m0zg

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by m0zg 5y ago
It's you who's "imagining" things. I actually was _there_ in the 90s, getting through university with a specialization in weapons design (rocket guidance systems mostly). My summer practice (aka "internship" in
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by m0zg 5y ago
Not _those_ parts. We're talking ceramic cased hardened ICs with gold plated leads and stuff like that (see https://habr.com/ru/post/156049/ ). Stuff that goes into space and to nuclear power stations in
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by m0zg 5y ago
Coulda, woulda. They didn't. And Shuttle cost $1B per launch. That is nuts even by US government standards. That's also why the USSR abandoned theirs, even though theirs was much cheaper - no need for three dozen subcontractors to
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by m0zg 5y ago
Up until May of last year the United States didn't even have human launch capability. Not a hell of a lot you can do with an orbital station if you can't send people up there. > From sourcing parts for the Mir station at the lo
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by m0zg 5y ago
LOL. Apple's revenue is about 140 million per hour. $100M won't deter a damn thing.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Do what I did and switch to Signal wholesale. Or at least to Telegram. Both have really nice desktop clients on Linux. Move to Brave Search as well - it has its own index and it's easily on par with Google in my experience. I still hav
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by m0zg 5y ago
Same thing in a lot fewer words, for "visual thinkers" among us: https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ This holds up really well, in any STEM field, not just mathematics. Celebrate thos
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by m0zg 5y ago
Feels like we have no choice but to switch to Linux for serious work nowadays. Next gen Apple laptops will be selling you out to your respective governments for storing unapproved memes and saying unapproved things. They'll also be loc
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by m0zg 5y ago
You don't have to live in the capital of Georgia (or Korea for that matter). Just a little outside the capital is already much more reasonable. You also don't have to maintain 100% "western" standard of living either, se
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by m0zg 5y ago
But they don't. Lockdowns longer than the vaccination interval make absolutely zero sense if there exists a vaccine and the virus is endemic. Get used to the idea that you'll be getting COVID several times a year from here on out,
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by m0zg 5y ago
I agree, a lot has changed since then. The governments have gotten a lot more abusive and intrusive, for example.
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by m0zg 5y ago
The worst the government can do in a country with 300M+ guns in circulation is "boil the frog", and hope to dear god the pot does not boil over at any point. It's not a fantasy. It's literally how the US was founded in t
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by m0zg 5y ago
Chronology correlates with importance here. IIRC, however, the Bill of Rights was passed as a whole, though, not piecemeal. So it could be that it's 2nd because the Founding Fathers thought it was important. "Security of a free St
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by m0zg 5y ago
You have some weird definition of freedom with which I am not familiar. To me, freedom would mean I could, at a minimum, go wherever I want to go, and meet whoever I want to meet, without government interference. And if there are any epidem
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by m0zg 5y ago
US citizenry is certainly much better armed than the Taliban, which has proven to be more than enough. 2nd amendment is so high on the list for this exact reason.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Not just "electronic" freedoms anymore. They're currently locked down with the lockdown enforced by their own military from what I have seen. Serves them right, too, for giving up the last backstop on the government power: gu
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by m0zg 5y ago
One thing to understand though (and people who don't have kids don't understand this at all) is that kids are not robots: they're gonna do what they're gonna do, they will (once they grow up a bit) think you're &quo
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by m0zg 5y ago
I feel like I could only really understand my parents when I became a parent myself. All the fucked up stuff they did to themselves and each other (and sometimes to me), all the life lessons they tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to teach me -
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by m0zg 5y ago
Cooler heads prevailed it sounds like. Not a fan of the site, but I'm in favor of sex workers actually getting paid, rather than just exploited and left homeless and penniless after a few years. Net-net, it's an improvement over t
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by m0zg 5y ago
It's all fun and games until you lose your job to a robot. Likewise superhuman AI already exists in some specific tasks. Machines, for instance, have been superior to humans in facial recognition and matching for 15 years now, if not l
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by m0zg 5y ago
Maybe it's for the best. He's a comedian who doesn't know anything about anything (and freely admits this to be the case), he shouldn't really have that much "influence". $100M in the bank sure is nice, I bet.
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by m0zg 5y ago
It absolutely is possible to retain a control group when developing a vaccine for a disease with CFR and R0 markedly lower than that of the measles. In fact they even had it, until January.
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by m0zg 5y ago
So CNN is fake news then? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/health/fda-approval-pfize...
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by m0zg 5y ago
How do you establish long term safety of the vaccine if you don't have a control group of randomly chosen, unvaccinated people? And if you don't, then how did it get approved?
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by m0zg 5y ago
So that's what they settled on? Kent tried to introduce it while I was still there and the pushback was so severe they decided not to do it at the time. I think the initially proposed retention period was shorter than that though. I co
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by m0zg 5y ago
"Today" is probably too early. You have to message this well in advance so that people who want to get the vaccine but perhaps were holding out for the fall season could get it in time. I know a good number of folks like that myse
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by m0zg 5y ago
The probability of your child developing pneumonia even if it was COVID is astronomically low. Kids almost never get severe disease from this. We're talking "struck by a lightning" kind of probability. They are, however, capa
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by m0zg 5y ago
Blame the complete and total lack of any competition as well. To this day hospitals often outright refuse to quote the pricing of treatments and drugs, drugs can't be re-imported from cheaper locales (such as India or even Canada), and
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by m0zg 5y ago
It is surprisingly difficult to explain this even to otherwise intelligent people. Everyone has been so brainwashed by mass media's narrative of "stopping covid" that they don't see that even in January of 2020 it was al
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by m0zg 5y ago
This would carry a lot more weight if this "startup" at least had a functioning website. Or indeed if work in startups was anything like the army (which it is not - I've been through this). It's weird: I freelance now, a

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