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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I'm surprised it wasn't Amazon buying them. There's bound to be more than a few people that steal from their warehouses.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I've written software for all three, plus most of the more peculiar TI DSPs and 'graphics' processors. I dearly miss all of the crazy ecosystems.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I've watched a couple of giant-box openings on youtube where people buy unsold/returned stuff (and feeling my soul draining through my eyeballs) and decided that the landfill is just exactly where most of this stuff needs to go. P
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
'Best performing assets against inflation' ...here's a list of things that don't work.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I did see a few companies suckered into thinking SGI would amount to anything.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I love this as a business concept. I wish I had had the foresight to get my own dragon hoard. It seems like anything I was ever interested in (and I'm not young) has become a 'collectors' item' in the last few decades. I
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
A hamster wheel.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I just assume that humans and dogs coevolved.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Additional fun occurs when a government official stops by every year to take an inventory of household items. Of course, there's always the problem that a lot of nominal asset appreciation is due to inflation.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Plus you get the fun of defining income. Gross sales of some product? or do you get to deduct it's cost? Is trading labor (for instance, two independent farmers helping each other) considered income?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
A machine intelligence. Just turn yourself off for the trip. Generally I'd say that the notion of a Von Neumann machine is so obvious and so effective that there's something really wrong in our guesses on how widespread intellige
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I expect that trench warfare is a natural side effect of enclosure trench systems used when taking a fortress. Obviously field fortifications are older than that, but I mean the variety that implies firearms and artillery.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I think the French were first.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
and yet I think that Germany runs a trade surplus and largely does it selling hard-to-make things rather than digging stuff out of the ground. Go figure.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It would be interesting to know the mix of degrees produced over time by those schools. My guess is that 100 years ago you largely saw the children of the elite receiving general educations centered around classics, the post-war period wou
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It appears to be strong enough that it is expressed in genetics.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Once you get into the union, it's kinda a cake walk. Knowing people in the highly unionized film biz, getting your next job always seems to be the order of the day so it seems to depend. It actually sounds pretty tough compared to
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Looking back, I think that one superiority of construction over software is that your work has real permanence. Now and again I'll see a very expensive thing I worked on on eBay for a penny on the dollar. Maybe it's time to build
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Goats.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Have you? How did it go down?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I think it would be a cool idea on a vintage car, but is still too expensive.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Impossibly high collision repair costs?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
How much of that is due to faster ambulance/helicopter service, improved emergency room practices?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Fun fact. On export first gen Camaro you could save a few bucks by ordering them with seat belt delete (A48 option).
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
regarding simple cars. I think it's a damn shame that the opportunity for truly simple cars isn't occurring with the advent of mass market EVs. I suppose that ever-increasing safety concerns will push for cars that are more compl
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I was going to say something like this, that products (like a lot of things) are a combination of multiple users' wants, but I'd say that the main problem here is that the implementations themselves are becoming more monolithic. T
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
They use treated sewage.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
vs. a pair of shoes, an acre of farmland, food. I think that Peter Turchin has done long term analysis on this sort of thing. A related article. https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/more-on-labor-supply-w...
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I think I'd rather have them in the backyard on some sort of human-accessible bracketry.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Unless they're fairly near to a city in the desert. Of course, you could argue that cities shouldn't be in deserts.

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