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"Dr. Fauci admitted that vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase vaccine hesitancy in the future." Or, paraphrased: Look what you made me do.

> Restaurants, bars, plumbing companies, landscaping companies, accounting firms, etc.? Do any of those businesses owe taxes before they've collected their first cent of revenue? T…

Toyota has a lot to recommend it, but discounted prices are not one of those things.

"Warp Drive" dates back to 1947 (John Barret, "Stellar Snowball") according to sfdictionary.com (a resource I love for this kind of question). Other phrases like "Space Warp" go ba…

30 years ago, I wasn't playing 100-hour games because they were shorter. Final Fantasy IV (or II as we called it back then) was 30-40 hours, and we thought that was huge.

Two must watch videos about the whole process: https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw https://youtu.be/pfU20SAR21A (Typed on a device made by this process, which I still don’t quite believe.…

It's the Alpha team all the way down (or actually their successors, by now). DEC -> AMD (Dirk Meyer, Jim Keller) DEC -> PA Semi -> Apple (Daniel Dobberpuhl)

I think a lot of people looked at his last prediction that Tuesday morning, observed that 70 > 30, and assumed that meant it was a lock. And then spent the last six years blaming S…

The irony is there may already be a glut of 28nm capacity. But that embedded chip you're waiting for isn't fabbed at 28nm, so everybody loses.

The first time I had to fax something I put it in face down, like in a copier. And sent a blank page.

The billionaires' tax he mentioned is dead anyway, so that part of the discussion is moot. It was floated a couple of days ago as a possible addition to the reconciliation bill, bu…

Whatever happened to Transmeta, anyway?

> When and how will the taxes help you and me? In the US? On our 65th birthdays. Military spending is big, but Medicare is bigger.

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law." - Óscar Benavides

Oh wow they still have CueCats to sell?

Throw out property taxes and implement land taxes. Stop assessing a tax penalty on building up.

The failure of the center engine on a trijet can be scary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 "The uncontained manner in which the engine failed resulted in h…

Not that "easily." Moving that much cash around requires a lot of manual effort and some skill at money laundering. By removing that need, cryptocurrency makes ransomware scalable.…

You could always hire a bunch of shadowrunners to destroy your competitor's computer system, but I don't know what that has to do with ransomware. But hey, I guess you could use cr…

“We anticipate this being the last round of layoffs so we won’t need a layoff db guy any more.”

Yay, anarchy. The half-life of anarchy is measured in hours. Then the gangs show up. Gangs are basically governments, except even less responsive to your needs and more openly comm…

I played Nier: Automata right after I finished Horizon Zero Dawn back in 2017. They were an interesting study in contrasts. I agree HZD is the better game, and Automata's flaws rea…

A norovirus will laugh at your hand sanitizer, as will most other non-enveloped viruses.

You realize Covid causes blood clots too, right? Of course you’re taking chances; you take a chance no matter what you do.