moneytide1

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by moneytide1 3mo ago
> Speed should only come as a side-effect of quality. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." - US Navy SEALs
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by moneytide1 3mo ago
"In the centuries since the Axiom left Earth, its passengers have degenerated into helpless obesity due to microgravity and laziness, with robots catering to their every whim. Captain B. McCrea sits back while his robotic AI autopilot
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by moneytide1 5mo ago
In Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Ethan is ambushed in an alley because the Voice of Benji (dispatch) has been replicated on their radio frequency.
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by moneytide1 2y ago
"Someone brought a youth to a wise man, and said, 'See, this is one who is being corrupted by women!' The wise man shook his head and smiled. 'It is men,' he called out, 'who corrupt women; and everything that
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by moneytide1 2y ago
Mr. Sadoway built a molten metal battery through Ambri upon the same warm sand as the Tesla Gigafactory One. Cycle time limited by reaction chamber decay, not Solid Electrolyte Interphase bridging across seperator. Static storage for areas
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by moneytide1 2y ago
"If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt. Preferably dirt that’s locally sourced." - Don Sadoway (liquid metal battery comprising liquid layers of magnesium and antimony separated by a layer of molten salt)
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by moneytide1 2y ago
If you feel guilty encountering the pleasures of vice, then I am less likely to be expected to produce sons&daughters destined to become diabetes clinicians instead of astronauts. Wrath brings Heart Disease. Sloth causes osteoporosis. P
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by moneytide1 2y ago
> Nakamoto appears to have a "collaborative and non-confrontational nature," which makes it "likely that the real Satoshi would never have set out to prove in litigation..." The Objective supersedes Vanity.
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by moneytide1 3y ago
It is ironically because of his surveillance that Truman Burbank is able to "break the Sixth Wall". The distant observer must also have the capacity to discern what is being seen. A type of pride before the fall - to disperse prio
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by moneytide1 3y ago
> hopeful view of the future, and one that warns us The optimist designs the airplane, and the pessimist designs the parachute.
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by moneytide1 3y ago
> undermining your everyday conversations with comments designed to trigger discontent. "All warfare is based primarily on deception of an enemy. Fighting on a battlefield is the most primitive way of making war. There is no art hig
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by moneytide1 3y ago
The Starship and Cybertruck programs could eventually share a vertically (potential pun) integrated supply chain. Perhaps a different alloy? Such a learning curve is the initial growing pain to scale across multiple domains.
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by moneytide1 3y ago
> fearmongering about AI is a form of grift If you cry wolf and agitate the masses with fear, then you gain free advertising for a "new" search engine because the spin of the "journalist" requires anxiety to circulate
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by moneytide1 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> emergency surgery to deal with a critical situation. "A nation of thirty millions of people, had been for ten years agitated by the most terrible convulsions... Conflagrations had laid the palaces of the wealthy in ruins, and the
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by moneytide1 4y ago
All artificial "intelligence" is just a glorified database crawler. Because you think it means something shows how far you have strayed. Pure inference according to everything that has already been done. The definition of the past
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by moneytide1 4y ago
"... positivist scientists accept a mistaken image of natural science so it can be applied to the social sciences."
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by moneytide1 4y ago
TLDR Legacy Potency
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> Ha - right. I hear people say, “Save for retirement!” My great-great grandfather didn't have "health insurance" or "social security deductions", and neither did yours. Yet we exist as their descendants. Evangel
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by moneytide1 4y ago
The colder the climate is across millennia, the more likely the inhabitants are to have the courage to try the difficult thing(s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> how Top Gun is both entertainment and propaganda The recent conscription of Mr. Cruise to showcase air superiority is an insight tactically granted at the behest of American government as a reaction to international upheaval. A remind
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> "I was sitting there, staring at the bread in my sandwich," said Arnold. "And I thought to myself, this is exactly the kind of structure that we need." Reminds me of Eli Whitney seeing a cat defeather a chicken whil
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by moneytide1 4y ago
I leave task manager open while the computer is "idle" to see spikes in the Wi-Fi network throughput graph so I can rest assured that at least my lone machine activity is being automatically "seen" by the telemetry-harve
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> how much of these edits are low quality, false, or just vandalism Regardless of the quality&vandalism - the name of the topic visited for review is in itself a valuable notification.
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by moneytide1 4y ago
This live-streaming list of topics being tended feels like an organic examination of genuine citizen interest as an alternative to the "no man's land" of politically corroded news feeds.
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by moneytide1 4y ago
"Sometimes the brass allows a false rumor to go on so there won't be a leak." https://youtu.be/7bmMzc28GR8?t=932
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by moneytide1 4y ago
*the neighbor saving face
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by moneytide1 4y ago
We can assume that as the dust settles in the 2090s, when the self-sterilized crusaders die off without surviving children, we can write it off as the necessary loss of the gullible feeble minds that the state failed to educate. To mitigate
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by moneytide1 4y ago
> What could be more "leisurely" than religion, that which is, after all, concerned with the ultimate end and the highest good? "... blindly raging industriousness brings riches and honour but at the same time deprives the
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by moneytide1 4y ago
"Hope ain't a tactic." https://youtu.be/SJvNSL70q68?t=176

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