imwithstoopid

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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Nope. Get the best minds in the world together and ask for an action plan for salvaging climate within two generations...100% chance it will be some variation of "live like its 1880"
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
exactly, fly all over the world and tell the dirt poor uneducated masses about the dangers of carbon emissions! and then realize the dirt poor uneducated masses already have a low carbon footprint because THEY'RE DIRT POOR
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
live like its 1880 buy stuff as if the garbage man does not exist...in 1880 they didn't have trash removal buy one set of clothes you wear pretty much every day until they fall off of you buy a few tools that will last you forever no m
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
don't lose or break your phone....
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Rich kids at Ivies come from wealthy households that surely consume 5x the fossil fuels as average Americans, and probably 100x the global average Big homes, vacation homes, pleasure boats, SUVs, sports cars, ski trips to Switzerland...I kn
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
you as the seller don't get to "discount" treasuries, its auto-computed (why would it not be? your treasuries are not special, no one has any reason to buy yours over another with approximately the same duration) its a curren
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> But linux assumes you kinda sorta do want to do it. huh?
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
oh Wells Fargo has this too...try them out and you will see why the competition is just fine
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
let's just call this one out - the people on HN who say diet and exercise don't matter are fat and trying to rationalize it
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> The average HN user seems to be a fervent Linux fan maybe at one time, and it might be cool if that were true...but I would say HN is probably 90% fully committed to the Apple ecosystem at this point no different than the general publi
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
> I can rebuild an engine, but I pay a mechanic to do it. I don't buy cars as pet projects. I just want to drive the goddamn thing. this is hackernews, not usernews
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
the high-net-worth customers will be back there was never any real reason for them to bail on FRC, they just freaked out they won't be getting personalized banking from BofA or Wells Fargo the dip on FRC stock will be one of the best b
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Treasuries are the most liquid market in the world, they are basically used as currency at a certain level. You can sell treasuries almost instantly for an instantly computed discount/premium...it's not like selling real estate, t
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
1. If you've been working for 26 years, no one will care about your degree. Finish it if you want, but it's safe to say it isn't going to matter for your job search. 2. A job is just a thing you do to get money. You won'
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
The Iranian drones are definitely not camera toys.
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
obesity...the story tries to pin this on COVID but COVID was mostly a fast-forward for obese people (or old people, or in the worst case, both) there are still some people who think COVID impacted fit people equally...as if it were some ran
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
my point was that the layoff rationalization posts on HN are irrelevant a company can grow profits by moving the top line up or the bottom line down if they can't move the top line up, they will move the bottom line down
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
let's just simplify this so the next few years aren't too hard to figure out why are tech companies laying people off? because they can
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
how can startups absorb all this talent when their fates are hanging by an even thinner thread than bigtech? and how do React devs help a battery startup make better batteries?
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
That when the police aren't coming, you can do what you want
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Russia won the Eastern Front despite suffering dramatically higher casualties than the Germans China smashed the US at Chosin Resevoir despite dramatically higher casualties Ho Chi Minh once said something like "ten Vietnamese will die
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
they're dual citizens, I'm many steps ahead of you
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
even from a purely material perspective, the US would lose little - China will be more than happy to sell us chips from its conquered TSMC labs just like they are happy to sell us everything else (and chips are not a singular strategic issu
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
the owners of Taiwan's capital must be just thrilled to have so many willing mercenaries answer honestly any parents of teens here - would you volunteer your kids to defend Taiwan? I have two 18 year-olds who will be on the first plane
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
oh they are definitely thinking about carriers - specifically ways to kill them China has invested rather deeply in the space of carrier-killer missiles, which are cheap enough to build that it will always be possible and economical to sink
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
they already have a larger Navy and will soon pass us in aircraft while we were blowing up the Middle East, they were building shipyards
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
The gaps in US/China arms will never be closed by startups...no startup is going to start churning out Columbia-class subs or F35s. We screwed up and lost decades on crap like the Zumwalt class, the LCS and numerous other boondoggles t
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
US DoD already makes its own ammo
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
So far, the "defense 2.0" companies seem to be following the path of Anduril - very high grade drones and cams. I'm not trashing them - there is a huge market for military grade observation tech. I'm just wondering when
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by imwithstoopid 4y ago
Apple has no present experience in building big servers (they had experience at one point, but all those people surely moved on) Mac Minis don't count Sure, they are super rich and could just buy their way into the space...but so far t

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