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by rickydroll 1mo ago
I didn't say anything about alleged. I said the "apparent facts". I chose the phrase "apparent facts" because prosecutors and police outright lie or, at best, misstate the facts about what happened, such as when ICE
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
The U.S. justice system is notorious for pushing people to plead guilty when they really aren't, or for cases involving extenuating circumstances. The apparent facts bear out that Luigi is guilty of killing that executive, but since it
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
I agree with you that it probably won't replace jobs, but it will let you get more done in less time. I suspect, based on some of the stuff I've read recently, that two days with AI assistance are as exhausting/wearing as fiv
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
It will be far more interesting to show a model of how to have a successful retirement with more or less "normal" financial disasters, such as not making enough money to save in a high-COL area, losing your job in your 40s or late
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
An ugly truth is that corporations are built on a feudal structure (kings, lords, barons, earls, etc.) that is inherently autocratic and disguises autocratic action as efficient leadership. I like to think that cooperative business structur
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
I think a better split would be between city mice and country mice. I live close to the Boston light pollution bubble. I've worked within Boston, have had friends in suburban Boston, and it's a place to raise a family if you are a
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
I suggest finding an author whose style you like; in my case, it was Isabel Allende. Read their work deeply, effectively taking a bath in their words. Don't stop short of full immersion. Then, write using their style. Reflect on your f
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
https://www.klgates.com/thought-leadership/Natural-Gas-Bans-... It's funny how when you cut off someone's revenue, they get all sorts of cranky, even if it's for a social good.
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
It is past time to bring all the externalities produced by data centers back onto the data center budget itself. For example, the tariff for data center electricity should be high enough to eliminate the impact of increased electricity cost
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Worse, EVs start demand destruction for gasoline, which makes the other fractions from the refining process more expensive because gasoline is now a waste product. Or so the crayon chart on the restaurant placemat seems to indicate.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
I apologize, but I must disagree. The national security nightmare is the dependency on fossil fuel sources. If we were to lose our crude oil supplies because of a war in the Middle East, blocking a strait for tankers, we would be well and t
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
It's time to create a library: `lib-deny-age-verifiers'. Start putting it into every open-source package. Modify the license to prohibit removing this library from the package.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
You picked up on what I didn't write existing machines don't have to be built, you just use them. It occurred to me much later that local machines could become a shared resource of a small co-op. Or it only runs off solar or ener
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
You're right, and problems were chronic and painful and as I said elsewhere, have mutated over the past 30 odd years. Speech recognition error misrecognized 30 years as 3 years.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Speech recognition got the number of years wrong. It's more like 30 years. I was forced to stop programming in 1994. And hand problems was an aggregate thing. first chronic pain then fine motor control and tremors. The pain flares up a
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
> The best people want to work in a place where they're valued (and paid) on merit. It is well recognized that meritocracy is an illusion. A much better determinant of success is the birth lottery. If you're born into a rich fa
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Unfortunately, I can't not use AI because it provides the best speech recognition I've ever used and, going along with hand problems, it now allows me to write code after a three-year absence from that skill. I do miss it. I'
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
You're right that we can't limit access to fossil fuels today. We can't do it without a substitute energy source. We know from practical experience that replacing fossil fuels with electricity is the best option for heating a
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Don't forget tornadoes and nor'easters (temperate-zone winter hurricanes). How do we compare on floods, drought, wildfires, heat domes, and deep cold?
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
I honestly don't remember. It took me a moment to even get back to TPL, a variation on RATFOR. I don't remember anything about the BYU conversion. That must have happened after I left CV.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Good Lord. That takes me back. I ported Kermit to the Computervision CGOS environment. It was very popular in the user community. Internally, it was used to transfer files between systems over the terminal concentrator when you didn't
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
I'm not an intentional investor in AI companies. I have index funds, which still expose me to the risk of AI froth. Although yes, AI as a technology is still in its early stages, and I believe it's a sound technology for us to wor
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Our astronomy club is the same way. Except it's a bunch of people standing around in the dark, looking at things through telescopes. And then, when everybody's seeing the object, we move on to the next one. We have a few folks act
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Darn, I was afraid I would have to make a trip just for the food. Although maybe I could turn to a food import business. When I was in Scandinavia a few years ago, I discovered their sausages served in, I think, what is called a French roll
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Detroit doesn't change its ways until it's been hit in the balls with a baseball bat once or twice. The baseball bat is smaller, cheaper, more efficient cars in the 70s and smaller, cheaper EVs today.
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Okay, how can I get a sampler pack of all those breads delivered here in the States?
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
Good points. I think that running rail parallel to highways, especially if the rail can travel twice to three times as fast as road traffic, is a good plan. I think increasing the viability of travel between smaller airports is a good thing
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
> people protesting the whole idea of new industry and energy, I may be venturing into aluminum hat territory but it appears that oil and gas companies and conservative organizations are pumping all sorts of FUD and misinformation into
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
And planes go to more places than trains do. You want to add a new destination? Go through a few years of planning and construction for a couple thousand feet of tarmac, and people can go there using existing planes. Best of all, you don&#x
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by rickydroll 2mo ago
I've heard some good arguments for eliminating a wealth tax and instead treating inheritance as income. There are other forms of money manipulation that should also be treated as income. For example, the borrow-spend-die trick. Other t

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