johnea

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by johnea 6mo ago
So why would you prefer goggle's "control the user experience" power-tripping, to rivian's? I'd much rather side with the company that was willing to allow the user to disable net connectivity...
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by johnea 6mo ago
It should also be noted that the original route was from: San Diego to San Fransisco The state representative from San Diego was the original proposer of the high speed rail (after returning from Japan of course). Once the crime and graft r
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by johnea 6mo ago
Your understanding of how the route affects the price is misguided. It has nothing (or very very little) to do with how difficult the terrain is to navigate, it has everything to do with who owns the land, and how much they want to charge f
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by johnea 6mo ago
Or, maybe, at some point, the state has to say No, to real estate mafia insider trading? Oh, never mind, that's obviously not going to happen...
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by johnea 6mo ago
If the rail is just routed through minority neighborhoods, I'm sure eminent domain can be arranged... NOTE: The above sentence is referred to as "dark sarcasm" This rail would displace a huge amount of air travel, thus, it&#x
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by johnea 6mo ago
But, but... What about Tom Cruise... on the flight deck... with his bomber jacket!!! This is... UNAMERICAN!!! p.s. This comment is sarcasm. For the unmitigated reality, please refer to your 1950s "duck and cover" propaganda...
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by johnea 6mo ago
This is goggle's version of windoze 11 There's never been a better time to switch to a linux phone...
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by johnea 6mo ago
I still don't see any reference here to Terence McKenna and the "Machine Elves" very broadly experienced under DMT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna#Machine_elves These reports were the firs
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by johnea 6mo ago
> There are plenty of things that are less strong effects that can still trick your mind to believe something that you know is not really true. You mean like, religion?
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by johnea 6mo ago
> Do I belong in tech anymore? A valid question. After 42 years as an electrical engineer and embedded software developer, I chose to retire rather than transition to an LLM based workflow...
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by johnea 6mo ago
"The founding principles of our country": He who has the gold makes the rules...
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by johnea 6mo ago
Great... Decades, and probably trillions of dollars later, we have a really cool fusion simulator. That's awesome. Maybe we can fly it around the moon and take selfies with it! Might as well roll all the high cost pseudo-science into o
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by johnea 6mo ago
The key distinction would be rather or not any Japanese kana are used in addition to the Chinese characters. "Kanji", 漢字, in Japanese literally means "Chinese character". The kana, hiragana or katakana, are only used in
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by johnea 6mo ago
Thank you for the link! Here in San Diego we're still suffering from those removals. New trolley lines aren't installed in a way to serve daily resident commutes, as the original trolley lines did, instead they're primarily o
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by johnea 6mo ago
And while raping children is a very serious offense, it's not nearly as bad as the administration's other practice of incinerating and dismembering them hundreds at a time...
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by johnea 6mo ago
aliens.gov uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.go-vip.co, go-vip.co Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
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by johnea 6mo ago
In an effort to recover the $10B they pissed away on this pointless exercise to allow people to take iPhone photos out of a spaceship window, they should charge $10M apiece for the posters...
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by johnea 6mo ago
It shouldn't be reformed! It should be eliminated... Enforce the 4th amendment!!! Properly interpret the 2nd...
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by johnea 6mo ago
> The Midwest was once criss-crossed by a network of ‘interurbans’, essentially intercity trams. In the United States, these lines have vanished They just "vanished"! Man, I hate it when that happens. You leave a railroad outsi
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by johnea 6mo ago
The current US whitehouse counts moving to France to be able to do actual science as being a deceased person...
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by johnea 6mo ago
> and a steady stream of pacifying media Seems like he also predicted internet brain damage...
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by johnea 6mo ago
Just another symptom that the US is unable to manufacture for itself.
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by johnea 6mo ago
I'd judge IPv8 based on what DJB has to say about it...
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by johnea 6mo ago
What are you talking about? This is how laws are passed in the US 8-/ The private money delivering entity often writes the bill! Which the politician often doesn't even read, just sends to the house from committee for vote...
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by johnea 6mo ago
It's nice to read that machine autonomy is progressing so well. However it only makes it sadder to see human autonomy reaching modern lows... This is especially true within s/w development, where acceptance of external dependencie
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by johnea 7mo ago
I fully agree. A web based UI is superior in every way. This also means you don't have to be running this week's android version to use it, with all the increased surveillance consequences that implies. But, as the article states,
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by johnea 7mo ago
OK, now that I know what "the last step" is, I do agree. First past the post voting is a major impediment to actual democracy, since it makes more than two powerful political parties a near impossibility.. All the other options av
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by johnea 7mo ago
I'm not sure what the last step is, but here's another nice list of people that would make a good president, cosigners of a Sen. Ron Wydon letter, copied from a recent post to HN: > The letter was signed by members of the Democ
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by johnea 7mo ago
Here on HN, this should obviously be considered a market opportunity! I'm considering a startup to make millennial blinders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinders Of course, being an aging boomer, using an 85&quo
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by johnea 7mo ago
Manned space flight is the biggest impediment to space science and exploration, both technically and financially.

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