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by esseph 1mo ago
These are called intrusive thoughts. I have learned about these through a family member with ADHD. With ADHD, you can have the dual problem of both the wandering, intrusive thoughts, with sometimes the lack of impulse control. It can be rea
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This seems largely country dependent with some exceptions. In the US, once upon a time, elementary/middle/highschools might be attached to something like schoolname.district.state.gov. But now, even my local area school now has a
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by esseph 1mo ago
When you operate in the attention economy, you have to keep pumping out slop to keep visibility in the algorithm.
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A lot of those places already have long term contracts and rights locked up.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> Btw Antigravity is the worst of all environments. No money for the braindead. Well, bring your money elsewhere, to small joes instead. What kind of "small joes" are training LLMs???
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They've all been taken down or blocked to my knowledge. The Nitter folks got a C&D legal letter. This was a few days ago, maybe a week ago.
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Ad injection or prepping for ad injection.
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by esseph 1mo ago
I mean... https://www.war.gov/ I get what you are saying, and you're not exactly wrong, but... If I called it DoW, people get mad and point it out. If I call it DoD, people get mad and point it out. And if I put both?
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by esseph 1mo ago
> A few trillionaires There has only been one of those in history, and he is no longer one.
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by esseph 1mo ago
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/china-africa-and-the-... China is on track to control around 81% of global spodumene refinery production by 2027.
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Datacenters need batteries too, and they're drawing a BUNCH of power these days. 1 rack can now easily use as much power as 100 US homes (120kw), with some rack designs pushing to 200 and 300kw.
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Followup: The PMCs that Erik Prince has are primarily doing oilfield and oil worker protection in places like Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Same for mining facilities. https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive
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US SOCOM also just pulled out of Nigeria. The rumor is that this is becoming politically sensitive, so the US DoW is turning things over to none other than Erik Prince (Blackwater, Xe, etc). Nigeria is an important source of minerals, for e
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> It's unclear to me how folks with a university education can make such simplistic statements. Because a "University Education" doesn't shield one from being ill informed, or simply wrong about a topic. I mean, did y
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By the way... > A professional army brings contractual obligations for any received benefits (e.g. education), which makes disobeying objectionable orders a question of dealing with existentially threatening consequences (e.g. debt). The
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I'm in the "what could 1 more turbo hurt" stage ;)
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> Highways, rail tracks and the ports are quickly operational again. That's my point. Have drones drop explosives on the LA freeways for a week and see what happens. It does a tiny amount of direct damage. But the fallout , politic
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> For the same reason, cheap drones favor the defender IMO. Disagree completely 1,000,000% For a few thousand dollars, you could attack a major highway or rail network or port a few times. The cost to defend would be astronomical compare
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I technically still have a 9-3T in the garage.. with the engine sitting next to it...
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Drones are the number one killer between all weapons deployed in Ukraine. More than artillery or airstrikes.
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I would be willing to try a Saab 4dr EV... Or just bring the 9-3 Turbo back!
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Amazing, kind, intelligent individual that was part of tons of kids morning routines growing up.
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> Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior. Bots and scrapers and hackers also try and avoid being tracked, which
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> I would also advocate closing the on-prem generator loophole by classifying on-prem power generation services as belonging to or leased from local utilities, Congrats, now all power generation is owned by the power company, including y
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> But who wants high speed internet at a festival? A shocking amount of people
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Before when you had a startup it was because you had a passion and an idea. Now the passion is the idea of the startup and a big exit. Totally different groups of people.
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> When you read about people coming to California in the 60s and 70s (and somewhat in the 80s), it had that same magical quality that Burning Man had in the early years and has suffered the same kinds of changes. I wonder what the 2026 e
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> Being able to work more quickly is pretty much the definition of productivity. Wrong. You can dig a tunnel that fills in and kills you. You can drive in a huge circle to get not the house next door. You can kick out 1M lines of code a
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It's still around and in use a lot of places, but that means you actually have to have an engineering culture at the company and less of an entrenched MBA type. https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
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> placed on the do not trust list?? who places them on this list? The President of the United States, or members of the Federal Government that have the various levers of power. > and why do you listen to the people who place them the

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