kingsuper20

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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Being nit-picky, there's no such thing as a Nobel Prize for economics.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> No politician could possibly admit it, but geopolitically, temperate climate countries are going to be net beneficiaries and will need to protect themselves from tropical and sub tropical countries. In the case of Europe and Africa, I&
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> Wait I thought outlier weather events like blizzards and heat waves weren't indicators of global climate as the media so likes to lecture about when it's not in favor of their narrative. It's probably fair to hold two id
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> In my experience, SMBs don't hire expensive software engineers. I've definitely seen that at the 'S' end of the scale. Programmers who have been there for years, often with no formal education, the codebase looks li
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It's weird that urgent care clinics aren't parked right next to the ER and that the urgent care clinics aren't 24x7. No doubt this occurs sometimes but I've never seen it. Anecdata. My wife says that most people at the
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Developers who are entrenched enjoy the fact it is hard to get a permit. Imagine how much a developer with Coastal Commission expertise could charge. That's probably a specialty in itself.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Copyright doesn't just benefit huge corporations. For instance, without it, independent artists who rely on copying for distribution (authors, musicians, etc.) would find it much more difficult to make money off their work, That do
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Personally, I think that voting is ridiculous, but I see the point. It's one of the strongest methodologies for making a discussion board addictive. I think an interesting feature to add would be to have peoples' user areas show h
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
The amount of gray posts in censorship threads always cracks me up. Please go on.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It could be that part of the problem is that you only see their public persona. Start adding all the weasel words to imply that you think that something is 73% likely to be mostly true and you lose an audience Everyone (well, most everyone
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> Antitrust is pretty much dead from what I can tell It has just been defined to mean 'thing that harms consumer prices'.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I don't doubt that part of the pronunciation problem is the deeper meanings that creep in. 'CAESAR' sounds positively German and Legio VI Victrix has an effeminate sound. I'm afraid that Biggus Dickus had at least a lit
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I like the idea of building massive apartment complexes in the Bay Area. It was a PITA place to live 30 years ago and it's worse now The thing is, if we can build giant ant mounds in just a few places it'll save the central coast
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> How many times do people need to be burned by closed-source, cloud boxes before they learn to stop buying them? Probably when their thermostat turns off during a heatwave.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Downvoted and I still don't know what the '+' is. Some sort of gender or kink letter? Code for a cyborg? Programming language?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Maybe we don't need contraception, we just need predators.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Offhand I'd say that you are doubling the plumbing system plus you are using a much more corrosive fluid. It would be an interesting experiment, since toilets use a great deal of water. Take a beach town, build a separate pressure wat
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
In that case, the value of a thing is not it's physical reality but it's provenance. I guess it's no different than the high value given to a lot of 20th C. art, it's just another form of marketing. Maybe this bodes well
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
When I had to deal with some small tendril of IBM, I think the anti-trust suit was still in the works. It probably scarred their dealings with other companies to the same degree that their dominance did.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It seems to me that any system predicated on population levels over the pre-industrial standard are a sketchy proposition. Even at the pre-industrial level, the environmental load has been high. Mediterranean goat deserts, death of large P
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I'd say that the main value of an over-complex tax code is to provide a moat for larger companies.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>I sometimes wonder if our level of technological advancement would even be possible without fossil fuels. I don't. I'd say that fossil fuels were absolutely required. Admittedly there was a ramp-up due to water-powered manufa
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Thank goodness governments have always had a reputation for just behaviors. If you cut to the chase and give them unlimited powers all sorts of moral improvements will take place.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>friends at a large dinner. You might as well jump straight to a conspiracy charge.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Back in the Thinkpad era, IBM had a lot of cool stuff going on. But now it seems like a shadow. I remember their stuff from the pre-Thinkpad era. Quite a company. Working for both a large competitor and for a small company that was tr
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>You're right that it removes some (honestly perhaps most) of the craftsmanship that comes with creating art. Perhaps art, going forward, is simply described as the process, not the result. I don't doubt that a computer could (
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>I am pretty sure if you had to get your water from one of these devices you would not be using it to flush toilets or other non-essential use. Are you suggesting that toilets, showers, washing machines use salt water?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
The average US citizen uses 82 gallons of potable water per day.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> When is the public going to realize the O&G industry is quite possibly the worst conglomerate that we have ever seen. From an ecological standpoint, I'd tend to agree. Without them, we'd still have a sub-one billion human
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Clickbait title, it sounds like it's some huge movement, but I take their point. It seems to me that the underlying issue isn't some sort of highly predatory company (Amazon in this case), a lot of them are or were. The main trick

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