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When Google beat their antitrust suit
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Peter Thiel is going to have to update his list of potential antichrists.
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So sell and buy 10 year bonds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Gold Cost isn't suffering a shortage of landlords.
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The Soviets had a "no first strike" doctrine because they perceived themselves to be the stronger force on the continent. They had a huge standing army and massive numbers of armored vehicles and expected to be able to roll throug
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I own a house in Chicago and my property taxes are much lower than my friends in the suburbs. I live in a working-class southside neighborhood. The people who are complaining about property taxes for SFUs in the city are people in neighborh
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The difference here is a matter of AV technology improvements in the last 40 years.
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Shuttle's tiles not being durable as hoped is what killed it's turnaround time. The problem was never solved and turned what was supposed to be a few days into weeks or months. Every mission the shuttle had to go back into the ass
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> The amazing views of the plasma during re-entry, something never seen live before starship, are now routine. The word "live" is doing a lot of work here. Astronauts used to film the plasma going past the windows of Shuttle. I
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This is a pro-AI piece. They realized they overplayed their hands when college graduates started booing them and their new line is "AI won't replace workers, it will make them more valuable!"
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by jordanb 5mo ago
I dunno I'm on some forums with normal older people and they're much more likely to post AI content from YouTube or paste "I asked AI" quotes from chatgpt or even post their own "prompted GAI illustrations" as
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O'Neill Burke is no more competent than Kim Foxx, and is a member of an Illinois crime family, but she has the support of the carceral state including the FOP. The reality is that Foxx's tenure coincided with (and partially caused
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Buckle up buttercup, a massive fertilizer shortage (from the Iran war) is currently combining with a super el nino (from climate change) to crush global crop yields this year.
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The consequences of relying on grok..
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Even if that were true it'd mean that current AI usage is overshooting actual, productive use by 5x. This is a problem when all the AI projections are that the current state is the minimum and future usage will be 10+x.
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I've been noticing how our economy keeps getting more Soviet as it becomes more top-down. We basically have central planning now with all the pathologies inherent in that system, but unlike the soviets we just have a bunch of guys wh
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Programmers are usually capex to be honest, with current tax treatment. When companies switched from data center to cloud they ended up shifting a lot of their compute from capex (buying servers) to opex (paying a hyperscaler for compute by
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Not really that simple. Opex gets better tax treatment (you can deduct it in full every year) but people aren't always Opex depending on what they're doing (research tends to be Capex) Also tax treatment isn't the only consid
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You may knock this system but it's what made General Electric the company it is today!
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Big wheel keeps on turning
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One cool thing about commercial vehicles is that the CAN bus is all open-spec and fully documented. This is because fleet operators expect to be able to put their own aftermarket components on the bus and manufacturers have to support that.
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Tighter tolerance isn't universally a good thing. It might make the fan more susceptible to damage due to mishandling or dust. They might be selling a fan that has a shorter useful life for no real benefit.
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A lot of it had to do with capability. The TI 92 was considerably more capable than the 83. The 89 had better software than the 92 but with a smaller form factor. The 92+ was the 92 with the 89 software.
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Two engines also give you a lot more options for control surface failures. It's objectively safer and why all commercial airliners are (at least) two engine. But it does require more training for the pilot.
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American workers got uppity. Forgot their place. Started protesting company decisions and wouldn't return to office. Hiring may eventually come back but not any time soon. Workers need to be chastised first.
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You're comparing a cellphone designer with some wins and a lot of losses in his portfolio to Isaac Newton...
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They haven't released a 10k yet so we don't know, but from what I understand SpaceX+X.ai is not GAAP profitable.
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Kinda shocked SpaceX hasn't bailed out the DOGE-holders at this point..
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Ive got way more credit than he deserved. And he had to run all his ideas by Jobs. Once Jobs was gone we got to see Ive's true colors (it was garish pastels and a butterfly keyboard). https://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.co
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Most artists were making way more money off the fans (even those downloading music) via touring and merch sales, than they were making off of the labels from residuals. Most were not making anything from residuals. Valenti was desperate to
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You're taking Jack Valenti at face value. He said "we're here to protect the artists" because the artists were popular and the record labels were not. He was in the business of protecting the labels and screwing the arti

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