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by varelse 5y ago
Likewise but since it's now owned by Bethesda, no surprises here whatsoever. Bethesda has been awful since day one.
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by varelse 5y ago
Recurrent subjects on his show were things like The Cosmic Watergate, MJ-12, and all sorts of other slashfic derived from the Roswell crash, whatever that actually was. Real-life events like the satellite feed getting cut while on the air,
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by varelse 5y ago
No he hated Bill Clinton and he said so many times. It wasn't the beat you to death with a hammer if you disagree with me because you hate America kind of politics but it was always there if you asked him and I actually did to his face
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by varelse 5y ago
What was a wonderful pre-apocalyptic buzz guilty pleasure back in the 90s is now the sad precursor to MAGA. Why are people so utterly stupid? But, for real, I was in the theater next to Art Bell when he watched Contact. And you know how muc
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by varelse 5y ago
This is a great essay. And I have kept more than one employee working with me at BigCo by explaining the odds of success of the expected return for being an engineer vs a TLA at startups. It actually used to be work to make this case but no
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by varelse 5y ago
I went looking for these insurance companies that are dropping insurance policies over battery backup systems or EVs and I couldn't find any. Do you have a source for this or did you just hear that somewhere?
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by varelse 5y ago
Except yes it does for coal and a myriad of other dirty tricks by corporate America. So I remain amazed that we don't channel that energy into doing good.
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by varelse 5y ago
Why do you assume a priori that my youtube experience must include recommendations from a biased source and why are you against viewers taking matters into their own hands to craft the youtube experience they wish? They could craft a set of
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by varelse 5y ago
I just installed an extension to block all the recommendations because it wouldn't stop recommending Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro videos to me. And they have nothing new to say to me. Edit: Oh no! I admitted that because I don'
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by varelse 5y ago
Sounds like a call to duty to hit the dislike button if even slightly inclined to do so going forward.
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by varelse 5y ago
You can always naysay but sometimes you just need to set a goal and go for it. Coal comes at a tremendously detrimental cost. I don't get how anyone continues to make a case for it. It even generates more radioactive waste than nuclear
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by varelse 5y ago
Funny you should say that. So it turns out providing 40 kWh of battery backup to 128M homes would create about 500M tons of CO2. In comparison, the coal industry annually contributes 1.9B tons of CO2 and spews 120M tons of toxic waste which
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by varelse 5y ago
You did notice I mentioned nuclear as part of the solution, and it was much more of the solution until the price of solar dropped precipitously over the past decade, but we still need it. I'm fed up with the politics too and I'm r
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by varelse 5y ago
It amazes me that we can't all just agree that this is real and that we just disagree on how fast we need to act. Because then we could spend 12 billion to retire the entire coal mining industry in the United States of America and retr
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by varelse 5y ago
Mostly sociopaths who don't care because their brains are wired not to do so. What's interesting is why evolution selects for sociopathic brains among us. They are the psychological cuckoos stealing from everyone else. Evolution i
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by varelse 5y ago
OpenSCAD's biggest problem appears to be that it is single-threaded. I learned this from a guy printing parts for my RV. Is there an open CSG package out there somewhere that does operations like Minkowski Sums as convolutions so that
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by varelse 5y ago
Indeed: the Nacirema are a strange people. https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacir...
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by varelse 5y ago
I once walked out of a John Carmack SIGGRAPH talk when he opened with claiming he invented the FPS because of Ultima Underworld, The Eidolon, and Way Out... Like him otherwise, but nope he didn't invent it...
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by varelse 5y ago
I think it is. But... But PLATO Moria might be the OG of 3D in this space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(1978_video_game)
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by varelse 5y ago
Hot take: The Eidolon is more impressive than this effort and it works with the technological limitations of the platform rather than against it like this does. All those LucasArts games were stunning for the time and Rescue At Fractalus ha
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by varelse 5y ago
1982 is calling but expects to be connected to some HN pedant "helpfully" pointing out that you can't actually shoot stuff. https://youtu.be/j4OLnrwLcJA
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by varelse 5y ago
They just need to hold all that inventory long enough for it to go black. But of course the market can remain irrational longer than they can remain solvent so that's not how it will play out. Also good luck convincing the sociopaths o
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by varelse 5y ago
If the rate is too high, I suspect wealth will be transferred to assets like real estate with lower annual taxations. And this will lead to a new class of speculation. Or rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic because we haven't solved
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by varelse 5y ago
If you define small business as $10M in the former and $100M market caps in the latter then sure. Now imagine having a portfolio of such "small businesses" like this. I'm hoping we can agree this is abusing the law, but I giv
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by varelse 5y ago
QSBS deduction, LLC to Type S conversions etc. These won't be fixed apparently anytime soon if ever.
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by varelse 5y ago
The other thing that works magic (and especially for Poison Oak/Poison Ivy) is a washcloth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0
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by varelse 5y ago
Seems to me most people don't actually need a "world computer" but what they do need is access to their computers from anywhere in the world. If you have good bandwidth to those computers that's possible today.
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by varelse 5y ago
I'm holding out for this website does not exist personally.
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by varelse 5y ago
The mice were furious and they demanded the cat bell itself!
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by varelse 5y ago
In my experience, insufferable mid-level management can bring out the worst in the best people, and then accuse them of being primadonnas because they are absolutely incapable of any self-reflection themselves.

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