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by m0llusk 2y ago
It isn't dumb so much as desperate. Their preference is to supply troops with trucks, but they have lost a huge number of trucks and use many of those remaining as troop transports on the front line which also speaks of desperation.
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this thread is making me very hungry
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Reminder of the developer's maxim: A beautiful building is a fully rented one.
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No, this has had extensive research. Patents slowed down both inventors and industries deploying new technologies. The story that it would enable a period of time for direct profits turned out to be false. There is more to be made by sim
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pick up that can, heh heh heh
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That was a classic. They should have pivoted to comedy.
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When I was a little kid I had a school psychologist give me the marshmallow test. It was extremely awkward because their assumption was the same as used throughout this article, that the marshmallow represented a strongly tempting treat.
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Nearly any petrochemical derived polymer can also be constructed from plant sugars. Much of this has been known for a while and the real question is how to scale these processes industrially and integrate them with existing supply chains f
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Makes me imagine coming up to the hindquarters of a bull with a waffle machine on an extension cord.
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Still trying to finds words for this, but living in the San Francisco Bay Area and dealing with a lot of tech developers it is shocking how many people have great tattoos, great clothes, great jewelry, great accessories, and yet all it take
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Inspiring in many ways, but also troubling. These people would have used fire for heating, cooking, and crafting, but there is no smoke. Depictions of ancient peoples that delete critical elements are troubling, distracting, and misleadin
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Bad service for good money is a scam. Stay away would be my best advice.
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Experimented with something like this for a while. Translate a kind of plain language into Javascript. Once that is done then alternative languages can be used, translated into the plain language, then into Javascript. The problem I came
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Worked with some of the teams making the first iPhone and bringing the Internet to everyone in a pocket sized slab was way more than a job it was a dream. Didn't turn out quite as expected, but this idea that work is only that is in m
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by m0llusk 2y ago
Alternatively the real lesson here is to put less effort into coding and engineering and more into organization. Small groups that handle entire business verticals are the future. Modern tools and machine learning can enable small groups
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The thing is that unlike political science, virology is an actual science. Scientists have found little evidence of coronavirus at the labs and there is record of them failing even to culture the virus which would be required for any resea
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by m0llusk 2y ago
It's peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts of meat with butter and cheese. All of those are prime products with historically limited availability. Much of the diet would be tendons, tripe, organ meats and other
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by m0llusk 2y ago
The wokeness essay was long, hard to process, and still vexes me and makes me wonder if there were any specific triggers involved. One of the parts that most leapt out at me was the question of what would activists worry about after the Ir
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Happiness is also problematic as it tends toward the shallow and unsatisfying.
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Psychiatry has some of the worst reproducability of any science. People who are forced to live on the streets without good access to services begin to exhibit symptoms of psychosis within one to two days and lose those symptoms after a sim
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Salt Lake City is about to be devastated by the drying up of the lake.
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Don't forget the mud slides and earthquakes, but yeah.
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"Dwarf Planet" is probably a good compromise given the ongoing controversy of Pluto's status and most appropriate label.
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The imbalance in trade sectors is striking. China is dominating manufacturing, but this is requiring huge imports of agricultural goods and also services. The result being that there is a trade surplus, but it is far smaller than manufact
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by m0llusk 2y ago
It starts with sorting by moral judgements. Reactionaries are particularly sensitive to unfairness, betrayal, subversion, and degradation of sanctity. Weave these things with a narrative and you can capture interest.
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Prosecution of cases like this can be extremely complex. Most likely the gun charge was an easy first step to get the process going. Other charges will be waiting on analysis of exactly what was going on and what materials have been found
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That is a complex question that is not well understood. There actually was a kind of writing system in the form of knotted strings. These were considered sacred objects and invaders destroyed as many of these as they could, the result bei
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Time on task only matters for the lowest paid. At high levels robust, predictable, and other characteristics compete strongly for value. Do you want the most accurate medical diagnosis or the fastest?
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Another popular option in California that does not get mentioned in the article are what is called Planned Unit Developments or PUDs. These are case by case approved plans to develop dense housing on a lot that might otherwise have a singl
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Continuing to starve them as a nation using sanctions is not nothing.

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