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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   The top 3 graphs are all you need: "Growth in productivity and hourly compensation since 1948" "Real GDP, Real Wages and Trade Policies in the U.S. (1947-2014)" "Real family income between 1947 and 2016, as a percen
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   Since which time this has been fully forseen.
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   There is no mathematically sound explanation for that. It was plain to see Nixon's purpose was to destroy unions at the time. And it had to be an overwhelming salvo, or there could be no guarantee it would outlast his crooked regime. T
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   I agree that capitalism and democracy have nothing to do with each other. But I still think a capitalist who is a threat to US democracy is not a good capitalist. Not good for democracy, not good for other capitalists and/or entreprene
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   Isn't there more than enough code already? I'm being paid whether I write code or not, so there is that.
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   It's the equalization that had the kids thinking 78 was so obsolete & bad sounding compared to our 45's and the upcoming 33's back in the early 1960's. Naturally it was all the fault of the RIAA. By that time almost
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   Without computers, or at home away from the mainframe, we really had slide rules for just about everything you would need to routinely calculate. A lot of them are sponsored or provided by corporations or trade associations, TRW provided th
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   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   Yup, looks to me like there was a really hot 20 Km circle in the desert for a little while there almost 30 million years ago. And the silica sand melted down and resolidified as a glass which has inclusions that could be meteoric material.
9. 4719.▲
   by fuzzfactor 6y ago

   This is already glass so I would want to prepare representative samples of pure material for direct exchange between laboratories without anyone having to use KBr pellets as spectroscopic windows.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knoxville_Girl It's quite grim but one reason so many nearby mountain folk have always been familiar with it might be if there were so few settlers in the mid 1700's that a s
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Mining is unclean and they already have an operation where the best money is made from oil that comes out of the ground by itself after the well is drilled. Here they are drilling into electricity reserviors and also taking their cut as it
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    >propping up mindlessly ambitious self important people >look for entrepreneurs who actually know what they are doing Um, with enough capital they usually make money either way and guess which kind are easiest to come by.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Who needs fecal transplants when you've got splashback from shared toilets?
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    I used to connect terminals to this kind of benchtop data system: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4j03d056k The first multi-user multi-tasking computer that would fit on a _desk_. 1MHz, 16K of 32bit memory. We
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Time-release to begin with was the strategy to re-patent a prescribable habit-forming API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) whose underlying patent itself had already expired. Turned out to be even more of a gold mine since the FDA approve
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    >What makes a startup idea viable? The resources behind it.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    >Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6B My shares would jump too.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    In the 1990's there was a communication protocol named VideoLAN which was apparently intended to send video over ethernet faster than regular ethernet would do, I found it used in professional print mastering where the large-format pri
19. 4729.▲
    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    A successful corporation performs its mission smartly and reliably. This may or may not include specified behaviors, tasks, growth, marketing, sales, profits, goods, services, employees, competitors, etc. Even corporations without any share
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    At ASTM, overcoming those type of problems with complete consensus, then independently publishing and maintaining the resulting Standard Specification into the next century or beyond is just an everyday (everyyear actually) occurrence. That
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    FAT32 patents are now fully expired, making it the most compatible filesystem for which any new devices should support at a minimum, from this point forward. Most likely the best approach for NTFS is to standardize at ASTM where Microsoft c
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Bingo. You just have to find the correct pair. Doesn't actually matter how old or young they are, just that they don't actually need more experience than you could get from two top-performing 22-year-olds that could easily make mo
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    I have to figure there were a few textile mills in cotton states that were operating before the Civil War using slave labor. This could be run like a regular factory with bookkeeping techniques where labor cost was certainly not zero even t
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    I think in a Jevon situation where there is a game-changing technology jump in a consumable commodity, there will be pent-up demand being expressed at the same time better efficiency means prices can decline and profits can rise simultane
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    >this wrecks companies and economies alike I don't think it has to be this way, there was once more structural soundness. A good reason to get more consistent with terminology where the capital in capitalism actually just means &quo
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Create a larger separate storage partition for all valuable data, then move all valuable data from your C: volume to sensible folders which you create there. Redirect the future data generated to the same or additional folders on the storag
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    Could be the spark to build a cottage industry which can preserve the gasoline or diesel models of the early 2030's for as many decades as possible after that. In 2130 these will be the still-roadworthy Model T's of today.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    >Is There an Ideal Amount of Income Inequality? I think it could be when no one is actually working against equality.
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    If the new CTO is so great he'll be moving up & out eventually and by then you can (re)fill his shoes better than he did the whole time. If he's not so great you'll exceed his abilities after a while and become truly more
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    by fuzzfactor 6y ago

    I think this is very realistic when technology risk is involved in a field that is always going to be capital-intensive, it's so different than software you've got to start with more. But $400,000 is a lot of money so the confiden