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by dublin 5y ago
I rarely agree with Elizabeth Warren, but in this case, she's right. If there were ever a justification for antitrust breakups, today's Big Tech Mafia is it. These companies are way beyond the size and abuse levels of trusts an
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No, they most certainly did not. I've spent a large chunk of my career in healthcare technology, and one thing I can say for sure is that with very few exceptions, foreign doctors are no where close to the knowledge and capability o
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by dublin 5y ago
Maybe I don't want to (further) subsidize your vanity choice of vehicular power. The very worst thing about EV owners/advocates is the suffocating cloud of smug that they spew everywhere they go, whether in the car or not.
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by dublin 5y ago
500 km - that's cute. You certainly can't count on that range, so your actual usable range is well under 300 miles. Except for sports/performance cars, I set 400 miles as an absolute floor for range, and have had some that c
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by dublin 5y ago
I dropped into the Tesla dealer here in Austin a little before the Wuhan panic hit, and the reps there confirmed that a trip to South Florida would take several DAYS longer in a Tesla than in a regular car. Electric has some benefits, but
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by dublin 5y ago
Huh? There are at least a dozen rental car pickup and return lots in the suburbs of NW Austin - most of them Enterprise, but several other brands as well. In general, I never wait more than 10-20 minutes to pick up a rental, and have never
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by dublin 5y ago
Not really - I'd argue that a lot of the problem in India isn't just selfish accumulation of wealth, but the utter unconcern for others that is inherently baked into the prevalent Hindu worldview. I've worked with Indian mis
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by dublin 5y ago
I'm sure my view of this will provoke some, though that's not my intent. Wow, the author of this is so drenched in his own racist worldview that he can only blame a situation of his own making on his skin color. In reality, he wa
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by dublin 5y ago
Interestingly, in a first-ever move (AFAIK), the Pentagon ordered the tooling for the F-22 destroyed when they shut the program down. In every other case I'm aware of (and I participated in both shutting down and bringing back things
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by dublin 5y ago
The F-111, which eventually (and accidentally) became useful in a role other than the several it was designed for and failed at, should have been a warning beacon here. Eisenhower was right, though, and the military-industrial complex (whic
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Yes, the Trillion Dollar Turkey is officially a failure. Next question?
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That's unquestionably what the observational evidence shows. (Just look at pictures of soldiers and other men from WWII (wiry and rail-thin, but strong), Vietnam (still skinny, but getting heavier), and Iraq/Afghanistan (a surpri
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Interesting. It would be even more interesting to see if the High Fructose Corn Syrup used in most sweetened drinks today has a different effect from the sugar used in previous generations. Given the changes in Men's morphology over
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by dublin 5y ago
Remember, as Thomas Sowell has correctly pointed out, the true minimum wage is always ZERO. I'm advising a smallish manufacturer now whose goal (as a response to minimum wage and other govt regulation) is to eliminate ALL of their e
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by dublin 5y ago
Welcome to the real world. As you point out, NASA lives in Wonderland by comparison. Good software handles real-world issues and changes without continual fundamental architectural redesigns. 95% of the bad software I've seen has
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And it's not like this hasn't been tried with varying degrees of success prior to UML (IDEF/IDSS, IORL, even arguably arguably CORBA, etc.)- it just happened to get a lot more traction, and waste countless billions on worthle
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Because Object-Orientation was always a real PITA and not particularly relevant to mapping to real-world problems, despite the fact that that was its initial selling point?
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Actual answer: There is almost NO company that really needs that much data. This has mostly just become a pissing match. In general, companies ( especially startups) are way better off making sure they have a small amount of high-qualit
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A tip we rediscovered a few years ago(it's well over a century old) is that adding a bit of borax to the washer not only helps get your laundry cleaner, but it will make all your laundry smell better, too, since borax/boron is an
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by dublin 5y ago
If this doesn't qualify as Frankenfood, I don't know what does. (This is nearly as scary as unproven, untested "vaccines" intended to provoke a life-long autoimmune response...) Just what the heck is wrong with an actu
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Inkuliati game lets medieval marginalia creatures fight each other(escapistmagazine.com)
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by dublin 6y ago
A bigger problem is that there are fewer and fewer living engineers that actually understand things well enough from first principles to be able to reconstruct a technological society. And the social disintegration (think Minneapolois and
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by dublin 6y ago
No, the difference is we can understand and apply knowledge in different contexts. I'm not saying machines will never mimic that (GPT3 is getting kinda close at times), but as my good friend Dewayne Perry (co-author of the most cited
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by dublin 6y ago
In the real world, most AI is just a bunch of IF statements, anyway, just abstracted away enough that it's no longer obvious.
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It's generally a good idea to avoid more than trace amounts of inorganic foods. Just Sayin'...
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I promise you the AI toothbrushes ARE coming. Just wait...
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Because lying is press releases two days before April 1 is such a good look. The most reasonable conclusion now is that no, this wasn't a joke, but it fell flat, and so they're pretending it was. That might have gone off better
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This is not all that groundbreaking as a calculator, but would be a cool parsing addition to a Spreadsheet.
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The Navy has a strong preference for two engines (and so would you, if you were flying at sea), so the F-16 was never an option for them, anyway...
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The "cheap F-5 clone" called the F-20 Tigershark would have been one of the most capable and cost-effective fighters ever, but it offered insufficient opportunity for graft and corruption, so it was killed by Congress. It was als

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