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by wombatpm 1y ago
Those cars did have seatbelts as standard equipment. Most people didn’t wear them because it wasn’t the law.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
But the vehicles today are dumb big. My second car was a 1978 Buick Riviera. 17.5 feet in length, two doors, rear wheel drive, 403cuin 8 cylinder. It weighs in at 3500 lbs, had 15 mph rated bumpers with shocks attached to the frame. Steel r
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Turns out Edison was a jerk like Elon as well. At least according to Tesla.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Because the FDA slowed down his chimp studies and wouldn’t let him combine Neurallink, FSD testing and NHSA crash testing into the same experiment for faster iterations.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Do you want plants you grind up into fuel or are you thinking Niven style Booster Trees?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
There is an extension for PostGres, https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io that allows you to mask data by user or group at the schema level with the options to return full mask, partial mask or dummy data.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
They had the Patriot Act ready to go prior to 9/11. Some minor text changes, and everyone is voting for it.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Crappy contractors change business names like hats. I had one that was on his third name by the time I finished with him.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Water used for nuclear reactor cooling can only be returned to the environment if its temperature is within 0.5 deg F of the local source temperature. I live near a facility that is on the river with several man made cooling lakes. During t
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by wombatpm 1y ago
But that would be like needing a prescription for chicken soup because of its benefits in fighting the common cold.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Can’t you improve thing if you can calibrate with a known good vampire? You’d think NIST or the CDC would have one locked in a basement somewhere.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
The GI Bill fundamentally changed college. The Vietnam draft with College deferments broke colleges and universities. Now every white collar job requires a degree - because every boomer overseeing those roles thinks it’s necessary.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
With an AI workforce you can eliminate the need for a human workforce and share the wealth or you can eliminate the human workforce and not share.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
AI can’t play golf or take customers to the corporate box seats for various events.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
We had the alarms going off early. Like every half hour from 6:00 AM. We knocked on his door and his roommate told him when he was leaving for breakfast. He did fine in his exam. 3 hrs was overkill. Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Or even smaller drones with a single shot bullet, autonomous with enough intelligence to seek and target faces for their shot. Covered in Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I would think drones carrying cluster bombs would be effective. More targeted in their destruction. No need to scatter bomblets over a quarter of a mile, just 10 or so around a tank.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
It’s throughput in combination with demand. That’s why Chicago has reversible lanes on the major highways. Inbound and outbound throughput needs vary during the day.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Excellent. Reminds me of some non photorealistic renderings from the 00’s. Quake NPR with pencil rendering was cool.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Do Universities no longer do that? All of my finals were 3hrs. There was a special schedule during finals week with 3 slots per day. The time of your final exam was based on when the first lecture session of a class took place. Really sucke
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Junk mail is advertising mail that someone paid to send to you. You what it is not? Illegal. Scams, fraud, and other illegal things get shut down because of postal inspectors. And there is no anonymity. The USPS knows both ends of the trans
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by wombatpm 1y ago
35? That seems too slow. Several years ago some pranksters in Chicago drove side by side at 55MPH and caused a MASSIVE backup for miles.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Chemical plants in general have rail spurs to move products out and raw materials in.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Prenda Law. They ended up disbarred and in jail eventually. But it took a Federal Judge calling bullshit in open court and making personal referrals to the IRS, the DOJ, and the various State Bar Associations.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
My house number is 110. My neighbor at 116 bought a condo in Florida. Why do I know this? Because for 3 months I was getting all of his HOA correspondence. People make mistakes. Technology just allows people to make mistakes in seconds that
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Rise of the documentation specialist. Where specs and standards and documentation and design documentation is required and not just an afterthought.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
If you want to go back to people dying in the streets because they are poor I guess that’s OK. But at some point it affects the health of everyone.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
How are we to know which official statements repeatedly made by the President in public are True?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
How do you prove you are not an illegal immigrant when picked up off the street? Surely there must be some due process around the determination of your illegal status.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I would do this. Of course I’d have cards made up that say “Hoopy Frood who really knows where his towel is” as a screen for parents with similar sense of humor.

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