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by gumby 3y ago
Do we want more of what they do? They don’t have to show a profit — they can continue to lose Korey and get donations. But there’s no need to have a special category.
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by gumby 3y ago
The hike idea of a “nonprofit” is dumb and ripe with abuse. Nonprofits still have to pay payroll, the phone bill etc. Why have someone deciding that they don’t have to pay taxes? They can certainly just show a loss for year after year.
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by gumby 3y ago
I was counseled years ago to be VERY careful about these conversations. You can’t encourage, or come off as encouraging, any employee to exercise or not — if the bet goes the wrong way (company succeeds but empmdidnt exercise or vice versa
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by gumby 3y ago
In those days SF was a bedroom community for Silicon Valley. SF still had a thriving art scene and was worth living in — I made that commute for a while, thankfully carpooling with Larry McVoy. Then in the same dot com boom…well that is we
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by gumby 3y ago
If only. Palo Alto is one of the few cities fighting the state’s efforts in this regard. It’s really shameful.
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by gumby 3y ago
Woah, you sound like Adam Smith (the real one, not the one worshipped by alleged acolytes who clearly never read a word he wrote).
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by gumby 3y ago
Thanks! The GE report linked from the article was silent on this (not particularly important) question.
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by gumby 3y ago
> Today Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and other super zips are exclusively [A slight exaggeration] $500k incomes and up. In the 1960 census records you will find these good neighborhoods occupied with plumbers, painters and other blue collar wo
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by gumby 3y ago
Right, so was V2 S/N 13 not used at Peenemünde and take by the allies to White Sands, or did perhaps GE assign their own serial numbers to the ones they assembled, starting with 1?
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by gumby 3y ago
Thanks. That awful thread would have made a fine blog post. I can’t imagine why anyone would switch that misfeature on.
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by gumby 3y ago
Yes I read that, I was just curious about the low serial number.
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by gumby 3y ago
Supposedly a Singapore company has some orders: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/st-engineer...
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by gumby 3y ago
Not IQ directly, but rather higher fealty to the Qanon joke, a phenomenon correlated to lower IQ
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by gumby 3y ago
Was this the 13th rocket assembled under the GE/White Sands program? Surely the Germans launched more than a dozen of them.
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by gumby 3y ago
You’re reading an AMA in the us with a US immigration attorney of course the questions are about us immigration. If you were in Germany or Australia or even Japan you’d find the web sites and newspapers full of articles about foreigners ant
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by gumby 3y ago
I thought mastodon supported long posts. I thought breaking these things into a chain of tiny links was a twitter pathology.
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by gumby 3y ago
Literally encapsulation of your dependencies, which are provided as compiled modules. We can now call that "a tale as old as time".
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by gumby 3y ago
I strongly recommend "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen The old metaphor of a tree of life has completely broken down with crosslinks everywhere at all levels, far beyond what even Barbara McClintoc
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Commercial wing in ground effect plane (2018)(nextbigfuture.com)
40 points by gumby 3y ago|37 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
Mark, you probably remember this project from your time at Cygnus and maybe you even were involved in it? I sorry I can't remember any more. As we both know MIT gets away with a lot simply due to its deep interdependence with literall
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The Robots Slicing Your Barbecue Ribs(wsj.com)
3 points by gumby 3y ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3y ago
Looks like it.
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by gumby 3y ago
Maybe not in 1860s culture? I don't know, this is just speculation. Mainly because the cost of producing a duplicate letter (for ones actually sent, not this case) was sufficiently high that I assume there wasn't a culture that c
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by gumby 3y ago
> Many feed wagons have strong magnets under the discharge chute.. Even though I understand it's 1/r^2 this summoned a vision of a cow magnetically stuck to the discharge tube at her neck, with the head pushed up and mooing unh
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by gumby 3y ago
Administer no more than an odd number less than 2!
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by gumby 3y ago
For Kerberos, I was a minor foot soldier in the Crypto Wars. Back in the mid 90s, Kerberos was restricted from export due to ITAR regulations (I had thought ITAR was obsolete, but just this year we had trouble purchasing some hardware in t
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by gumby 3y ago
I miss those days, and this kind of writing (I didn't actually touch a computer until '78 and that was a PDP-10). Compare the tone and content to Gate's famous "An Open Letter to Hobbyists": https://en.wi
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by gumby 3y ago
Why? Though in the US I believe freight typically has RoW priority over passenger fleets, in practice on that route I've only seen (/heard) freight at night. I have seen rail deliveries during the day in Redwood city to the port
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by gumby 3y ago
Thanks, mostly these days of course the writer has to also be their own editor :-(. BTW my bit about mining and India's geography: it's not just that the subcontinent is large, and mining is a statistics game, but because it has (
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by gumby 3y ago
An interesting article, though a couple of trivial points bugged me. I suppose it’s due to the death of editors. > a partnership between Kakkar and his partner Sanjeev Pahwa’s cycle-rickshaw company and a traditional tuk-tuk manufacture

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