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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Often once an industry becomes brain-dead, change is made simply to have something to peddle. MS Office has been like this for decades: they simply change the UI for this appearance sake. Most changes are nothing-burgers or dubious at bes
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Notaries ~ Lawyers today. Barbers ~ Doctors today.
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Also if you apply hydraulic equations to the lave through such a small diameter borehole, you quickly find that you would NOT be in control of anything and you'd probably do more to trigger a large eruption - the velocity of lava out o
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Keep it classy!
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
What kind of double-speak is this?! Risk and No Risk = Logically null nonsense! BTW after 30, the chances of getting pregnant at all drops ~50% After 40, it's 25% and drops to essentially 0% by 50. Not a medical risk, or risk at all,
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The problem is that we (USA) used to have 90% of all chip design and production. Now we have less than 10%-15% of it because it was cheaper to outsource it to Taiwan, Korea or Japan. We created the problem ourselves by shunning manufacturi
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Make littering a 5 year minimum jail sentence.
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You can disable bluetooth with some effort - find the BT antenna (inside) and replace it with a load terminator - the radio thinks there's an antenna still but there is nothing that can be broadcast or received.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Exactly! No need to have anything but HDMI and power connected.
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I think they should try it. What's the worst that happens? A horrible blight on society goes under or it becomes something worthwhile for the first time in its corporate history. Either way it improves the world!
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Because if it were that clear, people would not use them or stick with them, or would get upset and complain to regulators. Market monopoly through obfuscation and inertia.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Not surprising - Boost Mobile's primary market is poor folks generally and especially inner city minorities. "Getting a new phone" or "getting a fancy newly released phone" is less viable financially for this market
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
And we have today the "New Puritans of the Left" aka SJW/Woke. Very much a religious movement in that facts don't matter, only ideology/catechism do, and followers are highly prone to violent enforcement and persec
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Up to a point, yes. But there's a lower limit because photon energy depends on wavelength and you still need to activate a molecular resonance. This is related to IR being primarily vibrational resonances (like these) while longer wav
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Pretty much has destroyed California as an entire state.
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Yes. And "earth biscuit" loved kale is a #1 concentrator of cadmium as well - it's part of it's genome as a plant. You can't completely avoid these things. Similarly radiation is unavoidable even if we never had d
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The enormous set of circumstantial evidence combined with Occam's Razor pretty much rules out anything with the wet market. The world is well beyond that at this point.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Better to simply avoid the client-server architecture in the first place!
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
There's the future that is likely and then separately the future that would be ideal or preferred. The latter: * eliminate dependence on the cloud - the entire idea of "everything through port 80" was 100% wrong in the 1990s
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Nice. I'll have to use that idea.
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One major reason: All systems we construct are actually at best models of reality. Because the information content of reality is always bigger, the model must always fail at some point due to the fact that information content is proportion
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Exactly. The thing is that you have to adjust curriculum to the developmental stage of the INDIVIDUAL child. Teaching someone too early only wastes the time, resources and money of that teaching. Too late and you lose future options. I d
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
California has a state average IQ of 95.5. That presumably means any kind of complex education will have problems. And adjusting to the bottom half of the distribution means that smarter or even average people suffer from this focus on the
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
1. Have savings 2. Have your resume always up to date 3. Have a network of people who can hook you up 4. Take a deep breath, commit to leaving but do it on YOUR schedule - quitting on the spot is emotional, not rational - avoid doing that i
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yes. I've had this happen when I order "politically incorrect books". They are literally censoring idea they don't like.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Good article. I'm E/I neutral so I've had to learn many of these for my I-half.
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The other way: travel internationally to Asia or Europe and see what a functional transit/transport system looks like. The short answer: nearly the opposite of everything that the US does. :-(
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
UC schools have already become dubious - the entitlement of grads, the actual LACK of skills, not remotely "hungry" enough to have any grit or motivation, etc. My father (an engineering manager) always said: "If you want GOOD
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Absolutely NOT true. I mean this is truly wumao levels of disinformation and falsehood! In every way other than written words of diplomacy, Taiwan is independent already. NOTHING depends on China or CCP.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Yes but really no. Just like the Taiwan government itself.

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