forshaper

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by forshaper 5d ago
In what industry do you see regulations slowing down the biggest incumbents while allowing cheaper, smaller, less capable competitors to proceed without that regulation?
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by forshaper 5d ago
a scale?
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by forshaper 15d ago
We're in a county with a coal plant and an oil refinery. Somehow people are more concerned about potential data center pollution.
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by forshaper 15d ago
afaict it all started with taxes, farming, administration, astronomy, & construction, perhaps they could return to seeking results there
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by forshaper 15d ago
Without the certifying board, one might wonder about the nature of problem described.
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by forshaper 15d ago
Consider that parts of yoga were stripped out and implemented for its effectiveness in reducing overuse injuries. Teaching individuals quickly and at scale is a core necessity for militaries. Whether not or it gets used, the US Army usually
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by forshaper 15d ago
I've been using certain slurs as more proof-of-human, and any nuanced thinking that skirts by certain ideologies like Chechens hugging Russian artillery in 1995.
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by forshaper 17d ago
Empirically, a lot of strong extended family & fictive kin systems suggest otherwise. If anything, atomization (weaker relationship bonds) go hand in hand with a lack of what I suspect you would call "abuse." Though I'm g
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by forshaper 18d ago
It is his God-given duty. I'm not sure housing will get in the way of his duty, but there are two options for that. He used to stick to water (God, you see, needs to flood our town to cleanse it), but once he did a lot of damage to com
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by forshaper 18d ago
Like freezing requirements. Definitions of words change over time to suit a winning faction. This was especially dramatic in the last century or so. So for the Analects, it's something like making sure words mean what they meant when t
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by forshaper 18d ago
The older I get and the more old stuff I sieve through, the more I feel I grew up in an environment shaped by short-term persuasions, all added up like different archaeological layers. Every single ideal, value, word, and so on, just market
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by forshaper 18d ago
In our town, a single homeless man has caused millions in infrastructure damage (and 24-48 hr hold ups of utilities) every year. I imagine what one determined, clear-headed individual might do and...it certainly wouldn't take a single
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by forshaper 22d ago
Even with a state sweetheart tax deal, the most populated county in my state gets half of its property tax income from a datacenter. Projection for one in my county looks like it would hit 70%. tbh I'm more worried about the resource c
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by forshaper 25d ago
Incidentally, the Statute of Anne was pushed by a printing guild after they lost their monopoly on printing. It was so unpopular[1] for them to get the monopoly back that they had to pivot and come up with some other way. So they figured th
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by forshaper 25d ago
It's still surprising to me how fast we lost ownership norms, and most seem satisfied with renting the right to be a sort of peasant.
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by forshaper 26d ago
idk, a lot of American doctors I've met seemed to be in it because they like school and stability. Though perhaps a similar scary.
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by forshaper 26d ago
If we consider 2020 the Last Eternal September, we may have a funny opportunity. Previously, the internet allowed us to find refuge. Now that everyone's on the internet, it also happens that fewer people are gathering in-person. So per
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by forshaper 29d ago
Curiously, Richard Fuld, who was the CEO/chairman of Lehman Brothers, now invests in datacenters.
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by forshaper 29d ago
Yeah, few things are as complex for a business in any industry that has ever gotten caught in the nation's political sights. For example, if you provide some sort of VoIP service, there's levels of nested rules that fill books, in
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by forshaper 29d ago
Yes, which is why the 2013 drone strikes crossed a line by openly murdering Americans.
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by forshaper 29d ago
In a much lighter but similar move, Suno is now associating exporting generated music with the behavior of "bad actors."
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by forshaper 1mo ago
Most businesses in the state I live in, as well as the states around me (what someone in SF or NY would call flyover) are handled by a registered agent (trivial, not even in a fee to become an agent in most states, just a valid local addres
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by forshaper 1mo ago
OP specifies that they would prefer opt-in to either side.
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by forshaper 1mo ago
In the US it's going up, but there's partially due to Buy America & certain colossal grant programs.
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by forshaper 1mo ago
the Nvidia gpus on both machines I have Omarchy on worked out of the box
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by forshaper 1mo ago
It's new, noticeable, memorable, and the companies involved (tech) are uniquely unlikable. Incumbents that use more resources in ways that create unwanted externalities are better about doing things more stealthily, and look rather bor
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by forshaper 1mo ago
Some good news is that ISH diagnostics manufacturing can go through 510(k) instead of PMA on Sep 16 onward, which should make those diagnostics 10x cheaper and twice as fast to get through.
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by forshaper 1mo ago
I don't think a price transparency reform would be hard. Other than in terms of political will. We did go part of the way there a few years ago, though it's not common knowledge yet.
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by forshaper 1mo ago
ie, most people cannot name the competitors, who were already in the space
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by forshaper 1mo ago
What I don't understand is, there are plenty of other incumbents that provide a similar service. I suspect Flock uniquely gets the treatment it does due to good branding, fast adoption, and broader association with Silicon Valley.

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