os2warpman

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by os2warpman 1y ago
I was going to say "The FDA, in general, does not tell you which medications you can or cannot take." but often when people make a comment like yours and you press them on it, it turns out they're angry because they can'
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>Why should we care how a country manages their internal affairs? The government of Iran supplies Russia with weapons used in their invasion of Ukraine, funds Houthi rebels who fire weapons indiscriminately at international shipping off
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Tariffs are not now, have never, and will never lead to an increase in domestic production. They only lead to higher costs and/or a festering, shambling corpse of domestic production that is a shell of its former self. The US has done
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Don't worry about US automobile manufacturers in the US. Protectionism will continue giving us the gift of overpriced and underperforming vehicles for decades to come. They'll say it's to protect "Murican Jerbs" but
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I'm worked on many larger teams and leadership is independent of compensation. The fact that "high performance leaders" need to make tens of millions of dollars is one of the greatest lies being told in the modern age. Right
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by os2warpman 1y ago
According to Amazon my first Lutron switch was delivered on August 18th, 2018 and after testing it (and the bridge) out for a couple of months I switched every single switch in my house to Lutron. I currently have 20 Lutron devices, includi
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>maybe in the Midwest, or West Virginia My family is from the "decent hard-working" part of mid-America and I am the only one without a felony so whenever one of my relatives dies, I get their guns. It used to be the crime of c
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I'm not a turbine, or power generation, expert but I am almost 100% sure that no non-solar power generation method can operate without being taken down periodically for maintenance. How do the maintenance costs (and intervals) of these
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by os2warpman 1y ago
The median age of buyers has increased from 31 in 2004 to 38 in 2024. The median age of the population of the United States has increased from 35.3 in 2000 to 38.8 in 2020. (hmmmmm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>People these days don’t own real estate. The home ownership rate has been 64%, plus or minus about 1%, for the last 45 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>The first time I saw a dystopian situation of a mass of people all with their faces on smartphones was last year in Japan, every time I took the metro everyone, as if it were an unwritten rule, from when they got on until they got off d
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I didn't mention TSA. Most TSA, FAA, and airline operator policies and procedures are harmonized with ICAO and IATA policies and procedures. Of course, there are regional variations and differences between international and domestic fl
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>Edit: whoa, groupthink. Every time an article about airport security is posted the comments are the same. To prove that I'm sane and my memory has not been corrupted by time or cosmic rays I google "airline hijackings by year&
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by os2warpman 1y ago
HN has censorship that makes those apple rules look like anarchy. Write a spicy comment and a mod will memory-hole it and someone, usually dang, will reply "tHat'S nOt OuR vIsIon FoR hAcKeR nEwS, pLeAsE bE cIvIl" and we all s
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>but from what I hear in the mainstream it tastes more like plastic burger than triple-a filet. When has it not?
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by os2warpman 1y ago
The good old days sucked. I have a large collection of CDs that I "own" and they're in a box in the basement because the medium is irrelevant. For less than the price of 1 CD per month (and I used to buy WAY more than 1 CD pe
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by os2warpman 1y ago
USAID was charity in name only. It is, or was, more of a marketing and not-quite-coercion-but-something-softer-and-gentler-than-that body. And it was a pathetically small attempt at it, too. Bureaucracy is irrelevant. What matters is bribes
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Everyone in here is nostalgic for Sun Rays. I loathe them. I worked for A Large Government Agency that was deeep into the Sun ecosystem and was using a Sparcstation 5 workstation well into early 2000s running GIS, RF analysis, and report wr
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by os2warpman 1y ago
There are no digital nomads there are only economic migrants. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migratio... And yes, wanting to be able to climb Machu Picchu without taking time off is both an "e
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>And the author calls himself a libertarian... If libertarianism was all of the world's beaches, a thimbleful of sand would be those who actually care about liberty.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I agree with you. It is indeed spherical frictionless cow-ly possible if we spend a trillion dollars to increase ORNL's annual Pu production capacity so that it doesn't take 200 years to make 600kg of Pu-238. When someone demonstr
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by os2warpman 1y ago
A maintenance-free power source capable of lasting the 200 or so years it would take to make it to 542 AU does not seem within humanity's current technological capabilities. Parker at its highest velocity could make it there in a centu
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by os2warpman 1y ago
Hertz used to be a business, run by businessmen who wanted to build and run a business. Hertz is now a financial instrument run by private equity and investment bankers. Businessmen want money the same way you or I want money. They just wan
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I used something something 10^-10 for my dust. To reach ~50MJ. As far as the laser goes, ~2MJ is the total output. Energy that reaches the fuel pellet due to inefficiencies throughout the path of the laser, the actual "hitting power&qu
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>The third places in the United States are almost exclusively churches and bars I keep hearing this and completely disagree. I assert that within an hour of any location in the entire united states not so remote that supplies have to be
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by os2warpman 1y ago
I wasn't even considering the sail. Most of the designs for a system like this are "chip" designs where a single 1cm x 1cm silicon wafer is towed by the sail. This design prevents the need for lasers so large that they create
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I think I understand. Thank you and I'm sorry.
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>To get around thousand-year generation ships, we are examining some beamed energy solutions that could drive a small sail to Proxima in 20 years. The odds of a spacecraft hitting a single particle of dust while in space are 100%. A spac
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by os2warpman 1y ago
This is an earnest request. Please help me understand the mindset of people who fall for pig butchering scams. The thought of giving money to a stranger who I met via a dating app or other social media platform who shifted the conversation
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>No, many airlines operate in imperfect markets and reap excessive profits compared to other airlines. Which ones? Practically all airlines are public companies with easily accessible financial data. All of the one's I've looke

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