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by fallingfrog 7mo ago
Yeah at my last job at a larger organization they would occasionally get us all in the big auditorium and start showering us with this sort of language. I would excuse myself to use the restroom then go back to my desk and get some work d
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by fallingfrog 7mo ago
Personally I very much doubt that any civilization would build Dyson spheres in their naive spherical shell form, because the gravitational field inside a hollow shell is zero and therefore nothing would stick to the inner surface and would
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Well the reason people buy bitcoin at 100k is because they think it will someday be worth a million. If it's never going to be worth a million, then it's not worth 100k either.
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Have we looked at nutrition? Economic crises lead to sharp spikes in poor nutrition especially when social safety nets have been stripped back. A generation whose growth is stunted by malnutrition is a plausible outcome of "tough lov
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
My male ancestors died of cancer in their 70's and 80's but my great grandmothers lived to 93, 103, 99, and died in childbirth. I actually remember meeting my great great grandmother when I was 8 or 9 and she was 102.
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Yeah so I realize that at some point manufacturers of hard drives started to cheat and claim 10gb hard drives that were actually a bit less, using a 1000kb megabyte as their rationale, but that's just the marketing team engaging in fal
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Would you put a professional manager straight out of business school with no military experience in charge of a platoon of marines and send them into a war zone? How do you imagine that would pan out? if not, why would you put such a pers
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Yes this is absolutely true. Difficult to impossible, I would say.. my prediction of "2 to 3 years" could very well be totally wrong. The dominant narrative around bitcoin right now is "hodl because in the long term it alw
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
As far as I can tell, bitcoin, having no intrinsic value, is priced entirely by vibes. Right now the vibes are generally negative. The latest bubble of interest has faded. I would wait, the world could become interested again but it may
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
I wonder if he has some kind of dementia brought on by excessive consumption of ketamine? Or perhaps it's just that he has surrounded himself with people who will never tell him no. Sort of like a lot of dictators do where they have
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
I visited Centralia about 20 years ago, I remember that we stopped the car on the way into town because there was a crack going all the way across the road with smoke coming out of it. But we kept walking and found a few abandoned houses a
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by fallingfrog 8mo ago
Any equipment eventually fails. Designing it to fail safe- in a way that does not threaten the human operator- costs money. But a little warning message costs nothing and ensures that the human can be blamed when something goes wrong. T
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
If we do simply print money to make the debt go away- foreign holders of that debt would benefit from being the first to sell for a more stable currency. The last to sell would be left holding the bag, would they not? Wouldn't this c
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
Thats a lovely observation! Very clever.
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
Its a broad strokes overview but id love to see a deeper documentary exploring how this works. If the companies are taking on all this debt, which makes them subsequently implode, who is taking the losses on the loans and why are they stil
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
The line between "falling" and "not falling" is extremely blurry for children- they will often do things like jump around, tuck and roll on the ground, hop like frogs and then scamper up the stairs on all fours and then
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
Yes, I made a few mistakes and I did realize I didn't need the whole extra bit to store 65 possible locations- I just was being a bit lazy. Ba dum tiss. Hmm as a bit field followed by piece order- that would be 8 bytes followed by a v
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
Sorry I was in the car and read the headline and tried to see how I would do it as an exercise. I actually think I undercounted because for the king and rooks you have to store whether they have been moved yet, and for the pawns whether th
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
In my head I count 30 bytes, since all 16 pawns can be underpromoted to a bishop rook or knight.
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
The thermostats in my house date to 1920 when the house was new, and they work just fine. Doesn't sound like the ones in this house will last that long. (Of course mine each have little glass bulb half full of mercury in them, but tha
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
He needs the oil to fuel the military as they invade Canada and Mexico and Greenland. He wants a north American empire. Come back in 3 years and tell me if i was right.
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
What's to stop Russia from simply abducting whoever we install in his place? If we can do it, anyone can. The arrogance is unbelievable.
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
This will lead to a long drawn out guerilla war in the name of oil. Thousands or tens of thousands will die. And trump does. Not. Care. At. All. Neither their lives, or yours or mine, have any meaning to him and his cabinet. They simpl
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
Ha, I instantly read "reverse log taper, 10k ohms".
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
A CEO is just a mascot without the goofy outfit.
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
The autism itself, depending on the person, is often less of a problem than societal expectations. For example- in a world where everyone was red/green colorblind, such a condition would not be considered a handicap. And in a world
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by fallingfrog 9mo ago
My favorite excerpt so far: Case ID #: 50D-NY-302757 Witness Information First Name: Donald Middle Name: Last Name: Trump Age: 70 DOB: Additional Info: Again, just trying to find out the NYPD detective on the FBI sex trafficking task force
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by fallingfrog 10mo ago
As expected, the stupidest imaginable policy. Take all the guardrails completely off, even though the ones that are in place are already toothless. Don't worry, the free market will ensure that everything is turned into paperclips at
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by fallingfrog 10mo ago
One would imagine such a practice to be illegal. But yeah this was my question as well.
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by fallingfrog 10mo ago
"Blacklist" in what sense? Is there a master list somewhere of people not to hire?

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