thijson

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by thijson 8d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdabtEUoyY
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by thijson 8d ago
I think that's becoming gold. That's why we're seeing the price action in it over the last few years. In a world with little trust, only gold is trusted. Even the Netherlands is repatriating a portion of their gold reserve
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by thijson 8d ago
I wonder if heavy trucks pay correspondingly higher then. I would imagine the damage they do is disproportionately higher.
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by thijson 9d ago
The government itself is the biggest criminal enterprise. I guess they are worried about being eclipsed.
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by thijson 11d ago
Another policy is to charge EV's registration fees that are way higher than ICE vehicles.
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by thijson 15d ago
Plug in solar is nice because you don't have to hire an electrician, just plug into an outlet.
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by thijson 16d ago
The same thing happened in Afghanistan (to both Russia and the USA). Really has a David vs Goliath feel to it. Effectively the whole population is against you, so how do you win them over? No military strategy is going to be able to do t
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by thijson 17d ago
Smoking has morphed into vaping and zyn.
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by thijson 17d ago
They have a term for it, it's called brain rot. That's what I witness them watching anyway.
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by thijson 20d ago
I wonder if diamonds become cheap enough, and we are growing the crystal anyway, if we can introduce dopants and get interesting electrical properties.
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by thijson 26d ago
I remember in the 90's there was some sort of shortage reportedly due to fires. In the end it was found the shortage was due to collusion by the manufacturers. https://share.google/aimode/ewJpwCHUINOHzjBVg
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by thijson 1mo ago
It's a slow moving train wreck. I hope the consequences of these petulant actions scar the minds of voters for years to come. We're seeing the yield on treasuries creeping up, I think that's one of the consequences.
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by thijson 1mo ago
This is anecdotal, however I remember hearing about farmers trying to maximize for egg production. Multiple hens would share a cage. The initial criteria was to only breed the hen that produced the most eggs. Overall egg production decli
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by thijson 1mo ago
These kinds of late design decisions can cost a huge amount of money. And it may cost lives because it's now shoe horned in, less reliable.
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by thijson 2mo ago
Climate change is inevitable, whether we exist or not. The sun will continue to get hotter over the next few billion years. Life is a struggle, it sounds like you would rather just give up. I guess evolution is working as intended.
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by thijson 2mo ago
Our DNA was largely coded by prior generations that didn't really have a choice of reproduction, it just kind of happened because it's a natural result of sex. That connection has been severed in modern civilization. It's g
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by thijson 2mo ago
I think Greenspan called it hedonics.
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by thijson 2mo ago
Isn't that when the Fed stepped into the reverse repo market in order to allow the banks to extend and pretend?
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by thijson 2mo ago
Using Euro's apparently.
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by thijson 2mo ago
After typing in the program, I found that single stepping the program in a debugger greatly helped with understanding.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I'm sensing a pattern here. Weren't foreign made grid tied inverters just banned?
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by thijson 2mo ago
I remember something similar happening where software was going to be outlawed from export: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann After a report from RSA Security, who were in a licensing dispute with regard to
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by thijson 2mo ago
We could only book our business travel through American Express. It must have made economic sense at the c suite level, I wasn't seeing it at my level, the flights were consistently more expensive.
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by thijson 2mo ago
I remember going to a university as a high schooler in the 80's and being amazed to see the GUI of an Apple computer, and the mouse pointer would change to an hour glass while waiting for something, When the hour glass filled, it would
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by thijson 2mo ago
Windows 3.11 was pretty unstable, because it wasn't using protected mode. I remember how unstable the Macs were back then too before the introduction of OSX. Applications also had to voluntarily give up control of the CPU, cooperative
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by thijson 2mo ago
We used Proakis in grad school. For undergrad we used: Communication Systems by Simon Haykin
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by thijson 3mo ago
I've watched youtube videos where the farmer is complaining that his million dollar combine has to do a regen cycle. Each hour that machine is running is costing the farm hundreds of dollars in depreciation.
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by thijson 3mo ago
I know that I trust products from Costco being good quality, I'm less likely to regret my purchase decision. I've been burned with stuff I got on Amazon being crappy.
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by thijson 3mo ago
Just got a window air conditioner on the Costco web site, delivered to the home. That was 25% cheaper than in the store.
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by thijson 3mo ago
I used mine in Iceland too. It was one of the cheaper places to eat there. Still expensive though compared to the USA. I heard that the Costco hot dog and a soda is still $1.50 in Hawaii, that's a bargain.

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