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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Detroit invented both the assembly line and also related mfg. process efficiency. (In WW2, Detroit made weapons 3x or more cheaply than the Germans, who clung to individual craftsmanship. For example, if you watch period films, you can see
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> nutty fears Both Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents will have trillion-dollar cleanups. $46 billion is only 4.6% of each cleanup. Can I send you the bills for those cleanups? If not, stop being a nuclear apologist.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
I grew up in a farming area, and my family had a 30'x30' garden. Farming is a lot of work. It's a job, not a hobby. Even the garden was a fair amount of work, but more importantly, it's a lot of veggies to eat after harv
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Bombardier and its pension fund backer wanted a low-risk exit from the airliner business, especially to avoid continuing investment.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
I'm familiar with the business press in both Canada an the US, and I think Nominee Trusts work the same in general, plus there's two US states that are hard-core tax havens where this is certainly the case. Info about "Nomine
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Most people do not know the technical details of airplane autopilot systems, because they are not technical nor are they pilots. Colloquially, autopilot means fully autonomous to most people. That's not how they work or are used i
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> In 2019, mysql1 answered 950,000 queries/s on average, 900,000 queries/s on replicas, and 50,000 queries/s on the primary. Impressive numbers. Busiest master I worked on has been 15,000 qps. (SSD can do 1+ million IOPS a
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
In China, the vaccine testing data is already integrated into their social credit score system, so you can't get on public transit, etc. without completing the vaccine milestones. In the US, the govt. has an internal system called XKey
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
I was one of the first people in North America to create CDs, in 1984. I was working with a scientist who had connections with Sony Japan, who had 6'-tall rackmount CD writers. We would mail a 9-track tape to Tokyo with sample remote s
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
It's an interesting history lesson, but the problem with Huawei today is this: They (and the CCP) will fund 100% of the rollout for a telecom to use their 5G server equipment. For Western mfgs. to compete, either Huawei has to be banne
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> We’re mad that the Bidens profited from coverups In the area of $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine, with Hunter flying with Joe Biden on official business to those countries. The US was literally for sale. Also, the Clinton Foundation
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
What's happening is this: - China's recent economic growth was half due to real estate, a substantial part which was speculation - the "real estate developers" usually just take the deposits and sometimes build a propert
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
There was a recent in-depth thread on avweb about teen girls trying to fly around the world in small planes. Besides the ones who have died (Dubroff, etc.), it turns out none had the training to reasonably attempt the flight. https:/&
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Sharri Markson's book on corona is released tomorrow. She's been the leading journalist since early 2020 on corona. NTD Media also ignored the global embargo coordinated by the CCP/Peter Daszak/Fauci.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Sinovac is considered barely effective, even by WHO, who consider it to be 51% effective, vs. 70+% for Western vaccines. (50% is considered to be ineffective.) Most countries who have an alternative don't use Sinovac. Japan reported co
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The word you're looking for is "pivot."
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> They didn't acquire it because they thought their tech was great or that they had a great product. Well, the actual fact is that Youtube was a great product with twice as many features as Google Videos as documented in the San Jos
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) That's not true. There's a narrative outside the field that it can be outsourced, even VCs have "sagely" told me that, but it's a lay person misunderstanding. (Ironically, very little semi hardware is done in US
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> So, I'm asking whether, in this specific instance, people believe it to be the actual intent of the U.S. government to willfully and maliciously use COVID as a pretext for turning the U.S. into an authoritarian regime? Yes, millio
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> This is an excellent resource No, it's trying to minimize the costs - it's a coverup. - the cleanup cost will be around $1 trillion and require significant army and political involvement for decades. These are costs borne by
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> So clearly the government has been successful in this case. It's hard to tell when side-effect reporting is suppressed. Currently OSHA is banned from reporting on vaccine side-effects. That means the government wants no accountabi
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
FYI: the States Attorneys are just playing whackamole with services that allow ads for hookers ("moral code violations".) It started with Craigslist and now Backpage. No surprise the case is weak because the goal is to harass plat
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Your comment makes no sense outside of superficial Marxism, but I'll comment on one line: > What I don't quite understand is why don't they just print a few more trillions? To a certain point, as the USD is the global curr
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
FYI: for people who don't know what's really going on. The homes in the US are prescribing unnecessary medication for 3 reasons: 1) To bill for the medication and dose administration. 2) To bill for the skilled nursing staff. 3) T
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Fun fact: the cavity magnetron found in micraowaves was one of the most secret inventions of WW2, and guaranteed victory for the Allies. It was invented to generate 10 cm waves in a compact package, which are ideal for radar. Although Germa
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
That is completely false. Typically I saw 30% to 100% performance improvements on ext4 by deleting and restoring database directories. You can see disk fragmentation on linux with the filefrag and other commands.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> president causing an insurrection attempt at our capital The FBI concluded in Aug. 2021 that there was no insurrection attempt. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-e... Note that Pelosi
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
ikr. Reading HN posts based on MSM fake news is "really difficult." Examples of fake news repeated on HN: - corona wasn't a lab leak - Jan. 6 protesters killed 5 people (4 were natural causes, 1 was by Capitol police.) - Marx
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
In the first weeks of Corona's "official" entry to the US in 2020 (1), it was reported that sick people in the NY area had to pull strings or prove contact with a known patient or recent travel to an infected area to get test
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
That's correct. You can think of the Normandy invasions as succeeding in slow-motion. Planners were hoping for results on D-Day, but it took 10x to 100x longer than expected to achieve each objective. Caen (port area up to 9 miles from

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