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by medium_burrito 5y ago
I think we need to legalize both polygamy and sex work. 1) Given the dating dynamics of 80% of women wanting only 20% of the men , clearly society is depriving these women of their desired relationships. 2) If the 80% of men cannot have a r
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Automation is the next outsourcing. I'm one of the people making it happen. People forget that it doesn't need to be 100% automated. If I can automate 25% of the work of a staff-level engineer, that's amazing. If I can do 50%
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
100% this. Quantitative easing basically caused epic asset inflation- great for the capital owning class, but royally fucking over the poors and young workers. In Seattle back in the day a teacher could own a house in the city and pay it of
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Yeah, strongly agree on automation/export of jobs. I imagine the political class will of course make it illegal to automate them!
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
The people behind the tax already have a friendly challenge lawsuit ready. Odds are among lawyers in this state that that the court will let the tax stand, unfortunately. The best part is this tax basically is a trojan horse. In it's p
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Also what are they gonna revolt about? Immigration and automation I can definitely see, but there's nobody but the Yang stumping about this. And then you have the question of what happens when the A and C arks leave for Mars?
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
This is super exciting and scary- we've basically gone basic income, but with zero planning. We'll see how it turns out. We're having some price inflation due to supply chain issues. Cost of housing is more interesting... sho
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Brutality, with Chinese characteristics!
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
The real problem is the Redis Cluster protocol, which pushes all the smarts onto the client. This means each client implementation behaves differently and fails differently. I would encourage Redis users to use Envoy Proxy as the Redis clie
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Yeah, a Portland or Berlin where one can retire young with low cost of living and do cool stuff...
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Basically, yes. Gateway is smaller, doesn't have two airlocks, etc. If you want to build a station in LLO, just build it from a few starship hulls. Also, the stupid polar orbit around the moon isn't necessary if you have moon star
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
I'm curious what sort of lawsuits might be possible here. I for one would donate $1000 to a non-profit trust formed to find plaintiffs for whatever possible cause and then sue the everloving shit out of the author + advisor + universit
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty much here. We have a few guys like Greenwald who dare stand up and nothing like a peep from everybody else. Those of us who are big L or F have just given up at this point and have kind of figured out an alternative- l
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
The primary use of Bitcoin is moving money out of China. That's what drives a lot of this.
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
And it's winter for Gateway and SLS
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
It's a question of economics. A 20,000 kg rod costs $200m to launch into LEO at $10k/kg. At $200/kg it's only $4m. Uranium price per kilo seems reasonable at $60/kg, so we're getting to a point where the raw ma
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
They have some massive negatives to deal with: - China is net food and energy importer. Look at last year for a preview of future food. The land they leased in Africa won't help in terms of climate shift, locusts, etc. Who is the numbe
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
We'll have an income tax within a few years. The capital gains tax will be have a friendly challenge lawsuit in a very friendly state supreme court, and that'll be all she wrote. As a WA resident, I would not bet on the state long
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by medium_burrito 5y ago
Because light rail/bus to airport is cheap, and $25 fares are cheap. And the trains are expensive. Now, why is flying so cheap vs a train? The whole the US government essentially gives away 737s at a loss to employ people might be one
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
No need to intervene in the ear of 5th gen wars, especially when Ethiopia effectively has a civil war going on.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
and the big ass damn in Ethiopia. Given the civil war there, don't be surprised in this turning into a bigger conflict.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Let's be honest, it's Azure. The only reason you choose it is because either you compete with Amazon in some way, or you hate your infrastructure engineers, or don't know better.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
What's the US military budget? Let's say DOD decides it wants onshore chips. $10B is peanuts; $100B is easily doable if they say it's important enough- which it is.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Britain has nowhere near the capabilities it had back then it terms of logistics (ie ships taken up from trade). Moreover, they are getting rid of a huge amount of airlift: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/c-130-hercules-flee
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
It's Greece-Turkey, as others have said. Turkey has burned through much of it's foreign reserves, tourism is fucked and we could see Erdogan whipping up nationalist sentiment in the face of major economic difficulties. Longer term
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
You know, it makes me think of William Gibson's idea of Slitscan: “[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personall
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
If our population was better educated , I feel like togas, buggery and acropolises could be a real option. Not more degrees, but well read- history, philosophy, religious literature, science shit, etc. Also, the whole wokespeak has serious
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I've seen the same in driving up to Vancouver from YVR. Freedom spills over the border!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
In all cases, the goal is to establish a truth on the ground independent of political posturing. Of course, someone can call your bluff on it!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Please don't compare RMS and Epstein. RMS made a comment re consent, which I believe he said he had reconsidered. Epstein was not just a pedo but a pimp for all sorts of rich and powerful people, complete with a pedo-jet, private-pedo-

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