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by vanniv 7y ago
With the production of some additional capital, it should be entirely possible to go get all of the rest of the land and other natural resources in the solar system/galaxy/universe
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by vanniv 7y ago
The universe is sufficiently close to infinite that I think we can probably say that land is infinitely expandable too
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by vanniv 7y ago
Oh, damn, I forgot to vote in them! No wonder the world has gone to hell!
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by vanniv 7y ago
Cloudflare isn't really any better than Google. Really, they're worse. If Cloudflare decides you should not be, you're not allowed to use the internet at all. The last thing we need is to give them even more power.
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by vanniv 7y ago
That's the hundred-billion-dollar question, isn't it. My radical proposal is to separate the research institutions from the universities -- especially the public universities. If you want public research institutes, that's f
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by vanniv 7y ago
Outside of academia, the patent situation looks much like this. In theory, patents have two parts -- the claims (what specific attributes of your invention are getting patent protection) and the teaching (the bulk of the text/diagrams
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by vanniv 7y ago
I wasn't trying to make a special significance by looking back exactly four years -- I picked 2016 as a starting point because I felt that it gave enough context to show that the big drop in December 2018 was a little blip in what is a
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by vanniv 7y ago
2016: +11.96% 2017: +21.83% 2018: -04.38% 2019: +32% (All numbers are total return, the 2019 source didn't have fractions of a %) That's not a bad four years' return. (Yes, December 2018 had a big decline -- but the first 11
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by vanniv 7y ago
Such an unreasonable amount of work has gone into pushing this author's work the last few years, and to completely silencing any who writes even a slightly-negative review of it. It's incredibly transparent, and incredibly tiresom
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by vanniv 7y ago
Just one more alarmist prediction that didn't pan out. Just like all the others.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Presently, one week in five. Average shift has one overnight page and one other out of hours page (with high variance). I am compensated for the oncall, but not a meaningful amount.
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by vanniv 7y ago
The thing that worries me is that every year, I find the premise of Neil Schusterman's "Unwind" less far-fetched. It still seems improbable, but no longer utterly inconceivable.
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by vanniv 7y ago
The article answers its own question: men are increasingly not enrolling in colleges. This shouldn't be terribly surprising given how anti-male the environment has become.
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by vanniv 7y ago
They could. But for many things, it's just easier for everybody to just not deal with California.
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by vanniv 7y ago
We gave up decency for an insistence of uniformity of thought a little while ago
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by vanniv 7y ago
Sharing opinions on sensitive subjects can get you fired these days if they're the "wrong" opinions
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by vanniv 7y ago
Thanks for being the only person to assume that I am an outlier in some way other than by being an asshole! I don't know why everyone assumes that "different" has to be "asshole" If anything, "asshole-ish"
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by vanniv 7y ago
If I were to "just be myself" at work, I would be fired very quickly -- because my self is outside the narrow little band of what is "approved of" in my workplace. Every conversation of a sensitive nature is an opportuni
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by vanniv 7y ago
True, though it seems like asking sensitive questions is a moderate risk, whereas answering them is the real high-risk activity.
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by vanniv 7y ago
I can't believe this is still a thing. Then again, I felt the same way when I studied it at university almost 20 years ago. It was pretty obviously a pipe dream then, too.
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by vanniv 7y ago
It seems these days like every time someone sees an election that doesn't go their way, they assume that the voters on the other side were clearly all imbeciles voting for their own destruction. That's an incredibly naive and narc
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by vanniv 7y ago
One of the foundational myths of America is that there is no social class but wealth. I suspect that it was never true, though having spent some time in the UK, it is more true in America by far. However, social class still exists here. Cas
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by vanniv 7y ago
Those are both pretty well-known and well-regarded sources in the community. Unsurprisingly, knowledge is lost when moving to the mass media
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by vanniv 7y ago
CNN is just wrong, though. These are being marketed as premium economy seats. https://thepointsguy.com/news/the-future-of-premium-economy/ https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2019/12/10/w
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by vanniv 7y ago
and now the schools are stuck accepting those students the people who fund the places intended -- their own communities
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by vanniv 7y ago
It requires some luck to become truly wealthy from anything but the top quartile or so in a single generation. It requires responsibility, dedication, and intentionality to accomplish it in two generations, or to maintain wealth earned more
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by vanniv 7y ago
Monoprice has a really nice line of multi-port chargers called "Obsidian" whose feature list includes "no lights" In particular, the 60W USB-C + 3x12W USB-A brick is really nice.
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by vanniv 7y ago
If you start from the presumption that jobs are "bullshit", then you end up creating these ludicrously contorted theories. Or, you could start from the obvious: that the entity paying the money thinks it is buying something of val
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by vanniv 7y ago
Even an article about a magic show isn't complete in the opinion of the editors of the NY Times until it becomes about Trump.
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by vanniv 7y ago
These systems create more room for corruption and fraud to pass unnoticed, which was the goal all along.

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