manufacturers love being able to blame the pilots when their autopilot engages Kill All Humans mode. They really should move the switch for that feature a little farther away from the "Cabin Attendant Call" b
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by donw 6y ago
> some soulless machine that can murder you all without so much as a blink if it goes awry. I believe this is called a "Porsche".
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by donw 6y ago
Interesting! I didn't think about things this way, but I suspect you are right.
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by donw 6y ago
> Who decides what kinds of inefficiency are admitted? Sounds utterly dystopian to me too if some (small) group gets to decide what inefficiencies the society should pay for to satisfy their personal vanities. Oh, absolutely. I would str
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by donw 6y ago
> Humans are underrated. Absolutely. > I am sure if you listen to beancounters, you won't save money and actually drive the system to the ground and make people unhappy. Yes and no. Economic realities are a thing. Organizations t
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by donw 6y ago
I came here, apparently, to agree with you strongly. The ceiling in my house is, upstairs, roughly one meter above my head. Downstairs, I've got maybe two? That is "wasted space". It takes more energy to heat, and uses more b
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by donw 6y ago
What happens if you get a couple of guys wearing blue gloves instead?
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by donw 6y ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense than a 200nm chip in 2021. Still, I'm not going to get the image of a city-sized IC out of my head.
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by donw 6y ago
Anecdotally, my entire EU rolodex has shifted from WhatsApp to Telegram and Signal over the past month. Now, my friends-and-neighbors lean heavily towards the software industry, so this most likely does not translate immediately across What
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by donw 6y ago
> Every 200mm fab I know this is a typo, but that would explain the dimensional trend in smartphones...
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by donw 6y ago
Congress sent a dollar to the money printer last year, and asked for three trillion copies. Were that divided evenly among adults in the US, that would work out to something like a $12,000 check per person.
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by donw 6y ago
Journalists are in the business of providing narratives, which may or may not be loosely based on an objective truth they met somewhere a few years ago at a cafe. I'm pretty sure this has always been so. > Obviously, the skeptics fe
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by donw 6y ago
> In the case of raining/not-raining, this is clearly (to me) absurd. One of the POV's is right and one is wrong. There's no need to say "some people say <wrong thing>". It's just wrong. That depends o
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by donw 6y ago
One of my coworkers used to work for Nintendo here in Japan, and told us about his first day. Apparently, in the building you visited, there is a massive Nintendo museum -- everything they've ever made, all carefully curated. You get t
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by donw 6y ago
Finally, Terraform and CloudFormation can truly live up to their names!
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by donw 6y ago
It looks like the rotor design is quite different -- much more rounded and oblong, as opposed to triangular, with the combustion happening inside the rotor. That's actually quite clever -- increase the capacity, without increasing the
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by donw 6y ago
I don’t think Apple competes much in the $200 anything segment.
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by donw 6y ago
> Yeah probably true, I didn't post a source because I thought it was common knowledge which in retrospect I'm not sure why I thought that. There's a name for this phenomenon! It's a cognitive bias called the "Cu
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by donw 6y ago
Didn't downvote myself, but if I had to lay money on it, I'd guess that you got downvoted for not providing links to the raw NOAA data? Sources FTW. On that note: thank you for providing those links! I learned something new today,
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by donw 6y ago
I think there's a lot of underlying assumptions here we need to unpack. First, you are correct, not everybody is just going to "learn to code", and that's not where I was going. The industrial revolution replaced, to a l
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by donw 6y ago
As a rule, landing pages for online communities should have some type of link to a "Wait, what the hell is this stuff, and why should I care?" page. Willing to bet a fair number of folks found this, figured out it was some kind of
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by donw 6y ago
People do tend to forget that we make a lot of stuff with oil: plastics, fertilizers, lubricants, etc. I am happy to hear where I am behind the curve, but we don't yet have above-surface replacements for the whole of the petrochemica
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by donw 6y ago
> It's not like we're going to retrain an oil driller to be software engineer. Why not? Equipment at that scale is complicated, and requires a lot of skill and experience to operate. Not to mention responsibility. When you scre
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by donw 6y ago
I have mixed feelings here. On the one hand, I like this. I really like this. You really have to either care about others, or to be willing to invest sustained energy over time to thoroughly counterfeit that social signal, but either way,
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by donw 6y ago
Ground News marks HuffPo as living solidly on the Left: https://ground.news/interest/25781bef-fab9-4951-8bff-5926d11...
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by donw 6y ago
Reading the Sunday morning color comics was one of the highlights of my week growing up. While many things are better, I feel that we’ve lost something in the modern world, in that each day pretty much feels the same as any other. If we wan

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