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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Almost like there are laws of reality (economics) that are stronger than human desires to force things against said laws! At the top are the laws of physics - nothing can beat them. But below those are economics and human nature. And only a
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Exactly. Words to remember today with the asymmetric application of the law. Eventually vigilante justice becomes the justice for those facing injustice.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Obviously. Who didn't know this? At least who was alive and using the web back then :-)
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The products I design/sell generate the inputs for this kind of thing for the semiconductor industry. It always makes cocktail party conversation complicated.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The presumption with that line of thought is that "people will WANT the album at all" and/or "WANT at any price". These are implicit assumptions you are failing to acknowledge/mention. And they are NOT general
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Well known effect of the spike protein itself made by the mRNA. It causes damage to any endothelia cell type including in the blood vessels. This triggers a lymphocytic reaction that attacks the damage (the blood vessel walls that once ex
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Of course there is. NO medicine is made only for one particular market because the economics would never work.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Well, at least this means every man still has an automatic litmus test to reject women who will never make good girlfriends, wives or mothers: "Do you have an OnlyFans account? Yes? Ok, bye!"
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Super inefficient, energy-wise. So how much carbon is PRODUCED to make it work. You can't cheat chemsitry/physics.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
And I always switch it to something else... $15B wasted as far as I matter. :-)
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yep. Why I left Reddit and haven't missed it.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
A recent Typhoon (one of the half dozen that hammered China) refilled all their reservoirs about a month or so ago. The one thing that complicates economics is that it's not a linear equation like they teach in Macroeconomics. The equ
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
This happens with products all the time. Strictly "shrink-flation" of consumer goods is the same thing. One industrial vendor we once partnered with took a product P that had speed S and accuracy A, discontinued that product and
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Meh. ALL of the North East was clear cut during colonial times. You only need to notice the property walls running through current dense forests today. Most people claiming this have never actually lived outside of cities or suburbs. The
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Chemistry is pretty much DONE for batteries. The only advancements possible are fairly limited and have to do with nanostructure of electrodes and electrolytes which won't give more than 2x-5x. There are NO 10x, 100x, 1000x futures wi
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
No really. Unless you think the ONLY future tech is certain niches in software.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
False Polyanna-ism is far, far worse than sober rational, scientific assessment!! Life isn't fair. Life isn't nice. Mother Nature doesn't give a Frig about humans or you individually. We are expendable and NOT the center of
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Sounds about right. The time-constants of climate are extremely long. The whole "we must change by 2030 or we all die" meme is summarily stupid in context of the REALITY of these time-constants. How did anyone not know this? Esp
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
It's also a form of Jevon's Paradox... efficiencies are always consumed and grown beyond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yes. So DESTROY their market by finding and using substitutes or even substituting with being mostly off-grid in a social media sense. We lived just fine before and without the internet. It was far less exhausting, frustrating and crazy.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
A lot of recovery you privacy is realizing the value proposition of social media simply isn't all that. I don't do any "FAANG" at all, and frankly I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything of value. I gues
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Not for assuring baseline supply it doesn't...
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Also the refrigerants matter - unfortunately, the MOST efficient ones also happen to be really bad for the ozone layer so they've been "banned" (there are still plenty of units out there using them - just can't use on ne
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yes. And it will evolve into a fairly benign endemic virus just like its cousin: the common cold coronavirus.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Well, yeah. Because an Emergency Authorization by FDA means NONE of the normal safety testing has been done yet. That's what the Emergency Authorization bypasses!! It take 5-15 years to identify long-term issues related to: cancer, i
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The FUNDAMENTAL reality of any Japanese technology companies: Do JAPANESE customers want it enough to pay for it? If the answer is "no", nothing in existence can change the strategy, design or plans they have. That goes for indus
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Japan is still rational, science and empirical reality based. Unlike America these days. They've done the calculations based on physics, chemistry and economics and the numbers REALLY do not work. It's also people who do not have
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
It's clearly based on the HYPER-idealistic driving conditions of primarily high-angle sun with dreary-yet-predictable Phoenix "stroads". They picked a good first experiments location but it's NOT representative of more t
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
And there's zero possible way self-driving cars are going to handle country roads that are sometime dirt in the snow during a blizzard. Humans absolutely can do that. But the very architectural basis via ML that's being used neve
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Sadly PCR tests for COVID also test positive for flu and half a dozen other causes. That's why CDC/FDA are seeking proposals for a new test that actually works! https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/20

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