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by mrkstu 5y ago
Check out this[0] link to see why the thought is Apple is doing exactly that. [0]: https://architosh.com/2021/10/apples-new-m1-pro-is-chop-vers...
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Or we could just use breeder reactors.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I'm looking to do this- I'm going to move out of state, and having a counter-party buying my house that is likely to offer maximum flexibility as I'm looking for another house elsewhere is valuable.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Once you’re in that crowd you continue to run with that crowd- there is no hurry to get hitched at that age, the opportunities to find a match after you’re established professionally will still be there.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I’d say the new iMac’s argue against that. Very ‘designed,’ very thin, to the point of compromise in some ways. It seems they are letting the designers have their way in the non-pro arena.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
So much this... I'm one of eleven kids- I was the 'smart one' and what an absolute drag that title was and is. The title still sticks despite having a brother with multiple award winning plays, another brother being a succe
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Generally a government is the entity with a monopoly on force. That is why things like drug cartels or the mafia are so poisonous to the body politic.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I’m not aware of any company that awards shares to contractors.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Because it would just replace one set of inequalities with a different set?
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Adobe, Zoom, NetApp- a who's who of Silicon Valley. There is zero evidence of American companies ignoring talented Asian executives- the shareholder could care less as long as the stock progresses.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
inter-govermental government land transfers happening under coercion approach nearly 100% (things like Seward's Folly being the rare exception.)
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Apple seems to be trying to occupy the quality niche though.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
And yet black Texans are in the top 10...
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by mrkstu 5y ago
What is the reality on the ground though? For instance: "Texas ranks number 10 overall when it comes to engagement among African American voters, including being first overall in proportional representation of blacks in state legislatu
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by mrkstu 5y ago
That actually sounds like a good test for monopoly status- do you have to worry about what your customers want/desire or are you so entrenched that you don’t care?
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Guilty in the same sense that the oligarchs that Putin slaps down are guilty- stopping paying fealty to the monarch, not in doing anything else differently than the other cadre members.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
The knowledge currently exists on how to manufacture all this from minerals to final output- probably a good idea to spend some of those trillions in infrastructure spending tempting some retirees to come and help us re-establish a full c
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Whole states like Idaho and Utah have seen skyrocketing prices for homes- this is in no way limited to specific urban environments.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Local QT regularly running out of syrup and various cup sizes for soft drinks.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Hence Apple thriving, and likely continuing to take market share.
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Slush fund where Xi doesn’t even have to worry about what the CCP wants, he can just point to what his priorities are and ‘poof’ it is done.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
But you then ignore the problems created by stripping the anonymity away, especially in the political sphere. Just like multitudes of writers/actors/directors had to either hide their political beliefs or just not get hired due to
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by mrkstu 5y ago
This isn't new. The USSR was doing this in various mediums from it's founding in the 1920s to when it became defunct. Returning to the Red Scare and the equivalent of the Hollywood Blacklist for current authoritarian sympathizers&
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by mrkstu 5y ago
As someone whose heart was damaged by Rheumatic Fever, this looks fairly similar between what we’re seeing with Covid and Covid Vaccinations (heart inflammation)- immune response going after the body’s own proteins: https://www.n
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Basically the upper limit is ephemeral port exhaustion: https://blog.box.com/ephemeral-port-exhaustion-and-web-servi...
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by mrkstu 5y ago
There was a reason Mormon's tended to be hired by casinos in Vegas- their exposure to the local vices (and hence their corruptibility) was lower than average.
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by mrkstu 5y ago
From 'The Matrix': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
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by mrkstu 5y ago
I was just thinking of trying to do similar. The main thing I’d deviate from this configuration is using masquerading- for a multiuser setup you’d want an ip pool and arp for one address per tunnel. Trying to diagnose issues or track traffi
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by mrkstu 5y ago
So build your own NAS on BSD+ZFS and use rsync w/xattr's? Not a bad solution theoretically...
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by mrkstu 5y ago
Similar here- work provides MB Pro and Dell Laptop and workstation and iPhone/iPad. Personal iPhone/iPad Pro, self built gaming PC, Linux Xeon lab server, a couple Pis, M1 and Intel Mac Minis, random assortment of laptop/iMac

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