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by wombatpm 2y ago
If they just want to do financial engineering and not actually produce something maybe they are in the wrong business?
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by wombatpm 2y ago
TSLA was up about 200 pts post election. His post inauguration actions have erased all of those gains.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Did you see the areas that voted far right? Lots of overlap with firmer East Germany
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Stock buy backs should not be possible within 1 years of a layoff, and should be a taxable expense if a layoff occurs within one year after a buyback. I also think dividends should not be taxed by corporations, and only taxed as ordinary in
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Just to clarify: all perpetual motion machine videos on TikTok are fake or using the stored energy of magnets over time.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I don’t know. When you are living in a Chinese owned factory dormitory you don’t need lots.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Your inherent value as a data source becomes the justification for UBI
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Are we giving up our bases? Sending all personnel home, disbanding some brigades or a fleet? No? Then we are not saving any tax dollars. We’ve just made it more expensive to maintain our global empire.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Those same people could hold up in a compound today. But they like the nice things, restaurants, social events, football games etc. They better start liking the locked down life now, because if things go bad their 20 security detail won’t p
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by wombatpm 2y ago
See what’s missing is the ability to put your answers on the blockchain …
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by wombatpm 2y ago
At that point he knew things were done. There is no more US aide and he decided to call them on their bullshit.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I had the legendary 15C during my college. That little thing was a workhorse. But I’ll admit I was jealous of the HP35 when it came out.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Kindle originally had text to speech functionality. The Audibook people sued and Amazon went in to buy Audible
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by wombatpm 2y ago
You start doing that for text from ebooks and Audible is going to want to have words with you.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Ok self flying drones that size if a deck of cards carrying a single bullet and enough processing power to fly around looking for faces, navigate to said face, fire when in range. Produce them by the thousands and release on the battlefield
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by wombatpm 2y ago
You know there was a time when we had to wait dozens of seconds for the modem to finish its handshake before you could do anything.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
ZCTA5 roughly corresponds to the area of a 5 digit zip code. Problem is there are large areas of the west that don’t have permanent residents and no mail delivery. Plus they change over time.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
It’s not just an attack on DEI, it’s a return to cultural attitudes that were prevalent in the 1970’s. The new attitude is that anyone who is not a straight white male in any position of any responsibility must be a DEI hire and should be a
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by wombatpm 2y ago
RSU’s can be very comforting.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I remember It was mess. I believe some PATCO members were allowed to reapply for jobs, but most were banned.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
In the 1980’s Reagan fired all members of PATCO, the air traffic controller union and replaced them with military personnel until a new cohort could be trained.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I did the same, learning basic along the way. I got a dot matrix printer and learned how to send print statements to the printer. I wrote an essay for school and printed it out line by line using print statements. Good times.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
We had plenty of UFO sightings over the last couple of years. Remember the navy pilots? The drones a few months back? Big Foot, sadly, has been displaced by climate change and was forced to relocate to Canada
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by wombatpm 2y ago
In 2022: 1,105 deaths related to bicycles vs 357 airplane related deaths. Depending on the metric you choose you can argue that either one is more deadly. So yes, people here would do that.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Isn’t Alphabet and other tech companies technically Irish owned? Doesn’t Saudi Arabia own a chunk of Twitter? Seemed like the whole ownership ship justification is a cheap canard.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Martha Stewart was INVESTIGATED for insider trading. She was CONVICTED of lying to the FBI. Just a reminder to never talk to the FBI without a lawyer
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by wombatpm 2y ago
And how do you know everything is ok when you build your new docker image?
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by wombatpm 2y ago
Python supports imperative, OO and functional programming paradigms. And to start you can use any text editor, an IDE is not required. In fact you can start working in the REPL right away, in which case you need a terminal and the command “
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by wombatpm 2y ago
And if you were in a large corporate environment, you could see through the bullshit as well. It is just a CLM (career limiting move) to call it out, so everyone gives it lip service.
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by wombatpm 2y ago
I was thinking that Blue Origin was a more likely target.

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