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by thijson 10mo ago
I read somewhere that Rupert Murdoch was able to swing some elections a while ago in Australia and the UK. That was through his media ownership though.
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by thijson 10mo ago
I think the Greeks called our form of government an oligarchy. Elections as popularity contests are so easily swung by money. Instead, democracy was determined to be selecting public officials by random lots. https://en.wikipedi
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by thijson 10mo ago
I was watching a video where the speaker said the current A.I. capex requires $2 trillion of revenue to break even. However the whole advertising TAM is $1 trillion. Maybe there's another way to monetize it. https://www.yo
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by thijson 10mo ago
You can, it's called OTEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio... Just like this scheme, it's not very economically efficient. Carnot efficiency is proportional to the temperature rat
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by thijson 10mo ago
I think spacex uses it too, that's probably key to their engine becoming smaller and smaller over time.
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by thijson 10mo ago
I guess it takes a visionary management to recognize the value of disasters that were prevented. Who is worth more? The person that quietly removes scrub brush and other fuel on the ground in the years before the forest fire starts, or the
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by thijson 10mo ago
I was watching a crime solving show from the UK. A huge percentage of the crimes are solved using camera footage. Also, they use geofencing, looking at which phones went in and out of the crime location at the time of the crime.
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by thijson 10mo ago
That's the BMW i3 with range extender. It works pretty good for long trips. Probably 95% of my miles are electric though. I think Dodge is planning a serial hybrid truck called RAM charger.
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by thijson 10mo ago
Kodak knew digital cameras were coming, my first digital camera was a Kodak from the late 90's. I guess it wasn't in their DNA to innovate and compete in this new medium. I feel like being a publicly traded company prevents pivot
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by thijson 10mo ago
My sister corrupted my favorite game. She pressed fast forward on the tape deck while it was playing (and loading). I think that stretched the tape, because after that the game wouldn't load anymore, it would error out. This happened
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by thijson 10mo ago
AMD/Xilinx Vivado uses ZIP format to compress design checkpoints. They just give them a .dcp extension though.
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by thijson 11mo ago
Companies can't really be expected to police themselves. I remember reading that oil companies were aware of global warming in internal literature even back in the 80's
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by thijson 11mo ago
It almost seems like a collusion among the developed countries to allow in so many immigrants. Canada allowing in almost a million students, mostly from India. USA had basically an open border to the south, probably around 10 million. I&
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by thijson 11mo ago
I was just reading how ATSC 3 (over the air TV) is kind of stalling because they added DRM fairly late in the roll out. Several people bought receivers that are now incompatible.
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by thijson 11mo ago
A lot of country's population pyramid doesn't look like a pyramid. It's more like a rhombus. https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2024/ I noticed some middle eastern countries have a very skewed
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by thijson 11mo ago
Xilinx Zync have PL for FPGA programmable logic, and PS with a few different ARM cores. They aren't as cheap as a Pi Pico though.
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by thijson 1y ago
I think Steve Jobs vetoed the idea of putting x86 in the Ipad, he thought Intel moved too slow.
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by thijson 1y ago
I was reading accounts from the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. One of the survivors was blown out of the house and was stuck neck deep into water. Couldn't get free, so had to wait for rescue. They didn't get m
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by thijson 1y ago
It seems like whatever party gets into power, suddenly doesn't want to change the system they inherited. I remember Trudeau talking about eliminating first past the post in Canadian elections. But once he got into power he forgot abo
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by thijson 1y ago
My son is into this. At the pool yesterday I heard some kids counting up for a game. When they reached 6 and 7, they said 6-7. My son found that pretty funny.
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by thijson 1y ago
I think a space elevator on the Moon would be more practical, pointing towards earth. The gravity force is smaller, so existing materials could work. There's not as much of an atmosphere to deal with. It would go past the L1 point b
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by thijson 1y ago
I believe that if the elites in China didn't need the populace, they would dispense with them.
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by thijson 1y ago
This is an aside, I was watching an oral history of Ken Thompson. I guess he was responsible for the naming of grep: https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4
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by thijson 1y ago
I feel like options for local inference are getting better. AMD has their Strix Halo. Intel's next CPU generation Arrow Lake will have better inference abilities as well.
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by thijson 1y ago
That requires a standards body and government mandate. It might not happen for a while.
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by thijson 1y ago
More recently it's the 6-7 meme. It feels like meaning is added after the video becomes viral.
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by thijson 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when everyone was trying to learn Japanese back in the 80's. It would be difficult to work in China, their green card equivalent is difficult to obtain. The economic conditions in China right now are ver
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by thijson 1y ago
And if that doesn't work, there's always the War Measures Act (ie. martial law). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis
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by thijson 1y ago
I don't see what the mutual dependency is. They sent us cheap shit for a few decades, we gave them dollars in return. Our inflation rate was super low, as we were exporting our inflation. We slowly lost the ability to make stuff dom
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by thijson 1y ago
It's kind of like how the Rhino was endangered in Africa, until ownership was allowed. Who owns orbits? I'm not sure if this would be practical. I wonder if a laser fired from a higher orbit at the debris as it approaches over t

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