lobotryas

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by lobotryas 6y ago
How do you not see that businesses are run by people too? If their business suffers (rental or otherwise) they suffer just like you would if you were laid off.
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by lobotryas 6y ago
When someone wishes to use prison they are just voicing their frustration at perceived injustice. Same reason some people want to send bankers to prison despite no court having proved their guilt. The real challenge is that the tools availa
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by lobotryas 6y ago
Exactly. Same reason why they offer free engravings.
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by lobotryas 6y ago
The other important differentiator is the OS. I can’t (reliably) get MacOS on a Dell laptop so my choice is clear: either keep using the MBP I have or upgrade. At this point I don’t want to go back and try re-learning Windows.
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by lobotryas 6y ago
Why did you create a throwaway for such an innocuous comment? Are you very afraid of downvotes?
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by lobotryas 6y ago
The key to taking a drug through trial is having enough cash for the trial and for your company to survive the time it takes to complete the trial successfully. Remember that said success is not guaranteed and you might have to write off ye
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by lobotryas 6y ago
I like your sentiment, but it conveniently forgets the significant amount of bloodshed and instability that usually occurs when one such regime collapses. Just look at Libya. The West got rid of Gadaffi and the country went from stability u
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by lobotryas 6y ago
Why would they be unprofessional? Because media demonizes the industry as destroying the Earth and raping the environment? Petroleum engineering/science is very hard; people don’t make it through that by the seat of their pants.
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by lobotryas 6y ago
I don’t see why you had to call him out. “REAL TIME” is also an engineering term with a strict definition. If You paid me for a real time stock ticker and you later found out it had a delay of a second or two you would want a refund.
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by lobotryas 6y ago
I don’t understand why AI or a search engine had to meet your or anyone’s expectations for diversity. If I searched for “shirt” and didn’t get shirt pictures in the color I wanted I would just tune my query instead.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
No, not “lots of people”, I don’t see anyone saying that. Given that it’s factually impossible to lock down the economy for a very long time we need conditions where the hospital system retains enough capacity to handle the really sick peop
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Are you asking if there is evidence that it was intentionally wrong reporting? No, AFAIK there was no such evidence. Are you asking how, in good faith, such a factually wrong story could have made it to publication? We also don’t know. Are
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Also no munitions. Unless you are worried about info leaks to China (who else is sophisticated enough to take advantage of it?) I’m not seeing your concern.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Why not? As a civ you can buy even a decommed tank if you got the money and stomach for beurocracy. The trick is buying ammunition for them and also undoing some decomm work that requires expertise and equipment.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I am enjoying exploring your blog and reading old posts. Hope you and your family are well and that you will be able to return to posting on your blog soon.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
The WHO is in China's pocket and is doing the bidding of CCP. Their advice is not to be trusted.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
To be fair sometimes the security team is wrong or being over protective. There has to be a balance because it’s too easy to think of “what if” , Mission Impossible style, scenarios that have no hearing on the real world.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Agreed. The name NVC reminds me of the DPRoC. A country that is, unfortunately, neither democratic nor of the people nor a republic.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I’m just going to say that we got man on the moon without NVC. Pretty sure we can cobble together CRUD sites without NVC either. NVC is just kore Corp-speak meant to shut out people who can’t or don’t want to participate in this obfuscated
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by lobotryas 7y ago
That doesn’t address OP’s point at all.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Sp you typed all that, but what exactly are you actually saying? It feels like you wrote a message in code.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
But see, unlike Mr Evil, Bezos is competent.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I wonder how the US military is preparing or dealing with Corona. We have multiple active deployments and need to maintain a fairly robust military readiness. Soldiers often live very close together. Imagine an entire regiment being sick an
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I used to laugh that Kraft singles were labeled as “cheese product” instead of just, you know, cheese. Now I can appreciate Kraft for their “honesty” (even if it may have been mandated by law). Still don’t buy their products, but I don’t h
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by lobotryas 7y ago
You are missing Balzac’s point. He is saying that it makes boring people more productive; not more interesting.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Pretty sure that’s because google got hit with a lawsuit about hot linking. DDG will suffer the same fate once they get big (and rich) enough.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
That’s not google’s direct doing. Google sells ads relevant to searches so you as a company want to buy ads on your name to prevent a competitor for doing the same. Imagine a competitor bought did that for tour company. Your business would
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by lobotryas 7y ago
There’s a difference between reading for pleasure and for extracting some information. Some people might read this article for pleasure and that’s fine, but for most they just want the bare facts. An executive summary, if you will, because
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Absolutely is a hot piece. Look how they went out of their way to mention that Musk is a billionaire (is that even true?). Hating on billionaires - so hot right now.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
True, but for some people (not me though lol) if the media is not dropping bombs like “genocide” or “holocaust” then they are lying and enabling the CCP.

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