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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Well, it's been pretty obvious that "woke" and some many things with it are cult-like in behaviors and attitudes. Similarly we have a lot of religious/cult-like "scientism" overruling actual empirical science a
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Exactly. And this specifically contributed to its failure because it assured a "boil the ocean" project couldn't be "nipped in the bud" easily. It was intentional to distribute the design and manufacturing among a
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Exactly. Don't have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. etc. accounts. And never will. It all sounded like a raw deal from the get go. I grew up during the Cold War and traveled to East Berlin back then - FB seems far too much like
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
LLC is cheapest but sometimes it's not good enough - it's pass-through for taxes which means your personal taxes are impacted by business profits. You may need to have more tax assistance because this - YMMV of course. The &quot
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Also he did a "dash cam" box lock break-in as well. A matter of seconds. Great show.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Usually truly "talented people" aren't looking to "rise to the top". The startup version of this is the person wanting to get rich but not learn anything needed to become actually successful in anything. Always loo
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Sigh. SPAC: how the incompetent who should NEVER get funding to start a business for which they can get funding and drain that company for maintaining a lifestyle and legacy without doing the hard work or negative consequences that normal s
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Not when the system requires energy equivalent to many Jupiters. To create a useful system you'd need to consume a Sun-sized star of mass on a monthly basis. We aren't there and honestly I don't see us ever being there.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
This was debunked already. The phosphine didn't include any other markers for life and there are natural sources that are far more likely to create it. In any case, what allows bacteria doesn't mean jack for humans.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Why do they need to refrigerate COVID mRNA vaccines? Because the mean lifetime of mRNA is 5 minutes (at body temperature). Arrhenius acceleration (or deceleration) with cold temperatures is the only viable trick. But even then, it's g
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
There absolutely are reasonable metaphors to actual real things that map very well to OO. So baby meet bath water. I already know in my head what this person looks and sounds like in person.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
You also have to add the inherent instability and fragility of the JIT supply chain system. Most JIT supply chains can't be deviated more than about 5%-10% variance of volume without becoming abruptly nonlinear. Normal JIT is dependen
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
ESG in general is a fraud!
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Yep. MOST technology knowledge involves a good deal of tacit knowledge which an only be transmitted person-to-person in an intern/mentor/supervisor mode. So simpler tasks that have zero barriers-to-entry for automation can be done
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Most Green technologies have EXACTLY THE SAME damages because the supply chains are the same, and because of the lower thermodynamic efficiencies, more have to used to attain the same result so the impact is actually worse.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The other is to avoid FANGG lie the plagues they are!
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Honestly they are bigots. The left in California and SF Bay Area frequently are (I grew up among them in Marin and Berkeley - their hypocrisy has been obvious since my teens and I've always despised it!) The trend towards authoritaria
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
LOL I'm so glad I quit Reddit! It's more of a cesspool than it was even last year.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Loophole is a loaded term because it itself implies morality or lack thereof. If it's legal, it's legal. Period. Calling it a loophole implies otherwise.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Not sure why they'd do that - there's far more infrastructure for ARM. RISC is a backwater. But maybe economic viability of products isn't the goal.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Centralization also produces economies of scale that decentralized systems will NEVER attain.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Does that include all the supply chains required? You have to deal in EROEI not specific process steps.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
As in the S is missing! :-)
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Some. Not that much as in the 1980s. Notice that most of the floorspace is Arizona, Oregon or overseas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si... Back in the day I worked at Fab 2 but that&#x27
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Asia has been the primary axis for semiconductors since the mid-1990s when Silicon Valley ceased to be about any silicon. That's when the entire industrial ebbed out of the USA. Were you not paying attention as all the jobs were lost?
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Here's a hint: if you are starting up ANY company involving any type of biotech or medical application and there are no people with STEM degrees running it or on the board, 90% chance it's fraudulent. STEM smarts is not something
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The only way to "have nice things" is to keep out the riff-raff. Charging money is the easiest way. Having your reputation damaged by recommend a yahoo is another. Having "probation" periods is yet another.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
You'd have to redesign it from scratch - it would be faster. Which is what happened with the SLS engine/launch vehicle. Duplicating the F1 would involve technology and knowledge of individual engineers who are dead and corporation
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
No there isn't. Technology knowledge is extremely ephemeral and easily lost once you stop using it because so much of it is "tacit knowledge" that is only preserved by active use and passed by mentorship/apprenticeship.