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by vondur 7mo ago
Owens valley is basically dried up from the water that LA takes. It's interesting as you drive in the towns in the Valley and you see all the LA Department of Water and Power offices over 200 miles from Los Angeles. The courts had to f
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by vondur 7mo ago
I was hoping my corpse paint would also be effective at blocking facial recognition too.
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by vondur 7mo ago
I thought the design flaws of the Xbox 360 cooling system had more to do with Microsoft than any inherent design flaw by IBM. I assumed that switching to x86 processors let Microsoft leverage their native developer tools from Windows which
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by vondur 7mo ago
Am I wrong thinking this is similar to the housing loan crisis of 2008? This is just another form of that "shadow banking" system isn't it?
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by vondur 7mo ago
It was very important. The Normans completely supplanted the ruling aristocracy of England and changed the culture of the country. The Normans were some serious bad asses and conquered Sicily and nearly conquered the Byzantine Empire. There
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by vondur 7mo ago
I mean, didn't a ton of people get hired immediately after 2020 during the pandemic? Also,I don't remember the tech sector getting hit too hard during 2008 time period, it was mostly everyone else.
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by vondur 8mo ago
I doubt the MacMini is a high margin product for Apple. I'd agree it's probably one of the more simpler items to build in their product line.
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by vondur 8mo ago
>I believe Europeans have a genetic disposition for destruction, and history shows that. I don't think that is the case, but more so they were better at war then everyone else.
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by vondur 8mo ago
I would think that would be an indicator of economic issues; it's usually cheaper to stay in your own country vs traveling abroad. Especially vs. the US Dollar, although it's got better the last couple of months.
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by vondur 8mo ago
Didn’t the Dutch basically take over the Portuguese trading empire from them?
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by vondur 8mo ago
I would imagine the economic situation in Canada isn't helping either.
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by vondur 8mo ago
That is probably true, but if they are selling at a loss, it can only go on for so long.
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by vondur 8mo ago
So not really AI, but a well run private school with high achieving students. Looks like they do optimize the learning strategies.
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by vondur 8mo ago
Here's a link to their private equity fund status: https://www.calpers.ca.gov/investments/about-investment-offi... And here's a link to the CalPers celebrating their new ROI: https://news.calpers.c
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by vondur 8mo ago
Pretty much spot on.
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by vondur 8mo ago
CalPers, the largest public employee retirement system in the US was not getting the kind of returns that they needed. They were restricted from purchasing stocks in certain industries, such as oil, weapons, etc.. However, they recently swi
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by vondur 8mo ago
Wow, I have an M4 MacMini with a Studio Display and haven't seen that. Hope I don't Jinx it when I get home to use it...
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by vondur 8mo ago
Ha, we gutted our manufacturing base, so if we bring it back it will now be state of the art! Not sure if that will work out for us, but hey their is some precedence.
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by vondur 8mo ago
Most people don't care if they feel it helps solve crimes. I doubt it does 90% of the time though.
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by vondur 8mo ago
I work at a university and I see that professors routinely try to sneak things by for travel reimbursement. We are stuck in the dark ages and most forms are paper and submitted manually. We are finally getting Concur later this year and am
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by vondur 8mo ago
Didn’t they fire some people from google who were protesting US military contracts a while back?
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by vondur 8mo ago
Who runs their European operations? Is it the Chinese and not Oracle?
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by vondur 8mo ago
I assumed the primary feature of Flatpak was to make a “universal” package across all Linux platforms. The security side of things seems to be a secondary consideration. I assume that the security aspect is now a much higher priority.
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by vondur 8mo ago
It's interesting on my mother's side of the family, most everyone lived well into their 80's and 90's. The execution being for my Mom and her sisters who smoked heavily. Her brothers both died in their 60's but were
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by vondur 8mo ago
Man, I had one of those in the late 80's. I thought it sounded bad. Turns out you are supposed to use it as a boost for your amp's distortion.
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by vondur 9mo ago
I believe the idea that China’s population was overestimated came out of the COVID vaccine rollout. Supposedly, the central government asked local officials how many doses they needed and then sent money based on those numbers. That gave so
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by vondur 9mo ago
Not surprised. Unless the item is on sale (which can be very good deals) their pricing is no better than a standard supermarket and usually far more expensive than a Target or WalMart. And they quickly gave up on the scan and go where the
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by vondur 9mo ago
Isn't that what Apple did originally with TSMC? Payed for capacity rollout?
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by vondur 9mo ago
The US Navy has an entire battle group headed to the gulf along with aircraft being moved to Qatar. Something is brewing.
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by vondur 9mo ago
Pretty much lost me at that point.

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