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by spoonjim 4y ago
Watch douchebags are extremely annoying but I am glad that they bankroll the mechanical wizards who invent shit like this.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This doesn't seem that unreasonable. You don't need to get closer than 8 feet to record police misconduct, and getting closer than 8 feet to an active arrest is definitely pretty goddamn close. The 8 foot perimeter seems perfectly
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Twitter is a great LBO candidate but Elon Musk tried to buy it as a consumption good rather than an asset investment. Not that surprised that the deal he made in a fit of pique did not seem so good without the beer goggles and with the mark
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Neither. The EU just wants to shake as much money out of the tree as possible given that growing the trees domestically has not really worked out.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The days of hunter-killer drones flying willy nilly through arbitrary environments is already here! What do you think Predator drones are doing in the Middle East?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, as an American living in a city (even a safe one by American standards) almost every city I travel to is safer than default (except for some travel to places of great natural beauty like Madagascar, where I did not wander the cities).
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No I think that it's a clear sign of an adult. You don't see many 12-year-olds who can type at the speed that I can type at, although you do see some.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I just paid $250 on Craigslist for an item that I purchased new at IKEA for $149 ten years ago. I wanted a matching one and IKEA had since discontinued the color.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Great analysis. Also, the level at which the OP is understanding the situation means that he is never going to leave the world of the bullshit-takers. Thus his best strategy is to work on continuously improving his technical competence so t
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The monkey. The answer would be the same for just a vial of the antibodies, the monkey is completely incidental.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I cannot really say what I would do if I was a monkey, it's like asking me what a circle with corners would look like. Too far outside my ability to imagine. I wouldn't sacrifice any number of humans to save any kind of robot eith
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Wouldn't sacrifice any humans for a billion monkeys
523.
by spoonjim 4y ago
Despite the fact that a man fat enough to derail a trolley, if even possible, likely has an extremely low quality of life and an extremely short life expectancy.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, this is a weird romantic retcon of a highly accomplished mathematician as some kind of artist-drifter. He was not a tip top performer as an undergraduate but this is more like a sixth round NFL draft pick winning the Super Bowl, not so
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The established creator thing is so important. For things where the parameters of success are hard to define (what makes a hit movie?) there is no good marker of skill other than having done it before.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is a bit different, crypto was always a dumb idea but Facebook was hoping to ride some hype/trend train towards… ? I don’t think this is a case where they should have continued to invest.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don’t think these investments were necessarily stupid. A lot of people in crypto found bagholders and Thiel was probably hoping he could find his own.
528.
by spoonjim 4y ago
Wrong, the majority of Apple’s thermal efficiency comes from superior design which in turn comes from the fact that they were able to design it from the ground up with no backwards compatibility requirements (since they don’t have any custo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I saw a Tweet to the effect of "Instead of thinking of the US as a version of Norway or the Netherlands that happens to be failing on virtually every metric, it's more accurate to think of the US as a version of Brazil that happen
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by spoonjim 4y ago
But the ability to BS your way through something and pull the wool over someone’s eyes is an important skill in Corporate America.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Here’s what you need to do: marry the first hugg-integrity reasonably functional adult who is willing to marry you. Boom, solved like they did in the old days.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Even the CEO of Google would not have a credible claim to know exactly what is being stored and by whom and when.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don’t think this will ever happen. You will need to inventory $30,000 parts to sell them for $30,005 (if $5 is the cost of the charge). And the cars will have to have tons of design compromises.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is where we will see how desirable Facebook still is as an employer. It used to be at the very top of the hierarchy, but it has become extremely uncool by 1) being defeated by TikTok at its core competency of building addictive apps 2)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Google will not be able to sustain this. In states where abortions become crimes Google cannot start deleting just the evidence pertaining to those crimes. They could stop collecting location data entirely, but this selective approach will
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Working in crypto you accepted this risk with open eyes.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Exactly - companies that layoff due to careless over hiring do not use surgical precision when laying off.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I have twice been tricked and bought "chikn" or similar. One time the product I bought I was incredibly disgusting, the other time it was alright and edible.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I wasn't talking about his family, I was talking about his professional contacts.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
People’s public and private personalities have very little correlation.

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