therealbilly

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by therealbilly 5y ago
Yep, governments only care about control. Currency is a big part of that. It's clear our future is going to be very locked down. Big Brother will say it's for our own good.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
It's one thing for the US government to surveil people using dollars. Dollars are fiat currency issued by the United States. Generally speaking, governments have long controlled the manner in which citizens use fiat currency...for good
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by therealbilly 5y ago
I propose that intelligent life is improbable generally speaking. The other issue is distance. Assuming there is an energy breakthrough and relativistic speeds are possible, the craft will be destroyed long before arriving at a destination.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Evidence has been building for some time that the Ediacaran period was more important than first realized. It looks like many lineages had already formed prior to the Cambrian. If anything, it's furthers the mystery of how all the dive
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by therealbilly 5y ago
We were all taught that humans are not special and the earth is common. Well, it looks like everybody was wrong. We are unique after all.
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by therealbilly 5y ago
Does anybody seriously expect anything to change. On Capitol Hill, they are going to posture and make grandiose statements. Later in the day, everybody will meet at one of those fancy beltway pubs and get all cozy.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Why would Google do this in the first place? The reason is that they did not have time to figure out what capabilities might be needed in their own solution. So copy the API from someone's other competing product and then later, put co
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Since we have never been visited by aliens, or witnessed time travel, these things must not be possible. It they were, there would be proof and it would be documented. It's as simple as that.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
The F35 is a strange aircraft. It has a very powerful single engine but the airframe is still too heavy. So the plane performs poorly and lacks the potential energy to exploit any particular edge case. So they are pushing it as a "netw
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Oh man, Tesla is not covering themselves in glory on this issue. C'mon Elon, step up and do the right thing. Don't burn your goodwill.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Keep the touchbar. I like it. Just have a model for the fuddy duddy's.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Dr. Goebbels is alive and well inside these tech firms. His tactics are being dusted off, updated and put into action. You say it doesn't bother you, but tomorrow or a little down the road, you may wake up and find you don't have
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by therealbilly 6y ago
AMD's recent agreement with China and the resulting monies allowed AMD to really move ahead. We have to keep that in mind.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Once the signals reached them, the aliens finally watched 2001 Space Odyssey and they thought cool, let's actually put something on that little blue planet.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
I know they built that big collider in Europe but already they are saying they need a bigger one. I guess things are getting harder to discover.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Cool, let's send someone to check it out.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
I think Enrico Fermi had it right. We should have seen something by now. It makes us rare and special.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
When you get tired of dealing with the riffraff, go to the secret lounge and laugh it off.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
So sad knowing the patient will always revert back to his original state.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
I use a repurposed Dell Precision workstation here at home and it's great. The Xeon 6-core rips through applications and the 64GB allows for multiple VMs as the case may be. In my mind, this setup is superior to ordinary desktops.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
I wonder what the India government is doing with all the tariff money they are collecting. Their citizens should be asking that question.
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by therealbilly 6y ago
Boy those Chinos. You gotta really keep your eyes on those guys.
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by therealbilly 7y ago
It's nice to know that the superluminal space is not just an isolated fantasy land with imaginary particles like the tachyon. Could be a real place where quantum weirdness actually resides. Very interesting indeed.
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by therealbilly 7y ago
Here's the deal. There seems to be a default mode of behavior where people automatically reject news that conflicts with the status quo. In this case, these people are senior scientists not involved in the original mission. It's v
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by therealbilly 7y ago
I got a suggestion. Pick up a late model MacBook Pro, then go down to your local used PC shop and pick up two PC laptops (300 bux each), and install Linux and Windows. At that point, you have all 3 platforms covered and don't have to c
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by therealbilly 7y ago
The 737 MAX has new powerful engines and are placed more forward on the wing. This changes the handling characteristics and is most noticeable during takeoffs as the nose tends to rise more readily. The simple solution is to require an hour
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by therealbilly 7y ago
To the fellow saying skip the tour, I say, let people see it and draw their own conclusions. Surely that is appropriate in this circumstance.
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by therealbilly 7y ago
I have the 2017 MacBook Pro. It did take a while to get use to the keyboard. Now I find other keyboards are mushy by comparison. On the touchbar, never really thought much about it. Seems to work okay for me. I'm amused by some of the