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by greedo 3y ago
I have never had a blackout in my midwest state since I moved here in 1995, other than a local city blackout where parts of the grid were affected by early snow that downed power lines in roughly 25% of the city. What sucks is that due to t
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by greedo 3y ago
The US doesn't have any military bases in Pakistan...
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by greedo 3y ago
I once took the hydrofoil ferry from Seattle to Victoria, BC. It was fast, but it was still a 2 1/2 hour trip. Not sure what that ferry used for propulsion, but I assume diesel.
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by greedo 3y ago
I thought Apple intended to do that but found out the a lot of the tech was patent-encumbered.
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by greedo 3y ago
Sounds like you're just guessing what "a regular company" would do. The company I work for, as boring as any "regular" company, was buying M1 MBPs with 16GB and 512GB two years ago. For anyone who preferred a Mac to
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by greedo 3y ago
I had rectal cancer at age 40. There were no indications that my lifestyle caused or contributed to it. I rarely drank, didn't do drugs, etc etc. I might have had a genetic predisposition, but who knows, cancer is a complex thing. If I
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by greedo 3y ago
Worked 16 years for an owner-operator in Southern Cal. Every time min wage was increased, the number of hour permitted was limited so that total payroll remained the same. So sure we might not have had layoffs, but we definitely had less pe
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by greedo 3y ago
I've found treating mentors the same as friends can work. Keep in contact via whatever means you used during your internship (email/chat/voice). It can be a balancing act where you don't want to be a leech, only taking a
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by greedo 3y ago
I'm on the tail end of my career (hopefully), so I can share some unsolicited advice for younger workers. 1. Remember who you work for. Yourself. Not your boss, not your grandpa who always wanted you to become a writer. You only have s
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by greedo 3y ago
I did the math a couple of years ago, and it came out to roughly $100k per podcaster. This has obviously dropped off significantly the last year with ad sales in general tanking.
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by greedo 3y ago
I would say that Apple has already won against Android. Android may have more units world-wide, but Apple owners spend more, are more desirable customers etc.
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by greedo 3y ago
Yearly? That's crazy. I had yearly colos AFTER I had rectal cancer, but now I'm on the 10 year plan. I can't see yearly being both cost-effective and safe.
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by greedo 3y ago
So here's my story... Age 39. Presented to family GP with rectal bleeding. He did no exam, pretty much dismissed it as a hemorrhoid. Age 40. Complained again to GP that bleeding was continuing (sporadically). GP finally decides to refe
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by greedo 3y ago
Just don't plan on drinking that flavor of Gatorade again. The association with miralax etc will ruin it for you forever.
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by greedo 3y ago
One benefit of a "proper" colonoscopy is that the scope has a little wire that's used to remove polyps. Polyps have a high chance to progress to tumors, so nipping them in the bud is a good idea. Can't do that with a pil
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by greedo 3y ago
People really shouldn't get tested unless they meet several criteria. Obviously any bleeding from your rectum should get checked out, and if hemorrhoids are rules out, a colonoscopy is probably the next course of action. And around 45,
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by greedo 3y ago
ANY blood deserves to be checked out.
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by greedo 3y ago
I had rectal cancer 18 years ago, and part of my followup was annual colonoscopies for the first decade. So I'm pretty familiar with the procedure, at least how my thoracic surgeon performed them. Yes, the prep can be unpleasant. I tol
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by greedo 3y ago
Where are you getting $5K for a 30mm round? Russia still hasn't destroyed any Gepards yet, so I don't see why they'd be able to successfully attack Skynex. And Russia hasn't shown any ability to "swarm" anythin
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by greedo 3y ago
We've already had a swat team use a robot to kill someone using a small explosive charge. Maybe let's not head right to Cyberdyne before we address institutional issues in law enforcement before we get even more droids asking us f
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by greedo 3y ago
Safety concerns? Ha! Cops would have you believe that LEO is the most dangerous job in America, but it's not even in the top 10. Some cops may be afraid of getting shot, but consider that for every cop killed, cops kill roughly 21 citi
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by greedo 3y ago
It's important to remember that all of the videos on YT only show successful attacks. Ukraine is reportedly burning through 10k drones a month . Russia was terrible at almost all phases of the invasion during the first year, but has r
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by greedo 3y ago
Watch the four million videos on YT that come from Telegram, and follow the OSINT crowd on X.
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by greedo 3y ago
Most of the AA systems coming on line can easily handle a swarm of 15 drones. Watch a video of Skyranger with proximity fuses wiping the gnats out of the sky. The problem is that each system can only handle a small area of the battle front.
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by greedo 3y ago
The best way to counter the smaller UAVs that operated with roughly a 6k-10k range is via EW. Jam their control links and they either land right where they are or RTB. Either way they're out of the picture. Unfortunately, that also ten
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by greedo 3y ago
Based on the behavior of many police departments in the US, I wouldn't put as much faith in your assumption of political control. From the "Blue Flu" to how many departments behaved both during the BLM protests and during COV
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by greedo 3y ago
Has Musk, Shotwell or anyone at SpaceX ever said that this was the case? I haven't seen any sign of this at all. And again, if Starbase was just for prototyping workflows, there's no need for two Megabays.
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by greedo 3y ago
The facilities at Starbase are far more than prototyping facilities. If that were the case, they wouldn't have needed a Megabay and be almost completely finished building a second. They would have just stood pat with the High Bay etc.
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by greedo 3y ago
They've pretty much scrapped their initial plans to use old oil platforms for launches, and the size of a barge needed to launch (and retrieve the first stage) would be tremendous. That idea is a complete non-starter.
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by greedo 3y ago
Sure you could ship by barge. It's just that SpaceX has never said that's the plan. Looking at the expanding factory footprint at Boca Chica, it's obvious that this isn't just a test facility, but a production facility.

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