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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
I'm always amazed at the people that think that somehow if the government had not misspent these trillions of dollars on war that it could have somehow effectively spent it on massive health and education projects. The choice here was
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
"game developer"... He created a couple of small time indie titles : DOOM, Quake, with a hobby company called ID software
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
$3 was at least 100, if not 1000 times more than these manufacturers would have ever been willing to pay in license. That was just the license, the technology itself added significant cost, weight and complexity. It's no surprise that
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Anyone paying attention at the time had this information. There is an incredible rewriting of history being attempted. There was a lot of sound evidence that covid started in november or earlier in china and that it leaked from a lab (based
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Here is what will happen with this technology... nothing. The company is an IP play where they have locked up this concept in IP and will try and force it on jurisdictions by various means of legislation to ensure they can get the highest p
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Not that there was any question about whether these companies are monopolies but will this finally be the evidence that causes regulatory action? Haha, of course not.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Ask major forum of internet addicts if internet addiction is real...
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
I really don't understand the antipathy towards systems like this. Even at their worst they are 5 to 10 times safer then human drivers. That's the point. That's the only point that should matter. I understand people want some
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Google hamstrings their tools in anything but Chrome. It's always an "accident" or a "bug" but you can plainly see it only ever goes in one direction. Pull the files down and use something like libreoffice or even w
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Should be 1.4 trillion. This just repeats the pattern, make money doing bad things, pay 10% of ill gotten profits back as "penalty".
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Worse than that plaid places the liability on you so that when their systems get hacked and you lose money it's your fault at your expense for giving them access.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
I understand that your opinion is that vaccines are different from other medical procedures because you are using an ends justify the means argument that you think is valid there. I disagree fundamentally and I do not believe that the gover
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
And next year it will be 2031. I think it is a reasonable position to say that until we have near room temperature stable superconductors there will not be commercially viable fusion. That could be 10 years or that could be 200 years. There
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
It's strange to me that the very same people who are absolutely adamant that the government be kept out of the exam room for some things are now codifying totalitarian requirements for other medical procedures.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
And some people are just dolts. It's just my opinion but I believe he falls into that camp based on first hand interactions.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
One of my big career disappointments was having a meeting with Marc Andreessen with regard to a project he needed us for, not as an "investee". I didn't idolize him or anything before that but I had it in mind that he would a
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Part of the "never own anything" "infinite rent seeking" license mindset. They are dirtbags. Pass.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
"We planned well and have water security for at least one or two generations to come" would get approximately 0 clicks as a headline. News makes money on fear even when they have to make up things to be afraid of.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Nothing more permanent than a temporary increase in government power
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Just wait till the taliban equip all the women with GPS monitored electro-shock collars. The combination of modern technology and maniacal ideology is a new scale of horror as we are seeing in the chinese concentration camps.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Substantially less could be diverted to address that issue. There was much argument over the amount in the delta smelt litigation but probably as little as 1% would suffice for that purpose.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Arizona. 2/3 or more of residential areas have and use grey water. It is a requirement for new construction in most if not all of the counties. Almost all of the water use you frequently see arizona criticized for, fountains, golf cour
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
The majority of colorado water river is simply banked. So in terms of consumption in the scheme of statewide water usage I stand by "drop". Prior to the water bank Arizona consumed about 15% of it's entitled colorado rive
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Every major city in southern california dumps raw sewage into rivers and oceans with regularity. There is too much of it to even keep track of. Here is massive one from not even 30 days ago: https://www.latimes.com/californi
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Since 1980 total water use has declined in the state by about 25% while population has tripled (300% growth). New construction is required to use grey water where suitable and it's waster water makes it back as treated or depending on
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Arizona has a policy of maintaining 100+ years of water (and all new construction must demonstrate that). The phoenix metro area has the most responsible and thoughtful water management policies of any major american city and is a net contr
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
This has been the case in the US for two years. Lots of merchants including some very large one don't really care. Fraud is relatively small in comparison to technology and maintenance costs.
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
Obviously you can't but the point people don't realize is that if you use that same card in store the merchant can link it back to online purchases you made and all your information which they can then package and sell to data bro
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
I recall an investor friend who made a lot of money in the 1st dot com. He moved to nevada according to the law well before his windfall. CFTB hired private investigators to just follow and harass him constantly for almost two years while t
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by hamburgerwah 5y ago
They lied because they knew the penalty would be less than the advantage they gained by lying. Let's have a corporate death penalty and zero out all of t-mobil's investors.

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