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by ehvatum 7y ago
Driving on the east coast or west coast, I see hundreds upon thousands of miles of sprawl. Californian sprawl even extends across natural barriers, with houses clinging to steep hillsides, houses built on ridiculously unstable land, houses
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I wonder what the Gantt charts would look like for redesigning the 737 MAX from scratch with new type certificate. First revenue flight if everything goes smoothly: 2065? There’s like a 20% chance Everett will be scoured to bedrock by a tsu
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There used to be some wealth in my extended family and traditionally a huge emphasis on the immense importance of getting a degree. That wealth is gone, spent on useless degrees and vacation homes. This generation, the degreed work in the b
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Some folks with money really are better off hiring a professional parent, if the asshole cycle is ever to be interrupted.
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“FSB's decision to classify the work came 5 years after the EU project ended . The “absolutely illicit retroactive approach … increases the vulnerability” of Russian scientists working in areas that might have military or other sensit
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It's as easy as prioritizing reporting on the world that exist as it is, rather than reporting a world that doesn't exist in order to create the world that they want. At the same time, we have a tradition of grandiloquent socialis
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Today, I’m CNC milling copper bow ties from recycled bus bar that supplied power to a Granite City steel mill arc furnace for decades. I’m hoping the homeless black lady I’ve been slowly easing into doing finishing and shipping shows up. Pe
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One gigantic Perforce repo that achieved such Brobdingagian scale, Google had to roll their own ultra-giga Perforce that properly belongs in a hellish mondo alternate dimension of largeness. “But it’s searchable”, Google says. Yes. By the d
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The market exists to serve us? Cool. But who is providing this service?
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Sure, tariffs are rough in the immediate if your business model is selling cheap Chinese steel to a dwindling middle class. You might even miss your quarterly numbers and donate to Mitt Romney. However, wage growth for the bottom 25% is at
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“We hacked thousands of porn sites and replaced their content with links to our own commercial porno offerings, now that we’re in that business.” -Blackhat Dominatrix CEO Chick
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Fair point. My mind classifies all NYC mayors past and present as being the same entity, except for Giuliani, who gets a special category as "the 911 guy".
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Pleasure boats spewing heavy particulate matter into tenement complexes where asthma occurs at 2x elevated rates, while shore power plugs twist in the wind, unused, and the mayor spends $200mm on political advertising. This reads like scene
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Seems to be a thing that happens at big companies in general. I add —-no-ssl-verify to everything and it saves my ass every single year.
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For this reason, we must glorify not-egoism and those selfless luminaries of Communism such as Stalin and Mao who would otherwise be forgotten. Indeed, the cult of personality where the middle class seeks anonymous salaryman status is the t
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I have a store. People buy food from my store and I use that money to buy food from farmers. Ever since everybody started receiving an equal share of any new money created, farmers have been less interested in selling food to me. After all,
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by ehvatum 7y ago
The time value of money is a sort of aggregated greed, I suppose, and the time value of money is the motivator for finance. But the financial system is also shaped by regulation, and the psychology driving regulation in a democracy is more
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That’s right. The trading desk also uses floats for analysis and regulatory reporting. Actual account balances come through an API that gives us floats, but rumor has it that it’s backed by Hollerith a punch card library maintained by cyber
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My day job is high performance financial model implementation. Floats storing dollar amounts are the norm for predictions. Operating on values that are linear combinations of integer fractions multiplied by irrational constants (such as Eul
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The depth of emotion and immortal perfection of the electronic mind and its entirely self-consistent morality so outstrips human cognition that, frankly, allowing humans a say would be dangerous and foolish. Your history is one of war, stri
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The dead weight of corruption is seen not just in the embezzled funds that we happen to know about. Corruption contaminates and degrades everything it touches. The media, which it abducts to its ends. The political atmosphere, which becomes
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If such a scheme were the only thing allowing you to make a profit, would you appreciate this guy drawing attention to it? In fact, you could protect your operation by submitting numerous tips to tax agencies across the world, causing his b
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The possibility of growth is at least there if Bolsanaro can mitigate the gross inefficiency of government corruption that has plagued Brazil for so long. See Operation Car Wash for the tip of the iceberg. His politics are almost incidental
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You "suicide" everyone with the credibility and potential motivation to expose you, and you use your board-level blackmail influence at numerous publicly traded compaines to establish narratives that associate your political oppon
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Gold can't exactly get more or less valuable over time. It is a rock. We have no practical uses for it. My impulse to point out that it's a very useful metal is tempered by my surprise that only 10% of gold production goes to ap
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While I agree that currying favor with upperclassmen with performance art that pranks all but ingratiator and the ingratiated is a common strategy of whelps, I do find that this example of providing social security numbers has gone too far
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It causes systemd to blow up, but you could try doing your microcode update from initrd. Or just get rid of systemd, run your microcode update, and make some Halloween jello shots to take to the no-systemd party (it's going to be even
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I continue using iPhones only because Android seems so much worse. Text messages in various character sets work fine on my iPhone, but Android users still get garbage if I include a Cyrillic snippet. блять!
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That was my PI's response to my own similar exhortations when I tried to sell him on using ZMQ in the laboratory context for coordinating control and data passing for time series data gathering scientific experiment equipment, so I did
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Everyone knows that RMS is a bad houseguest and socially awkward, and women use plants to keep him away. It is known.

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