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by tootie 6mo ago
They plower a ton of resources into this for years. And it was breaking into an existing market with established competitors. There was just never a market for this product at all no matter how good it was or how good it could have been. 99
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by tootie 6mo ago
"Professional services" was the other common term. Most big software companies had them and/or subcontracted for them.
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by tootie 6mo ago
If foreign supply is cut, the price goes up for everybody everywhere. Even net exporters. That's the whole point of this thread. Every drop of oil, gas or coal extracted (and not under sanction) will be sold to the highest bidder anywh
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by tootie 6mo ago
Biden forgave student loans and conservative SCOTUS stopped him. Dems passed ACA and expanded Medicaid and CHIP. Republicans cut them both. I could go on but I'm sure you know all this. Dems aren't perfect. Nobody ever is and it&#
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by tootie 6mo ago
The inflection point will be cities building infrastructure and passing laws supporting self driving. Then it will hockey stick.
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by tootie 6mo ago
That makes no sense at all. We just had a post about several countries with energy independence who had done it with zero extractable resources. For them, the magic key was having tons of hydro and a small population. They just stopped impo
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by tootie 6mo ago
How? Being a net exporter implies we make more than we use. Great. How do we force companies to not export until domestic demand is met? And how do we ensure that doesn't raise prices more than just running the system as-is?
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by tootie 6mo ago
Global pricing affects all fossil fuels and always will. Energy independence will remain a fantasy until we are fully on renewables. Which is entirely within reach and requires fighting zero wars.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Caffeine evolved to deter insects. Coffee, tea, chocolate and some other plants all evolved caffeine independently due to similar evolutionary pressure.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Meta has substantially less revenue and less diversification than Apple or Google.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Jones is currently crashing out over the deal with The Onion and has just today repeated his claim that the shooting was staged: https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mk6rah...
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by tootie 6mo ago
Wrong. It does surveillance for multiple countries militaries. And also for private companies.
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by tootie 6mo ago
This kind of thing is egregious, but they get away with stuff like this all the time. I live a few blocks from an NYPD precinct house and they park all their personal vehicles on the sidewalk all the time every day. It's less dangerous
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by tootie 6mo ago
He can always do what he is doing for himself with the IRS. Let Jones sue a federal agency then order that agency to settle.
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by tootie 6mo ago
He wasn't just expressing an opinion though. He was willfully lying. The burden for proving defamation is pretty high to avoid infringing on free speech and the burden was easily met. They proved that he not only lied, he knowingly lie
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by tootie 6mo ago
It's even worse than that. Because despite his commitment to non-compliance and general contempt for the entire process he managed to comfound his own defense resulting in his legal team accidentally disclosing way too much including t
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by tootie 6mo ago
Bet they will become tied to grok pretty soon.
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by tootie 6mo ago
The Onion is a long standing satirical news site. They run crazy stories intended to make readers laugh. Infowars was a disinformation/conspiracy site that ran crazy headlines to outrage their audience. The owner of Infowars was sued i
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by tootie 6mo ago
Used to. Sold to Cards Against Humanity.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Alex Jones is a professional liar and is adjudicated as such. What he has to say should rightly be disregarded.
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by tootie 6mo ago
Karp has a right to his opinion as bonkers as it may be but it is doubly bonkers to release this as company policy. Especially coupled with all the other bonkers things that went into this manifesto. Rearming Germany and Japan? Why does Pal
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by tootie 6mo ago
"Perhaps" you say even though humanity hasn't had a long history of conscription and it has never created peace.
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by tootie 6mo ago
When we built self-driving cars, did we put a humanoid robot in the driver's seat? No. We put sensors on the car's perimeter and plugged in to the existing electronics. Forget "fits in human spaces" and think about an ac
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by tootie 6mo ago
The tweet and article say exactly what the culprit it and it's lack of IPOs due to fear of shareholder litigation.
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by tootie 6mo ago
We build our living spaces against the constraints of the human form, but that still doesn't imply the human form is optimal for anything. There's no reason a robot traveling over smooth surface should have legs instead of wheels
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by tootie 6mo ago
Is emulating human behavior really a valuable end goal though? Humans exist as the evolutionary endpoint of exhaustion hunting large pray and organic tool-making. We've built loads of industrial and residential automation tools in the
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by tootie 6mo ago
I know you warned us, but this overly flippant. There's plenty of obvious reasons we shouldn't be wasting land, energy, water and labor on producing things that don't get utilized. Even in the most selfish capitalist sensibil
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by tootie 6mo ago
Gift link: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/13/t...
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by tootie 6mo ago
I think they missed Uruguay which is a similar case. They have also traditionally benefitted from a hydro able to cover 80-90% most of their needs but they made a concerted effort to fill the entire remaining gap with wind and solar.
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by tootie 7mo ago
Not a question but just wanted to make sure you saw this: https://theonion.com/anyone-else-have-those-weird-dreams-whe...

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