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by jleyank 1y ago
They must want to shift to a lease car model, as I can't imagine people actually purchasing something that merely entitles them to start renting features. And the software better not be hackable or breakable or they're going to g
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by jleyank 1y ago
I guess they could (will?) argue that there never was any COVID virus, as it was all a mislabeled or misidentified or non-existent disease. This would make the only source of those dangerous spike proteins the mRNA vaccines themselves. Wh
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by jleyank 1y ago
Maybe billionaires pay less tax, but companies seem to be taking it in the shorts from tariffs. Unless, of course, they push them onto consumers.
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by jleyank 1y ago
How about “man gets bromine poisoning after taking ChatGPT medical advice”?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Note that the f15 and f16 are still in production. It’s going to come down to the missile and support radars not the platform, and how many you can loft vs the threat. For most applications as it were, these birds and their counterparts ar
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by jleyank 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886930 Being cute with multiple submissions?
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by jleyank 1y ago
And the language is … ? Is this BLISS?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Naively, you have two options when presented with an arbitrary yet enforceable rule. Do as required, or don't participate. This dichotomy answers the "why do we agree" question... If we want to stand on the other side of t
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by jleyank 1y ago
Lysenkoism... Since the world is 6K years old and we have the Bible, what's left to fund? We have all the answers and what we don't know can't be known. Cue St. Augustine.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Perhaps the lesson out of this is to avoid purchasing or relying on devices that require third-party involvement to work. Yeah, a fitness watch that you’d use for a few years is fine but a house thermostat or lighting system isn’t somethin
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by jleyank 1y ago
Not sure what countries need with a small number of (very expensive) stealth fighters. They're not needed to enforce one's airspace or check out wayward airliners. They're too few in number to stand up to a serious invasion
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by jleyank 1y ago
These kinds of analyses were done back in the 70's and 80's as I recall (Linear Weights, other SABR-published decade corrections, ...). But I guess if you wait long enough you can republish?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Ontario fast food minimum wage, $17.20. California’s $20. And the cost of living there is higher. Our fast food places, and whatever you call the next tier is doing just fine - the damn things are everywhere. Hard to find something that’s
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by jleyank 1y ago
While people talk about affordable housing, they're not really in having it appear anywhere near them. Nobody wants to see their house value go down. Nobody wants to be inconvenienced. Few want more people underfoot, with those few
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by jleyank 1y ago
Hell, they're not going to collect much in elevated pharmaceutical tariffs if they things the stuff is voodoo and won't import it. European and Asian companies don't have to worry about losing a market that's moving awa
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by jleyank 1y ago
Post-covid, there seems to be more pet give-backs as people realize they don't have the financial or time resources to take care of them. So shelters are swimming in the things (as far as I can tell). If they're going to be put
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by jleyank 1y ago
Boomers are in their 60’s and up. Covid took some away, certainly their jobs. People who still had a pension took it and are gone. Social starts up ok at 62-63 if you’ve done ok saving. And judging from the typical ageism we all discuss
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by jleyank 1y ago
Along with various medium to large cargo planes and the world's supply of flagged cargo carriers. I'm not sure there's that many "troops and other things" that require more transport, maybe heavy ammunition. Most
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by jleyank 1y ago
Don't forget, the US is the lowest-taxed Western country, so they have lots of room (and lots of inherent wealth) to tax. Whether they have the political will to do this, or the political will to reduce Defence Spending is an open que
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by jleyank 1y ago
Over the decades, I've found that my debugging success requires me to be (somewhat) rested - it's waiting for a spark, which I guess makes it similar to creative activities. No spark, no ah-ha moment and it's a slog. Thinki
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by jleyank 1y ago
No but I can imagine a world where smart devices and smart phones don’t require 3rd party intermediaries to handle data transfer (and thus monitoring). There a hell of a lot of recessing power and storage available locally and packets can b
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by jleyank 1y ago
Their X/OpenGL support has also been in stasis for 10 years or more. There’s not enough money taking over for SGI to move their needle.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Way too dense to read but earlier authors (including james Burke on video) pointed out that much of the Greek/ancient knowledge rediscovered in the renaissance came through Umayyad Spain where Jewish, Muslim and Christians interacted,
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by jleyank 1y ago
I thought the Onion gave up as they could not come with satire anymore. People kept thinking it was real news or commentary.
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by jleyank 1y ago
The population is shrinking. The economy is stagnant. Unless you're talking about volcanic activity, how is Japan "growing"?
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by jleyank 1y ago
Fox News. Supposedly they love the thing, although it gets a bit left-wing radical at times.
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And balanced. Don't forget balanced.
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See Post, Washington to see what "dependent on the largest donor" is revealed to be.
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Overly broad title - the rule of "law" is doing just fine at lower levels. Just ask anybody with excess melanin or X chromosomes how the law's doing... At the highest level, no, there's no law at the moment, only whim&
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by jleyank 1y ago
Your scarcest resource is time, and you don't know how much you have to spend. And burnout is real - before you advocate having no diversions in life, imagine what happens when it occurs.

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