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by rdl 3y ago
Worse than useless -- net negative -- everything related to Iraq/Afghanistan. I didn't go over there because I thought it was a good idea (nation building in either place is dumb, and any conflict at all in Iraq was dumb), and wh
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by rdl 3y ago
Perfect for preboot botnets :)
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by rdl 3y ago
I just bought it -- will be interesting to watch the progress (I love Early Access games like that).
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by rdl 3y ago
There are a LOT of very small/deep/etc quakes in some places.
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by rdl 3y ago
True Names, particularly because it is short.
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by rdl 3y ago
Yeah, I just mean "the gun I have on my waist", not a special car gun. And especially for the police in Texas at the ranch, they would almost certainly be armed, and I'd assume ranch staff would also have access to firearms
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by rdl 3y ago
In a class "Bullets and Vehicles" at Sig Sauer Academy. ( https://sigsaueracademy.com/courses/bullets-and-vehicles ). Truly amazing. Also some classes at Thunder Ranch ( https://thunderranchinc.com&#
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by rdl 3y ago
These are the best I've found (for compact, functional): https://resqme.com/ The problem with the hammer style is you might be injured or pinned in a position where you can't develop much force. Also hit the corn
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by rdl 3y ago
My current plan (obviously open windows if possible, don't drive into lakes, etc.) is to use the resqme spring-loaded glass breaker (my work gives them out as branded swag at conferences, but I gave away hundreds in Iraq/Afghanist
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by rdl 3y ago
Once again, fuck cancer.
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by rdl 3y ago
That's not consistent with what a lot of my friends have done (people bought two and returned one, or a lot returned their only one, including long-time apple devs/new product folks with >$200k/yr income, such that a $3500
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by rdl 3y ago
Thiel's program as discussed in the article this post is about.
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by rdl 3y ago
You can absolutely get value out of being at a good school (I'd say even a mid tier school has value) -- both academic and social. It's just...is that worth $200-300k and 4 years of your life? There would also be value in getti
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by rdl 3y ago
The top 25% of Harvard grads are impressive. The bottom 25% are not. My experience has been that even the lower half of Waterloo grads, in CS, are solid to good. I'd probably take the 20th percentile Waterloo grad over the 20th perce
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by rdl 3y ago
The optimal path (at least if you're not going into a regulated/gatekept profession, or not from a very poor/disadvantaged background on a full ride, or using the university program as an immigration pathway) seems to be: 1)
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by rdl 3y ago
ASML machines can presumably be rendered largely worthless remotely through firmware (or by being forced to operate out of design spec for a while, causing physical damage), and I have to assume TSMC/Taiwan/US have that stuff pre-
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by rdl 3y ago
Competition is great, but also in this case geographical redundancy; having the entire world depend on chips produced in one of the world's most likely military hotspots is terrifying. Still pretty amazing that there's basically o
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by rdl 3y ago
Curious how to support Maxim despite Russia complications.
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by rdl 3y ago
Agree, but my "country" is population 1.
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by rdl 3y ago
I first discovered John Walker through The Hacker's Diet and other writings, and corresponded with him back when I was doing an offshore datahaven 25 years ago. He was an amazing person -- curious, intelligent, and willing to share wh
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by rdl 3y ago
It's mostly with liquor bought from offsite and drunk in rooms/private parties, not via Caesar's venues or catering (there's a lot of that too, and this is summer dead period, so it still may be good).
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by rdl 3y ago
They do sell extra batteries. $199.
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by rdl 3y ago
Lynch’s Dune is up there with Apocalypse Now as my favorite movie. It got the feel of Dune correct, even if it made weird changes, and inspired me to start reading sci fi (I think I first saw the movie on TV in the late 80s, and would watch
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by rdl 3y ago
(not an expert, but based on my research to date:) 50' is borderline (one competent captain, potentially the owner, and one of the passengers helping out at times; of course if you're doing passages, etc you need multiple humans f
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by rdl 3y ago
Start with finding hundreds/thousands/hundreds of thousands of people who will follow you to arbitrary places and adventures. I'm sure Elon Musk could do something; Taylor Swift could too. Once you have a large enough followi
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by rdl 3y ago
Huge life hack for early career if you are living condition and location independent is to work at direction of employer in some location they pay for; saves a lot of money. Might be a compound in Saudi Arabia with a villa and driver, might
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by rdl 3y ago
I think I did some talks about it ~15 years ago which are probably online. A quick search brings up some stuff but I don't remember which were about Sealand which were about the business. Overall, not horrible; water for showering was
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by rdl 3y ago
When I was living in Sealand >20 years ago (another micronation project), was fun tracking the other projects -- this one was one of the most successful. Liberland and a few maritime efforts were as well. Surprisingly few attempts, rea
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Fired from Cloudflare (stealth layoff) video(twitter.com)
9 points by rdl 3y ago|1 comments
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by rdl 3y ago
This person appears to have been a Cloudflare account exec who was terminated as part of a layoff (which was communicated as individual cut), by HR, and not by manager. She recorded the process and posted it.

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