rpmcmurphy

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by rpmcmurphy 7y ago
My dad worked in a steel mill his entire life, and as a long term cancer survivor, would have been left for dead due to Koch's policies had they prevailed in his state of residence. He outlived him. Bye! (Nice to see that even if you h
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by rpmcmurphy 7y ago
Good riddance
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by rpmcmurphy 7y ago
The bigger issue for us Olds is that we have serious financial and family responsibilities that make us highly undesirable employees in today's modern "I've got mine! Fuck you!" society. Imagine that you have a close fam
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by rpmcmurphy 7y ago
Ah, the magic of financial engineering. Mr. Neumann will cash out of his fictional decacorn in dribs and drabs and never have to work again. Everyone else will be left with a bit pile of shit (aka a commercial real estate venture that bet o
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by rpmcmurphy 7y ago
This seems like a predictable outcome in a consumerist society driven by planned obsolescence and the need for infinite growth.
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
Pilot here. I predict that airlines are going to soft ground the Max while this gets sorted out. They might not take them out of service completely, but would not surprise me a bit if they rely on other equipment where possible until this g
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
I take the approach of telling people to call or text me if something is urgent (my number is in the company directory), because I likely won't notice an email quickly, and will ignore Slack/IM completely so soon as I walk out the
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
Building the cockpit is fun, but you only have room for two. The next logical step is to buy interior panels and windows from a mothballed 737 (you can find them on eBay). I have been building out both the cockpit and front cabin (and passe
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
Actually 20% per year would be great for most businesses, which just shows what an outlier VC backed businesses have become.
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
I was assigned as an inventor for a bullshit patent application our legal team did not even understand. I did everything I could to undermine it. The whole system is fucked and is all about who has more money for lawyers (who know fuck all
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
Maybe this is all not such a bad thing. The worst case scenario is a mass extinction that kills off large animals, clearing the way for whatever is next, not unlike the Cambrian explosion. We elected Donald J Trump. We (large animals at the
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by rpmcmurphy 8y ago
But she wears a black turtleneck, just like Steve Jobs.
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
Somebody needs to write a Peter Thiel / Not Peter Thiel script, and cross reference the photos with his Friendster profile pic where he was shirtless on a boat advertising for twinks (pro tip for people who think he was outed by Gawker
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
A substantial percentage of the US population installed that "cow clicker" app at some point, and who knows what data they harvested. Even if they did not access your full profile, they could probably learn a lot about you based o
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
Just a friendly reminder, Gawker did not out Thiel. He had a public profile on Friendster that clearly described him as interested in men. Gawker's editor at the time remarked that people like him thought the web was this super ultra s
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
This should give everyone serious pause. If this false alarm had been sent by NORAD (it has happened before, read Command and Control), it's very likely that several million people in both Koreas, Japan and possibly the US would be cha
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
The internet really is an incredible cesspool. It would be interesting to see how the public reacted if YouTube and Facebook turned off their content moderation for a week. It would make the goatse meme look like a Sunday school picnic.
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
If you want a forecast of how ridesharing companies will settle out, tear the route map out of an inflight magazine. There is no global airline, but many regional airlines that provide international connectivity to other regional airlines.
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
^^^ What he said. How about "eBay for car rides"
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
The author's basic problem is he does not understand the United States is comprised of over 3,000 counties. The differences among them are vast, and most of the country is sparsely populated. To understand America, you'd have to s
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
I don't want to offend anyone, but could a high rate of suicides on farms have anything to do with the heavy use of pesticides in these places (which operate essentially as nerve agents, so it would not be surprising if they caused hig
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
I would also expect a lot of disinformation around the subject, both about how these systems work, and about their failure modes.
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
A corrupt government that ran its economy into the ground backing a cryptocurrency. What could possibly go wrong? OTOH, if someone with centuries of banking experience were to launch a well managed cryptocurrency, that could be pretty usefu
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
This ^^^^. I have lived in San Francisco for 25 years now. While I could reduce my cost of living dramatically by moving, I have spent my entire post-college life here. Nearly all of my friends and professional network are here, so I have a
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
I bought some Bitcoin over five years ago, totally forgot about it, and then remembered I had bought some. I sold it and bought an SLR camera to photograph the total eclipse this summer. It felt like the time I won a few hundred bucks at th
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
My mom was a public school teacher. My parents sent me to a Jesuit school after K-5. Best decision they could have made, and says a _lot_ about public education. She always talks about how they teach for tests and nothing else.
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A Statue to Felicette: The First Cat in Space(kickstarter.com)
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
I more or less cut off contact with several people I used to consider intelligent and open to facts, but they were so blinded by their politics it became pointless to argue with them. I doubt anything will change their minds at this point,
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
The thing about being 40+ is you really start to see through bullshit. I remember working for one company that was selling a product customers simply did not want. I tried explaining this to the founders, and suggested alternatives, but got
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by rpmcmurphy 9y ago
If you take solar arrays as an example, someone needs to do the build out. That someone is likely to be a local or regional company that hires local workers. Planning and construction accounts for a significant fraction of project costs as

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