rocket_surgeron

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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
Bros treat it like a law of nature. "nah brah it's just rational actors rationally acting with rationality" Supply and demand is a thing the same way the convention of shaking hands upon meeting is a thing.
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
A empty desert can be boring or exciting. A bustling urban center can be boring or exciting. Suburbs, as are all things, are only boring if the appraiser is boring. My "boring" suburb hosts a list of activities that puts most citi
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
You don't just blindly sail a surface combatant within range of something that can sink it. Hypersonic carrier-killer missiles won't work for the same reason Russian SAMs are minimally effective against western air forces: if you
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
I prefer to think of it as a meeting where Robert's Rules are followed and enforced vs. an anarchist shouting match. You call it milquetoast. I call it pleasant. Things get done under Robert's Rules, nothing gets accomplished when
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
I paid a bribe to get my cat out of quarantine in Nigeria when I lived in Lagos years ago. Nobody's coming after me for that. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes bribery a crime for business-related reasons. >Specifically, the a
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
This is so dumb. I love it.
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
I am a "smart tech" person who actually used bitcoin to purchase goods and services before realizing it was a scam that I don't want to be a part of. I had sat on a wallet for years, having opened one to get 5 BTC from Andres
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
CEOs serve the board and the board serves the shareholders. Employees are irrelevant in this scenario, replaceable units whose purpose is to produce. Are either of the two relevant parties mad at the CEO? If you want employees to matter bey
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
Society is not breaking down.
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
My grandfather was embarrassed because his family had a Model T in the 1940s. 20 years after the end of their production they were seen as junk that only poor people drove. It was better than the buggy his family used but everyone else had
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
> The industry does not want you programming or creating, the industry wants you to be consuming For this to be true, logically the tools to create smartphone programs would be fiercely protected and only available to the chosen few and
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
This will never get built. If anything it is a "hi" proposal with the hopes that "med" will make it through the process. If the final project exceeds five stories ("lo") I will be very surprised. Locals will fi
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
>Flying on a 737 MAX—even including the fatal crashes due to MCAS—remains quite literally the safest way to travel by both time and distance. There are 2,698 A320neos in service that have been involved in two fatal accidents, with no pas
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
Working to identify the source of a damaging disclosure of classified information about an ongoing war where an ally is suffering at the hands of a massive invasion force is prime, grade A, investigative journalism.
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by rocket_surgeron 3y ago
This list is going to get longer, and the consequences are going to be much worse, in the near future as more and more people leave the church. Moderates leaving means no moderation and the jesusfreaks will feed back on each other as they b
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I highly doubt a mechanical timer would be more reliable than a micro and some buttons. I can't think of a single mechanical device that is more reliable than an equivalent solid-state version of that same device. Solid state relay vs
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I'm looking at my word processor window on the second monitor right now and it is not distracting. https://i.imgur.com/E7Xj4Su.png Which word processors are distracting?
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I prefer "a doomsday cult but, somehow, even sadder".
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Advancing 'the state of cybersecurity' whilst also using 0day they refuse to alert others of / patch / disclose, and use 0day for themselves only[0] A bit like spinning off many military/space technological adva
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I'd say distracted driving and driver age are greater factors than police stops, and there isn't much you can do about that. It is very difficult to see a driver using a cellphone from a long distance. It is somewhat easy to deter
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Is the strategy of doing it ourselves and politely asking China and India to get on board this century working so far? Yes. Western shifts to less-harmful methods and materials increases the size of the market for those methods and mate
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Federal agencies do what they’re told. The restrictions on pseudoephedrine were mandated by Congress through the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (passed as part of the patriot act) which followed various state legislatures’ pas
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
McDonald's only made $6,000,000,000+ last year on $23+ billion in revenue at a ~35% profit margin. They reversed the downward trend in revenue (which occurred simultaneously with a tremendous increase in profitability) and bounced back
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
The first time I ever heard Philip Glass was a performance he did on Saturday Night Live. To put it mildly, it was fucking wild. It blew my 13 year old mind. I had never heard anything like it. I went over to my neighbor's house to get
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
1. Drug overdoses 2. Obesity 3. Lack of access, due to a lack of affordability and/or availability, to healthcare I'm a volunteer EMT-B who has a full-time day job so I only work one weekend shift per week and on average I narcan
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Few people want to wear shit on their face to play a videogame. Yes, I know you may, but you are not typical. The vast, overwhelming, majority of people do not want to wear shit on their face to play video games. Or watch movies. Or work. M
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
The SR-71s were over Libya in 1986 because the Libyan secret service detonated a bomb in a Berlin nightclub, killing 3 and wounding hundreds, ten days prior. "oh yeah well what abou.." With all due respect, stop.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Lenovo's anti-consumer behavior makes Apple look like a charity with a perfect rating on charitynavigator.org. Any time I'm at an open source thing and see someone with a Lenovo I smirk because they're oiling the gears the ma
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>A rotating cast of high income earners paying state and local taxes without the benefit the pension system(s)? Did you expect something different? That's literally the goal of every "DiGiTaLnOmAd" (you're a migrant w
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Where do you get the idea that Google Drive is a "primarily-personal file storage/transfer system"? Its SLA. Or more precisely, its lack of one.

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