scottLobster

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by scottLobster 9d ago
Likewise, and I wasn't trying to invalidate your approach. Raising independent kids who understand the imperative of building their own lives is absolutely necessary regardless of economic conditions
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by scottLobster 9d ago
As a father of 3 kids under 5, we bought our house 2.5 years ago and it has appreciated so much that had we saved every penny for the last 2.5 years we couldn't have afforded it today. It doesn't matter how high performing your ki
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by scottLobster 9d ago
The point of the article is that most of what's being left is low economic value. When my great aunt died she had a collection of painted glass/plaster birds (not by any famous artist or anything, just mass produced stuff) that h
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by scottLobster 9d ago
The long term benefit is that there are more developers with CUDA experience available to hire than there are with any of the "hard ways" you mention. Not saying you're wrong, but my career got a lot less frustrating when I s
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by scottLobster 9d ago
For most of human history we were riddled with parasites and children would appreciate being less riddled with parasites. My wife and I are both the youngest in our families, and all of our extended family uses us as a dumping ground for st
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by scottLobster 10d ago
That's also the argument for payday loans and subprime lending. I have yet to hear of a poor person's life being improved by by access to credit at 20% interest, aside from the circular argument that easy access to credit inflate
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by scottLobster 10d ago
TDIL my homebuilt Plex media server is more strongly encrypted than a Flock Camera
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by scottLobster 12d ago
I'm not that old, but literally no engineer I work with is "overwhelming pro-AI". Befitting engineers, they understand that AI is a tool and while it has its uses, it also has its limits. The enthusiasm that exists stems fr
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by scottLobster 12d ago
The alternative to protectionism is Chinese-style industrial policy. Which necessitates Chinese-style "we don't care if you're a billionaire, you will do as we say or men with guns will make you" levels of governmental
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by scottLobster 18d ago
Is it so bad to have another entrant, especially with the resources Google could bring to bear? Imagine if the Apple EV had actually happened, you think the EV enthusiasts would roll their eyes like you are?
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by scottLobster 18d ago
All those materials with the exception of animal furs are commonly found on or in the ground. Given the relative lack of multistory buildings throughout our history, that's basically just making the ground a few inches taller. The gr
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by scottLobster 18d ago
No, it fits an existing pattern. Something commonplace in our natural environment that we adapted to over millions of years and exerted a non-obvious influence that wasn't scientifically verified until recently. Dietary fiber is but
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by scottLobster 18d ago
To play devil's advocate, as a species we've spent the vast majority of our existence sleeping on the literal ground. It seems plausible there may be some adaptation to the electrical properties of being at the surface vs ensconc
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by scottLobster 18d ago
Part of getting older is you leave the civilized bubble you were raised in and witness literal crazy. I was walking down the bike path outside my apartment complex some years ago and a lady started a conversation, which started off normal b
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by scottLobster 23d ago
If we've learned anything from the last year, any such adult won't be listened to. Trump's a bully, he feels that America should use whatever hard power it has to enforce its interest and damn the soft power or the 2nd order
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by scottLobster 24d ago
One of the crazier ideas to address the deficit is revaluing gold reserves and throwing them at the deficit. Does anyone really think the Trump admin wouldn't consider seizing foreign gold reserves as part of such a move? I know that
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Uh, that chart shows they source a greater percentage of their power from renewables than we do with the exception of nuclear and biofuels. Their wind, solar and hydropower bars are all wider, and they're building more nuclear. They j
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
That is flat-earther levels of physics denial. AC moves the heat, it creates relatively little.
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Portable AC units are widely available, and some even work with the notorious European windows. Even cooling a single room could make a big difference. And the world is getting warmer. More than 90 private jets flew into Italy for Jeff Be
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The hardliners might want to cause a nuclear incident to keep the strait closed longer. And even among the non-hardliners mistakes are rampant in war. It's not about what they're likely to rationally do, it's about what some
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
No, but a lack of AC doesn't solve it either.
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
I love the theory, but the security concerns around nuclear anything are a big deal when we're talking ships that sail around the world. Imagine if even one of the tankers hit in the strait of Hormuz was nuclear.
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
If climate change is indeed an existential threat, then by definition nuclear is cost-effective. And at any rate, why not both?
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
You sure about that? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4d2vv935lo > In a post on X, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since 21 June "linked to high
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
The genius idea is not dying of heat stroke. Also AC can be powered by clean energy, like the vaunted French nuclear plants. But I guess that's for right-wingers. Enjoy losing more people to heat than the US does to gun violence
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
That's what the words say, how much of it is authentic is still a mystery to me. Basically a bunch of sales, business consultants and HR people developed their own language and took over LinkedIn. They know it's bullshit, we know
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
You want to talk perception vs reality and then post that? Yes, merely owning a gun does make you statistically more likely to die of a gun shot, but only in the same sense that owning alcohol mean you're more likely to drive drunk, ow
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
Uh, if you had a 30% chance of encountering an armed individual as a cop, you'd damn well assume they were armed every time. That's one in three traffic stops, and you probably do a lot more than three as a cop. Keep in mind tha
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
One can be both malicious and naive. Regardless, more information isn't going to solve the issue. The information was presented; they ignored it for whatever reason. Getting them to stop ignoring information they don't like is t
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by scottLobster 2mo ago
I'm not sure that more information will help those people. I saw an interview with a Haitian-American restaurant chain owner who voted for Trump and was dismayed that he might have to close a couple of locations due the removal of Tem

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