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by wombatpm 1y ago
Tax advertising for gambling? Require all advertising for gambling to go through a state agency? There is lots a state can do besides banning.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
That works fine until they achieve self awareness. Slave revolts are very messy to slave owners.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Just wait Sam Altman will give us robots with people personalities and we’ll have Marvin. Elon will then give us psychotic Nazi internet edgelord personality and install it as the default in a OTA update to Teslas.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Wait until a company has to restate earnings because of a bug in a Claudified Excel spreadsheet.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I believe Stephen Miller want a final solution to the immigration problem.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
They are serious now, but eventually Pournell’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy comes into play. Those who believe in the organization will take over from those who believe in the mission.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Well let’s not forget the extrajudicial murders in international waters the US is currently performing.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Novell or Lotus Notes
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Publishing is a dying industry. It use to be that publishers had limited press capacity, so if wanted to print and sell your book you needed a publisher to handle the production and distribution. Now it’s electronic. What value is a publish
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by wombatpm 1y ago
The story with 3M and PostIt Notes is that the idea was originally rejected my management. The inventors created a batch and distributed them to all the executive admin assistants. When they went back a second time, they had the assistants
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I live within 10 miles of one which entitles me to annual evacuation instructions and a free iodine pill kit to keep at home in case of an accident. Other than that, we get great fishing in the cooling lakes.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Audio people lost me when they complained about tape hiss being an issue with Digital Audio Tape. They then moved on to gold plated terminals and left twisted vs right twisted pairs wires inside multi conductor cables.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I had a friend who drove a 79 Datsun. Stalling and not starting was a surprisingly common occurrence. He would often go out of his way to park on a hill to avoid problems.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
But that is 41% for a single vendor out of 10. So market leader. And it looks like the data is based on hospital installations but not normalized based on quantity of patient served or patient case complexity. Edward’s Hospital in Plainfiel
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by wombatpm 1y ago
There already are 6 yr programs. A school in Ohio has a 6 yr program where you graduate with a BS and MD.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Isn’t this just Design By Contract from Eiffel just in another form?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Pig and cow valves will calcify and fail eventually. But it’s a slow process so you have time to plan and make decisions for replacement. Mechanical values are great until one day the clicking sound stops and you need to get to a hospital A
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Bell really really wanted this: It also proposed that it be freed from a 1956 antitrust consent decree, then administered by Judge Vincent P. Biunno in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, that barred it from par
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by wombatpm 1y ago
You would think. I was a TA for numerical methods for undergrad engineers. Saw lots of bright students who understood the material but could debug their code. Several grad students started a 1credit seminar course on Fortran fundamentals. W
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Except when it doesn't. 60447 is in three counties in Illinois. Which causes confusion when laws/regulations are applied at a county level.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Minneapolis average January temps: about 9°F / –13°C (low) to 24°F / –4°C (high). Stockholm January average: 25°F / –4°C (low) to 32°F / 0°C (high) — closer to Chicago than Minneapolis. Having been splashed by busses in
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by wombatpm 1y ago
He negotiates in bad faith. No deal is final. He will change the terms to meet his whims. The Chinese understand. Notice how there are no soybean purchases from China this year. They do not trust the US on important things like food.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
You obviously do not live in Chicago or Minneapolis. Winters make this a nonstarter
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Back in the days of OS7/OS8 there was a system extension called MacSniff. Your MacIntosh would randomly sniff like it had a runny nose and clear its throat. I put it on one of our group machines and within 24 hours someone turned it of
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by wombatpm 1y ago
8 years in the Twin Cities from Chicago originally. People are nice, but everyone who I ever interacted with in stores or outside of work was from somewhere else. The natives just weren’t up for making friends or casual conversation. Despit
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Are they requiring VP approval for zoom meetings? Requiring zoom meetings to be restricted to office network IP addresses? I’m the kind of employee that would comply, not answer my cell phone and require people to leave voicemails on my de
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by wombatpm 1y ago
This administration is taking people who dutifully show up for court hearings as part of their asylum claims and shipping them back to their country of origin. To make it worse, they are sending their confidential asylum paperwork to the co
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I’ll try that next. The flow use to be “pharmacy” “something else” phone answered by pharmacist. Then they threw Pharmacy Technicians into the mix. Then they centralized the pharmacy technicians into a call center. I hate having to call. I
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I really think layoffs and stock buybacks within 12 months of each other should be prohibited, if not downright make stock buybacks illegal. Have extra capital? Then pay a dividend.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Walgreens is really pushing the AI phone system these days. It lies and says it can handle most requests, which I make and it tries to pawn me off on the website. The website which I had already been to, which recommended I speak with a pha

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