shapefrog

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by shapefrog 3y ago
Burning gas or coal 24 hours a day because "the sun only shines for 8 hours" is the kind of gigabrain solution that the "what about when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesnt blow" crowd like the most. The real ans
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> part of their induction is to train their employees how to combat these ideas You dont need to indoctrinate people; the selection process takes care of most of the heavy lifting and the rest is taken care of by the fat paycheque and st
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by shapefrog 3y ago
that excludes government contracts
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Musk has pocketed $5bn and that excludes "government contracts". It would be fair to say they are really just an arm of the government right ?
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I am perfectly capable of functioning on one or two 8-balls a day, I could quit at any time.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> Are mega-caps likely to be dominant buyers from the underwriters? Underwriters will typically take the highest price there will be no preference for the "mega-caps". Underwriters float stocks every day, they need to keep happ
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Wordpress blew my infinitely exponential growth with their default "Hello world" post.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Ooops, I slipped, fell and ended up in jail for 2 years.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Welcome to the modern world, whenever there is any policy - someone somewhere will shout "wont someone think of this specific intersection of 10 different situations" . The truth is there are many reasons to be against this polic
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Ads use tracking - Ads shown to all visitors - Children included in all visitors Seems inevitable really.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Yet HN almost universally gives them a pass on that epic scale privacy abuse while shrieking hysterically when LLMs scrape the exact same data from IA
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> his actions are understandable if you can see this, why would you not see the american actions as "understandable"
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by shapefrog 3y ago
SMS is integrated in to the corporate messaging system on work mobile phones at banks (+ all calls recorded).
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> The rest of the market has been reacting to them for a long time The rest of the market has not been reacting to them for a long time.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Weak grindset.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
This board is full of people who think they are subject matter experts. Dunning and Kruger have some notes on the matter.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> I'd go to jail for things I'd have illegally signed in our SEC disclosures attesting to the sources of our revenue and any government contracts CIA/FBI/NSA agreements include immunity from prosecution in the US at
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by shapefrog 3y ago
France, Italy, and Spain Those countries are total basket cases, where the population are either sleeping all day or burning their own cities in protest. Its unfair to compare the UK against them.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Why has Britain become so poor? > Even eastern Europe is catching up with our sluggish GDP. Our politicians have been slow to act , but economists say there’s still reason for hope. Our finest journalists can't even get through the
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by shapefrog 3y ago
Kids these days.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
"I am the worlds greatest interest rate trader, look how cheap my mortgage is" was their battle cry in the days prior to it being "all Central bankers fault".
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by shapefrog 3y ago
1909 - 1972 UK was a global superpower. 1972 - 2023 UK is powerless and poor. I don't like 99% tax rates, correlation is not causation, but the decline is real.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
It's Lupus.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
20mil for the new system, 80mil + 5 years of implementing for the translation layers to communicate with the legacy systems. > Reality is that those systems should be killed one by one and finally when there is one system It take so long
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> prohibits local municipalities from enacting Freedom.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> misrepresentation of his comments "We need to, prior to licensing vaccines, do gold standard safety testing, like every other drug approval requires. We need to do double-blind placebo testing." - We do mate. Kennedy also sai
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by shapefrog 3y ago
If only more politicians were on board with the green agenda or made it one of their parties central issues.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I guess "reading the article" means skip the headline and rush to the comment section to have your own special unique hot take.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
I cant be racist - some of my best friends are blacks.
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by shapefrog 3y ago
> People generally don’t like racists because they’re also generally awful people as well People are generally awful people as well.

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