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by drweevil 10mo ago
> Cynics might point out that any old farmer could distill ethyl alcohol from grain. It couldn't be patented, or its distribution profitably controlled. Tetraethyl lead could. Were they cynics, though? As the article itself points o
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by drweevil 10mo ago
The most interesting feeding behavior of wasps, occurring only in the social species, is called trophallaxis. Since the larva need protein to grow, the adults hunt caterpillars, bugs, etc. They chew them up for the larva and feed them. In r
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by drweevil 10mo ago
Of course it was; but it's also a valid observation that the capitalist aspect has jumped the shark. Qatar was my shark, but I was also dismayed by the South Africa finals, when the organizers banned private street food vendors near th
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by drweevil 10mo ago
I agree. I use passwords with TOTP whenever possible. Passwords in a locally stored database (such as KeePassXC) can be easily shared. TOTP using Google Authenticator can also be easily shared, not just with my partner, but also among my ow
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by drweevil 10mo ago
Well, we all swim in this capitalist ocean. Look out for that shark!
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by drweevil 10mo ago
>I’m not sure where there is. But I’m happy to let China or other countries arrive at that unhappy destination while I wait behind and watch. This. I am utterly fed up with this "AI race" BS. No one who makes this argument expl
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by drweevil 10mo ago
It's the Talon-A2 that reaches mach 5. The Roc is its launch vehicle. Roc is very cool nonetheless.
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by drweevil 10mo ago
Indeed, an EO is not law. It only applies to the federal executive branch's enforcement of existing federal law. State legislatures and agencies do not fall under any federal executive, unless they are in violation of federal law. This
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by drweevil 10mo ago
Yes. It is a mistake to ignore the effects that the massive amounts of money are having, in any analysis of this sector. It’s the number 1 factor at this point, eclipsing reason and societal needs. “Gold rush” is an apt analogy.
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by drweevil 10mo ago
Exactly. There was no explanation on how these devices aided them. Nor could I find a camera in the image. Am I missing something?
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by drweevil 11mo ago
As my mother-in-law would say, "It beats the alternative." If you're feeling old, it means you're alive.
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by drweevil 11mo ago
This one touched me deeply, when I first read it. I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 5 years ago. Mean survival after diagnosis, I learned then, was 5 years. "Next year"? Damn. For a long time I couldn't think past next we
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by drweevil 11mo ago
>The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, dismissing concerns about health and environmental impacts... But of course. Out of an abundance
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by drweevil 11mo ago
I'll second this. I was a 35H in the Army and fixed and calibrated many of these units. Great manuals.
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by drweevil 11mo ago
>Farley complained that "we don't have trade schools anymore," reports Avi Zilber in the New York Post. Who, exactly, is this "we"? Capitalists talk up The Market, but are unwilling to pay market-driven wages and
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by drweevil 11mo ago
I read "co-defendant" for a second there. Oh well.
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by drweevil 11mo ago
None of this is brought up in the text. It's presented instead as a general trend within Amazon: > "The layoffs come as part of Amazon’s strategy to streamline its workforce, eliminating excess managerial layers and fostering m
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by drweevil 11mo ago
Exactly. How is this related to Mamdani? (as implies by the gratuitous inclusion of his name in the headline.)
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by drweevil 11mo ago
It's always a wonder to me that someone can consider spending 1.5% of the federal budget on our own people, so that kids don't go hungry , as excessive (I take that interpretation from those scare quotes), when we spend at least
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by drweevil 11mo ago
This. If there is one antidote to the way corporations are running roughshod over our lives--both as workers and citizens--it is unions. If the rich can pool their wealth (via corporations) then workers must also have that right, to pool th
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by drweevil 11mo ago
Fun indeed! If there is no universe, there is no one to ask the question. If there is a universe, the the question is inevitable. It's enough to make the brain hurt!
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by drweevil 11mo ago
The iron law of capitalism--maximize investor return, minimize expense, even at the expense of the core product. This is especially true when there is not adequate competition, which is the case in a lot of sectors in this country.
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by drweevil 11mo ago
All of our consumer vehicles are being designed like this. Each one of our vehicles has a Ford, Chevy, Tesla back door, etc. etc. Ford has even patented a self-repo scheme where the car self-drives away. Can we take the sim card out too?
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by drweevil 11mo ago
>"The firm [Royal Mail], bought by a Czech billionaire in December..." I've no words. We're just playthings in a billionaire world.
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by drweevil 1y ago
There is still no silver bullet.
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by drweevil 1y ago
"The outage had a far-reaching impact - even reportedly disrupting the sleep of some smart bed owners." "owners", they say. I suppose we should be grateful there wasn't a major pileup on the interstate when cars cou
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by drweevil 1y ago
>The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law I totally agree that they should be held responsible. Acting "within the law" is not sufficient. Th
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by drweevil 1y ago
>On the bright side, the billionaire stadium owners probably got to reduce their staff in the process while maybe increasing profits. This is the root problem. When you take people out of the economy, what's the point of having such
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by drweevil 1y ago
There is a (temporary) misalignment of incentives. ChatGPT is cheap--for now. But it cannot remain so for long. Someone(s) will have to pay for those huge datacenters and the gigawatts of power they require, and the investors speculating on
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by drweevil 1y ago
There are some things that are off topic for any discussion. For example, the humanity of a fellow human being. I'm not prepared to have a civil debate over whether non-white people deserve this or that right that we take for granted.

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