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by freepor 7y ago
“Can’t hear you Tanner... I’m beachballing.”
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by freepor 7y ago
Ramping up a vacuum cleaner factory to produce ventilators will take much longer than trying to find a design that can turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator. What is solved with a novel design is the repurposing of a product that a factor
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by freepor 7y ago
Well then Dyson can't help, that's fine. But it doesn't harm anyone but them to try, so they seem to be doing the right thing in trying.
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by freepor 7y ago
How can Dyson ramp up ventilator production? Their factories are not set up to manufacture ventilators with completely different materials or tooling. Dyson not only has production capacity for hundreds of thousands of vacuum cleaners, but
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by freepor 7y ago
When you need more than the existing manufacturers can produce, and the alternative (Italy) is to let them die in a hallway, then you might be willing to try anything. If it was my life I’d prefer the Dyson over nothing.
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by freepor 7y ago
At the Olympic level, missing multiple weeks of training in the ~year before competition probably eliminates you from medal contention.
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by freepor 7y ago
Adafruit is a great show-off business for New York City (tech, manufacturing, woman-owned) so even though the PPE angle here is quite dubious the governor and mayor are doing this as a favor.
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by freepor 7y ago
Doesn’t matter, it’s the relationships that count. People from Microsoft eat filet mignons with the top 50 IT execs at every major company. That’s why any turd of an MS product can immediately get tens of millions of paying users.
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by freepor 7y ago
Costco isn’t bound by the Constitution. Their fine print lets them basically do what they want to and if you didn’t want them to have that right you shouldn’t have signed their membership agreement.
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by freepor 7y ago
It’s obviously nuts to take medical advice from Donald Trump. However, some people will do it, which makes it irresponsible to give such advice, even obliquely.
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by freepor 7y ago
Exact quote regarding a drug not approved by the FDA for treatment of the disease: "We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." And: "It may work, it may not work. I feel good about it. That’s all
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by freepor 7y ago
What would the costs look like if the market scaled up by 1000 or 10000x?
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by freepor 7y ago
The flipside is the instant save points like in a NES emulator where because you can restore the stakes are so low. If it's a game where you can avoid death by careful enough play, then it can be fun to have real stakes (time and bored
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by freepor 7y ago
Why do the Kelly brothers have 100x the media exposure of any other astronaut?
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by freepor 7y ago
When the shit started going down in mid-Feb I bought 8 loaves of my favorite bread and froze them. Wish I had spent more time shorting the market.
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by freepor 7y ago
Do you have a link?
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by freepor 7y ago
We have a rotary phone with a super loud ringer that only family can use (have the phone number). It’s super fun for the kids.
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by freepor 7y ago
But why do you assume that someone like you rather than someone like me is in charge here? Statistically there are orders of magnitude more mes than yous. And empirically, it seems as though the people in charge right now are even more cata
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by freepor 7y ago
But there’s a much greater correlation between parental income and other measures you could use to evaluate applicants. Even height has parental income correlation, you can‘t eliminate it completely.
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by freepor 7y ago
I wouldn’t be able to evaluate people well enough to hire the right ones.
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by freepor 7y ago
I mean if you transferred $500 billion to my bank account and said “clone Google” I would not get very far.
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by freepor 7y ago
Twitter helped me realize the scope of this problem while the President was blowing it off. I was able to stock up on food, water, N95 respirators, books, and movies, and prep a bunch of stuff into the freezer. 3 weeks later the SF Costco i
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by freepor 7y ago
In total societal collapse you should be investing in beans guns and water.
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by freepor 7y ago
The value of these metals is largely driven by the same things that drive any consumer fashion, so the gold/silver ratio hitting a new high isn’t any more weird than “hoop earrings hit a 5,000 year high in popularity.”
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by freepor 7y ago
Please donate your discretionary income to food banks and other charities, not business owners.
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by freepor 7y ago
It is, force majeure is a legal concept in many jurisdictions and was not invented by toddlers.
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by freepor 7y ago
But the countries where almost everyone is participating in the production of essentials, and nobody is doing Bullshit Jobs, are the poorest in the world with the lowest life expectancies.
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by freepor 7y ago
Thanks.
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by freepor 7y ago
In the document he specifically says that he killed people to get attention for his manifesto.
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by freepor 7y ago
Yep - the Bay Area actually has a great chance at curbing this because a larger fraction of workers than anywhere else can effectively work from home.

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