os2warpman

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by os2warpman 1y ago
Anything they don't like or anything governed by any regulation whatsoever is, to some people, a "monopoly". Practically any person anywhere in the US can start a bank, provided they possess the capital needed and the ability
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I am not engaging in fantasy. “But we have guns” is fantasy.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Guns are useless. Everyone who believes guns are some kind of savior or last-ditch protector is fucking stupid. There is a reason why, during westward expansion, the first thing towns did when they got two nickels to rub together to buy bri
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Living alone is not living in isolation. My three daughters are grown and have moved out and now I live alone in a four bedroom house. Between work (in office mon-thurs, wfh fridays), my volunteer (fire department and watershed steward), fi
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>it's a bit sad that instead of Apple evolving it and getting its price down A PC ram expansion board with 64k cost $350 in 1983 and upgrading it to 512k probably cost another $1,000. ($1,000 and $3,300 or $4,000+ for 512kB in today
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Sewage workers perform tasks that are important and have value. The comparison is not apt.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I would never own a rolex because where I live only ambulance chasers, businessmen who are definitely guilty of wage theft, morbidly obese elderly men in gold chains who reek of cigars, and street pimps wear them but from what I can gather
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by os2warpman 1y ago
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client did not rob that bank. He only made a Google Maps link to directions to the bank, a link to an Imgur image containing the vault's combination, and a link to a Pastebin with instructions
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Food isn't a ECON101 factory widget. Farm subsidies are both the single most important national security policy a nation can have, and an incredibly inexpensive yet extremely effective insurance policy.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Who is "they"? In the EU, total energy consumption peaked ~20 years ago and has steadily fallen since then. In the US, total energy consumption plateaued ~20 years ago. Per-capita it has fallen. In Japan total energy consumption p
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by os2warpman 1y ago
> Ever wonder why you never see a smartphone photo printed and framed on the wall? No. I have numerous smartphone photos printed and framed. On both walls and horizontal surfaces. There does not exist a greater pixel-peeping gearslut tha
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by os2warpman 1y ago
What it looks like is irrelevant. Inconsistent and misaligned typefaces on the keycaps are irrelevant. (Why are you even looking at your keyboard?) The only relevant thing is buckling springs. IBM perfected text input on personal computers
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>How will they manage to cover R&D costs? Seeing that pharmaceutical companies, on average, spend much more on marketing than R&D I would eliminate marketing. Most of the rest of the world has banned drug advertisements, and sale
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by os2warpman 1y ago
> I've never understood why the fire department doesn't acquire and dispatch small vehicles for all those medical calls instead of a giant fire truck. Staffing. Almost every call requires more than two people and ambulances are
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Watching the slow, then sudden, collapse of Intel as they try to MBA their way out of the state they MBA'd their way into is going to be fun. What's the end going to be? DECesque? (sell everything off at bargain prices before the
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I do not think you are correct. D-subminiature connectors are codified by both IEC 60807-3 and MIL-DTL-24308K. Neither IEC 60807-3 nor MIL-DTL-24308K "standardize" or "codify" D-subminiature connectors into DA/DB&#x
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Why does everything (in big-budget video games) look shiny and wet? If it is an attempt at realism, reality is not constantly shiny and wet. If it a subjective artistic choice, it is objectively wrong and ugly. Is there an expectation that
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>But with a GUI, it's a tool and they work best when there are no frills. That must be why everyone is using CDE...
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>Nokia N900 There is a fetishistic cult surrounding the N900. Mainly comprised of people who were too young or broke to own one. I am an old man who owned an N900. Simply and concisely: the N900 was a half-baked, poorly thought out, frus
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by os2warpman 1y ago
What they mean is that in a couple of weeks there are going to be stories titled "LLMS NOW BETTER THAN HUMANS AT 2025 INTERNATIONAL MATH OLYMPIAD" (stories published as thinly-veiled investment solicitations) but in reality they&#
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Yes
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Vance, and all of the other Project 2025 acolytes have explicitly and directly stated that the dismantling of every single civic institution and incumbent system is their goal. Not reform, not improvement-- destruction.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
There are a number of new accelerators available on the market. I've been thinking about getting a PiStorm ($40-70 + Raspberry Pi 3 A) for my A2000. Should bump me up to a ~100Mhz 68030 level of performance. But yeah, when people relea
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by os2warpman 1y ago
People have the right to be greedy capricious dickheads with the property (physical, intellectual, and real) that they own and you are infringing on that right. Like, they can write the best and most entertaining video game of all time, one
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>You point blank cannot find legit ways of playing the original underground games Did you mean to type "You point blank cannot find legit ways of playing the original underground games without paying $20"? Need for Speed Underg
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>and then posting essays on the sheer horror they go through when the drug leaves their system and they rebound. There are very few things, concepts, or sensations more annoying than a junkie telling everyone about what it's like to
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Every bit per second that a WAN connection is slower than a CPU interconnect is too slow and that's only half hyperbole. But I'm a realist so I'll take what I can get. As your remote resources get faster and faster you start
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Success is almost entirely familial positioning and timing. The Great Man is a myth that needs to die. If you or any other person had wealthy parents who sent you to Philips Exeter and then Harvard and been friends and roommates with who Zu
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Zuckerberg is incompetent. He was lucky, and that's all, with Facebook and has coasted on its momentum ever since. Every single "play" after that has failed. Not only have they failed, he's even fallen into the dictator&
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>will not be approved by the FDA for another 2 years, so he can't give it to me. edit: I wrote a bunch of bullshit and then deleted it but the points are: 1. Narcolepsy sucks 2. The FDA can't stop your doctor from giving you TA

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