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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I recall GTA having way less cops than in real life too, which definitely is what is happening in a lot of cities. On the plus side, perhaps I can mount flamethrowers on my subaru and live out my 90s childhood fantasies if big US cities kee
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
You do know the US is now the world's #1 oil producer (and food producer).
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Low end fight is where we use drones and Super Tucanos (A29) and play "Aces over Afghanistan" (or wherever-Stan we go next). Purpose built aircraft are indeed better, and flexible cheap and reliable aircraft like Tucanos are the i
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
You misunderstand the purpose the F35- it is a jobs and pork program first and foremost, like SLS. It has the side benefit of keeping people trained to build this sort of thing, so SpaceX can hire them. We can build cool shit, but our gover
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Finally peace in our time!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Tattoos also, as that complements the look.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I suspect community colleges are a fantastic way to recruit people who one would not find otherwise. People taking classes at night and holding down a full time job, and doing well, just out of interest- that's someone who has potentia
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
You are right on the mark on the PI being a sales-man/woman/*. People forget how basically the purpose of a leader is to sell the product, and sell it hard. Think of a research group like any other business. You have to create a p
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
For road biking as well- though a lot of it is many people are afraid of a 23mm contact patch being the only thing between them and going off a cliff in the Alps!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Not to mention the superb gardening column
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
"Belt and road, but for Luna!" As my Chinese coworkers would say, it's an even bigger waste of money. Given the delta-v costs of landing on the moon, putting a base there, landing personnel and resupply would be enormously ex
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Retirement sounds amazing. What really gets me is my employers hiring engineers for $500k per seat and they can memorize their way through Leetcode interviews but can't even structure small programs in a modular, easy to understand way
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Escape from жопаb!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Another underrated development is cheap, re-useable launch to LEO. If the US can just park a few thousand telephone-sized depleted uranium rods in orbit for cheap, and strap on a guidance system, that's a pretty big strategic advantage
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Perhaps South Park will pillory this the same way they pilloried the segway. I'm thinking special hollow smart fibers that allow you to huff your farts continuously while tweeting the methane content.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
You could always offer stalking as a service a la William Gibson's "Followr". Police are sick of streamers, hire someone via app to stream the streamer!
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Hopefully they were playing the "Beverly Hills Cop" theme song! EDIT: It would be the most defensible thing ever- "It's our theme song, we can play it whenever we want to"
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
"What is fossil fuels for $400, Alex?"
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Yeah, comparing with San Francisco/CA (massive income tax, possible wealth tax, absurd real estate, dysfunctional schools, etc) and Seattle (merely very expensive real estate, insane city council, famously unfriendly people, depressing
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I thought this would be about criticism of the Chinese academic publishing incentives???
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I'll paraphrase something I read a while back. Men have physical competition, women have emotional/social competition. Men play sports, fight, kill each other and video games imitate life. Social media is the women's version
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Is it time to coin the term "Elon Envy"? "When a billionaire is insecure because Elon Musk gets all the press and adoration and is pulling humanity's sorry ass forward more or less by himself (as a corporate leader).&quo
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
What kind of peasant finances a porsche?
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
4. Insurance is state-level. This entrenches big players.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Good time to invest in Vancouver, but last time I checked commercial real estate there was already doing well. Maybe Centralia?
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Awhile back another user posited in a discussion of "Why is Berlin so cool" and "Why was Portland cool" that if the cost of living is low enough that you can tend bar 2 nights a week and cover your living expenses, all s
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I have several good friends living in Portland, who grew up there, who work in a variety of non-software areas doing artsy cool shit, all in their 30s. They are all planning on leaving this year as their leases expired.
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
I agree with the other commenter that it's a boiling point issue. Things looked ok at the surface but... - rising cost of living, propelled by foreign investment in housing, pricing out even upper middle class - more taxes - more crime
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
For location, you can find villages or monasteries in Europe, especially depopulating areas in Italy for brutally cheap (under $100k). If you have a bit more money, say $5-700k, you can buy an old factory or convent in France . Various tax
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by medium_burrito 6y ago
Perhaps we can establish a nonprofit research institution where people can do research. There are whole towns for sale in various places, we could get one for free probably. Get an endowment together, a few million, that could pay for a bit

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