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by jvm___ 3y ago
Convince someone buying a new iPhone to buy last years model or half the GB of what they can afford. That's the greed that's ingrained in all humans. "Humans take the perceived path of the most pleasure." is true in ever
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Even if you never need to scale it's cheaper to not have to physically maintain your own data center. If all the broken server, building power, building internet, access control, real estate costs... are all handled in the cloud there&
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The 13the floor is a movie for you.
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https://shopgoodwill.com/item/185825793 This would do. $.99 over budget though
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https://xkcd.com/538/
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They couldn't clear dead horses until Sunday as the roads were too busy and crowded...
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Analog tide-predicting machines are fascinating. The tide height is a function of the earth/sun/moon systems. Earth and Moon aren't at a fixed distance from eachother, and neither is the sun, so every day is a unique tide but
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by jvm___ 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/Co4zeAhcmT Here's how much of everything we mined in 2022. Lithium is bottom left corner just above Gold.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/Co4zeAhcmT Iron is on top. Lithium is one up from the bottom left.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Will electricity consume and overtake humanity? Maybe the "they're made of meat" phase is the great filter. Why would aliens speak with meat based organisms.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Ya, that style. The ones from the dollar store for potato chip bags have that nice wide mouth, so it can grab the monitor and then the light rests on the monitor but is kept from falling by the clip. You can clip one vertical on the vertica
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Everything you see that's made of plastic used to be made of wood.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I have two of the crappy 10,000 lux ones that I potato chip chip to stay on top of my monitors in my home office.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Musk had the idea of nuking the polar ice caps on Mars, which we could probably technically do today...
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The crackle of the air moving back and forth during a shuttle launch would be so fast and intense that the friction of the air (near the launch pad) would set the grass on fire.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
<Shocked face looking at normal background with a leading title...>
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Stairs
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by jvm___ 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/hangovereffect/ This sub-reddit is dedicated to people who've noticed this effect for ADHD and probably depression as well. Drinking alcohol somehow causes the same 'reversal&#x2
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Pooping in the woods will be made illegal as it avoids government tracking.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
If you're going for a PhD or researching some obscure, furthest reach study of some mathematical principle and you get stuck. One of the ways to move forward is to hope that Terence Tao finds your topic interesting and can give you a f
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Nuts!
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Ike Ike-a-roomba!
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by jvm___ 3y ago
It feels like we're in the transition phase where parts of the open internet are being "attacked" and dismantled by either AI or simply greedy capitalism. https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I picture you having them all hooked up at once, one-man band style.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The space shuttle was untested in flying over the new year between December and January. It needed a clock reset and they weren't about to test that on orbit.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Rocks and dust, from what we've seen so far are governed by the same rules of physics for their size and composition. Will life obey the same rules?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
We participate in a glo-riders bike ride, so 150-200 bikes/scooters all with various levels of led lights from a strip on your helmet to 500+ synced to a speaker. A bunch of people have Bluetooth speakers playing the playlist of the ri
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Toronto Maple Leafs games too, if you're watching wearing a suit because you're actually using it as a client bribe, then you're not as into the game as you could be.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Is the water I drink the same water I pee? Or does it get taken apart and put back together with different pieces?

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